LiveScience just released a pretty cool top 10: History’s 10 greatest explosions
If you’re lazy, here’s the list:
The Farthest Recorded Explosion
Shadow Casting Supernova
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (comet hitting Jupiter)
The K-T Extinction Impact Event
Mount Tambora (largest volcanic blast ever)
Tunguska (a comet hitting siberia)
The Trinity Blast (first a-bomb)
Chernobyl
The Halifax Explosion (cargo ship filled with explosives blowing up)
The Texas City [...]
With his blank stares and receding hairline, Nicolas Cage is an easy target for living room movie critics. I, however, happen to like Face/Off and National Treasure, so I generally try and play devil’s advocate and stick up for the guy. Sadly, I find myself agreeing with the masses when it comes to [...]
My box set of natural disaster B-movies finally came from Amazon. Like any true B-movies, these ones have loads of stock footage, corny lines, and terrible special effects. Gotta love it. Check out the reviews below.
Tidal Wave: No Escape
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York
Stay tuned, because next up are a few Natural Disaster miniseries.
Now that it is officially fall, I figured it was time to preview the biggest disaster movie of this holiday season: The Day the Earth Stood Still. They took a play straight out of the War of the Worlds and I am Legend playbooks on this one. Take a early 1950s sci fi disaster flick, [...]
Today I am proud to announce the relaunch of the THE Disaster Movie Website. We’ve got a new logo, new design, and (drumroll please…) a new background color. I plan on adding many new reviews in the coming weeks and months, so get excited. As always, I welcome any and all disaster movie exceptions at [...]
Whenever news stories straight out of disaster movie scripts come around, I get excited. I was particularly excited when I heard that a U.S. satellite loaded with deadly chemicals with bad ass names like Hydrazine was falling to Earth. The Navy quickly decided to launch an enormous rocket to blow it into thousands [...]
Stumbled upon a sweet list of 10 ways humanity could be wiped out. A solid mix of self-inflicted, astronomical, and supernatural ways we might just screw things up. Also reads as a pretty solid list of science fiction disaster movies. Here’s the list if you’re really that lazy:
1. Particle accelerators
2. Rogue black holes
3. Gamma ray [...]
In a last gasp before succumbing to the writer’s strike, Desperate Housewives certainly went out with a bang with one of the only sitcom/drama natural disaster episodes that I’m aware of. The giant tornado that tore apart Wisteria Lane was no Twister, but it actually looked pretty good considering they were on a TV [...]
ah the magic of Google Analytics…
Since DisasterFlicks.com is still a fledgling site, we can’t compete with the IMDBs and Wikipedias of the world when it comes to getting search engine traffic for the big terms. Basically, we get left with the obscure scraps that we happen to rank for. Painstaking (sortof) analysis of our traffic [...]
This is the first of a series of entries here at the disaster movies blog highlighting those historical events which badly need the true Hollywood treatment. The studios’ love affair with historical war epics sadly has not spilled over into the disaster movies genre, and with Pompeii pushed back indefinitely it doesn’t look like [...]
