Theater Thursday - Disaster Movies
The Day After Tomorrow has opened to rave great passable some reviews, and disaster movies are once again in vogue. This week's Theatre Thursday questions are about those motion pictures that make us want to avoid the water, planes, tall buildings, large cruise ships, angry atomic reptiles and everything in general that makes life enjoyable...

1) What's your favorite disaster movie of all time?
The Perfect Storm

2) Do you prefer a disaster movie with tons of special effects, carnage and general mayhem (i.e. Armageddon) or would you rather see one where the focus is on the people and the event's effects on their lives (i.e. Deep Impact)?
The disaster's effect on the characters in the movie. Actually my sister and I would guess which one would die and even predict how his character will face death.

3) Of all the disaster movies you've seen, which depicts the most realistic portrayal of what might happen in an actual disaster? Which was the most far-fetched?
Twister - there are really tornadoes that powerful. The most preposterous are those with animals attacking people like Bats, Crocodile, Jurassic Park and Godzilla. What is it? A lizard?

Bonus) Which character would you be if you were in a disaster movie - the tough hero, the corrupt businessman who profits from it all, the old lady who runs around and screams "We're doomed!!!", the kid who saves the day, the young guy who buys it in the first five minutes of the disaster, or another stock character?
The lead character who keeps warning people of impending doom but no one believes me so what the heck I will just save myself and my family and go somewhere safer!
And remember, in the immortal words of Maureen McGovern:
There's got to be a morning after
If we can hold on through the night
We have a chance to find the sunshine
Let's keep on lookin' for the light