Scott Weinberg
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Hi all. I do love a good draft (especially during the dog days of summer HAWHAW) but I've been itching to do a plain old tourney. I couldn't think of any good topics and then I did.
Disaster Movies!
For a movie to be eligible for nomination, it must be about (or extensively deal with) some sort of natural (or man-made but real scary) disaster. A movie must be seconded and thirded to be in, and each of you movie-addicted loons are allowed three of each: noms, seconds and thirds.
I'll start us off with a few high-profile titles and then y'all can go from there. Please keep track of your own remaining noms (etc.) although I may be divvying out some more down the road. And please don't forget to dramatically announce your film's corresponding disaster. We start with:
When we do the voting, I'd ask that people do not necessarily vote for the better film - but for how cool/scary/effective the cinematic disasters onscreen actually are. Or a combination of both. Bah, vote how you want. I'm not the bossa you.
Nominated, awaiting seconds:
Arachnophobia - Spiders, more spiders and John Goodman's butt-crack!
Beginning of the End - Giant Radioactive Grasshoppers!
Black Sunday - Looney Bruce Dern and a Killer Blimp!
The Deadly Mantis - Giant carnivorous mantis!
The Fifth Element - Giant evil ball and Chris Tucker and that horrific opera-singing creepozoid!
Ghostbusters - Ghosts and giant marshmallows!
The Grapes of Wrath - Bankruptcy!
Kingdom of the Spiders - Spiders and Shatners!
Last Night - Scarily vague impending armageddon!
Mission to Mars - Boring interstellar whatnot!
Rattlers - Rattlesnakes!
Saving Private Ryan - Astonishingly Realistic D-Day!
Scarface - Um...!
The Swarm - Copious amounts of pissed-off bees!
Seconded, awaiting thirds:
The Day the Earth Caught Fire - Self-explanatory!
Killer Klowns from Outer Space - Extra-terrestrial killer clown invasion!
Night of the Lepus - Giant Radioactive Bunnies!
Testament - Nuclear war!
Threads - Nuclear war!
War of the Worlds - Evil tri-colored aliens!
WarGames - Global Thermonuclear Warfare!
IN THE TOURNEY:
The Abyss - Stressed out underwater marines and misunderstood aliens!
Airplane! - Poisonous fish and a silly doomed aircraft!
Airport - Gravity! (and a mad bomber!)
Apollo 13 - Real-life outer space doooom!
Armageddon - Meteor!
Damnation Alley - Nuclear holocaust in a movie I've never seen!
Dante's Peak - Volcano eruptions and granny-swallowing lava!
Dawn of the Dead - Flesh eating zombies and clever social commentary!
The Day After - Real scary and realistic nuclear holocaust!
Deep Impact - Meteor! And BIG-ASS Tidal Wave!
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Couldn't Be Bothered to Type Out the Entire Title - Nuclear holocaust!
Earthquake - Earthquake! Duh!
Godzilla, King of the Monsters - Giant Radioactive Lizard!
Independence Day - Antagonistic yet very stupid alien invasion!
Jaws - Shark attack!
Jurassic Park - Pissed-off genetically cloned dinosaurs!
Mars Attacks! - Goofy aliens who hate us!
Miracle Mile - Nuclear holocaust and a suck-ass Full Frame transfer!
Night of the Comet - Humanity-obliterating comet!
A Night to Remember Iceberg! (and an unfortunate lifeboat shortage!)
The Perfect Storm - Massive tidal waves and fish-induced greed!
Piranha - Big schools of tiny fish with massive teeth and immense appetites!
The Poseidon Adventure - Tidal Wave!
The Quiet Earth - Humanity vanishes!
The Stand - Apocalyptic virus!
The Sum of All Fears - Nuclear explosion and Ben Affleck's chin!
Them! - Giant Radioactive Ants!
Titanic - Iceberg and an 194 minute running time!
The Towering Inferno - Fire!
Twister - Tornado!
Waterworld - Melted icecaps drench the planet and Costner has flappy gills!
When Worlds Collide - Impending planetary collision!
Disaster Movies!
For a movie to be eligible for nomination, it must be about (or extensively deal with) some sort of natural (or man-made but real scary) disaster. A movie must be seconded and thirded to be in, and each of you movie-addicted loons are allowed three of each: noms, seconds and thirds.
I'll start us off with a few high-profile titles and then y'all can go from there. Please keep track of your own remaining noms (etc.) although I may be divvying out some more down the road. And please don't forget to dramatically announce your film's corresponding disaster. We start with:
When we do the voting, I'd ask that people do not necessarily vote for the better film - but for how cool/scary/effective the cinematic disasters onscreen actually are. Or a combination of both. Bah, vote how you want. I'm not the bossa you.
Nominated, awaiting seconds:
Arachnophobia - Spiders, more spiders and John Goodman's butt-crack!
Beginning of the End - Giant Radioactive Grasshoppers!
Black Sunday - Looney Bruce Dern and a Killer Blimp!
The Deadly Mantis - Giant carnivorous mantis!
The Fifth Element - Giant evil ball and Chris Tucker and that horrific opera-singing creepozoid!
Ghostbusters - Ghosts and giant marshmallows!
The Grapes of Wrath - Bankruptcy!
Kingdom of the Spiders - Spiders and Shatners!
Last Night - Scarily vague impending armageddon!
Mission to Mars - Boring interstellar whatnot!
Rattlers - Rattlesnakes!
Saving Private Ryan - Astonishingly Realistic D-Day!
Scarface - Um...!
The Swarm - Copious amounts of pissed-off bees!
Seconded, awaiting thirds:
The Day the Earth Caught Fire - Self-explanatory!
Killer Klowns from Outer Space - Extra-terrestrial killer clown invasion!
Night of the Lepus - Giant Radioactive Bunnies!
Testament - Nuclear war!
Threads - Nuclear war!
War of the Worlds - Evil tri-colored aliens!
WarGames - Global Thermonuclear Warfare!
IN THE TOURNEY:
The Abyss - Stressed out underwater marines and misunderstood aliens!
Airplane! - Poisonous fish and a silly doomed aircraft!
Airport - Gravity! (and a mad bomber!)
Apollo 13 - Real-life outer space doooom!
Armageddon - Meteor!
Damnation Alley - Nuclear holocaust in a movie I've never seen!
Dante's Peak - Volcano eruptions and granny-swallowing lava!
Dawn of the Dead - Flesh eating zombies and clever social commentary!
The Day After - Real scary and realistic nuclear holocaust!
Deep Impact - Meteor! And BIG-ASS Tidal Wave!
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Couldn't Be Bothered to Type Out the Entire Title - Nuclear holocaust!
Earthquake - Earthquake! Duh!
Godzilla, King of the Monsters - Giant Radioactive Lizard!
Independence Day - Antagonistic yet very stupid alien invasion!
Jaws - Shark attack!
Jurassic Park - Pissed-off genetically cloned dinosaurs!
Mars Attacks! - Goofy aliens who hate us!
Miracle Mile - Nuclear holocaust and a suck-ass Full Frame transfer!
Night of the Comet - Humanity-obliterating comet!
A Night to Remember Iceberg! (and an unfortunate lifeboat shortage!)
The Perfect Storm - Massive tidal waves and fish-induced greed!
Piranha - Big schools of tiny fish with massive teeth and immense appetites!
The Poseidon Adventure - Tidal Wave!
The Quiet Earth - Humanity vanishes!
The Stand - Apocalyptic virus!
The Sum of All Fears - Nuclear explosion and Ben Affleck's chin!
Them! - Giant Radioactive Ants!
Titanic - Iceberg and an 194 minute running time!
The Towering Inferno - Fire!
Twister - Tornado!
Waterworld - Melted icecaps drench the planet and Costner has flappy gills!
When Worlds Collide - Impending planetary collision!