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[apocalypsos]

Finally getting around to watching Dante's Peak. I forgot how amusingly awful this is. :)

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[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

i particularly enjoy the idiot grandma who won't leave town even when volcanic ash blackens the sky, and who heedlessly wades through an acidic lake. that movie is close to my heart because it gave me some hearty laughs at a time when they were needed. :)

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about heedlessly. I loved and hated that scene because the gramma got on my nerves so badly and it was her fault they were all up there to rescue her. And then she went and made me sympathetic by wading through Lake Acid.

But the thing that gets me most about Dante's Peak is the car. I want the scuba-diving SUV that can roll over only slightly cooled lava and then still go 110 mph on just its rims.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Every time we see it, my family cheers when Annoying!Grandma gets melted. Once we made the inevitable Wicked Witch of the East reference.

But, as in Independence Day, children and dogs can never die. The dog leaping out of harms way just in the nick of time would have been more heartwarming if they hadn't telegraphed it quite so baldly.

[eiluned.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was great that Gramma kicked the bucket, but they saved the dog from the clutches of the evil lava flow.

[ilanalynn.livejournal.com]

The scarey part is that of the two volcano movies that came out that year, that was the more accurate of the two. I have a cousin who is a volcanologist and she went to see it with some USGS friends of hers and they almost got kicked out of the theatre, they were making so much noise with all the laughing.

(cascade volcanoes do not have lava like that, it's one or the other pyroclastic flows or lava, and btw you can't outrun a pyroclastic flow, the lake won't turn to acid, you can't drive on lava for christsakes and I'll shut up now before I really get going)

ahem.

*waits not very patiently for Mt Rainier to erupt before she leaves for Germany, even though she knows it'll wait until after she's left just to spite her*

[alopekis.livejournal.com]

I saw this when it was in the theaters... in Kenya. I guess the fine art of watching bad action movies as comedy hadn't hit the mainstream there yet, 'cause I kept getting shushed for laughing at the wrong bits.

[eiluned.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that movie. It is SO bad and horribly inaccurate (I've always had a strange fascination with volcanoes, and I wanted to be a volcanologist for years, so I pick apart the scientific inaccuracies every time I watch it), but damn, it's entertaining.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the science, I just know that Pierce Brosnan wouldn't look so sexylicous after all that time trapped under the debris, with his arm fucked up.

[eiluned.livejournal.com]

What, are you kidding? He had a travel case full of Clinique for Men products in his shirt pocket.

[fallofrain.livejournal.com]

It was like Swiss Family Robinson.

With a volcano.