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Cloverfield and Dante's Peak
Jul. 6th, 2023 09:20 pmThe next two movies on my rewatch were Cloverfield and Dante's Peak.
Cloverfield falls under what I call the monster disaster/apocalypse. When it first initially was teased and released in 2008, I was excited because I like monster movies like this, such as Godzilla and Alien and so on. I am highly picky about my monster movies and this one fit what I liked. I even changed one of my user names to "case_designate_cloverfield" and thought I was so cool lol.
This movie is one of the films that I watch with regularity, although not as much as some of the others I like. It was also one of those films done in the hand cam style. I remember one of the complaints was that it was so shakey when people watched it in the theater that it gave them motion sickness. I found it a unique perspective and enjoyed it. It's interesting that the next films in the Cloverfield universe avoided that (or so I remember lol).
Tonight I rewatched Dante's Peak, with Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton. Another in a long line of disaster films that I like to rewatch. It's one of those movies inspired by the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption and placed in idaho. Filmed in Wallace, Idaho and set in the fictional town of Dante's Peak, Washington, it's always fun to drive by Wallace and look at where the fictional stratovolcano was. I've always been hyperfixated on Mt. St. Helens because she erupted the year I was born, when I was just over 2 months old.
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Cloverfield falls under what I call the monster disaster/apocalypse. When it first initially was teased and released in 2008, I was excited because I like monster movies like this, such as Godzilla and Alien and so on. I am highly picky about my monster movies and this one fit what I liked. I even changed one of my user names to "case_designate_cloverfield" and thought I was so cool lol.
This movie is one of the films that I watch with regularity, although not as much as some of the others I like. It was also one of those films done in the hand cam style. I remember one of the complaints was that it was so shakey when people watched it in the theater that it gave them motion sickness. I found it a unique perspective and enjoyed it. It's interesting that the next films in the Cloverfield universe avoided that (or so I remember lol).
Tonight I rewatched Dante's Peak, with Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton. Another in a long line of disaster films that I like to rewatch. It's one of those movies inspired by the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption and placed in idaho. Filmed in Wallace, Idaho and set in the fictional town of Dante's Peak, Washington, it's always fun to drive by Wallace and look at where the fictional stratovolcano was. I've always been hyperfixated on Mt. St. Helens because she erupted the year I was born, when I was just over 2 months old.
With what I know about volcanoes, because of that fascination, it's interesting to to watch all the main 4 characters and what they go through to survive and know that some of these were DEFINITELY fictional and not possible. But it is a movie and meant to be entertaining.
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