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[The Futurist]

How would you rate San Andreas on the Roland Emmerich disaster porn scale, 2012 being a 10 ?

[DAJK]

I think I've liked every disaster film, even the not so successful ones like Volcano and Dante's Peak.

Haven't seen Dante's Peak but I even enjoyed Pompeii.

[4815162342]

And TLJ was fantastic in Volcano.

 

I liked Dante's Peak a good deal more than Volcano, though each of them had a LOL heroic death scene:

 

Dante's Peak had the grandma jump into Acid Lake to save the people in the boat, Volcano had the boss engineer guy jump into lava so he could throw an unconscious person to safety.

[baumer]

Haven't seen Dante's Peak but I even enjoyed Pompeii.

 

Pompeii was brilliant, one of the best films of last year.

[CJohn]

Haven't seen Dante's Peak but I even enjoyed Pompeii.

Pompeii is a lot of fun.

[The Futurist]

The nuking/destruction shot of London done by ILM in GI joe 2 was fantastic.

[Jandrew]

No, I presume people use words the way they mean.

 

What you're saying is that San Andreas is a more relatable movie.

 

I said I thought it was obvious to you because I said the same thing in my post, just in a lot shorter form. But youre right, I guess, its more relatable. But still more thrilling. We can drop the realistic completely. Nothing is realistic in 90% of todays movies, not even Pitch Perfect. No way in hell is acapella that popular at college or will it sell out arenas.

 

But thats the fun, beauty, and joy of it all.

[Travod]

I said I thought it was obvious to you because I said the same thing in my post, just in a lot shorter form. But youre right, I guess, its more relatable. But still more thrilling. We can drop the realistic completely. Nothing is realistic in 90% of todays movies, not even Pitch Perfect. No way in hell is acapella that popular at college or will it sell out arenas.

But thats the fun, beauty, and joy of it all.

It's pretty popular at my school.

[baumer]

I said I thought it was obvious to you because I said the same thing in my post, just in a lot shorter form. But youre right, I guess, its more relatable. But still more thrilling. We can drop the realistic completely. Nothing is realistic in 90% of todays movies, not even Pitch Perfect. No way in hell is acapella that popular at college or will it sell out arenas.

 

But thats the fun, beauty, and joy of it all.

 

I think one of the most realistic movies was Over The Top, when Stallone was outweighed by about 200 pounds, but beat that man in arm wrestling, by taking his hand and putting it over the top of his opponents thumb.  Very very realistic stuff there.

[Jandrew]

How would you rate San Andreas on the Roland Emmerich disaster porn scale, 2012 being a 10 ?

 

Me? Well if 2012 is a 10, then San Andreas is a...10. Why? Because think about it. What destruction did we get in 2012? Okay we blissfully got LA smothered for 5 minutes, plus a nice scene of Yosemite, but after that, what else? Everything else just flooded. We got nice Vatican, White House, Christ the Redeemer, etc shots, but they were pretty much instantly destroyed. Like ID.

 

Pretty much same situation here. We got total annihilation of LA and San Fran central areas, and a flood, but that was about it.

 

But in San Andreas, the destruction you did see looked pretty photo-realistic and damaging, and they just kept throwing it at you non-stop. Whereas in 2012, after 45 minutes the movie basically becomes a political drama with some floods thown in. San Andreas didn't get into the political shit like 2012, it stayed focused on disaster. Much smaller scale disaster, but it didn't feel that way for that reason.

[FilmBuff]

I liked most disaster films except for Armageddon. So stupid.

2012 had some real bad noticeable cgi in the Los Angeles destruction scene.

Edited May 31, 2015 by FloptronBuff

[baumer]

I liked most disaster films except for Armageddon. So stupid.

2012 had some real bad noticeable cgi in the Los Angeles destruction scene.

 

Armageddon is the best of the best.  One of the best films of 1998.

[The Futurist]

Armageddon is the best of the best.  One of the best films of 1998.

 

The VFX supervisor of Armageddon had a mental/nervous breakdown, he could t finish the movie.

Too many VFX shots to finish in too little time.

[baumer]

The VFX supervisor of Armageddon had a mental/nervous breakdown, he could t finish the movie.

Too many VFX shots to finish in too little time.

 

It's still the best disaster flick out there.

[Jandrew]

redacted

Edited May 31, 2015 by Jandrew

[BadAtGender]

I'm waiting for my Pacific Northwest disaster epic. Subduction zone, volcanos, tsunamis. Yeah, man. Come flatten Seattle.

[DeeCee]

I liked Dante's Peak a good deal more than Volcano, though each of them had a LOL heroic death scene:

 

Dante's Peak had the grandma jump into Acid Lake to save the people in the boat, Volcano had the boss engineer guy jump into lava so he could throw an unconscious person to safety.

Where did I see someone risk the life and throw someone to safety only to then die?

[4815162342]

I'm waiting for my Pacific Northwest disaster epic. Subduction zone, volcanos, tsunamis. Yeah, man. Come flatten Seattle.

 

Dat Mount Rainer/Mount St. Helens double-tap.

[Jandrew]

I'm waiting for my Pacific Northwest disaster epic. Subduction zone, volcanos, tsunamis. Yeah, man. Come flatten Seattle.

 

Greys Anatomy.

[BadAtGender]

Dat Mount Rainer/Mount St. Helens double-tap.

It's less a double-tap and more a loaded clip:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Volcanoes