01/27/02: Dante's Peak--Extremely Bleak

Posted By: The_Film_Doctor


I recently had to sit through this sorry excuse for a dramatic action movie in Science Class. It sucked. It sucked it suckd it sucked. Their 4x4 drives across lava and their tires melt off.This believable, but their gas tank would have exploded before they made it halfway. The bottom of the car would be melting off and the car would have just exploded. But in that magical place called "Hollywood," they make it out just in time. When they travel across the acidic lake, for one thing, several tons of sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid aerosol would have to be poured in to make it atleast that acidic. The old grandmother does the one act of heroism by jumping in and having her legs disintegrate at a distance close enough to just have waited on board. She dies and everyone is sad for one minue, then they go off before the pyroclastic flow gets them. Then they find the dog, who managed to live through the eruption at a much closer distance than the hundereds of brain-dead and stubborn town folk died. It seems the majority of this town's populace was outsmarted by a dog. And there is no way a melting 4x4 with no tires can outrun pyroclastic flow traveling 100 miles per hour, slowing down to let them go into the abandoned mine. And at the beginning, the "Second most desirable place to live" award foreshadowed the event in an unprecedented way. The first was probably attacked by aliens or nuked in some other bad movie of the genre.

IN conclusion, this movie was in no way factual and just had to have a feel good scene here and there in the midst of the death, destruction, and poor story-line. They were better off doing a Mt. St. Helen's docudrama than this P.O.S. Although, the factuality might scare some of the people who came for an exp


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