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2012 was...

A good film 3 16.67%
 
A bad film 4 22.22%
 
A mediocre film 7 38.89%
 
So bad it was good. 4 22.22%
 
Total:18

Legit: Interesting, I might give it a watch if it can be found.

Uhh, I've never seen it, so I can't recommend it. Just so you know.



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Has anybody seen the Alien: Romulus? how was it?



Norion said:

Twister is not an amazing film or anything like that but seeing it as my first 4DX film recently was a great experience that was completely worth the price. Though it'll be tough to find other films that will work as well in that format so I dunno when I'll see a film in it again.

Twister was amazing back in 1996. Surround sound was still new in the cinema and Twister was making full use of it.

The movie inspired me to get a CRT projector and powerful surround system with heavy subwoofer. Shaking my apartment during the action scenes. The best scene (sound wise) is when the Twister hits the town when The Shining is playing on the outdoor cinema. The garage getting hit, glass shattering everywhere in full surround while the drum of the wind shakes the room, goose bumps every time. (Plus angry neighbors lol)

Dunno what 4DX is, but Twister on Laserdisc with Dolby Digital AC-3, CRT Projector, REL Storm Subwoofer, Yahama DSP-AX1, B&W 603 floor standing speakers was glorious in the 90s!

I've been chasing that 'sound high' ever since.



SvennoJ said:
Norion said:

Twister is not an amazing film or anything like that but seeing it as my first 4DX film recently was a great experience that was completely worth the price. Though it'll be tough to find other films that will work as well in that format so I dunno when I'll see a film in it again.

Twister was amazing back in 1996. Surround sound was still new in the cinema and Twister was making full use of it.

The movie inspired me to get a CRT projector and powerful surround system with heavy subwoofer. Shaking my apartment during the action scenes. The best scene (sound wise) is when the Twister hits the town when The Shining is playing on the outdoor cinema. The garage getting hit, glass shattering everywhere in full surround while the drum of the wind shakes the room, goose bumps every time. (Plus angry neighbors lol)

Dunno what 4DX is, but Twister on Laserdisc with Dolby Digital AC-3, CRT Projector, REL Storm Subwoofer, Yahama DSP-AX1, B&W 603 floor standing speakers was glorious in the 90s!

I've been chasing that 'sound high' ever since.

It's a format that does stuff like shake the chair you're sitting in depending on what's happening in the film with effects like that happening for Twister during the tornado and driving scenes mainly. It enhanced the experience a lot for me and was kinda like watching a film while on a rollercoaster during the most intense parts.



Disaster movies have long since taken a backseat to disastrous movies.



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I forgot Bad Taste (1987) & Brain Dead (1992). Both Australian comedy horror movies directed by Peter Jackson.

I know they're not the most conventional disaster movies but they are some of my all-time favs that I missed from my list.

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curl-6 said:

Another favourite of mine is Dante's Peak, a 1997 flick about a volcanic eruption that's a fun ride.

Glad someone mentioned Dante's Peak. I would probably not enjoy it as much today but some scenes from that movie just stuck with me, mainly the part

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when the granny walks through acid to save the others. 

I enjoy quite a bit of disaster movies. They are always an entertaining ride, one just have to accept that things are a bit silly and not true to life in a lot of aspects.

Most disaster movies that include outer space are some I really like. Gravity and The Martian might not qualify since the disaster kind of only affects a few people. But I really like them and like to mention them nonetheless. I generally like disaster movies that involve fewer people instead of the whole world. Another movie I really like is Sully. These movies might better be described as part of the survival movie genre.

But my favorite is probably Armageddon. The premise is so stupid that I cannot help but love it.



I enjoy the ones that are based on real events, so I like The Perfect Storm, The Impossible and Deepwater Horizon.



Chris Hu said:

I enjoy the ones that are based on real events, so I like The Perfect Storm, The Impossible and Deepwater Horizon.

Plenty in real life for that without having to watch a film. Remember the time an asteroid nearly leveled a city in Russia? Could have made a film out of that if we were unlucky. Could have triggered a global nuclear exchange if we were really unlucky

Ever see the Tianjin explosion?

^ Would made a great film. 



LegitHyperbole said:
Chris Hu said:

I enjoy the ones that are based on real events, so I like The Perfect Storm, The Impossible and Deepwater Horizon.

Plenty in real life for that without having to watch a film. Remember the time an asteroid nearly leveled a city in Russia? Could have made a film out of that if we were unlucky. Could have triggered a global nuclear exchange if we were really unlucky

Ever see the Tianjin explosion?

^ Would made a great film. 

Tianjin was crazy. There's also a lot of crazy material about Beirut 2020. Videos from a ship getting hit by the blast, video from a hospital which got hit while a woman gave birth to a baby while the hospital got partly destroyed, someone on a roof who would have died if he wouldn't have left the roof a few seconds before the impact of the blast and so on...