Favorite Disaster Movies

[Authorized]

Why hasn't anyone written and produced a big budget Class 5 "Hurricane" movie focusing on the lives of a select group of people who decide to ride out the storm?

Some favorites:

Poseidon Adventure
Poseidon (2006)
Titantic
The Day After Tomorrow
San Francisco (1936) (1906 SF earthquake)

Other disasters:

Pluto Nash
Ishstar
Heaven's Gate

[whitenavel]

How could Poseidon (2006) be one of your favorite disaster movies?

[English Dave]

Why hasn't anyone written and produced a big budget Class 5 "Hurricane" movie focusing on the lives of a select group of people who decide to ride out the storm?



meh. Hurricane shmurricane. it's all wind. and it's been done.

[dclary]

White, you KNOW authorized pontificates on movies he's never seen. Why would it surprise you that one of his favorite films hasn't even made it to post-production yet?

[Erehwon]

The Towering Inferno. How could you NOT love Paul Newman giving that classic line to McQueen: "Hey, are you here to fight me, or the fire?" LOL! Love that movie, and it takes place in my favorite city, to boot.

Earthquake. Classic Heston, and watching the Capital Records building fall is fun.

Posiden Adventure. With Hackman as a priest who looks ready to beat your head in, and the coolest special effects, it's just awesome.

Irwin Allen, come back!!

[Hairy Lime]

I only own three disaster movies on DVD ...

The Towering Inferno ... really need to watch this again. Bought it because I loved it as a kid.

Titanic ... say what you will. Amazing special effects and a couple brilliant moments.

Showgirls ... someone had to say it.

[Hairy Lime]

How could Poseidon (2006) be one of your favorite disaster movies?It's not even as if this is Authorized jumping the shark, because it's par for the course.

Though this might signal a front runner for Authy's 2006 Oscar predictions.

[bwdial]

Why hasn't anyone written and produced a big budget Class 5 "Hurricane" movie focusing on the lives of a select group of people who decide to ride out the storm?

Shhh. I've been writing something since last summer. Don't tell anyone, okay?

[thatcomedian]

I really liked "Alive". If you live in a cold climate don't rent it in the winter, you'll keep turning up the thermostat.

[whitenavel]

I'm not surprised. Just annoyed.

[le kilt]

Irwin Allen, come back!!

hey, by coincidence I was watching an episode of "Lost In Space" today; one of my favorite old shows.

[wcmartell]

SAN FRANCISCO - best earthquake ever put on film, makes EARTHQUAKE look like a crappy low budget flick.

I can't get the theme from THE TOWERING INFERNO out of my head - even though I saw it 30 years ago and can't remember a danged thing about the film.

- Bill

[JesseNC]

White Squall is probably my favorite.

I also liked Deep Impact and Armageddon but I'm probably in the minority on these boards.

[Pen Dragon]

Irwin Allen, come back!!


How could you say this? Have you thought this through??? If you let him rise from the cracks of moviemaker hell what's to stop Cecil B. De Mille from following him?

[Fortean]

Why hasn't anyone written and produced a big budget Class 5 "Hurricane" movie focusing on the lives of a select group of people who decide to ride out the storm?Maybe not a "big budget" nor "Class 5," but KEY LARGO (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040506/combined) had a hurricane.

[Pen Dragon]

authorized isn't exactly an encyclopedia of movie history
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029030/combined)

[bwdial]

If you had written a screenplay that contained what was going on in New Orleans right now, I'm afraid you would have been laughed at. **shakes head**

[AaronB]

ISHTAR!!!

Oh...sorry. That wasn't a disaster movie; it was a movie disaster.

[dclary]

really, bw? day after tomorrow seemed to work ok.

[bwdial]

really, bw? day after tomorrow seemed to work ok.

I was referring more to the people dying in the streets. Roving bands of armed "citizens" shooting at rescuers.
I haven't seen Day After Tomorrow, mainly because I don't think I could suspend disbelief for that much of a fairy tale.

[Deus Ex Machine]

Poseidon Adventure is one of my fav disaster flicks.

I always like By The Dawn's Early Light http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099197/ , not sure if you could call that a disaster flick or not.

[phoenixwriting]

The Day After (which got a cinema release down here in Oz) lodged in my head for many years.

Mind you, I was thirteen, but still.

[Biohazard]

I like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, and I remember liking Deep Impact when it first came out, but I haven't seen it since then. I also saw Armageddon but don't remember anything about it. I hear that's a good thing.

[j over]

really, bw? day after tomorrow seemed to work ok.
In my opinion, The Day After Tomorrow is quite a dismal movie. All effects, not much substance.

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

Titanic.

[rcdiggs]

The Poseidon Adventure still rocks. Other favorites: Independence Day, Titantic (only when the ship is sinking) Reign of Fire (dragons destroy world cities) 28 Days Later. The worst one; that Sylvester Stallone movie, Daylight, where a bunch of people, we cared nothing about, were trapped in a flooded NYC tunnel.

I believe the trick to a good disaster film is to cast about 8-10 B-actors, make us love them and kill them off one at a time.

Many, many moons ago, disaster films were in set in burning buildings, ocean liners, airplanes, nuclear driven trains or had the occasional creature, eathquake or storm tearing through a city. Now, disaster films are epic in scale, whole cities are destroyed overnight. Today's disaster films hit too close to home.

For instance, War of the Worlds disturbed me a little because I knew it was how things would go down in the midst of a mind jarring event. Just like N'awlins -complete communications break down, thousands of trapped refugees, no one knows where to go or what's happening, vast chaos and anarchy. Frightening.

[alipali]

The Flight of the Phoenix (that'll be the Aldrich one).

[refriedwhiskey]

The Poseidon Adventure

The original Flight of the Phoenix

Spielberg's War of the Worlds



(phoenix, why do you have a picture of Aleister Crowley as your icon? ;) )

[phoenixwriting]

Crowley didn't wear a dapper ginger goatee. The man had no class.


Now, for uncanny resemblances you should meet my brother...

[Pen Dragon]

ali's is brad johnson or jude law (http://kkpro.ca/picture.jpg)


or mcconaughey?


woody harrelson

[refriedwhiskey]

I thought that was Vince Vaughn.

[alipali]

It's a self-portrait, Pendejo.

Jude Law? I've seen him in real life a bunch of times - he's puny. Hey, he's fairly pathethic in movies too.

I'm moonlighting as a fotog:

http://www.thenewyorkart.com

BUY MY ART!!!!!

[alipali]

btw: the site isn't finished....damn trips back to the uk to renew my visa are hindering progress...

but safely back in NY as of now....bliss

[Pen Dragon]

Al...quick

What a great name for a movie character

I wish I'da gone into photography. I have all that spatial brainspace that gives me a good eye. Are you selling many of those prints? Some of them look pretty cool. If you ever capture just the right shot of a patch of Saguaro Cactus in New Mexico at magic hour, with the sky hues of orange and deep purple and red and yellow, and the deep green of the cactus in the fading light so vivid that I feel like yodelling "Cattle Call" when I see it, I'll probably buy it

[refriedwhiskey]

It's a self-portrait, Pendejo.
I see you haven't lost your famous sense of humor or your classy charm, Ali.

[alipali]

Refried, and if I did I'm sure you'd be the first to notice you exacting old stickler you!

Pen, they're selling like sponge fingers dipped in Angelina Jolie, thanks for asking...and I'm after the very shot you describe -- so you better start saving those canuckle bucks.