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Dantes Peak is to Volcano as Deep Impact is to Armageddon 2 movies about pretty much the same subject, one is more grounded in reality and the other is more of an action flick
Deep Impact is way better then Armageddon in my opinion, personally because it's too over the top. Where Deep Impact is more grounded and believable, sure there's a few things about it that're unbelievable like outrunning the approaching Tsunami. Dante's Peak also focuses on the science and reality way more than other disaster movies featuring Volcanic activity like the movie Volcano where it just magically appears in California which btw is impossible to not detect and it doesn't work that way.
@@eklipseempire8807 I only saw Deep Impact recently, I couldn't believe how good it was. It focuses on the human element - how do people act when they think the world is going to end?
Volcano movies are awesome, this movie Dantes Peak and there's a different movie called Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche is a cool movie as well
I grew up around Portland, Oregon, and the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in 1980 is a memorable event in the Pacific Northwest. My 5th grade class watched this film when we studied volcanoes, and then we took a field trip to Johnston Ridge Observatory at Mt. Saint Helens in the 1990s. Yup, this film ranks high in terms of accuracy. Now go watch the 1997 film "Volcano" and laugh.
The St. Helens eruption which someone relates to this deposited huge amounts of ash in Eastern Washington. One of the heaviest deposits was over Wiley City, a small town West of Yakima, which is also where my parents lived. We were dealing with the ash for years. You could taste it in the air and if you put your arm down on a counter or table, you could feel the grittiness of the fine ash. My baby brother made money by going around a grocery store in Yakima, taking everything off of a self of shelves, cleaning off the ash, and putting back on the shelves. After doing a bunch of shelves, he had to start again. Driving on I-90 in Eastern Washington, ash drifts were present for years.
All crater scenes were shot at Mount St. Helens. Most of the film's exteriors were shot in Wallace, Idaho. Dante's Peak and surrounding scenery were then digitally added. The story of Ruth refusing to leave was inspired by actual events. In 1980 when Mt. St. Helens was about to blow, resident Harry R. Truman, who was living in a failed tourist lodge that he had owned for fifty years, adamantly refused to leave. He was interviewed on camera and pointedly warned but he insisted that the danger was being wildly exaggerated. Meanwhile, David Johnston, a principal scientist on the USGS team had taken up a position to view the north face of the mountain. He was six miles away. At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, he radioed the message, "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" Seconds later he was killed by the lateral blast, which removed the entire side of the mountain. In 1993, thirteen years after the blast, road construction workers discovered what turned out to be remnants of Johnson's USGS trailer. Neither his body nor the body of Truman were ever found. The pyroclastic flows began at a speed of 225 MPH and accelerated to 675 MPH almost at the speed of sound). Johnston was impacted at a speed of about 360 MPH. Charles Hallahan (Paul Dreyfus) passed away from a heart attack on November 25, 1997; nine months after the release of Dante's Peak. During that time he was able to complete six other projects for TV and film. He was best known as the grotesque scampering crab-legged head/victim of the alien monster in The Thing (1982). The somewhat volcano-shaped building, which appears as the "Cascade Volcano Observatory", is the real-life post office in Malibu, California. Most of the inner shots in halls and rooms are filmed in Dutch Angle. It's a technique where the camera is rotated between 25 and 45 grades respecting the horizon on one side or another for giving a sensation of uncomfortably or restlessness. Dante's Peak got its name from "Dante's Inferno" which describes a trip into Hell. The only time Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton worked together. They became friends after they finished work on the film. At one point it is stated that tiltmeter devices that had been set up around the mountain had detected no change to the mountain's shape. When Mt. St. Helens was about to explode such devices had detected a change in the angle of the ground where they were planted, indicating a massive underground flow of magma that was causing the northern side of the mountain to bulge. They could then make some educated guesses about the nature of the upcoming explosion. The fact is that with St. Helens the scientists grossly underestimated the amount of energy that had been stored up. The lead USGS scientist set up his observation post almost directly facing the bulge, rather than to the side, assuming that a distance of six miles would be safe. But when it blew, not only was the explosion many more times greater than expected but the scientist was killed and never found. Roger Donaldson had considered a career in geology and has a working knowledge of volcanoes. Roger Donaldson had not met Pierce Brosnan before making this movie. He had seen Brosnan play James Bond in GoldenEye (1995), and the two got to know each other before filming for this movie commenced. Wallace, Idaho, where the movie was filmed, does not reside near a volcano. Pierce Brosnan's character name is Harry Dalton. Timothy Dalton played James Bond before Brosnan. When the volcanic lava begins to destroy the mountain cabin, everyone runs to get onto a small boat. The first time the scene was filmed, the boat sank. Jamie Renée Smith could not swim, and Pierce Brosnan held her until a crew member pulled her from the water. The close-ups of the pyroclastic cloud erupting were shot in a car park with giant gas pumps under a volcano set, pumping masses of dark grey cloud five or six times per second.
Ah the 90s, where there disaster movies that paralleled each other. Volcano and Dantes Peak. Armageddon and Deep Impact. The grandmother always ticked me off with not evacuating. Love the reaction as always
Trivia for Dante's Peak (both for James and for anybody else interested in knowing): - Released in 1997; directed by Roger Donaldson; written by Leslie Bohem. - This was the third collaboration between Linda Hamilton and producer Gale Anne Hurd, having done the first two Terminator films together. - This was one of the final roles for Charles Hallahan, who played Paul Dreyfuss; the movie's release date was February 7, and Hallahan died of a heart attack in his car on November 25. - Like Armageddon one year later, Dante's Peak went up against a similar volcano movie released in the same year, called "Volcano" (starring Tommy Lee Jones from Men in Black). - Because of the competition with "Volcano" and its studio, 20th Century Fox, the production schedule for "Dante's Peak" was sped up, and had a better box office gross because of its earlier release date. - Most of this movie was filmed in Wallace, Idaho; its local high school mascot, the Miners, can be seen at one point. - Roger Donaldson was eager to direct as he had once been a geology student. - Kurt Russell (from Backdraft and Overboard) was considered for the lead role of Harry Dalton. - The titular volcano doesn't erupt until fifty-three minutes into the movie. - During the parade scene, Coeur d'Alene High School band students appeared in the film. The band received $8,000 from Universal Pictures for new instruments and uniforms.
James - if you're looking for mountain climbing movies, here are some titles: 1. Vertical Limit (2001) 2. Alive (1993) - based on a true story, too 3. Everest (2015) 4. K2 (1993) 5. The Mountain Between Us (2017) 6. Cliffhanger (1993)
Enjoyed your reaction, as usual. :) FYI, lava flows can be devastating but are comparitively slow-moving. But pyroclastic flows are clouds of super-heated particles and gases, hot enough to melt lead, that can move at hundreds of miles per hour and cover a wide area. Historically, it is usually these that kill the most people in volcanic eruptions.
This was filmed in Wallace, Idaho (about 3 hours from where we live). It is one of my favorite towns. Every time we drive to Seattle, we go through Wallace. I never get tired of how quaint it is. Great reaction!
Dante's Peak is based, to some degree, on the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens (which I was here for, in WA State, back in 1980). Volcanologists say it's one of the closest-to-accurate volcano movies made. Thing is, we don't have much in the way of flowing lava like that, but instead, pyroclastic flows, which can be worse (they did portray that in the movie). Oh, and some of the towns near Mt. Rainier have evacuation routes and plans, yes. They have to. For both volcano and tsunamis.
Doris Roberts, the mother-in-law on _Everybody Loves Raymond,_ played Pierce Brosnan's receptionist when he starred on NBC as private detective _Remington Steele,_ a few years before he became Bond, James Bond.
For "Man Vs. Nature" 🎥, I recommend: -"127 Hours" from 2010 (man gets his hand trapped while hiking alone) -"Avalanche" from 1978 -Skyscraper from 2018 (man has to rescue family from building on fire) -"Volcano" from 1997
This is out of left field but.. a movie I KNOW you would love.. it's Comedy/Sci Fi/Action.. it's called "Innerspace" such a VERY FUN 80's movie.. it's HILARIOUS!
Ok, I have seen this movie like a thousand times, it was one of my favorite movies growing up and I still watch every so often. I can’t believe I never noticed the truck not dripping any water when it came out after the other car pushed their window and gave them a boost 🤦🏻♀️ Thank you for pointing that out, James, cause I can’t believe I never noticed it LOL I can’t believe I learned something new with this movie that I have seen for many years haha
Oh yeah, I've caught so many things like this. I'm pretty observant. I think one of my favorite comments was a guy that was ABSOLUTLY irate when I reacted to Ghostbusters. I noticed that behind the fridge was actual stairs they use to walk up to the top of the building and that's why the moster was in the fridge. Holy hell, he was so pissed. I even got an email from him saying he'd seen that f***ing movie 100 f***ing times and had never ever picked up on that bit. Hilarious.
MY dad and I were on Mt St Helens the day the glaciers and groundwater boiled. He had been making some side money taking pictures with his camera rig, and selling them to the newspaper as stock images. We'd found a way inside the Red Zone, through clear cuts and logging roads, so we could get close, and spent Sundays up there in the ash (from minor eruptions) getting itchy and babysitting his automatic camera. The static in the ash makes it cling to everything -- we were forever shaking it out of our clothes and wiping his camera lens. This was a Thursday, I believe, when I had an In Service day from school and my dad was also free, so we'd gone up the mountain. The ground started rumbling so deeply it felt like itching in my teeth. The giant steam plume started as we were hightailing it out of there, and I remember thinking that I hadn't realized how far 'up' actually went. The column of steam towered into the atmosphere before ash started to black everything out. We got into Cougar, Washington and everyone was trying to skedaddle. It was pitch dark at 3-3:30, the headlights didn't reach very far. And the small town of Cougar had bumper to bumper traffic, as bad as any rush hour, anywhere, ever. Cars that hadn't put nylons over their air intake were choked out and abandoned on the side of the roads. Everyone was honking and panicky and trying to get the hell out of there, because we thought the whole mountain was about to come down -- or go up! It was a month yet before that would happen, but nobody knew that then. Those were the last pictures my dad took of St Helens.
My parents lived in Vancouver WA when Mt St Helens erupted. They said gas stations were selling homemade maps showing how to get around the red zone blockades. I've told people about this, and they don't believe it. The logging companies were campaigning to resume work inside red zones as well. The eruption actually happened on a Sunday, which saved a lot of loggers lives.
This movie has some of the best miniature work I have seen in any movie. Its practical effects during a time when hollywood was heavily using CGI in the late 90s. This movie has to be in my top three favorites. I mean they crafted the mountain out of foam (it was 100ft wide give or take) and composited it into the movie. Its the same thing with the volcanic explosions. They made ash canons to create a realistic plumes.
Another good disaster movie that I always think of along with this is *Deep Impact.* And for more Pierce Brosnan, you should watch *The Thomas Crown Affair* (instead of the James Bond movies that everyone else watches).
This has been my favorite disaster film ever since it came out. It scores very high with experts in terms of a realist depiction of a stratovolcanic eruption, though of course there's some Hollywood crap thrown in for spectacle. I really appreciate the story and its characters, and the score and special effects are fantastic. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
saw it at the cinema back in the day with a late friend of mine! I took her fiancee the next day to see Liar Liar with Jim Carrey!the 90s made amazing movies!
Man vs Nature: "Volcano" (1997) "The Ghost and the Darkness" (1996) true story "The Edge" (1997) "The Eiger Sanction" (1975) based on a book "The Perfect Storm" (2000) true story "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998) "Tremors" (1990) "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972 original) "Congo" (1995) "Daylight" (1996)
This is a great classic disaster movie! A lot of it is fairly realistically what would happen in an eruption, but not the big earthquakes. You do get earthquakes with volcanic activity but they're minimal tremors, certainly nowhere near the scale to bring down buildings and bridges. But taking a bit of Hollywood license is more fun! A Pierce Brosnan movie I recommend is The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) it's a remake of a 1968 movie with Steve McQueen (you probably haven't heard of him but he was a great actor in his time). Both movies are good.
Can just imagine all the pets that got left behind :/ Pierce Bronson-James Bond GoldenEye Another good volcano movie is Volcano. And please react to M Night Signs A awesome show to watch would be Babylon 5
This movie is so good at just keeping you right on the edge the whole time. There’s just Sooo close for so long. Then as soon as you think they’re safe from all this lava , a cave collapses on them.
Hi James, just sitting down with my cuppa tea to enjoy your reaction to this often overlooked 90s movie. It's movies like this and Volcano which cemented my interest in volcanoes since I was a kid. Speaking of Volcano, that might be one for you to enjoy if you enjoyed this one :)
I only just saw this movie a few years ago. I hadn't realized there was a Pierce Brosnan movie I hadn't seen yet. I've loved him in everything I've ever seen him in. Now you totally have the see The Thomas Crowne Affair. The remake with him in it and not the original. 9/10 I prefer the originals pf movies, but that is one of the few exceptions. Also Pierce Brosnan was 007 for most of my childhood. 💗
It's time for an old-school disaster film.... Earthquake (1972) The Towering Inferno (1972) The Poseiden Adventure (1974) These were the first of the summer blockbuster films !
They constantly use lasers in Yellowstone to monitor how much sections of the crater is "breathing"- rising then sinking- every year. They can test even the smallest elevation changes with them among other things.
I would love to have a Toyota like that. Also, grandma is a real one. Lastly, you should definitely watch Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones. It takes place in LA, so it's a very different disaster movie.
Mt. St. Helen's was *not* one of the largest volcanoes. It was only a low-ranking 5 VEI. The scale goes up to 8 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_explosivity_index
Here's the real story about the frog experiment. That frog actually had it's had cut off leaving only the brain stem. A fog that had it's head would not let itself be boiled alive.
Coffee coffee coffee Cappuccino.... Wow, this is a bit eerie, was only reading yesterday about a concerning surge at Campi-Flegrie super volcano near Naples, they are even calling a citizens meeting (for tomorrow I think). Unfortunately in a mirror of this film, one of the local Italian news reports went to great lengths to emphasize that only official sources should comment as they have delicate economics and social issues to be deeply concerned about, particularly tourism... ie keep it low key. Unfortunately when it goes.. so does Naples and possibly much more, with a 100km caldera that is partially under the Mediterranean. Citizens are complaining about sulfur smells.. uplift is increasing, tremors up to 3.5... only 2-3km deep. I mean... the start of this film is essentially describing the same situation.. hopefully it ends much better.
Cant recommend The 33 enough. Its stars Antonio Banderas as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped in a mine collapse. That will cover mining disaster movies on your bucket list. Also the 2006 remake of the Poseidon Adventure, simply called Poseidon, starring Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, and Richard Dreyfus is fantastic as well.
You should also watch the movie "Volcano" from 1997 (starring the great Tommy Lee Jones a. o.)! Spoiler-Alert! This time it's Los Angeles (totally other conditions than in the mountain-nature). Wish YOU a lot of fun as always, dear great "Mr. James". God bless you! Heartfelt greetings from Germany!
Say, James, which studio made this one? Time to watch _Volcano_ (1997), starring Tommy Lee Jones. For comedy, there is _Joe Versus the Volcano,_ starring Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan. Have you seen _Towering Inferno_ yet, starring Paul Newman & Steve McQueen?
Not even close. Mt. St. Helens was only a VEI 4 level eruption. Many volcanoes in Indonesia are significantly larger. Krakatoa was supposedly VEI 7 or thereabouts, and the supervolcano in Yellowstone has erupted much larger than even that.
Since you are so well read I'm surprised you didn't associate the word Dante with an Inferno. I am not well read but I have seen the movie seven so I am familiar with the title Dante's Inferno.
Found your channel recently and been binge watching some of your reactions. Needless to say, definitely have enjoyed them. Did a little searching around today and it's an absolute travesty that "the Big Lebowski" isn't on your channel.... YET. *hint
You want to see volcanic action? You should watch Walter Mitty. It has a real volcano. And then there's Volcano, that movie and this came out at the same time. It has the old guy from Men in Black.
I loved the fake movie ad that Weird Al made called "60% Chance of Rain". The fake movie trailer even mentions this movie since it's spun as being in the same genre. ruclips.net/video/MaNm8ghomCk/видео.html Also, the hint in the title of this movie was "Dante", since most people think of Dante's Inferno (even though there were other things he wrote about). So the goal was to think of a peak (mountain) that would unleash an inferno (mountain of fire...volcano).
Fyi, morbid, but: If burns penetrate the first layer of living tissue, from heat or chemical or radiation, the chances of the serious burns alone killing a person, as a rule of thumb, are the percent of their body burned plus the person's age.
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Dantes Peak is to Volcano as Deep Impact is to Armageddon 2 movies about pretty much the same subject, one is more grounded in reality and the other is more of an action flick
Si señor. Watched all of them when they came out
Deep Impact is way better then Armageddon in my opinion, personally because it's too over the top. Where Deep Impact is more grounded and believable, sure there's a few things about it that're unbelievable like outrunning the approaching Tsunami. Dante's Peak also focuses on the science and reality way more than other disaster movies featuring Volcanic activity like the movie Volcano where it just magically appears in California which btw is impossible to not detect and it doesn't work that way.
@@eklipseempire8807 I only saw Deep Impact recently, I couldn't believe how good it was. It focuses on the human element - how do people act when they think the world is going to end?
I like Dante's Peak over Volcano, but I like Armageddon over Deep Impact.
Volcano movies are awesome, this movie Dantes Peak and there's a different movie called Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche is a cool movie as well
“Dumb friggin’ kids!!!” is the funniest quote from a content creator ever 😂
I grew up around Portland, Oregon, and the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in 1980 is a memorable event in the Pacific Northwest. My 5th grade class watched this film when we studied volcanoes, and then we took a field trip to Johnston Ridge Observatory at Mt. Saint Helens in the 1990s. Yup, this film ranks high in terms of accuracy. Now go watch the 1997 film "Volcano" and laugh.
The St. Helens eruption which someone relates to this deposited huge amounts of ash in Eastern Washington. One of the heaviest deposits was over Wiley City, a small town West of Yakima, which is also where my parents lived. We were dealing with the ash for years. You could taste it in the air and if you put your arm down on a counter or table, you could feel the grittiness of the fine ash. My baby brother made money by going around a grocery store in Yakima, taking everything off of a self of shelves, cleaning off the ash, and putting back on the shelves. After doing a bunch of shelves, he had to start again.
Driving on I-90 in Eastern Washington, ash drifts were present for years.
All crater scenes were shot at Mount St. Helens.
Most of the film's exteriors were shot in Wallace, Idaho. Dante's Peak and surrounding scenery were then digitally added.
The story of Ruth refusing to leave was inspired by actual events. In 1980 when Mt. St. Helens was about to blow, resident Harry R. Truman, who was living in a failed tourist lodge that he had owned for fifty years, adamantly refused to leave. He was interviewed on camera and pointedly warned but he insisted that the danger was being wildly exaggerated. Meanwhile, David Johnston, a principal scientist on the USGS team had taken up a position to view the north face of the mountain. He was six miles away. At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, he radioed the message, "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" Seconds later he was killed by the lateral blast, which removed the entire side of the mountain. In 1993, thirteen years after the blast, road construction workers discovered what turned out to be remnants of Johnson's USGS trailer. Neither his body nor the body of Truman were ever found. The pyroclastic flows began at a speed of 225 MPH and accelerated to 675 MPH almost at the speed of sound). Johnston was impacted at a speed of about 360 MPH.
Charles Hallahan (Paul Dreyfus) passed away from a heart attack on November 25, 1997; nine months after the release of Dante's Peak. During that time he was able to complete six other projects for TV and film. He was best known as the grotesque scampering crab-legged head/victim of the alien monster in The Thing (1982).
The somewhat volcano-shaped building, which appears as the "Cascade Volcano Observatory", is the real-life post office in Malibu, California.
Most of the inner shots in halls and rooms are filmed in Dutch Angle. It's a technique where the camera is rotated between 25 and 45 grades respecting the horizon on one side or another for giving a sensation of uncomfortably or restlessness.
Dante's Peak got its name from "Dante's Inferno" which describes a trip into Hell.
The only time Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton worked together. They became friends after they finished work on the film.
At one point it is stated that tiltmeter devices that had been set up around the mountain had detected no change to the mountain's shape. When Mt. St. Helens was about to explode such devices had detected a change in the angle of the ground where they were planted, indicating a massive underground flow of magma that was causing the northern side of the mountain to bulge. They could then make some educated guesses about the nature of the upcoming explosion. The fact is that with St. Helens the scientists grossly underestimated the amount of energy that had been stored up. The lead USGS scientist set up his observation post almost directly facing the bulge, rather than to the side, assuming that a distance of six miles would be safe. But when it blew, not only was the explosion many more times greater than expected but the scientist was killed and never found.
Roger Donaldson had considered a career in geology and has a working knowledge of volcanoes.
Roger Donaldson had not met Pierce Brosnan before making this movie. He had seen Brosnan play James Bond in GoldenEye (1995), and the two got to know each other before filming for this movie commenced.
Wallace, Idaho, where the movie was filmed, does not reside near a volcano.
Pierce Brosnan's character name is Harry Dalton. Timothy Dalton played James Bond before Brosnan.
When the volcanic lava begins to destroy the mountain cabin, everyone runs to get onto a small boat. The first time the scene was filmed, the boat sank. Jamie Renée Smith could not swim, and Pierce Brosnan held her until a crew member pulled her from the water.
The close-ups of the pyroclastic cloud erupting were shot in a car park with giant gas pumps under a volcano set, pumping masses of dark grey cloud five or six times per second.
My friend was from Wallace. She had so much fun watching her hometown being destroyed on screen 🤣
I live in Washington, I remember. 😢
I've always loved this movie. Well done
Ah the 90s, where there disaster movies that paralleled each other. Volcano and Dantes Peak. Armageddon and Deep Impact. The grandmother always ticked me off with not evacuating. Love the reaction as always
I remember Letterman doing a skit about all the volcano disaster movies in the mid 90's. His was SPACE VOLCANO.
The grandmother reminded me of Harry Truman, who died on Mt. St. Helens after refusing to evacuate his property.
@@shallowgal462 That's who she was supposed to be. There were a lot of people who didn't want to leave Mt St. Helens, either, but most of them did.
@michaelrosenblum4170 There were also two Robin Hood movies competing.
Trivia for Dante's Peak (both for James and for anybody else interested in knowing):
- Released in 1997; directed by Roger Donaldson; written by Leslie Bohem.
- This was the third collaboration between Linda Hamilton and producer Gale Anne Hurd, having done the first two Terminator films together.
- This was one of the final roles for Charles Hallahan, who played Paul Dreyfuss; the movie's release date was February 7, and Hallahan died of a heart attack in his car on November 25.
- Like Armageddon one year later, Dante's Peak went up against a similar volcano movie released in the same year, called "Volcano" (starring Tommy Lee Jones from Men in Black).
- Because of the competition with "Volcano" and its studio, 20th Century Fox, the production schedule for "Dante's Peak" was sped up, and had a better box office gross because of its earlier release date.
- Most of this movie was filmed in Wallace, Idaho; its local high school mascot, the Miners, can be seen at one point.
- Roger Donaldson was eager to direct as he had once been a geology student.
- Kurt Russell (from Backdraft and Overboard) was considered for the lead role of Harry Dalton.
- The titular volcano doesn't erupt until fifty-three minutes into the movie.
- During the parade scene, Coeur d'Alene High School band students appeared in the film. The band received $8,000 from Universal Pictures for new instruments and uniforms.
James - if you're looking for mountain climbing movies, here are some titles:
1. Vertical Limit (2001)
2. Alive (1993) - based on a true story, too
3. Everest (2015)
4. K2 (1993)
5. The Mountain Between Us (2017)
6. Cliffhanger (1993)
I eat up your trivia like chips n' salsa
Enjoyed your reaction, as usual. :)
FYI, lava flows can be devastating but are comparitively slow-moving. But pyroclastic flows are clouds of super-heated particles and gases, hot enough to melt lead, that can move at hundreds of miles per hour and cover a wide area. Historically, it is usually these that kill the most people in volcanic eruptions.
This movie and Deep Impact are my favorite catastrophe movies
20:10 that part always made me giggle
5:35 Angry Rachel😂
Glad you finally go to this one. A different type of movie but very good that you should watch is The Perfect Storm.
Brosnan played Remington Steele in the early 80s.
This was filmed in Wallace, Idaho (about 3 hours from where we live). It is one of my favorite towns. Every time we drive to Seattle, we go through Wallace. I never get tired of how quaint it is. Great reaction!
Sounds like he'd like Cliffhanger.
Dante's Peak is based, to some degree, on the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens (which I was here for, in WA State, back in 1980). Volcanologists say it's one of the closest-to-accurate volcano movies made. Thing is, we don't have much in the way of flowing lava like that, but instead, pyroclastic flows, which can be worse (they did portray that in the movie). Oh, and some of the towns near Mt. Rainier have evacuation routes and plans, yes. They have to. For both volcano and tsunamis.
Pierce Brosnan was in the Remington Steele TV series in the 80s.
Doris Roberts, the mother-in-law on _Everybody Loves Raymond,_ played Pierce Brosnan's receptionist when he starred on NBC as private detective _Remington Steele,_ a few years before he became Bond, James Bond.
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For "Man Vs. Nature" 🎥, I recommend:
-"127 Hours" from 2010 (man gets his hand trapped while hiking alone)
-"Avalanche" from 1978
-Skyscraper from 2018 (man has to rescue family from building on fire)
-"Volcano" from 1997
2028? I guess that is a typo?
This is out of left field but.. a movie I KNOW you would love.. it's Comedy/Sci Fi/Action.. it's called "Innerspace" such a VERY FUN 80's movie.. it's HILARIOUS!
This is basically Jaws remade. But of course instead of a shark it's a volcano that's the "villain"
I haven't seen this movie in forever! I'm so glad you did this!
Ok, I have seen this movie like a thousand times, it was one of my favorite movies growing up and I still watch every so often. I can’t believe I never noticed the truck not dripping any water when it came out after the other car pushed their window and gave them a boost 🤦🏻♀️ Thank you for pointing that out, James, cause I can’t believe I never noticed it LOL I can’t believe I learned something new with this movie that I have seen for many years haha
Oh yeah, I've caught so many things like this. I'm pretty observant. I think one of my favorite comments was a guy that was ABSOLUTLY irate when I reacted to Ghostbusters. I noticed that behind the fridge was actual stairs they use to walk up to the top of the building and that's why the moster was in the fridge. Holy hell, he was so pissed. I even got an email from him saying he'd seen that f***ing movie 100 f***ing times and had never ever picked up on that bit. Hilarious.
MY dad and I were on Mt St Helens the day the glaciers and groundwater boiled. He had been making some side money taking pictures with his camera rig, and selling them to the newspaper as stock images. We'd found a way inside the Red Zone, through clear cuts and logging roads, so we could get close, and spent Sundays up there in the ash (from minor eruptions) getting itchy and babysitting his automatic camera. The static in the ash makes it cling to everything -- we were forever shaking it out of our clothes and wiping his camera lens. This was a Thursday, I believe, when I had an In Service day from school and my dad was also free, so we'd gone up the mountain. The ground started rumbling so deeply it felt like itching in my teeth. The giant steam plume started as we were hightailing it out of there, and I remember thinking that I hadn't realized how far 'up' actually went. The column of steam towered into the atmosphere before ash started to black everything out. We got into Cougar, Washington and everyone was trying to skedaddle. It was pitch dark at 3-3:30, the headlights didn't reach very far. And the small town of Cougar had bumper to bumper traffic, as bad as any rush hour, anywhere, ever. Cars that hadn't put nylons over their air intake were choked out and abandoned on the side of the roads. Everyone was honking and panicky and trying to get the hell out of there, because we thought the whole mountain was about to come down -- or go up! It was a month yet before that would happen, but nobody knew that then. Those were the last pictures my dad took of St Helens.
WOW crazy story thanks
My parents lived in Vancouver WA when Mt St Helens erupted. They said gas stations were selling homemade maps showing how to get around the red zone blockades. I've told people about this, and they don't believe it. The logging companies were campaigning to resume work inside red zones as well. The eruption actually happened on a Sunday, which saved a lot of loggers lives.
Side note: I love how you bleep out bad words with a duck quack. LOL! Awesome! 😎
You should watch Volcano with Tommy Lee Johns
Pierce Brosnan... he was in Mrs Doubtfire with Robin williams. I think you've seen that one. He was also James Bond! ~ Great reaction. 👍
Pierce Brosnan is one my favorite James Bond, Sean Connery, and then Timothy Dalton.
This movie has some of the best miniature work I have seen in any movie. Its practical effects during a time when hollywood was heavily using CGI in the late 90s. This movie has to be in my top three favorites. I mean they crafted the mountain out of foam (it was 100ft wide give or take) and composited it into the movie. Its the same thing with the volcanic explosions. They made ash canons to create a realistic plumes.
Another good disaster movie that I always think of along with this is *Deep Impact.*
And for more Pierce Brosnan, you should watch *The Thomas Crown Affair* (instead of the James Bond movies that everyone else watches).
This has been my favorite disaster film ever since it came out. It scores very high with experts in terms of a realist depiction of a stratovolcanic eruption, though of course there's some Hollywood crap thrown in for spectacle. I really appreciate the story and its characters, and the score and special effects are fantastic. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Another timeless 🎦 ✅ classical ✅ masterpiece 🎭 🍿
I love that movie. Thank you for reacting to it.
8:39 Hong Kong actor Tzi Ma, the same actor you saw in Rush Hour who played Ambassador Han, father of the kidnapped Soo Yung
saw it at the cinema back in the day with a late friend of mine! I took her fiancee the next day to see Liar Liar with Jim Carrey!the 90s made amazing movies!
This is so ridiculous, a volcanologist tries to drive across Lava??? ROTFLAO
Does anyone remember DALTON books? Used to shop at the store in the mall before it became something else.
That was a good guess at the beginning considering the name of the movie.
Harry Truman was in St Helen's when it blew back in the 80s ... I was in Chicago area and we had ash in they sky there... crazy 🤪
Is Volcano next? Please say yes.
I’ve always loved this movie.
First movie I had the pleasure of viewing after boot camp. Thanks for reviewing it 😸
my favorite catastrophe movie. remember St. Helens :(
Mt St Helen's is not even close to the worst eruptions in history. She's not even a super volcano.
His wife died from a lava rock not a meteor.
Man vs Nature:
"Volcano" (1997)
"The Ghost and the Darkness" (1996) true story
"The Edge" (1997)
"The Eiger Sanction" (1975) based on a book
"The Perfect Storm" (2000) true story
"Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998)
"Tremors" (1990)
"The Poseidon Adventure" (1972 original)
"Congo" (1995)
"Daylight" (1996)
Eiger Sanction is wildly underrated.
I forgot about The Eiger Sanction! Thanks for the reminder.
I love the Ghost and the Darkness!
"Joe vs. the Volcano"
The Ghost and the Darkness is top tier
One of my favorite movies of all time!!!
Fun Fact: that camera that Harry is holding belongs to the actor Pierce Brosnan (who plays Harry)
This is a great classic disaster movie! A lot of it is fairly realistically what would happen in an eruption, but not the big earthquakes. You do get earthquakes with volcanic activity but they're minimal tremors, certainly nowhere near the scale to bring down buildings and bridges. But taking a bit of Hollywood license is more fun!
A Pierce Brosnan movie I recommend is The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) it's a remake of a 1968 movie with Steve McQueen (you probably haven't heard of him but he was a great actor in his time). Both movies are good.
Can just imagine all the pets that got left behind :/
Pierce Bronson-James Bond GoldenEye
Another good volcano movie is Volcano.
And please react to M Night Signs
A awesome show to watch would be Babylon 5
This movie is so good at just keeping you right on the edge the whole time. There’s just Sooo close for so long. Then as soon as you think they’re safe from all this lava , a cave collapses on them.
Hi James, just sitting down with my cuppa tea to enjoy your reaction to this often overlooked 90s movie. It's movies like this and Volcano which cemented my interest in volcanoes since I was a kid. Speaking of Volcano, that might be one for you to enjoy if you enjoyed this one :)
I only just saw this movie a few years ago. I hadn't realized there was a Pierce Brosnan movie I hadn't seen yet. I've loved him in everything I've ever seen him in. Now you totally have the see The Thomas Crowne Affair. The remake with him in it and not the original. 9/10 I prefer the originals pf movies, but that is one of the few exceptions. Also Pierce Brosnan was 007 for most of my childhood. 💗
One of my fave disaster movies of the 90s! so many great ones around that time.
It's time for an old-school disaster film....
Earthquake (1972)
The Towering Inferno (1972)
The Poseiden Adventure (1974)
These were the first of the summer blockbuster films !
All three very good movies. My husband and I used to watch The Poseiden Adventure every New Year's Eve.
I'm a Patreon Member but waited for this to be shared here! Getting back to watching your Reactions, COOL CHANNEL!
Awesome thank you!
@@AwesomeUSMovies You're welcome
They constantly use lasers in Yellowstone to monitor how much sections of the crater is "breathing"- rising then sinking- every year. They can test even the smallest elevation changes with them among other things.
This movie used to terrify me as a child
Oh I bet.
I would love to have a Toyota like that.
Also, grandma is a real one.
Lastly, you should definitely watch Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones. It takes place in LA, so it's a very different disaster movie.
Good guess, James...but no, lol.
I remember seeing this in the theater when I was a tween. Very exciting movie, and a unique natural disaster concept.
The bridge was a model also
My favourite natural disaster movie, watched it so many times, love it 💪🏻😍
Mt. St. Helen's was *not* one of the largest volcanoes. It was only a low-ranking 5 VEI. The scale goes up to 8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_explosivity_index
Here's the real story about the frog experiment. That frog actually had it's had cut off leaving only the brain stem. A fog that had it's head would not let itself be boiled alive.
This was one of your best reactions yet! You should watch the sister film Volcano next. It has Tommy Lee Jones in it and Keith David!
Consider reacting to "Vertical Limit"
Another "disaster" movie, has to do with high mountain climbing. Fun watch.
You did get an avalanche so part of your guess was right.
I was an extra in this movie.
Coffee coffee coffee Cappuccino.... Wow, this is a bit eerie, was only reading yesterday about a concerning surge at Campi-Flegrie super volcano near Naples, they are even calling a citizens meeting (for tomorrow I think). Unfortunately in a mirror of this film, one of the local Italian news reports went to great lengths to emphasize that only official sources should comment as they have delicate economics and social issues to be deeply concerned about, particularly tourism... ie keep it low key. Unfortunately when it goes.. so does Naples and possibly much more, with a 100km caldera that is partially under the Mediterranean. Citizens are complaining about sulfur smells.. uplift is increasing, tremors up to 3.5... only 2-3km deep. I mean... the start of this film is essentially describing the same situation.. hopefully it ends much better.
That surburban is legit
Another good volcano movie is VOLCANO with Tommy Lee Jones
Cant recommend The 33 enough. Its stars Antonio Banderas as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped in a mine collapse. That will cover mining disaster movies on your bucket list. Also the 2006 remake of the Poseidon Adventure, simply called Poseidon, starring Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, and Richard Dreyfus is fantastic as well.
Now you have to compare it to Volcano 1997 and it's got Tommy Lee Jones
Sorry but st helens historically isn't even on the radar of massive eruptions
The most realistic volcano movie by far
You should also watch the movie "Volcano" from 1997 (starring the great Tommy Lee Jones a. o.)! Spoiler-Alert! This time it's Los Angeles (totally other conditions than in the mountain-nature).
Wish YOU a lot of fun as always, dear great "Mr. James". God bless you! Heartfelt greetings from Germany!
My favorite disaster movie.
Pompeii all over again!
I want an origin story about the dude's sign :(
You should check out "Alive" 1993. It's a pretty good 'based on true story' movie.
So you picked ice and snow. You were close 😂
I love this movie!
Say, James, which studio made this one?
Time to watch _Volcano_ (1997), starring Tommy Lee Jones.
For comedy, there is _Joe Versus the Volcano,_ starring Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan.
Have you seen _Towering Inferno_ yet, starring Paul Newman & Steve McQueen?
pierce brosnan is james bond
You need to do Volcano, which was released around the same time as this
Not even close. Mt. St. Helens was only a VEI 4 level eruption. Many volcanoes in Indonesia are significantly larger. Krakatoa was supposedly VEI 7 or thereabouts, and the supervolcano in Yellowstone has erupted much larger than even that.
Glad you enjoyed this movie, here is another movie you will like,called FALL check that one out.
You got to watch Volcano 1997.
Since you are so well read I'm surprised you didn't associate the word Dante with an Inferno. I am not well read but I have seen the movie seven so I am familiar with the title Dante's Inferno.
Cave Rescue Movie/Documentary
I hope you can react to Volcano starring Tommy Lee Jones!
Found your channel recently and been binge watching some of your reactions. Needless to say, definitely have enjoyed them. Did a little searching around today and it's an absolute travesty that "the Big Lebowski" isn't on your channel.... YET. *hint
Added thanks
You want to see volcanic action? You should watch Walter Mitty. It has a real volcano.
And then there's Volcano, that movie and this came out at the same time. It has the old guy from Men in Black.
Great movie, and I have another suggestion for you Major Payne(1996) also how do we do private patreon requests?
26:22 I THINK IT´S BETTER A REAL TINY MODEL THAT A SHITTY CGI AS THESE DAYS, REMEMBER THIS WAS 1998.
If you haven't done Volcano I hope you're planning to. 👍
Awesome reaction/ can you please watch a movie called THE BIG YEAR.
I loved the fake movie ad that Weird Al made called "60% Chance of Rain". The fake movie trailer even mentions this movie since it's spun as being in the same genre. ruclips.net/video/MaNm8ghomCk/видео.html
Also, the hint in the title of this movie was "Dante", since most people think of Dante's Inferno (even though there were other things he wrote about). So the goal was to think of a peak (mountain) that would unleash an inferno (mountain of fire...volcano).
Fyi, morbid, but: If burns penetrate the first layer of living tissue, from heat or chemical or radiation, the chances of the serious burns alone killing a person, as a rule of thumb, are the percent of their body burned plus the person's age.