re: #23 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s not so much that these sort of movies don’t get the details of science right. I really don’t expect people (writers, producers, directors) who have not studied in various disciplines to know the subjects.

Rather, the nature of these movies are much more insulting than that.

I just sped through another Amazon Prime offering, “Meteor”. It’s just as bad as 10.5 Apocalypse, but not quite as campy.

These movies:
1) are very, very USA-centric;
2) offer unreasonable heros that somehow can conquer nature;
3) totally ignore the most obvious problems with breaking reality;
4) and generally have very stupid dialogue, speech that no real humans speak.

And they do this because these disaster movies are playing into the most basic of human needs: salvation.

Save me, Mr. military.
Save me, Mr. scientist.
Save me, Mr. President.
Save me, God-in-the-box.
Save me, Mr. America.