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	Disaster film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first film in this new trend was the 1996 Michael Crichton-penned film Twister, followed in the same year by Independence Day merged a science fiction alien invasion plot from the 1950s with disaster film conventions (most notably, from Earthquake).
		Also in 1997 the epic James Cameron film Titanic was released, which combined the disaster genre in the sinking of the ship and the romance genre with the relationship between the main characters.
		Disaster films have reappeared periodically in the 21st century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disaster_film (629 words)

	Greatest Disaster Film Scenes
		One of the earliest disaster films, this rare and restored film was the first of many feature films about the doomed ship that sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage, after striking an iceberg.
		This film climaxed with the spectacular flooding scenes of the underground city, with its tracking camera, when the children are led to safety from the rising waters.
		In the film's finale, she shot a male assailant, buried him in the shifting sands, and watched in horror as his corpse was uncovered.
	www.filmsite.org /filmdisasters1.html (1105 words)

	Disaster film Summary
		Disasters featured in disaster movies can be divided into three main types: natural disasters, disasters caused by technology failing or being accidentally damaged, and disasters caused by terrorism or by the recklessness of an individual or agency.
		Although disasters have featured in movies from the beginning of the twentieth century, films in which the disaster is the reason for making and watching the film did not become common until the 1950s when alien invasion and monster movies were popular.
		Hard-core disaster movie fans will argue that they watch for the scenes of destruction and to revel in the special effects, but the importance of even a basic human story unfolding alongside the disaster suggests that their popularity has as much to do with sentiment as with spectacle.
	www.bookrags.com /Disaster_film (2163 words)

	Greatest Disaster Film Scenes
		The film would be released in the USA as Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) with 40 minutes excised from the film and 20 minutes of new footage, including Raymond Burr as an American reporter.
		This relatively obscure disaster film would become famous as one of the first of the in-flight disaster films that would soon follow in the decade of the 70s.
		In this routine, melodramatic air disaster film, the two pilots of a commercial Canadian passenger plane became incapacitated, with half of the crew, due to contaminated food (tainted fish).
	www.filmsite.org /filmdisasters2.html (1557 words)

	Review \| Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe by Stephen Keane
		Such dry exposition fails to convey the spectacle of disaster films and a quick scan of the series' other titles betrays that the Keane volume is not alone in privileging a specifically academic tone.
		His arguments include denying science fiction or historical films entry into the genre, but then he blithely ignores his own parameters in Chapters Three and Four, where he decides to focus almost exclusively on recent science fiction and historical cinema, to the near-complete exclusion of the many strictly genre disaster films from the same era.
		While it is amply demonstrated that Titanic is both a historical film and a disaster movie, its showcased inclusion only emphasizes the questionable absence of pre-1970s films, especially, as Keane himself points out, because Titanic is very much reminiscent of spectacular films from the 1930s to the 1960s.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/disastermovies.html (733 words)

	Guardian \| Hollywood disaster film set to turn heat on Bush
		Filmed in a combination of slick computer generated special effects and faux newscast verité, tidal waves sweep across cities and snow piles halfway up the towers of Manhattan as disjointed voices articulate the chaos around them.
		Filmed with a budget of more than $100m (£55.6m) and special effects said to be the greatest thing since, well, since the last big budget movie, the film has one other difference from other Hollywood blockbusters: it has a conscience.
		"At some point during the filming we looked around at all the lights, generators and trucks and we realised the very process of making this picture is contributing to the problem of global warming," the director and producers say in a statement on the film's official website.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4879086-111675,00.html (958 words)

	Disaster Movies
		One of the first disaster films of the era, Airport spawned three sequels and scores of imitations, both laughable and laudable.
		The release of Wolfgang Peterson's epidemic film coincided with the country's obsession with the Ebola virus described in Richard Preston's bestselling The Hot Zone.
		The disaster film that virtually defined the genre, The Poseidon Adventure boasted all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster: a bloated budget, arch dialogue, and an all-star cast.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/disaster1.html (1163 words)

	Disaster Films @ Filmbug UK
		Disaster movies are nearly as old as film itself.
		The heyday of disaster movies began in 1970, however, when the success of Airport generated a flood of "all-star-cast-in-peril" stories.
		It is closer in tone and construction to The High and the Mighty or Zero Hour than to the full-blown disaster films that came after it.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /dictionary/disaster-movies.php (311 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Poseidon and The Poseidon Adventure
		Elsewhere in the opening sequences of the film the ship’s doctor’s judgment is questioned, Robin refuses to obey his older sister, a people’s priest argues with the ship’s Chaplain, and the Captain argues with a businessman more concerned with money than the ship’s safety.
		While seventies disaster films often conclude with images of ruin and despair — Steve McQueen glancing sadly at the covered bodies of dead firefighters near the end of The Towering Inferno (1974) —; Millennial disaster films are more optimistic and conclude with images of rejuvenation.
		Millennial disaster films don’t express this level of pessimism, indicating that an equivalent level of pessimism doesn’t exist in society at large, even after 9-11.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /54/poseidon.htm (2861 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Disaster movies raise the stakes
		Early disaster films like Airport and The Towering Inferno focused on a plucky ensemble battling against small-scale tragedies, while the classic Earthquake spent most of its running time building up to that climactic tremor.
		Special effects have fuelled the fires of the modern disaster film, since it is now possible to create truly convincing scenes of mass destruction.
		Yet while modern disaster movies are a world away from their ancestors, plenty of staples remain.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3724231.stm (588 words)

	village voice > film > by J. Hoberman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The movies love mayhem, and inevitably, the televised events of 9-11 were experienced by millions as a sort of real-life disaster film.
		The old-school disaster movies that glutted theaters during the run-up to the millennium eschewed all but the most perfunctory human interest in F/X spectacles of wholesale urban destruction.
		This new disaster film may aspire to be more than entertainment, but if it is to fill the multi-plexes, someone will have to pay.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0620,hoberman,73229,20.html (1667 words)

	THE PERFECT STORM movie review, In Film Australia
		Here we have all the spectacle of the Disaster Film, directed with all the spectacle of Wolfgang Peterson, who is more than familiar with photographing the sea and stirring it up.
		Films like last year’s drama ‘One True Thing’ are written well enough to sustain sentimentality, rather than throwing it in at the last minute like ‘The Perfect Storm’.
		But ‘The Perfect Storm’ needs to be taken in strides as a disaster film that does actually care far more about its visual effects than anything else.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/perfects.htm (779 words)

	Titanic movie review, In Film Australia
		This film capped off the seemingly never-ending run of disaster films in the seventies and featured pretty much the same sort of effects people saw in The Poseidon Adventure (1972), which I might add, was one of the best.
		But another reason of this films superiority, is that of an interesting (and certainly necessary to the success of the film) sub-plot set in the modern day.
		This film is surprisingly quite funny at times, and rather violent too, though it all contributes to the overall feeling of helplessness and fear that so effectively captivates the audience while emitting the sense of respect, a kind or tribute to the greatest ship of all.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/titanic.htm (1356 words)

	MA505B: Disaster Movies
		The genre of disaster films does not have as developed a body of literature as other film topics.
		Use this guide to find background information, books, and journal articles on disaster films and some of the other related - but relevant - areas such as action and epic films, and the cultural significance of apocalyptic and disaster stories.
		For example, look up "Disaster Film" in the index, and it will give you a list of articles published on the subject from the given year.
	www.emerson.edu /library/research/guides/MA505B.cfm (603 words)

	Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York DVD Review - MovieWeb
		While disaster films have slowly declined from the movie theater scene, they continue to be pumped out on cable television.
		To prevent the film from looking to stereotypically schlocky, the aesthetic is documentary-looking in nature with a wandering camera and grayish colors.
		While an action/disaster film would presumably go hand-in-hand with a good soundtrack, the unprofessional nature of this film is just fine for regular TV speakers.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/65/111165/review1978.php (702 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Flirting with Disaster
		The film’s very first shot — before the bed — is of a woman with loose, silvery-gray hair; she walks with a lilt, almost waving towards us, and has a dreamily held look, yet her eyes and the directness with which she approaches the camera are forthright.
		The film looks at all the systems constructed by parents: their household economies, their ideas of well-being and safety (adults’ perceptions of boundaries being essential to what we are), and the crucial question of how parents get their information.
		The film’s running joke is that Mel (Stiller) cannot name his son until he tracks down his biological parents, and compares them to his adoptive ones; for him, until we make sense of what we were given — what this is — we can’t begin to live.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /51/flirting.htm (2850 words)

	UGO.com Film/TV - Film Review - Disaster Zone
		Every disaster movie also layers on a thick layer of cheesy special effects and pushes their characters (or a major city) right to the brink of death - and audiences eat up every bit of it.
		Disaster Zone actually has a surprising share of interesting observations and subplots, most notably involving how government agents would likely assume terrorism before anything else in a post-9/11 world.
		In the end, Disaster Zone most closely resembles the low-budget offspring of The Day After Tomorrow and Armageddon as nature fights to bring down a major city (this time with heat instead of Tomorrow's ice) and it's the blue collar tunnel workers who are the only ones who can save the day.
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/disasterzone/review.asp (571 words)

	U-WIRE.com/FILM REVIEW: Earth gets punk'd in disaster film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We have the authority figure, whose lack of belief in the seriousness of the problem is the catalyst for all the subsequent disasters that takes place.
		The film grabs you right from the beginning, cutting from hail the size of softballs in one city, to weather so cold that it freezes things instantly in another city.
		As the film opens, Sam leaves to go to Manhattan with his scholastic team for a competition, and as the weather worsens, he becomes stranded and is forced to fend for himself in horrid conditions.
	www.uwire.com /content/topae060104001.html (654 words)

	Monsters At Play: Poseidon Review
		An event or disaster film is only as strong as its writing and characters.
		Allowing us in turn to see even more of its worth, including the films' execution and special effects, which were (to say the least) way ahead of their time.
		At it's heart, the film is still a survival action flick, so expect the unbelievable and 'nick of time' set pieces, but underneath it all, the characters do help to drive the action making for a very entertaining summer action flick.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/film/poseidon.php (809 words)

	LIBERTAS » Blog Archive » Classic DVD Reviews: The Poseidon Adventure (1972) + The Towering Inferno (1974)
		In its day the film was nominated for 8 Oscars (it won 1, and also received a special Oscar for L.B. Abbot’s visual effects), and adjusted for inflation the film would’ve grossed $351 million today.
		The film features robust performances by Hackman, Ernest Borgnine and Shelley Winters, but mostly the film is a pretext for having its characters walk/crawl/climb/swim through some fantastic set-pieces of the overturned ship.
		The two films share about 5 cast members, including McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Don Gordon - all of whom almost seem to be reprising their roles from the earlier film (with McQueen and Gordon this time as firefighters rather than cops).
	www.libertyfilmfestival.com /libertas/?p=1637 (3053 words)

	village voice > film > The key to converting disaster into entertainment is uplift. by J. Hoberman
		The epoch-defining disaster is rendered in shorthand—the shadow of a plane, the thud of the impact—and largely mediated by TV.
		In the most startling image, John and Will—who have volunteered to evacuate trapped office workers—watch the collapse of the second tower from the lobby of the first one, a roiling tidal wave of ash and debris.
		As befits a new-style disaster film, spectacle is subsumed in subjective experience—in this case, being buried alive.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0632,hoberman,74110,20.html (806 words)

	CNN.com - Sub disaster film angers Russians - July 19, 2002
		The threat to sue, Izvestia reported, is over alleged inaccuracies such as the heavy drinking habits of the submariners in the film and what they view as an incorrect portrayal of the conflict in leadership between the submarine's two top officers, played by Ford and Liam Neeson.
		The film's Russian premiere is scheduled for October in St. Petersburg.
		The topic of a submarine accident is especially sensitive in Russia after the Kursk tragedy in August 2000, when one of the country's most advanced submarines exploded and sank, killing all 118 men aboard.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/19/russia.widowmaker (705 words)

	"Poseidon" (2006) / review and/or viewer comments - Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		In this theme, the film panders to the audience, reassuring it that Americans have not been made soft and docile by wealth and privilege but retain the ingenuity and skills that allowed them to acquire it in the first place.
		Both films, that is to say, cheat when confronting the key formula of a disaster picture. The whole point of the disaster picture is to allow the audience to see man’s hidden or submerged character revealed by circumstances, to show if—to paraphrase the famous line from Starman—we are at our best when things are worse.
		It is an action movie only masquerading as a disaster film. My central thesis surrounding action films is that unless one cares about the characters in an action film it is hard to care about what happens to them.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2006/poseidon2006.html (2692 words)

	Litigating Disaster
		Had the disaster occurred in the developed world, heads would have rolled, prison sentences would have been served, changes would have been made.
		Featuring, a young Indian-American lawyer, the film follows the case he brought on behalf of the victims in front of the Federal District Court in New York.
		As the story unfolds, the film makes it clear the real culprit is the lack of any international law or tribunal to govern the activities of multinational corporations.
	www.frif.com /new2004/lit.html (404 words)

	DenverPost.com - Disaster film had its own downside for star
		While it helps to have blockbusters on his résumé (his were 2003's "Hulk" and last year's "Stealth"), the real Lucas is evident in small films like "Undertow" and "Around the Bend," both released in 2004.
		During the arduous shoot for director Wolfgang Petersen, Lucas tore the muscles in his right thumb, requiring two surgeries, and his right eye was split open when co-star Kurt Russell accidentally clocked him with a flashlight during an underwater sequence.
		He ticks off his injuries with laid-back cool, but even though he says it was all "part of doing a disaster film," Lucas was well aware that a film like this could be dangerous.
	www.denverpost.com /movies/ci_3808068 (831 words)

	LIBERTAS » Blog Archive » Oliver Stone Says World Trade Center is Non-Political
		As I’ve said before, Stone’s involvement in the film as such is likely to rub a lot of people the wrong way (myself included), regardless of how ‘non-political’ the film may be.
		It would be simple to avoid politics in this film by just starting the action after the planes hit the towers.
		Then it becomes a disaster film and not a war film.
	www.libertyfilmfestival.com /libertas/?p=1344 (829 words)

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