May 13, 2025
Disaster Month: Dante’s Peak – Brosnan & Hamilton vs. the Volcano!
Disaster Month on So Many Sequels kicks off with Dante’s Peak, the mid-’90s disaster flick that tried to combine scientific realism with big-budget spectacle. Pierce Brosnan plays a volcanologist with bad luck in love and worse timing with eruptions and Linda Hamilton swaps cyborgs for civic duty.We talk practical effects, scientific realism vs. big-budget spectacle, weird pacing, and anti-capitalist undertones...Is Dante’s Peak better than you remember—or does it go out with a whimper instead of a bang?Buckle up—Disaster Month is just heating up. Subscribe, leave us a review, & let us know your favorite disaster movie in the comments below.
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