did eni1 els nt find i tweird that out of thousands only 9 survived and out of those 9, there was an entire family surviving?
shareI thought of this. I guess it's because they stuck together, but still. Four of the nine people were from the same family. I agree with you.
shareThat was kind of convenient and even more convenient that the woman Clarke was having an affair with was killed off just minutes before the rescue so the family could be a family again.
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Well, if that's true, I'm guessing this version was more true to the book than the '72 theatrical version as the boy and his sister were traveling alone in that film.
shareIf you asked me the boy and the mother should have been killed off and keep the mistress alive
shareThat would have been a much more interesting writing choice.
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(Of course, Borgnine was much better.)
Borgnine was just heartbreaking in that scene in the original.
The masseuse's death was horribly predictable... I just knew from the moment she and Steve survive in the overturned cabin that she was going to die, and that Steve would "reconcile" with his wife and family. Predictable, sappy, and pathetic.
It would have been a much braver choice to perhaps have the trio survive, but Steve still leave his wife (I hate the cliche that after a disaster, all past differences are put aside). And while the masseuse comes across as a nice person when she first "seduces" Steve's character, the minute the disaster starts, she is painted as a slutty home-wrecker.
Anyone seen Earthquake, and remember that film's ending? While far from my favourite disaster film, that's a movie with a surprise ending that does exactly the opposite of what you expect to happen, and remains both shocking and real.
Killing the tart so the nuclear family can be happy again is the safe option, but ultimately the sappy, dull and uninspired one.
I just made myself watch it today on USA for not watching it when it was on the SCIFI Channel. I really hate that part they do that all the time in movies nowadays killing off the hot woman for nothing.
shareThe book did it better. It killed off the boy, except that he wasn't as annoying as this kid was.
"What do you people at home think?"
--Crow T. Robot
The book did it better? Are you mental? Yes, the book killed off the boy, but what about everything else? The sister is raped and she decides to hope she's pregnant so she can search out her attacker's family and comfort them with the baby. After all, her attacker was scared and that excuses everything. (Her reasoning in the book) Before I read this book I would have said I ALWAYS liked a book better than it's movie, but now I know that any movie version of this particular book would be better than the book itself.
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