#diaster movie

[domono08]

On a ironic note,I love disaster movie!

[cantsayidont]

Except by critics. Last and silliest of the AIRPORT movies, THE CONCORDE … AIRPORT '79 (1979) adds some preposterous aerial action and amusingly cheesy model work to the usual airplane disaster movie recipe of big stars, contrived peril, and schmaltzy melodrama, as a treacherous aerospace tycoon (Robert Wagner) makes a whole series of attempts to down a Concorde airliner carrying an intrepid reporter (Susan Blakely) who has just gotten a bag of incriminating documents about him. However, he hasn't figured on the cool competence of the Concorde's new captain (Alain Delon) and his stalwart copilot (George Kennedy, who I think was the only star to appear in all four AIRPORT movies). A movie with a little bit of everything except plausibility, logic, taste, or brains — it veers so often into dopey self-parody that AIRPLANE! (1980) starts to seem like a very easy shot — but hard to dislike unless you make the mistake of taking it seriously. After all, where else will you find Cicely Tyson, Sylvia Kristel, Jimmie Walker, and Charo in the same movie?

[bethanydelleman]

Best and worst adaptation of each Austen Novel (or ranking for those that only have one)?

All Austen novels have more than one adaptation; Lady Susan only has one (called Love and Friendship and it's great) but it's a novella. This will be based on what I've watched and I'm going with straight adaptations, not moderns or other variations like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

Pride & Prejudice: Best: 1967 BBC Miniseries (favourite interpretation of many characters) Worst: 2005 Hollywood movie (Darcy Shyboi and Elizabeth Tomboy Girlboss)

Sense & Sensibility: Best: 1995 movie (made smart changes while keeping the core of the story correct) Worst: 2008 BBC miniseries (added sex for shock value, Willoughby looks like a little weasel, Colonel Brandon was awful)

Mansfield Park: Best: 1983 BBC miniseries (only faithful adaptation) Worst: 1999 movie (destroyed Fanny, stupid fourth wall breaking, THE SEX SCENE IS BURNED INTO MY MEMORY IN A BAD WAY)

Northanger Abbey: Best: 2007 movie (perfect casting, just wish it was longer and they hadn't messed up the ending) Also best: 1987 movie, but only if you are as high as all the actors and producers clearly were when they made it.

Persuasion: Best: 1971 BBC miniseries (it is a full mini and gives the story enough room to breath, 1995 is also very good) Worst: 2022 Netflix diaster

Emma: Best: 2020 movie (understood the humour of Emma, beautiful costumes, Emma as a snob was very good, made smart updates) Worst: 1996 movie with Gwyneth Paltrow (I hated pouting Knightley and their Harriet and what they did with Mrs. Weston) Honourable mention: I do actually enjoy the 1972 adaptation, it has a perfect Harriet.

Those are my opinions, enjoy!

[mahoganydoodles]

Diasterisms Anthology (Book 2/12): variations on a theme of you by diasterisms

"Who knows?" Luke darted a faint smile at Ben and Rey as they stewed in silence and disbelief. "The two of you might even learn to get along. Right, Leia?" "Like a house on fire," the General deadpanned. "Complete with screams, flames, and people running for safety." "Indeed." Luke's blue eyes twinkled. "There may be no survivors."

variations on a theme of you. This fic has everything: forced proximity, buttered muffins, Matt the Radar Technician. It’s the goofy, cracky, undercover-fake-relationship fic we all love. 

Which is why I always find it so funny that the collection has these serious, grayscale covers when half these fics are hilarious. But anyway!!

From left to right, top to bottom, the covers are: 

Because You’re There—Mountain climbing

the surface of last scattering—Outer space/galaxy

into the great laugh of mankind—Archaeological site

place the moon at my eyes (and her whiteness shall devour)—Full moon at night behind tree

Mirrorbright—Lake house at Naboo

World Without End—Asphodel fields

variations on a theme of you—Inner hallway of spaceship

The Short Story Collection—Bookstore

Shatterpoint—X-wing

made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter—Great Temple on Yavin 4

oh autumn, oh teakettle, oh grace—Aspen trees

ghostwalks (gin and fog)—Old-school movie set

variations on a theme of you is a light-hearted romcom between oops-maybe-not-so-sworn-enemies. Read it on AO3.

[lover-of-mine]

https://www.tumblr.com/lover-of-mine/754928814774157312/the-funniest-part-to-me-is-even-if-tim-had-planned

I think that Tim knows the entity of buddie fandom, he knows that if we go in bt as a permanent direction or if Eddie isn’t going to get out of the closet people will stop watching the show or they will watch it but illegally and they will stop talking about it on social media and stay in the buddie lane. It’s 2024, every shows and movies has queer representation. It isn’t 2000 anymore when people needed to settle for crumbs and baiting because networks were cowards. if Tim and ABC aren’t going to get us buddie, people will leave and take with them their “noise” to anothet fandom because the others are capitalizing their ship.

So Tim knows and if he decides to drop buddie then it’s because he thinks that the shows will survive without the buddie fandom. Maybe, maybe not, but the numbers will drop. People don’t like racist characters.

This reminds me of Teen Wolf. I will never forget how Jeff Davies used Derek, Styles and the Sterek fandom to gain audience then dropped them when the show was super famous to make canon is fave ship and getting sterek fandom to stop watching and in the end he had to us the sterek queerbaiting to make the people watch the last season.

It’s up to him.

I mean, I was getting teen wolf cons war flashbacks, ngl, and I did ship stydia, so I never felt the full effect of the sterek baiting, but I do remember the point of keeping Dylan and Tyler answering shit ambiguously, using both of them for promotion all around, just to get Stiles with Lydia. Then they failed to deliver stydia as canon as well and made people watch 6b by promising Tyler was gonna be in the end, that was a DIASTER, I know A LOT of people dropped the show after Tyler left because season 4 was ridiculous. The actual queerbaiting aspect of buddie can't really be called anymore, because Buck is queer, shit not going the way we want doesn't really count. BUT, to use Ryan and Oliver the way they were just to go just kidding, have this very bland queer relationship and we will make Eddie die alone, would have a lot of pushback. And again, a show is a business, and ABC clearly isn't opposed to queer relationships, and they like they glaad nominations, you should see the amount of queer people they are throwing at the wall in grey's anatomy. And Buck and Eddie could be a relationship that does not exist in media. A queer slowburn where neither of them was introduced as queer in a major network show doesn't exist. They can change the game when it comes to representation, and they have to know what will do to their numbers to be the ONE thing that had that one duo that everyone was insane about and get them together for real. Suck it up to the mcu, supernatural, teen wolf, and every other media that had that one ship that was heavily talked about but nothing came of it. I'm not kidding when I say they would be studied in media classes, because Buck and Eddie have the classic will they/won't they slowburn format, if they actually deliver, and make them The queer slowburn, that are going down in television history. Because they would be the first to pull it off. With major support. It would be so beyond stupid not to go there now. Especially since Buck is bi. They are one good push from leaving a mark on how television is made. And abc in particular because we have Oliver on record saying that Fox was blocking that, so they can just go "oh no we made sure they knew they have our full support from the start" and milk the shit out of it. Why wouldn't they go there? It would be dumb.

[tobiasdrake]

After the Zombie episode me and my friends developed an in-joke blaming Hank Pym for all of the diasters in What if. Like he was the one who drove the car that always killed Christine, etc.

That's funny. It's along the same line as the "Ant-Man was in every MCU movie and you just didn't see him" type of gag.

Three out of three Tony Stark deaths at this point in the series were caused by Pyms too. Hank in episode 3, Hank and Hope in episode 5 when they unleashed the quantum virus, and then zombie Tony was decapitated by Hope.

[senoritafish]

Not that I have a morbid fondness for diaster stories, but this IS a bit of history many people even in Chicago don't remember. The SS Eastland capsizing doesn't have popular songs or movies commemorating it. Although it wouldn't surprise me if Tumblr folks have a better handle on it.

The people with Ask a Mortician/Caitlyn Doughty decided to try to remedy that, but after two weeks, YouTube sent them a TOS violation notice for stuff that didn't happen in the video. It hasn't been taken down but can only be found directly on her page. This took months of work by a number of people to make, so it deserves the pageviews, so I thought I'd share it.

[magicalgirllove92]

Top 10 Video Games of 1997

10. Kirby's Dream Land 3

9. Klonoa: Door to Phantomille

8. Yoshi's Story

7. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

6. Croc: Legend of the Gobbos

5. Diddy Kong Racing

4. Disney's Animated Storybook

3. Bugs Bunny in Crazy Castle 3

2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Console Version)

1. Final Fantasy VII

My Top 20 Movies of 1997

20. Cats Don't Dance

19. Disney's Flubber

18. Liar Liar

17. Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

16. Gulliver's Travels (1996)

15. Mouse Hunt

14. Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion

13. Event Horizon

12. Contact

11. Grosse Pointe Blank

10. Selena

9. The Beautician and the Beast

8. That Darn Cat (1997)

7. Bean: The Ultimate Diaster Movie

6. Hercules

5. Fools Rush In

4. Anastasia

3. Air Bud

2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1. Men in Black

[maverickcalf]

I'd like the character meme for Joey Lucas from TWW, Chandler Bing, and Ray Ferrier, please.

Joey Lucas

Sexuality Headcanon: I never really thought about it. Pan maybe? Gender Headcanon: Cis Woman... Yeah, I think so. A ship I have with said character: Joey x Josh A BROTP I have with said character:... low-key Joey and Sam A NOTP I have with said character: Joey and Al Kiefer A random headcanon: Wears headphones sometimes and lip-reads people when they think she isn't listening. General Opinion over said character: A+ I wish she was a regular she is so cool

Chandler Bing-

Sexuality Headcanon: BI! Bi DIASTER! Gender Headcanon: i do have trans man headcanons tbh A ship I have with said character: Chandler x Joey A BROTP I have with said character: Chandler x Ross, they are brothers A NOTP I have with said character: Rachel and Chandler, I dunno they are just friends A random headcanon: General Opinion over said character: I want his gender

Ray Ferrier-

Sexuality Headcanon: I have never thought about it... because HE has never thought about it. Gender Headcanon: Cis Man. Again he is just too tired to try anything else A ship I have with said character: NONE A BROTP I have with said character: NONE A NOTP I have with said character: NONE A random headcanon: He would have handled things better in the movie if he was on a normal sleep schedule. That can fuck a man up. He is pissed because he is sleepy! General Opinion over said character: Honestly I can't put him into any au in my head, which is why the ships are nothing at the moment.

[edvinception]

3/5 is the feeling I got from the trailer so I believe the reviews are correct. it seems like a fun catastrophe movie without much originality. let's hope the acting is good all around.

I mean reviews are subjectives and so are ratings so how can there be a correct review?

I do agree that this is the kind of movie that rarely gets the highest scores. And it's not super original either as you say. Diaster movies rarely are.

[heavenboy09]

25 Years Ago Today, On July 1st , 1998

From Touchstone Pictures Presents

Comes The 1 Of The Biggest & Most Epic Action Packed Diaster Movie 🎥 Of All Times Since

Independence Day

On July 1st

A Anomaly In Deep Space 🌌

Has Found Its Way Into Our Neck Of The Milky Way Galaxy 🌌

This Anomal Is Has Been Categorized as A

Asteroid ☄

But Unlike Any Other Known To Man

It Has Been Perceived As A E.L.E

EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT

A GLOBAL KILLER.....

Something That Has Been Seen In Our Atmosphere Since The End Of The Dinosaurs 🦕 🦖

& Now

After 65 Million Years Later

Another 1 Is On Its Way

in 18 Days

Nasa & The USA 🇺🇸 Government Must Join Forces In Selecting The Best Of The Best, People

Several Brave Men

To Go And Stop This Epic Global Killer from Ending All Life On Earth 🌎

Its Up To These 8 Brave Souls

Though Not Astronauts

They Are Oil Drillers

& They Are The Best Hope. Humanity Has Right Now

In Our Darkest Hour

In Our Darkest Dreams

Within Our Darkest Fears

For Love

For Glory

For Mankind

We Will Not Bow To The Darkness That Plagues Our Way Of Life

Even In The Face Of ARMAGEDDON

TOUCHSTONE PICTURES PRESENTS

JERRY BRUCKHEIMER PRODUCTIONS

A MICHAEL BAY FILM 🎥

STARRING

THE LEGENDARY

BRUCE WILLIS

LIV TYLER

&

BEN AFFLECK

IN

THE 1998 EPIC SCIFI BLOCKBUSTER DIASTERPIECE FILM

ARMAGEDDON ☄

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY TO TOUCHSTONE PICTURES

ARMAGEDDON ☄

[jackie-gremlin-ghost]

I can totally see Eddie and TASM!Peter having a conversation like this

Eddie: So… how did you get like this?

Peter: Heh, I was gonna ask you the same thing. But since you’re wondering, it was basically how you’d expect; I snuck into OsCorp Tower, touched something I shouldn’t have, and got bitten a radioactive spider.

Eddie: Seriously? That’s almost exactly what happened to me! I snuck into the Life Foundation, touched something I shouldn’t have, and wound up bonded with an alien.

Peter: …Okay, that’s just eerie.

Eddie: I know, right?!

[farminglesbian]

BBC’s Daphne (2007) dir. Clare Beavan

[phrenotobe]

life is hard when u dig harley quinn but ur taste is the pre-joker nerd glasses and lab coat look or whatever leather and sportswear thing helena bertinelli was doing in birds of prey and not the funky pop star thing 

[anaja-theratbird]

“Imagine a movie so incomprehensible that you find yourself compelled to watch it over and over again. You become desperate to learn how (if) on earth it was conceived: Who made it, and for what purpose?

This book is about what might be the world’s most improbable Hollywood success story. At its center is an enigmatic filmmaker who claims, among many other things, to be a vampire. This man speaks with a thick European accent, the derivation of which he won’t identify. He also refuses to reveal his age or the origins of his seemingly vast fortune. His name is Tommy Wiseau; and the film he wrote, directed, produced, starred in, and poured $6 million into is a disastrous specimen of cinematic hubris called The Room.

The Room is--despite its ostensibly simple plot--perhaps the most casually surreal film ever made. To put it simply, The Room doesn’t work in any way films have evolved to work over the last century of filmmaking. It’s filled with red herrings, shots of locations that are never visited, and entire conversations comprised of non sequiturs. It is, essentially, one gigantic plot hole. For many, experiencing The Room is both wildly exhilarating and supremely dislocating. The film engenders an obsessive fascination, instantly luring you into its odd, convoluted world. Tommy Wiseau intended The Room to be a serious American drama, a cautionary tale about love and friendship, but it became something else entirely--a perfectly literal comedy of errors.

Yet since its 2003 release, The Room has spread across the United States, and now the world, with viral unstoppability. Many believe that The Room’s unfathomable incompetence elevates it to something like Bizarro-world brilliance. It’s revered for its inadequacy and its peerless ability to induce uncontrollable laughter from beginning to end. It may be the most wonderfully terrible one hour and thirty-nine minutes ever committed to celluloid.

And I was in it.”

Thus begins The Disaster Artist, a memoir and endeavor of love to the greatest bad movie ever made. Shocking, hilarious, human, sad, and written with the utmost clarity, Greg Sestero aka Oh Hi Mark has graced the filmmaking genre with this masterpiece of a disasterpiece. 

The movie is also a masterpiece of a disasterpiece.

[gemsofthegalaxy]

I LOVE the idea of a vampire au for Jupeter for Halloween, but it’s such a big concept I haven’t been able to come up with any specific scenarios ffhhh..

but another very cute idea that i could write but prob still won’t have time would be... there is a big halloween party and they each go as a costume that ends up matching so Juno’s friends are like “omg you have to talk to him!”

AND i just had this thought as i was typing it, but, what if they went as Buddy and Vespa??

like, in an AU where Buddy and Vespa are still at large criminals and Juno doesn’t know that much about them, but Vespa’s look is not that high effort and he’s willing to temporarily dye his hair green, why not? 

and of course Peter would dress up as Buddy Aurinko to go to a party (it wouldn’t be that high effort with his actual wardrobe, honestly, and he’s been meaning to try out long red hair) 

so then Rita sees Peter-dressed-as-Buddy and is like “LOOK MISTA STEEL! IT’S YOUR SOULMATE!” and Juno is like “??? i mean i guess i have to talk to him, now” and mick and rita and benzaiten are like “Yep. You do!” 

and that’s how they meet