I’m just toying with the new WordPress Poll option, so I thought I’d throw this out at Eruptions readers. Enjoy! Feel free to leave comments justifying your pick.
8 responses to “Volcano Movie Poll”
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Truthfully, I thought Krakatoa: The last days was the best, but in its absence supervolcano. It was easily the most realistic of any of thew above listed volcano movies. It was scientifically accurate, and used real information. Dantes peak to me just felt like an over the top disaster movie with a lot of exhaggerated scientific facts thrown in. But that’s just me 🙂
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I really love Dante’s Peak.. because it’s the one with the most realism in it..
At last we have a movie which depicts a volcanic catastrophe in a (mostly) accurate way…
The only scene which looked obviously faked is when they use their 4×4 to cross a solidifying lava flow.. tires skidding on molten basalt, anyone? :p
I don’t have too much problems with the lava fountaining in an explosive eruption context.. these things may happen, kinda like on those basaltic stratovolcanoes like Kliuchevskoi, Llaima, Etna, Fuego which often erupt in this way, simultaneously shooting enormous eruption columns sky-high, and vomiting large amounts of lava from flank fissures..
And yep… the pyroclastic flow effects were really really wicked…. -
It has to be Dante’s Peak. The Grandma gives her life to save the grandchildren and dies a gruesome death. (She is partially dissolved alive in a sulfuric lake.)
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How could you not have ‘Joe vs. the volcano’ on there? By far my fav…
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