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Disaster Du Jour #2: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

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There are some disaster movies that are obviously disaster movies like Earthquake and The Day After Tomorrow, but there are also some disaster movies that don’t seem like disaster movies but actually are like the movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011).

A sort of a sort of reboot to/origin of the 1960s-70s Planet of the Apes films, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rise) chronicles the beginning of the end of the dominance of mankind the the start of the dominance of the “apekind” over the Earth.

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Disaster Du Jour #1: Earthquake (1974)

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When I think of a stereotypical disaster movie a few things pop to mind; a cast of once bright stars but who’s stardom is on the wane, a possible disaster that’s top of mind and a certain way of storytelling where strands of seemingly independent stories come together during the disaster.

One of the early disaster films that would make this type of storytelling “stereotypical” is the movie Earthquake (1974).

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