Big Bad Movies
Whatcha watching? I've been doing disaster movies. It's what I do during lulls between other series building up enough episodes that I can binge them. B-movie BAD disaster movies only, to be precise, and only ones I haven't seen yet.
This limits things more than a reasonable viewer might expect--but many things are possible in this age of streaming.
My current theme is earthquakes, and friends, look at this cornucopia of corniness I had to choose from on Prime Video alone:
- San Andreas: MEGA QUAKE, not to be confused with San Andreas w/Dwayne Johnson.
- Earthquake (the 2004 one. Yes, it matters.)
- MegaFAULT and FaultLINE. Different movies.
- 10.5. Not 10.5:Apocalypse, which was a series.
- Ice Quake
- Magma: Volcanic Disaster. (YEs, volcaoes, but earthquakes feature prominiently in the description.)
- Epicenter, which ALSO has assassins & the mob!
- Polar Storm, because meteors make earthquakes even scarier!
- Geo-Disaster, with a megaquake, a supervolcano AND a massive tornado, all in Los Angeles.
- Destruction: Los Angeles
- Global Meltdown (kinda says it all, huh?)
- Quantum Apocalypse
- Nature Unleashed: Earthquake, which adds a Russian nuclear power plant to the party too.
This list doesn't even get into the large side niche of "movies about earthquakes that accompanied the crucifixion of Jesus."
No, I am not making that up. "Crucifixion Quake" is a real movie. So is "Risen." There are many others I won't bother to list because I will not be watching any of them ever. Not if I have a choice in the matter.
I watched 6 of the ones on my Earthquakes list between last Friday & Sunday. Okay, "watched" might be a stretch. To be strictly accurate, they were running on the television while I did other things, like writing, peeling fruit, and doing research on firepit accessories and sundry other topics of interest.
Which ones? MegaQuake, 10.5, Polar Storm, Magma, Ice Quake, and Nature Unleashed. Two of them were so bad they actively drove Spouseman from the room instead of accidentally sucking him into passive watching. I don't remember which two. They were all pretty awful, and they were all awfully fun.
I'll cruise through the rest eventually assuming they all stay free. (some movies seem to be free a while, then go pay, then go back to free? Prime is weird.) ANYway. None of them are long--evidently the filmmakers realize that even fans of cheesy corn can't sit through more than about 88 minutes of it uncut.
This week I have a Roku from library, so I'll be catching up on the fall releases from Hulu, HBO, & Disney/Marvel. That should be fun.
That's all for now. Until later!