Dantes Peak
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you have to appreciate the 90s disaster movie, those effort they put in practical effects it's not any cgi can compare
maxmamax
2022-12-13 11:27:30 +0000 UTCThe volcano did erupt. We’re used to the idea of spewing lava in TV and movies, but that’s only in some parts of the world. In the Pacific Northwest of the United States, there’s a lot of underground water. When the heat reaches it, the steam created makes the mountain explode with a monster cloud of boiling ash. A lot of the visuals in this movie were clearly based on footage from the eruption of Mt. Saint Helen’s in the 1970s. Look up the footage sometime. It’s harrowing. It was a dormant volcano. The build-up was a couple months of tremors and the mountain literally expanded. We all watched it on TV every night on the news. There were tons of cameras on it. So when it blew, there was footage. In a split second, half of the mountain was gone. Unfortunately, the explosion was so big that a lot of the cameras were too close. And some of the geologists monitoring it. Also, film was really expensive so cameras weren’t rolling 24/7. And it happened too fast for older film to capture. These days, we’d all be watching digital video from every possible angle on YouTube. Instead we only saw some freeze frames of the actual explosion. But I remember watching video of all the trees flowing down in the water from Mt. Saint Helen’s, similar to what they showed in the movie except on a much larger scale. There was never any lava, though. Like I said, different kind of volcano. Of course, this movie is incredibly unrealistic in too many ways to count. Just think of it as our version of superhero movies. 😂
Juley
2022-08-28 05:34:01 +0000 UTCThere is a mini series about Chernobyl (TV Mini Series 2019) with 5 ep
Daniel Thunberg
2022-08-26 20:19:56 +0000 UTCThere was a brief "revival" of disaster movies in the late 90's, with "Armageddon", "Volcano" and "Titanic"-- Dante's Peak was the most intentionally trying to homage the Irwin Allen disasters of the 70's, which got me to look up the originals on DVD at the library. While we laugh at what the old ones were supposed to be, it'd be interesting to see new kids' reaction to The Poseidon Adventure or The Towering Inferno.
Eric Janssen
2022-08-26 08:40:31 +0000 UTC
