Thursday Movie Picks: Natural Disasters

 

For the 24th week of 2021 as part of Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks. We go into the subjects of natural disasters where they’re often quite popular as it has people freaking out over something happening around them whether it’s an earthquake, a hurricane, or something awful on Earth. Here are my three picks:

1. Volcano

Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, and Gaby Hoffman, this was one of those typical films that came out in the 1990s as it was one of 2 films that was about volcanos that came out in the same year. This was an OK effort with Jones being a fireman and Heche as some earthquake expert as it had a few decent moments in which Los Angeles is being destroyed by a volcano though it is largely forgettable.

2. The Day After Tomorrow

Roland Emmerich’s 2004 global-warming film about half of the world being frozen by a new ice age as it was a film that also had its moments. It largely revolves around Dennis Quaid as a scientist where he and a couple of men try to go to New York City from another location to retrieve Jake Gyllenhaal as Quaid’s son. While the film does try to at least acknowledge the issue of global warming, it does feel like it gets dumbed down to the masses.

3. San Andreas

This was kind of dumb as it’s just another action film starring Dwayne Johnson as a helicopter rescuer who tries to save Alexandra Daddario, who plays his daughter, during an earthquake ravaging California. It’s a film that is insane that includes Carla Gugino as Johnson’s ex-wife who joins Johnson in the adventure where there are some scary moments but also some weird moments includes the famed Australian pop star Kylie Minogue as Gugino’s boyfriend’s bitchy sister doing a massive-budget fall similar to what she did in a much superior film that is Leos Carax’s Holy Motors.

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