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rjharris1960 · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 101

[SPEC] So this is really just a 70's style disaster movie...

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:47 pm

Kraker · Unfettered Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 749

You do realize that monster flicks weren't invented in the 1970s?

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:54 pm

rjharris1960 · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 101

I'm saying that disaster movies were really popuar in the 1970's JUNIOR.

Airport, The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Posiden Adventure, etc.

You probably weren't even born.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:56 pm

Random_kid

didnt godzilla come out before the 70's?

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:58 pm

rjharris1960 · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 101

Godzilla movies came out after WWII so I estimate that they started in the late 50's - early 60's.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:59 pm

Headman

I get what you are saying. It kinda does have that style to it with the exception that those movies were in a confined disaster the size of a ship or building, these guys are in the largest city in the world. They are surviving all those disaster movies in one film and trying to not get killed by a giant monster or eaten by it's parasites at the same time. It is so not going to be a "big flashy soap opera."

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:07 pm

rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

I don't see how they could pull off a soap opera with the style of running and shooting on the run with a Handicam. There has to be some interest in the characters, or else the audience won't be invested in what happens to them, but I don't think we have to worry about this being a 70s style soap opera filled with stars doing cameo death scenes.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:16 pm

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m_talon · Veteran Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 142

**Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:35 am

Pandafarmer · Boot Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 69

Being someone who grew up with Gamera, Godzilla, Gorgo, and all the other giant creatures named with a G, I'd like to think it's a modernization of the theme. It's pretty much it's own genre, and the only reason we have not seen more of those types of Japanese big monster films these days is because it's all been "said and done." and there isn't much room for exploration. Big thing arrives, people freak, the army gets involved, brilliant young scientist and his hot reporter girlfriend save day. However, this I believe will very much the re-imagining of the genre. To be honest, this is the movie us kids who grew up with cheesy monster movies has been dreaming of. Something to tap into our childhood fantasy that we can bring our friends to without guilt.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:53 pm

gypsy songman · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 139

**Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:00 pm