Sentence examples for disaster picture from inspiring English sources

The only disaster picture that has redeemed the genre is Richard Lester's "Juggernaut," which kidded the threadbare pants off the same clichés that the other pictures still try to make work.

SHREK RULES -- "Shrek 2" overpowered the new disaster picture "The Day After Tomorrow" to retain the North American box-office crown during the first three days of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Reuters reported.

Only a few feature films appeared among the director's credits, but they included the action comedy Thunder and Lightning (1977), featuring David Carradine and some impressive car-chase stunts, and the ski-resort disaster picture Avalanche (1978), starring Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow, but marred by low-budget special effects.

"Gravity" led the day for Warner Bros., as the space disaster picture snared four nominations.

It makes sense that the last thing Emmerich destroys is the foundation of the disaster picture itself: As the movie lays the groundwork for a sequel, we are given to understand that earth is done being victimized by the unknown, as the survivors vow to go the preemptive route and invade the invaders, striking at their homeworld before any more memorials can be laid to waste.

Alongside Crowe, the disaster picture's stars include Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson.

Writing in New York magazine David Edelstein praised All is Lost director JC Chandor's line in "brainy, procedural disaster pictures" – an antidote, it was implied, to the year's procession of unbrainy disaster pictures starring Will Smith, Tom Cruise and the like.

"The Core" falls soundly in the tradition of glamorous inconsistency that made 70's disaster pictures so much fun.

"This is a wildly over the top anthology of disaster pictures old and new, and Emmerich isn't above recycling other people's ideas," writes out own Peter Bradshaw.

This is a wildly over the top anthology of disaster pictures old and new, and Emmerich isn't above recycling other people's ideas.

AS end-of-the year giving gets under way, some charities like the American Red Cross are skipping disaster pictures and switching to gentler imagery to urge people to forgo extraneous holiday gifts and, instead, give "something that means something".