2008 · comedy · sci-fi · disaster
Disaster Movie
Directed by Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg1h 27m2008
Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.
Our read: Disaster Movie (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal comedy · sci-fi · disaster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- kinetic
- inventive
- cold
- funny
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How Disaster Movie feels to watch.
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