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Bad movies made worse.
Apr. 14th, 2002 07:38 amLast night ABC showed one of my favorite bad movies, Volcano. isomeme turned me on to this film, evidently Angelinos have a soft spot in their hearts for movies that destroy LA.
Any way, the move is about a volcano suddenly developing in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. Tommy Lee Jones plays the director of LA's Office of Emergency Management, and Anne Heche is a plucky geologist (with nice smooth hands that have never handled a rock in their lives.) After some very basic plot development, most of the movie is watching the volcano destroy LA.
Bad science all over the place, really bad acting from Heche, a script that Ed Wood would have discarded.. but fun. How did ABC make it worse?
They discarded and entire subplot. One of the characters is a plucky ER doctor who's evil, heartless boyfriend is developing this giant apartment building across from Ceder Sinai Hospital and the Beverly Center (are those two even close to each other?) He also wants his gf to give up her job and become a nice normal plastic surgeon or something. That entire plot is gone. Which removes some of the satisfaction when they drop the apartment building to divert the lava flow.
Also, they cut out the very end. At the end of the move, just as the credits roll, there's a shot of the LA basin with this traditional smoking cone volcano in the middle of it, and in one of the corners of the screen, it is identified as "Mt. Wilshire" and reported to be active. This is as Randy Newman's I Love LA plays. ABC cut to promos.
Time to save up for the DVD player.
Any way, the move is about a volcano suddenly developing in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. Tommy Lee Jones plays the director of LA's Office of Emergency Management, and Anne Heche is a plucky geologist (with nice smooth hands that have never handled a rock in their lives.) After some very basic plot development, most of the movie is watching the volcano destroy LA.
Bad science all over the place, really bad acting from Heche, a script that Ed Wood would have discarded.. but fun. How did ABC make it worse?
They discarded and entire subplot. One of the characters is a plucky ER doctor who's evil, heartless boyfriend is developing this giant apartment building across from Ceder Sinai Hospital and the Beverly Center (are those two even close to each other?) He also wants his gf to give up her job and become a nice normal plastic surgeon or something. That entire plot is gone. Which removes some of the satisfaction when they drop the apartment building to divert the lava flow.
Also, they cut out the very end. At the end of the move, just as the credits roll, there's a shot of the LA basin with this traditional smoking cone volcano in the middle of it, and in one of the corners of the screen, it is identified as "Mt. Wilshire" and reported to be active. This is as Randy Newman's I Love LA plays. ABC cut to promos.
Time to save up for the DVD player.
