![]() We don't remember if the location is actually New York because our whole lives since we saw Disaster Movie have been dedicated to forgetting it exists, but it contains enough references to other films that clobbered the city that we feel pretty safe assuming. It also unloads on New York with pretty much everything that can go wrong, including meteors, quick freezing, tornadoes, superhero battles, museum exhibits coming to life, and rabid animals. Here's a good rule to keep in mind before you head out to the theaters or press play on your remote: if the thing you're about to watch is a comedy that ends in the word "Movie," you're probably about to have a bad time.īut if you insist, Disaster Movie offers about an hour and a half of unfunny, overlong scenes featuring jokes that were dated the moment the movie came out. ![]() And sure enough, a flooded New York gets the cover of the DVD release (but not the Blu-ray version, above).ĭespite having one of the worst trailers we've seen lately, a subplot involving scheming ministers and poisonous frogs, and dodgy science that includes "falling chunks of mesosphere," 14 million people tuned in to watch Category 7. But it's only about 260 miles from there to New York, which is nothing when you're dealing with a thing that's way too big to actually exist. ![]() Most of the concern in this movie is about Washington, D.C., which has a "massive thermal plume" (probably from all the politicians and their hot air, right?) that will fuel both the system and the destruction of the human race. And now it makes sense: a category 6 plus one more obviously makes a category 7. Modern meteorology doesn't even have a seventh category of tropical storms or hurricanes, but this 2005 miniseries is the sequel to Category 6: Day of Destruction, so what can you do?Ĭategory 7 has the system that took out Chicago in the first movie joining up with another hurricane to form the biggest weather event in the history of everything. 16 Category 7: The End of the World – The biggest storm ever Tornado Cop and Avalanche Cop pretty much write themselves. We'd love to see a series of other movies about crime investigations during unrelated natural disasters. ![]() We would have totally understood if the cop put that second problem on hold while he deals with the more immediate problems of New York collapsing into the earth, but we give him credit for his dedication. Not only is it about a police detective trying to find his family in the aftermath of an 8.2 earthquake, but it also has a subplot about a serial killer. The storms flood subway tunnels so that sharks can get in there and eat people, and they fling the big fish up into airplanes so that they can get their nom on in the sky.Įventually, it looks like three sharknados are going to merge to form one megasharknado because that's probably a thing in this universe, so the heroes blow up a tank of coolant on top of the Empire State Building to freeze the storm before things can get any more ridiculous than that plan.Įarthquake in New York is one of two late 90s TV miniseries called Earthquake in New York that suppose what would happen if a massive seismic event hit the city (the other one is called Aftershock, with the rest as a subtitle) We're not sure how or why the similarities happened, but sometimes studios independently have the same terrible idea simultaneously, like when lava-driven disaster films Volcano and Dante's Peak also came out in the same year.īut despite the redundancy, we're giving the slot to the movie with the slightly shorter title because of the seemingly disparate plot elements it crams in. The main things are that both the tornados and sharks are there, and they've achieved perfect symbiosis. None of that matters, and thinking about it will only give you a headache. Where did these storms come from? And while we're at it, how are they strong enough to pick up sharks? And why are there so many sharks? The Sharknado series is full of mysteries. This one falls more under an attack than all-out destruction, but it's basically impossible not to include a movie that's about a bunch of tornadoes picking up a whole lot of sharks and flinging them at New York.
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