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San Andreas, the combo disaster movie
Sep. 17th, 2021 11:34 amSan Andreas does not have gigantic animals, natural or unnatural. It does not have aliens from outer space, nuclear weapons, a pandemic or terrorists. Other than that, it has All the Disasters. It has buildings on fire. It has buildings falling down. It has people falling off of tall things. It has helicopters crashing. It has planes crashing. It has a really big earthquake. It has a dam breaking. It has a tsunami. It has boats sinking and crashing into things. It has people trapped on upper floors. It has people trapped in subterranean areas. It has erratically available communications.
Against the backdrop of all of this, there’s a pretty anodyne (and I had to look it up, but yeah, that’s the word I want) storyline about a family disrupted by tragedy that is reunited in the course of the larger tragedy, but in a different configuration with more / different people.
I can’t say I actually _watched_ the movie; I sorta did the movie equivalent of skimming it — I hit the 30 seconds forward button _a lot_. This is the porniest disaster porn movie ever. Whoever designed the pano shots of scenes of epic destruction (about to happen, happening, and then the aftermath) _really_ _loved_ _wrecking_ _California_. I mean, they got off on it. Which is, you know, a disaster movie thing.
Also last night: I tried watching Mortal Kombat again — I had some weird sound problem when I tried watching it when it was first available that I never could resolve. Sound problem is gone, but after watching the movie kill the really awesome black man relatively early on, I bailed out. I just couldn’t. It’s got standard Mortal Kombat / movie based on hyper violent game blood splash just non-stop and honestly, I am not into that. ETA: Before you say anything, yeah, I’ve now read the wikipedia entry and Jax comes back so, maybe. I’ll think about it.
Against the backdrop of all of this, there’s a pretty anodyne (and I had to look it up, but yeah, that’s the word I want) storyline about a family disrupted by tragedy that is reunited in the course of the larger tragedy, but in a different configuration with more / different people.
I can’t say I actually _watched_ the movie; I sorta did the movie equivalent of skimming it — I hit the 30 seconds forward button _a lot_. This is the porniest disaster porn movie ever. Whoever designed the pano shots of scenes of epic destruction (about to happen, happening, and then the aftermath) _really_ _loved_ _wrecking_ _California_. I mean, they got off on it. Which is, you know, a disaster movie thing.
Also last night: I tried watching Mortal Kombat again — I had some weird sound problem when I tried watching it when it was first available that I never could resolve. Sound problem is gone, but after watching the movie kill the really awesome black man relatively early on, I bailed out. I just couldn’t. It’s got standard Mortal Kombat / movie based on hyper violent game blood splash just non-stop and honestly, I am not into that. ETA: Before you say anything, yeah, I’ve now read the wikipedia entry and Jax comes back so, maybe. I’ll think about it.