20th Century Foxĭisaster-movie specialist Roland Emmerich got some heat (no pun intended) from scientists upon the release of this blockbuster starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal-but we can wholeheartedly recommend it for entertainment purposes, even though, according to (real) paleoclimatologist William Hyde, the film is "to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart transplant surgery." The ice-age phenomenon portrayed in the film is a result of melting ice caps and a chaotic array of global super storms-in the realm of possibility, but not in its actual depiction, where a natural doomsday suddenly transforms the world into complete chaos, especially in Manhattan, where high-school academic decathlete Gyllenhaal is forced to shelter at the New York Public Library while also fending off ravenous zoo wolves as he waits for paleoclimatologist daddy Quaid to rescue him. Brosnan's scientific concerns are undermined by his boss's political decision to suppress the truth about a potential eruption, so as to minimize pushback from locals over the economic impact it might have, and only accepts facts once the ash and lava start spewing forth, far too late to get everyone out alive, including himself.
#GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTER MOVIE#
This movie also boasts some choice '90s nostalgia, including Grant Heslov's coffee-obsessed geologist during Starbucks' post-grunge-era surge, but adds in some commentary relevant to our current pandemic. For one thing, Dante's Peak-which follows a sad volcanologist played by Pierce Brosnan, fresh off his debut as James Bond in GoldenEye, as he becomes increasingly Chicken Little-y about the titular mountain's likelihood to blow its top and wipe out a tiny Northwest town whose mayor is played by Linda Hamilton-concerns an actual volcano. Like it's a game to get excited to play on your brand new $600 home video game console.Just like the twinned apocalyptic-object movies Deep Impact and Armageddon a year later, the lava-centric thrillers Dante's Peak and Volcano arrived in theaters only a few months apart in 1997 and don't have much in common beyond their inherent existential threat.
And yet, Sony trusted those retards to be one of the very first things the public would see, and mentally associate with the PlayStation 5. Not even updates to keep the hype momentum going.
It's just perplexing how these total nobodies have that kind of pull, and then just put out fucking nothing a year later. A retarded furry dating thing is announced at one of the biggest video game events, makes headlines, we all go "what the fuck is this shit", we laugh at it, and then we move onto much better games that didn't even get a fraction of the fanfare. This is it, the current state of video game media over the past year. it's not even exclusive to PS5 anymore, it has a listing on Steam with a vague "Planned Release Date: 2021", and no price either.it's the only game I remember from the PS5 event last year, and that's only because it's at least not bland samey bullshit of the usual variety.
this thread is dead, such little about what this game actually is has been revealed that there's just nothing to say.So we're a week away from the one year anniversary of this game being revealed, and