forces of nature asteroids and aliens
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at the evolution of the
disaster film genre
disaster stories are as old as the Bible
and many have been produced since early
cinema but in the 1970s the genre
evolved disaster films became a
box-office craze carried by
extraordinary budgets special effects
and the involvement of Hollywood’s
biggest talent during the 70s disaster
movies shifted from a focus on smaller
scale individual catastrophes like
1972’s
the Poseidon Adventure and 1974’s the
towering inferno the notion of an entire
city experiencing disaster materialized
in the 1974 film earthquake which
starred Charlton Heston we never should
have put up those 40-story monstrosities
it’s overwhelming success guaranteed
that audiences would be hammered for the
following decade with countless disaster
films of all varieties from several
competing Studios Hollywood
oversaturated the genre until box-office
bombs such as 1978 the swarm featuring
Michael Caine became the norm we have
been invaded by an enemy far more lethal
than any human force as Public Interest
faded Studios became convinced that the
real disasters were the financial bombs
being financed after a long break from
the genre the 90s saw disaster movies
reemerged
this time due to the arrival of
computer-generated graphics which
largely replaced practical effects
1996 is Independence Day shook audiences
with its unparalleled on-screen effects
and mayhem the film Illustrated a
possible alien extermination of mankind
and thrilled audiences with Will Smith
school on screen presents and one-liners
welcome to earth that’s what I call a
close encounter this triumph at the box
office
jump-started an all new studio race to
produce the greatest on-screen disaster
the following summers were filled with
double doses of similar disasters by
competing Studios in 1997 20th Century
Fox released volcano while Universal
Pictures fought back with Dante’s Peak
as they each sought to capitalize on the
public’s rekindled love of large-scale
special effects driven disasters the
following summer
audiences were again given two slices of
the same pie when Armageddon and Deep
Impact arrived on the silver screen
both films boasted star-studded casts
and budgets bigger than the asteroids
shown on screen in 2003 audiences got to
see a group of scientists attempt to
save Earth while tremors shook the globe
in the core while 2004 is the day
aftertomorrow
capitalized on our fears of global
warming in 2009 audiences were presented
with the film knowing which exploited
the idea that disasters have been
predicted and maybe avoided I’m not
saying that 81 people are gonna die
tomorrow okay just trying to understand
why this it’s saying they will this
notion appeared again in the roland
emmerich film 2012 the film illustrates
the end of the world according to the
ancient Mayan calendar with several
extreme disasters working simultaneously
to end the world the film was labeled
the ultimate disaster movie
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at the evolution of the
disaster film genre
disaster stories are as old as the Bible
and many have been produced since early
cinema but in the 1970s the genre
evolved disaster films became a
box-office craze carried by
extraordinary budgets special effects
and the involvement of Hollywood’s
biggest talent during the 70s disaster
movies shifted from a focus on smaller
scale individual catastrophes like
1972’s
the Poseidon Adventure and 1974’s the
towering inferno the notion of an entire
city experiencing disaster materialized
in the 1974 film earthquake which
starred Charlton Heston we never should
have put up those 40-story monstrosities
it’s overwhelming success guaranteed
that audiences would be hammered for the
following decade with countless disaster
films of all varieties from several
competing Studios Hollywood
oversaturated the genre until box-office
bombs such as 1978 the swarm featuring
Michael Caine became the norm we have
been invaded by an enemy far more lethal
than any human force as Public Interest
faded Studios became convinced that the
real disasters were the financial bombs
being financed after a long break from
the genre the 90s saw disaster movies
reemerged
this time due to the arrival of
computer-generated graphics which
largely replaced practical effects
1996 is Independence Day shook audiences
with its unparalleled on-screen effects
and mayhem the film Illustrated a
possible alien extermination of mankind
and thrilled audiences with Will Smith
school on screen presents and one-liners
welcome to earth that’s what I call a
close encounter this triumph at the box
office
jump-started an all new studio race to
produce the greatest on-screen disaster
the following summers were filled with
double doses of similar disasters by
competing Studios in 1997 20th Century
Fox released volcano while Universal
Pictures fought back with Dante’s Peak
as they each sought to capitalize on the
public’s rekindled love of large-scale
special effects driven disasters the
following summer
audiences were again given two slices of
the same pie when Armageddon and Deep
Impact arrived on the silver screen
both films boasted star-studded casts
and budgets bigger than the asteroids
shown on screen in 2003 audiences got to
see a group of scientists attempt to
save Earth while tremors shook the globe
in the core while 2004 is the day
aftertomorrow
capitalized on our fears of global
warming in 2009 audiences were presented
with the film knowing which exploited
the idea that disasters have been
predicted and maybe avoided I’m not
saying that 81 people are gonna die
tomorrow okay just trying to understand
why this it’s saying they will this
notion appeared again in the roland
emmerich film 2012 the film illustrates
the end of the world according to the
ancient Mayan calendar with several
extreme disasters working simultaneously
to end the world the film was labeled
the ultimate disaster movie
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