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I bear Roland Emmerich no ill will. Without him, AICN wouldn't have its wonderful 'splodin' backdrop, humans wouldn't be able to outrun a cold snap, and mankind... (pause for emphasis) "mankind"... that word wouldn't have new meaning for all of us today. Emmerich has given us so very much. By brazenly melding the disaster cinema of Irwin Allen with the awe-for-awe's-sake aesthetic of 80s-era Amblin,...
As disaster movies go, Flood was of the method school. Its first release date was a calamity. So was its second. A blockbuster-style drama about flooding in the UK, it was meant to go into cinemas ... last summer. It washed up instead on ITV this week, of all weeks. To get through Flood , you have to put all thoughts of its topicality from your mind.
Metro Survive Vol. 1 Yuki Fujisawa Yuki FujisawaThere was a period of time, we'll call it the 1970s, when a certain genre of movie was king – the Disaster Flick. At the pinnacle of this movie-making empire was a guy named Irwin Allen, who made movies like The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and even man vs. nature disaster movies like The Swarm, which dealt with an evil swarm of bees. Every...
from Star Trek #7 (March 1970) - art by Alberto Giolitti & Giovanni Ticci Not that I have anything against the Eiffel Tower or our French friends...I'm just appreciating the sheer Irwin Allen disaster movie vibe of the scene. Anyway, I'd like to apologize for the dependence on scans over the last few days. My "Low Content Mode" from a couple weeks ago seems to have extended itself, due to Real Life...
Deborah Baker's work is a piece of devoted scholarship and legwork dunked in the screwy, hyper-intelligent, tragicomic essence of everything that drove Ginsberg to take a trip that not only changed his life but helped spawn several generations of hipsters, hippies, writers, artists, rock stars, mental cases and self-annointed medicine men.
When '10.5: Apocalypse' premiered in 2006 on NBC, my local nightly news station invited a group of leading geologists to watch a special screening and report their reactions. The footage that followed...
Synopsis A San Francisco mega-skyscraper goes ablaze due to ill-advised construction cost-cutting. Architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and fire chief O'Hallorhan (Steve McQueen) battle the blaze to save a literal cast of thousands trapped within.
After I posted on The Swarm I looked around and couldn't find this anecdote posted anywhere else, so here's a story Richard Chamberlain (who had also been in Irwin Allen's The Towering Inferno ) told on TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies about Irwin Allen's directorial, um, style: Allen is about to do a scene involving some of the real (de-stung) bees who had been brought in for the film. Suddenly...
Funny -- even if somewhat insider-ish -- graphic follows of a chartists' view (complete with Irwin Allen-style collapsing candles) of how tremors are affecting financial markets: [via FT ]
If ever a movie was sold by its theatrical trailer, it was 'Independence Day.' It only took audiences one look at that ominous shot of a UFO's shadow, towering over Earth and ready to blast us to smithereens,...
With all the Irwin Allen mockery, there's a semi-serious question that arises when you look at his filmography: why do producers make such bad directors? Allen started as a producer, moved into directing, found success when he stopped directing and stuck to producing, and finally humiliated himself completely when he returned to directing for The Swarm and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure . There's a...
By Odienator The problem with having nothing but yes men around you is that there's nobody available to pull you aside and tell you, as gently as possible, "Bitch, you look like a turkey!" I believe this is why so many celebrities get into trouble. Would Britney Spears have been driving around using her baby as an airbag if she had someone in her entourage to tell her just how "not all that" she was?...
Do you realize that this year is the 30th anniversary of Irwin Allen's The Swarm ? The Swarm is probably the worst movie of the '70s if not ever, and since it has a huge all-star cast of distinctive actors who are all embarrassing themselves, it's one of the easiest movies to mock. There's something terrible not just in every scene but in every moment. But since a big-studio movie like this wasn't...
