Dante's Peak (2007, HD DVD)

For a while in the mid-90's, it seemed that the advent of computer generated special effects brought on a resurrection of disaster films, with special effects supervisors intent on showing the public just how terrific their work was. Twister and Volcano were two of the fruits of this trend. The same year Volcano was released, so was Dante s Peak. Set in the northern cascades, Dante s Peak tells the story of a volcano that s about to erupt. For the mountain and it s eruption is really the star of the show, not the actors. The storyline that precedes the eruption is ripe with clich s, and it...

It became common times in the late 90's when the natural disaster movies started to come out thanks to a new era of special effects. Twister became pretty successful, and Volcano was kind of an unbelievable take on the formation of a volcano from underneath a city. Dante's Peak came out as well in 1997, and it starred Pierce Brosnan as a Volcanologist named Harry Dalton who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) on a much needed vacation. He's called in by his boss, Paul, to check out some unusual seismic readings at Dante's Peak, which had just been awarded the "World's Second.

Dante s Peak is a disaster movie in which Vulcanologist ( like Mr Spock but without the ears ) Harry Dalton(Pierce Brosnan) is sent to visit the newly crowned second most desirable place to live in America town of Dante s Peak to check out some slightly unusual seismic activity in the area. He is joined by boss Paul Dreyfus (Charles Hallahan) and the team, including a coffee-o-holic with a penchant for stating the blindingly obvious, and a technician whose solution to every mechanical or technical problem is to kick the living daylights out of the offending machine. While there he encounters..

Over the years, many disaster movies have been made, some much better than others. I have seen and enjoyed several of them myself. In 1997, two different movies dealing with volcanoes were made. If I remember right, Dante's Peak was the first of them to be released. Harry Dalton specialized in volcanoes. He knew first hand how deadly they could be after the woman he loved died when they waited to long to leave when one was erupting. Four years later, Harry was sent to the small town of Dante s Peak to check on the dormant volcano there. Once there, Harry believed things were serious enough to.