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civanticism · 2 months

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Civanticism — The reason of Humanism and the compassion of Buddhism, with a touch of snark for good measure. https://www.civanticism.com/

#science #disaster movie #ignore

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scenes-inside-my-head · 5 months

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Titanic (1997)

#movie frames #movies #film #titanic #1990s #90s #james cameron #drama movie #period drama #disaster movie #leonardo dicaprio

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guillotineman · 1 year

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On the set of 28 Days Later (2002)

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hellyeahgeorgekennedy · 4 days

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Gloria Swanson and George Kennedy on the set of Airport 75 (1975)

#george kennedy #gloria swanson #airport 75 #1975 #old hollywood #hollywood #classic movies #old movies #70s movies #disaster movie #joe patroni

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derekeads · 1 month

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"Twister" poster by Derek Eads.

#twister #bill paxton #helen hunt #philip seymour hoffman #cary elwes #disaster movie #tornado #summer movie #movie poster #movie poster art #alternative movie poster #derek eads #illustration #illustrators on tumblr

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retropopcult · 1 year

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The cast of The Poseidon Adventure, 1972. Clockwise from back left: Ernest Borgnine as Mike Rogo, Arthur O'Connell as Chaplain John, Carol Lynley as Nonnie Perry, Red Buttons as James Martin, Jack Albertson as Manny Rosen, Roddy McDowall as Acres, Shelley Winters as Belle Rosen, Gene Hackman as Reverend Scott, Stella Stevens as Linda Rogo, and Pamela Sue Martin as Susan Shelby.

#retro #1970s #disaster movie #70s film

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theyareweird · 5 months

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Titanic: Rose DeWitt Bukater —Aesthetic

Rose DeWitt Bukater's Character & Personality

Due to her torturous first-class life, Rose was quite pessimistic about her future. She convinced herself committing suicide was the only way to escape from a man she didn't like. Although generally polite and reserved, Rose would occasionally make lewd remarks. She could be feisty and strong willed too. Rose had no problem hitting or shoving others when the situation calls for it. Sometimes being carefree, Rose didn't shy away from rude habits. These included drinking alcohol, dancing among the passengers and spitting. Rose is quite smart with an upper class education. She's passionate and brave towards her lover. Rose is also a talented actress, performing in New York for a time. In her elderly life, she begins to forget certain things. However, Rose is still the same kind-hearted woman.

#rose dewitt bukater #titanic #art #aesthetic #moodboard #horror movie #thriller movie #suspense #historical drama #disaster movie #vintage moodboard

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misforgotten2 · 11 months

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I was in a triplex theater to see another movie waiting in the lobby when this movies Sensurround special effect went off and I knew then and there what movie I was going to see next.

People Weekly November 15th 1974

#vintage ad #vintage ads #advertising #advertisment #1974 #movie ad #earthquake #special effects #disaster movie #1970s #1970s ad #1970's #1970's ad #funny #humor #humour

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photo-roulette-wheel · 5 months

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parody movies

#parody movies #movie #scary movie #date movie #disaster movie #epic movie #spy hard #meet the spartans #the starving games #super fast #Vampire sucks #date night ever #cars #hunger games #fast and the furious #Seltzer and Friedberg #movie posts #2010s nostalgia #2000s nostalgia

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morbid-hippie · 9 months

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The Day After (1983)

When you close your eyes, you start remembering

You can’t see it, you can’t feel it, and you can’t taste it, but it’s here

They've got a hospital in Lawrence...

And then from the smoke came locust upon the earth

You know what Einstein said? About World War Three? He said he didn’t know how they were gonna fight World War Three, but he knew how they would fight World War Four. With sticks and stones

I’m not going anyplace

I want to see my home before I die

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littletroubledgrrrl · 1 year

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Considering the infamous "Disaster Movie" was filmed back when the WWE Divas division was doing lingerie pillow fights, bra & panties matches, and mud/gravy/pudding wrestling (and that movie as well as other Seltzerberg movies sexually objectify women), I'm surprised during that WWE divas reference scene in "Disaster Movie" that Carmen Electra and Kim Kardashian didn't do some lingerie pillow fight or bra & panties match.

#carmen electra #disaster movie #wwe #kim kardashian

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pandoramsbox · 1 month

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Sci-Fi Saturday: Deluge

Week 11:

Film(s): Deluge (Dir. Felix E. Feist, 1933, USA)

Viewing Format: Blu-Ray: Kino Lorber

Date Watched: August 6, 2021

Rationale for Inclusion:

Not all disaster movies fall under the genre of science fiction or speculative fiction. What causes the disaster and/or its results are what determines the classification.

Deluge (Dir. Felix E. Feist, 1933, USA) came to my attention either from browsing the Wikipedia list of 1930s sci-fi films or Kino Lorber's website. The film was regarded as lost for decades, but promised apocalyptic natural disasters and the survivors needing to rebuild society. We had yet to encounter the post-apocalyptic subgenre on our survey and figured it would be interesting to compare to later examples. Plus, neither my partner nor I had known Deluge existed, much less seen it, prior to this survey.

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As one would hope with a disaster movie, Deluge has respectable special effects for its era. Stop motion, models and superimpositions render the epic storm, eclipse, earthquakes and tsunamis that absolutely wreck the world. No explanation is provided for the extreme weather and geographical upsets, in part because it comes on so quickly no one can gather sufficient data to form a hypothesis, and in part because it does not matter to the overall narrative. The natural disasters are just set up for a post-apocalyptic survival narrative.

Despite its spectacular opening, Deluge goes downhill as a film rapidly. The cinematography and acting are just okay. The concerns of survival in the new wrecked landscape become the main focus, and in the process the film ends up treating some gross attitudes about gender as matters of nature not socialization. Some amount of sexism is bound to be present in most films, even if it's implicit systematic context that doesn't even register to the target audience, but Deluge had examples that deeply bothered me and my partner.

Typical of post-apocalyptic narratives, a gang of roving rapist men assemble and become a threat to other survivors, including the newly formed town the protagonists end up in. Do the townspeople band together, kill the rapists, and then post their corpses with expository signs around the borders of their new community as a warning to others? No, because the film does not treat these men as outliers and societal threats beyond reform, but the expected result of men not being constrained by law or social pressure.

The newly formed community takes for granted that they cannot stop men from devolving to rapists, so instead of direct action against the rapists, the men who have assumed leadership roles decide that every woman must be married to a man. I do not know if the logic is that rapists supposedly do not rape women that belong to a man, or that wives cannot be raped by anyone, or that the husbands will defend against the rapists as necessary. However, their logic boils down to the only way to protect women from feral men is to have them become subjugated by civilized men; it's not to eliminate the threat or hold people who break community expectations accountable for their actions, but affirm the same position held by the rapists that women are commodities and resources, and treat them as they would storehouses of grain.

As repugnant as I find Deluge being explicit in its belief that Patriarchal values are unquestionable, universal laws, it is hard to truly find fault with the survivors clinging to what bits of the world they knew that remain. For all protagonist Martin Webster (Sidney Blackmer) has to say about rebuilding society better than it was, he and the other civilized men hope to rebuild society along the same lines as prior to the apocalypse. It's why Patriarchy and monogamy are clung to so tightly by the main characters. Yes, Martin and his wife Helen (Lois Wilson) could build a polycule with the new romantic interests they met when they thought the other was dead, but no one involved can see the viability or appeal in it. Frankly, if anyone suggested it they would view that person as morally on par with the roving rapists. Humans, after all, are creatures of habit despite existence being nothing but change.

As someone who finds Patriarchy limiting and damaging, and generally is not a fan of disaster movies, Deluge is not a film that I enjoyed. It's an interesting case study, but it failed to spark positive impressions or a desire to watch it again.

#sci-fi saturdays #disaster movie

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scenes-inside-my-head · 4 months

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