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Volcano (1997)

PG-13   |    |  Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

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A volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles, threatening to destroy the city.

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1 win & 1 nomination.

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6 April 2002 | uds3
A no-brainer but with no pretense!
Adequate little piece of idiocy as downtown LA plays host to a volcano! Thats right folks, Mount Versuvius does Grauman's Chinese! Ostensibly the simplest of FX needed - simply a modicum of re-colored mud and hey, we got lava!...pretty much a standard color-option within Microsoft Word! They do it well enough though, I gotta admit it LOOKS hot!

Once you put aside the stupidity of it all, its quite a fun movie, one of the better time fillers. Certainly an improvement on the wannabe cerebral companion piece DANTE'S PEAK! Tommy Lee cuts a suitably hands-on emergency resource controller and Kelly Roarke does her career resume no harm as his daughter under siege from lava-bombs at a critical stage of proceedings. Undoubtedly the best scene is that in the wrecked subway as the red hot lava flows beneath the train...you can feel the heat!

Anne Heche is well, the insufferable Anne Heche. How anyone can derive pleasure from watching this actress is beyond me. She is colder than Antarctica and emotes on a par with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter). I mean to say, anyone with Van Sant's PSYCHO to her credit has to be a re-think!

As an action-fest VOLCANO is as good as anything, like the lava, just let it flow!

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Trivia

While Roark and Dr. Barnes are looking for lava under a street, Barnes comments the nonsense to build a big city with intense geological activity, and Roark answers mentioning a passage from Holy Bible. His passage is Matthew 7:26, which says: "...And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand".

Quotes

Roark: to redirect the lava. Trucks arrive with only 82]Where's the rest of 'em?
Truck driver: What "rest of 'em?" This is it!
Lt. Fox: Hey, there only about eighty here!
Truck driver: Eighty-two; everything else is stuck on the 5 and the 10.
Lt. Fox: We're trying to keep the city in one piece, ...
Truck driver: So ...

Goofs

Near the end of the movie, when TLJ yells on the radio to abort, he's holding the radio backwards and talking into the bottom of the battery. Using a Motorola Saber like that ensures you won't be understood.

Alternate Versions

To attract more viewers the German theatrical version was cut to receive a "Not under 12" rating. The German video release contains the complete version and is rated "Not under 16".

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The Boxing Gym
Written by James Newton Howard

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Plot Summary

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Genres

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Details

Release Date:

25 April 1997

Language

English, Spanish, German

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

190th Street & Western Avenue, Torrance, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$90,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$14,581,740 27 April 1997

Gross USA:

$49,323,468

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$122,823,468

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