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    Disaster Movie Moments That Pissed Us Off The Most

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    11/13/09

    In reply to Disaster Movie Moments That Pissed Us Off The Most
    What about the entire ending of "Knowing"? The world is destroyed by a giant solar flare and you pick two kids to save and live on another planet-- two kids who know nothing about survival. Nice one, stupid aliens. #twister
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    Image of dnwilliams dnwilliams
    11/13/09

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    I thoroughly enjoyed The Happening, mostly for the wrong reasons. Shyamalan tried to make The Birds and made The Blob by accident. Good times. #twister
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    Image of JesusDeSaad JesusDeSaad
    11/13/09

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    Volcano. They use concrete walls to stop lava. And it doesn't overflow one bit.

    But then again, the only movie that got me cursing openly in the middle of the theatre was G.I.Joe.

    They exploded the iceberg and it SANK a more than a hundred feet and destroyed an underwater city.

    THEY MADE ICE SINK IN WATER AND STAY DOWN, PEOPLE. #twister
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/13/09

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    Daylight!!

    Breaking Point: Stallone opens his gob. 'I AM THE RESCUE'!!! Great! #twister
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    Image of mrradon mrradon
    11/13/09

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    The thing about The Day After Tomorrow--we have all this technology to create some amazing special effects of the world freezing over, but yet we outsourced the CG wolf animation to Korea or some place where they'd never seen wolves before or rendered fur animation? #twister
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    Image of Klappstuhl Klappstuhl
    11/13/09

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    The only thing that pisses me off is whenever the general American solution seems to be to throw a nuke at it (The Core, Armageddon, Sunshine).
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    Image of acerridwen acerridwen
    11/13/09

    In reply to Disaster Movie Moments That Pissed Us Off The Most
    The Day After Tomorrow: the cold downdraft would have gone straight down the chimney. I was willing to give them that one, though, for the sake of the story.

    The part that got me was where the three men were walking across the top of a shopping centre and the glass skylight broke. First of all, snow would have piled up on the roof instead of being flat across the landscape. Second, a flat skylight like that would have broken under the weight of the snow long before they got there. Up north, skylights are peaked to keep that from happening every winter. I thought that incident was unnecessary drama, so the inaccuracy really got to me.
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    Image of DoctorZoidberg DoctorZoidberg
    11/13/09

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    Even though I loved Twiser, I can't argue with the flaw pointed out. It would have been a pointed ending if they found their way into an empty shelter and Bill Paxton had to hold on to the door just like her dad at the beginning of the movie, then she helps him hold the door or one of those farm tractors lands against the door protecting them or something like that. #twister
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    11/13/09

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    You forgot this movie. #twister
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    11/13/09

    @burlybax: Sorry if it posts twice, didnt work the first time #twister
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    Image of korybing korybing
    11/13/09

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    The moment I read the title of this article I immediately thought of "Ahh they outran the COLD in Day After Tomorrow", so I was glad to see that on the list. I didn't even watch the whole movie, I just caught the end part where they were running from poorly CG'd wolves and the COLD. Ahh.

    There was a movie that I can't remember the name of where the characters have to swim through an underwater tunnel for awhile. When they emerge it is pitch dark, so they light a match to see. They light a match. They're completely submerged in water. #twister
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    Image of Josh Thibodeau Josh Thibodeau
    11/16/09

    @korybing: there are such things as waterproof matches #twister
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    Image of korybing korybing
    11/16/09

    @Josh Thibodeau: Well if that's what they were using they didn't do a very good job of explaining that these were special matches that you don't see all the time, which is exactly what they looked like to my untrained eye. #twister
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    Image of gutlesswonder gutlesswonder
    11/13/09

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    The Deep Impact tidal wave is apparently coming in from New York harbor AND uptown Manhattan. In the Washington Park destruction scene, the wall of water is coming from the north side of the park as opposed to the south side as it should be.

    Also, i totally forgot they drove through a house in Twister! #twister
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    Image of GonePostal1977 GonePostal1977
    11/13/09

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    Thank you for hating on "Outbreak", which is so bad on so many levels it's not even enjoyable. #twister
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/13/09

    @GonePostal1977: Hey hey!! You'll hurt the monkeys feelings! #twister
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    Image of DireWombat DireWombat
    11/13/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): The monkey's career came out of it okay... he went on to star on Friends, gradually transitioning into work behind the camera. He is currently head of programming for Fox, and, while I know a lot of people on this site take issue with some of his decisions, you have to admit that he's doing an amazing job for someone with a brain smaller than a tangerine.

    The monkey is alright. #twister
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/14/09

    @DireWombat: So thats why Fox is so great!! They spank their monkey! Cool. #twister
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    Image of whormongr whormongr
    11/13/09

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    what always gets me from Armageddon is after they blow up the asteroid and it shows everyone happy and the slow mo shot of the girl releasing the dove- just horrible. #twister
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/13/09

    @whormongr: Yup! And John Woo was nowhere to be seen! Gutted.. #twister
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    Image of QimatPower QimatPower
    11/13/09

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    The problem I have with Deep Impact, mostly, is the idea that Elijah's family lives around "6 Miles" from the "Virginia Beaches" (no such sign exists, by the way). First of all, it's clear earlier in the movie that they live in a hilly, wooded, mountainous area and so the "6 Miles" sign suggests they went TOWARDS the ocean to get away. Bad planning, there.

    Then, even if they were 6 miles from the oceanfront, Elijah gets to the mountains on a motorbike in like 8 minutes of movie time (if that) despite getting to the Appalachians from the ocean front would take about 3 hours.

    When you bring my home state into a disaster movie, you better come strong with the geography or not at all.
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    Image of Faustroll Faustroll
    11/13/09

    @QimatPower: Yes! From VA as well.

    If you live in the Tidewater area, 6 miles from the oceanfront puts you, at best, in Chesapeake. And that's being generous. Some areas of VA Beach might charitably be called woodsy, but that means you live in the green belt abutting I64. There's also the little problem of the Chesapeake Bay being frickin' huge. A tidal wave wouldn't just stop at Cape Hataras, it'd go all the way in, probably getting people wet as far inland as the suburbs of Richmond. #twister
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    Image of worsethannormal worsethannormal
    11/13/09

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    My main complaint about "day after tomorrow" wasn't the "running from the ice" but the we have to burn books to stay alive" crap. I mean, their standing in a room full of wooden furniture and they decide to collect all the books to burn? Why didn't they collect every fire axe in the building, drag every piece wooden furniture in the building to their "safe" room and start chopping? Sure paper's good for starting a fire, but the tables and chairs in the main reading room alone would have been enough to see them through a long winter. #twister
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