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do NOT watch this movie

posted 17 years ago by hedin_88
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i mean, do NOT. im serious. do yourself a favor. This movie hasn't any action, the special effects are better in movies 30 years older. There are so many goofs, you gonna loose count after the first 20 minutes. The camera motion sucks and ill tell you a scene. Tis guy is watering the lawn and wants to go in to is house (a typical American wooden house) and when he opens the door, volcano comes out like water. Like, out of nowhere.

Please, i had to watch this movie and i regret it. Id see more action watching my grandma making a soup!

[–] hoppytoad 16 years ago

I agree. Saw it on Scifi a couple weeks ago. Wish I'd skipped it.

In addition to what you pointed out, need I remind everyone that this has been done before? 1997. The movie "Volcano" starring Tommy Lee Jones. Same bloody plot. Only with a different city, better acting, and some believable scientific stuff to back it up (not much, but there is SOME)

Face it, folks, without some kind of nuclear warhead, you can't just "make" a volcano.

[–] CountryChick01 16 years ago

I rented it from the video store purely for this reason. I'm a geology student right now and I'd pay money to watch something so hideously inaccurate. Just passed the part with the guy getting everescated and I've seen more realistic intestines...well....ever.

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[–] Henkwich_88 11 years ago

You can't make a volcano period. Not in New York at least. You'd have to make a whole roughly 30 km down to be sure to come close to the mantle where all the molten lava goodies are. So *beep* no, not even with a nuke. This movie seems laughable to say the least ^^

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[–] janewaysman 16 years ago

ticked me off that not only once but twice this crappy movie used 2 clips of 9/11 when the volcano first blew they showed a shot right ater the second tower fell, with the smoke and debis.

[–] mrnocal 16 years ago

I watched this movie whiskified™. I admit it. I love disaster films...and boy was this ever a DISASTER! Even whiskified™ I could probably hold a camera steadier than the camera crew on this piece of crap. Blair Witch Project made me dizzy. Cloverfield made me dizzy. This just made me nauseous. Have the camera crew ever heard of a tripod? Were they just shivering because they knew how bad the script was? A "Disaster" movie is supposed to be about a disaster....it's not supposed to BE a disaster.

[–] Timov5 15 years ago

I'm bored so I'm watching it. Agree with you about the camera motion.

[–] jmartz11 14 years ago

Its on SYFY from 11pm est to 1am est on sat dect 12; Oh NOW

[–] iheartjacksparrow 14 years ago

I just watched the scene with the guy watering his lawn. Pretty funny that a door could keep lava contained inside a house. But the best part was when they cut to show the house collapse and it's a brick house, not the wood like it started out. And when the manhole cover crashes into the birdbath, there is no way the birdbath wouldn't have shattered into a bunch of pieces.

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[–] ZeroRyuusei 14 years ago

Magma is better, but that moot.

I remember the scene with the two guys in the tunnel. One had steam blown at him, only to show really weird looking inards that looked like tubbing for a plummer.

[–] JHT 11 years ago

But is the movie worth watching just for that scene ... the door knob feels a bit hot but otherwise the house looks fine, no smoke or red glow coming from the windows and then he opens the door to a lava flow. Priceless.

[–] clacton0 10 years ago

Dante's Peak is the best volcano film to date I say having seen loads.
This I gave a 3 out of 10.
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