Comments on: Disaster http://moviebrit.com/2009/12/29/disaster/ Tue, 29 May 2012 18:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kate http://moviebrit.com/2009/12/29/disaster/#comment-36 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:47:30 +0000 http://moviebrit.com/?p=173#comment-36 Good point, Rob – cannon fodder is indeed essential – thinking of the extra dressed in red in Star Trek! I’ve gotta say though that 2012 was the exception to the rule for me on this one, because I thought John Cusack could have been a goner and I would not have even blinked. I wonder what happened to those giraffes…

OMG – that Triffids thing. What have they done to it! I wanted to tear my own eyes out watching it. Not that I watched it for long.

]]> By: Rob http://moviebrit.com/2009/12/29/disaster/#comment-35 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:00:28 +0000 http://moviebrit.com/?p=173#comment-35 I’d add one to that impressive list of disaster movie tropes, Kate:

Cannon fodder. Disaster movies have big casts, and frequently these casts are resolutely B-list. The reason for this – at least a half to thirds of that cast need to be dead at the end of the film. If there’s one big star, then it’s pretty much guaranteed that they will survive. With a cast full of familiar but not too starry faces, the director has the chance to pull out the stops as to who lives and who dies. Big body counts are part of the fun of the genre, IMHO.

One of the (many) reasons that 2012 failed so dismally was that there was never any doubt that John Cusack would live to sail into the sunset at the end of the film. Without risk, there’s no reward.

Talking about disaster films: are you watching the new version of Day Of The Triffids? Two disaster films in one, there!

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