Folks, it's time. I'm watching it. A little solo Disasterologists At The Movies.
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https://twitter.com/SamLMontano/status/1379846802980147201
Whew. A pretty graphic opening wildfire scene, an explosion, and the classic 'family having breakfast together' to reel us in...
I didn't quite think through how difficult this will be to live-tweet without spoilers... I'll keep things very vague since probably none of you have seen this yet. 😬
Unsurprisingly there are SOME gender dynamics occurring in this movie.
(Make an explicitly feminist, start to finish, disaster movie, you cowards.)
(Make an explicitly feminist, start to finish, disaster movie, you cowards.)
This movie is just crimes and flashbacks to people dying in a wildfire. To be fair, that is exactly what the trailer suggested.
Relatedly, I do not care for Nicholas Hoult!
Relatedly, I do not care for Nicholas Hoult!
This movie attempts to address mental health issues among smoke jumpers but it doesn't do more than raise the issue (so far) of PTSD which seems like a real lost opportunity. The message is basically "if you fail your psych eval you get banished" which is... 🙃
My biggest take away for everyone in reference to this movie is that you should not intentionally set wildfires.
This just reminded me of my favorite wildfire article ever written: slate.com/human-interest…
This just reminded me of my favorite wildfire article ever written: slate.com/human-interest…
One of my favorite things in disaster films is seeing what they do to isolate characters from help. This time it was lightning knocking out the radio.
Oh, man. Medina Senghore and Angelina Jolie are too good for this script!!!!
Just desperate for films that tell new, good disaster stories. Greenland was fine for what it was but surely we can do better in this moment of constant crisis.
Just desperate for films that tell new, good disaster stories. Greenland was fine for what it was but surely we can do better in this moment of constant crisis.
Could have done without the copaganda in this. I would have stopped watching tbh if I hadn’t already committed to tweeting about it.
(Do keep in mind that I hate almost all disaster movies.)
(Do keep in mind that I hate almost all disaster movies.)
This film is at its best when the women are committing murder!
I’m going to leave the fire analysis to the fire folks.
Classic ending with all the formal responders showing up. No mention of recovery (though didn't seem to be much if any damage, so.) Really an emergency, not a disaster.
Classic ending with all the formal responders showing up. No mention of recovery (though didn't seem to be much if any damage, so.) Really an emergency, not a disaster.
(That's not a spoiler because these movies are so formulaic.)
In the past year, I've watched about 170 disaster movies for research @thisisjohnfest & I are doing.
In the past year, I've watched about 170 disaster movies for research @thisisjohnfest & I are doing.
https://twitter.com/SamLMontano/status/1375063089327013889
We were also on @disaster_pod talking about all of this if you’d like to hear more.
https://twitter.com/disaster_pod/status/1389692057384488962
I will say this movie is on the fence for me in terms of whether it’s a disaster movie or not. One of the ways I assess this is if you took the hazard out of the movie would the plot be the same. If you took the wildfire out of this movie the plot would be largely unaffected. So.
I just... write better disaster movies? It's weird to me that this seems so difficult? Presumably they just make these movies for a very specific kind of person who is not me. That's fine. I just think Hollywood should do better (which, sure).
BYE. Have a good night!
BYE. Have a good night!
Get the fire-related review from @JimWhittington
https://twitter.com/jimwhittington/status/1393460992525279235
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