When Weather ATTACKS

[nostalgia_lj]

The Day After Tomorrow: A Review

I have been wanting to see this film for ages. It is the most amazing film in the entire universe ever. Basically, Americans get killed by the Earth itself. Join their struggle as they fight back to win...

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[pontisbright]

fans of big loud films with weather in them

I am troubled, as this sound like the sort of thing I would like, but the only other example I can think of is Twister, which is loud and has weather in it, undoubtedly, but it also has the least charismatic leads ever and is very dull.

Please to be making a list of big loud films with weather in them? There must be a Blizzard or a, um, Cumulonimbus or two that have passed me by.

[lornelover]

There is Ice Storm, but it is mostly about Toby Maguire's emo geek man-boy pain and love for the Fantastic Four, and how Elijah Wood is really awkward. But a real honest ice storm features at the end. With hilarious results!

[pontisbright]

Any film that has both Ice and a Storm is clearly win. If there is also man-boy pain I am definitely on board.

[lornelover]

It's actually a really good film. And has Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver in it, as well as Christina Ricci (who gets perved over a lot, despite being a tiny girl). But the end. It's supposed to be all tragic, and it is, really, but... dude. I am forever condemned to Hell for laughing at the end of that movie. But it's so horrible! And awesome! I can't even tell you what happens, lest I spread the damnation.

[wiliqueen]

It's not so much with the big and loud, tho. Which probably helps with the part where it's bloody brilliant.

[lornelover]

Ah, true. Fewer explosions and car chases in that one. More pensive train riding and angst.

[calapine]

But this one has Bilbo in it! Being all British and stiff-upper lip in the face of INEVITABLE DOOOOM.

I love it mainly for Bilbo. Also Scotland.

[nostalgia_lj]

we all died of cold!

[melyanna]

My brother was working on his degree in meteorology when this movie came out. Reportedly, a character in the movie said something about supercooled air being brought down from the troposphere and he yelled at the movie (in the theatre), "You idiot! We're IN the troposphere!"

Sadly, this is one of the lesser offenders in the pantheon of weather-related movies. One of my brother's professors was consulted as an expert for some sort of tornado apocalypse movie (Night of the Atomic Tornado or something?), and when he gave them a sample radar image of a storm that might do the kind of damage they wanted, they did actually use that radar image. Only they used the actual image, which was clearly a map of Oklahoma, and the storm was supposed to be in Texas. And then they got the science wrong anyway

[kensson]

Drizzle, in which Glasgow is swiftly eroded by, um, guess.

[nostalgia_lj]

ID WATCH THAT

[romanticizing]

Maybe you should delve into the genre of 70s disaster movies? Not all of them are weather-related disasters, but a lot of them are at least natural diasters. They tend to have fairly straightforward titles (e.g. "Flood!" or "Hurricane") and are usually ensemble pieces with a weird variety of actors. Oh, and do you want to see good films, or bad ones to make fun of? There seem to be a lot more of the latter. I keep meaning to see Earthquake: it has Charlton Heston (always good for making fun of!) but also Lorne Green, George Kennedy, Ava Gardner, Marjoe Gortner (who is just weirdness), Walter Matthau, Richard Roundtree, and some other people. It has to be amazing! Amazing as in 'amazingly bad,' anyway.

[kateorman]

"Humidity!"

[romanticizing]

That could totally be one! It could be set in the 19th century and be about Congressmen focusing more on wrapping up the session than laws and stuff so they could leave the DC heat for the summer.

[nostalgia_lj]

"Slight Chill As The Afternoon Progresses"