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Critics Consensus: Well-acted and blessed with a refreshingly humanistic focus, The Wave is a disaster film that makes uncommonly smart use of disaster film clichés. Synopsis: A Norwegian...
May 15, 2024 · Roland Emmerich ‘s 2012 is a disaster movie that defies critical consensus, yet remains a beloved spectacle of epic proportions. While it may not have been universally praised by critics,...
- Richard Brody (@Tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
- Charles Bramesco (@Intothecrevasse), Rolling Stone
- Christopher Campbell (@Thefilmcynic), Nonfics/Film School Rejects
- Eric Kohn (@Erickohn), IndieWire
- Kristy Puchko (@Kristypuchko) Nerdist
- Alissa Wilkinson (@Alissamarie), Vox
The difference between movies about recent disasters and historical ones is that people involved in recent ones may be around to sue or complain or collaborate, often constraining the characterizations and narrowing the films. This makes “Sully” all the more remarkable an achievement — it goes where few modern disaster films go, into the mind of th...
Most dramatizations of real-world tragedies offer comfort to those affected by imposing reason and meaning on otherwise senseless loss. It’s comforting — albeit phony, but phony in a forgivable and even productive way, like how musicals are phony — to believe that the people fighting for survival in a perilous environment were good, or lived meanin...
When it comes to dramatizing disasters, it’s all about myth making, no matter how recent or distant the events. For the more current stories, it tends to be (or should be) less about spectacle and more about setting up a hero through a character-centered story. It can still be entertaining, but not in an exploitative way. It’s the further back trag...
One of the most common observations in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 was that the image of the smoldering World Trade Center was “like a movie.” This implied the presence of something so horrifying it didn’t have a place in a reality we could understand. Disaster movies exploit that disconnect. (Even the good ones.) Since the invention of movies,...
I suspect that it’s because these movies focus on an event so mind-boggling or so fraught with modern nightmare elements we crave to see them sanitized through storytelling. A movie encapsulates them and makes them feel resolved. The very act of placing a recent event like the Miracle on The Hudson or the Deepwater Horizon incident into a film crea...
I think the best (and maybe only) reason to dramatize these sorts of events is to make sense of the recent past outside the headlines, for the first time. It’s like a collective memoir, where “what happened” begins to get shaped into “why did it happen,” and done outside the immediacy of the events. And while I think we buy the ticket for the spect...
May 8, 2024 · Decoding disaster movie 2012: stories of the flood. Film. Read time: 13 mins. By. TheHaughtyCulturist. Published: 8 May 2024. Updated: 16 May 2024. Making sense of society, survival and the biblical breadcrumbs in Roland Emmerich’s disaster extravaganza, 2012.
- Don’t Look Up (2021) ‘Don’t Look Up‘ stars stalwarts Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence, among others, in a thrilling, nail-biting movie directed by Adam McKay.
- The Midnight Sky (2020) ‘The Midnight Sky‘ brings to life a reality where an unknown disaster kills off most of the world’s population and contaminates the surface with ionizing radiation.
- The Impossible (2012) Directed by J. A. Bayona, ‘The Impossible’ is set against the backdrop of the 2004 Tsunami and centers on a family of four, Maria, Henry, and their kids Lucas, Simon, and Thomas, whose winter vacation in Thailand turns into a dark nightmare after the tsunami hits.
- The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari (2022) In 2019, New Zealand witnessed a terrifying tragedy in which 47 people, including tourists and guides, were trapped just off the country’s coast due to a volcanic eruption.
Jun 29, 2018 · While Armageddon is certainly a popcorn movie, there’s no clear consensus on the blockbuster’s genre. Some say it’s action while others see it as sci-fi or fantasy. Some consider it a disaster film while others have deemed it conservative propaganda.
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Apr 8, 2023 · Though it's debated whether the sinking of the Titanic is a man-made disaster or natural disaster, the consensus is often a combination of the two. Throughout the climax of the movie,...
