The Special Effects Evolution of Disaster Movies | NowThis Nerd

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With ‘Geostorm’ mania sweeping the nation, Dev Allen takes a look at the development of special effects in disaster movies.
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To celebrate the highly anticipated release of movie of the year contender Geostorm, the directorial debut of producer Dean Devlin, we’re going to explore the history of special effects in disaster movies. Judging from the Geostorm trailer, 2017 might be the new hotness as far as extreme weather is concerned, featuring earthquakes, storms, tornadoes, and everything else under the sun. But there’s long history of cinematic natural disaster movies, and the originals had some pretty impressive practical effects for their day. 1933 saw the release of Deluge, perhaps the single film that solidified disaster movies as their own unique genre. Using cutting-edge practical effects, matte work and plenty of crumbling models, the sequence where New York is devastated by a tidal wave is still extremely impressive today. Maybe not as impressive as the effects we’ve seen in the Geostorm film, but for early SFX, they still hold up today. Maybe not as much as the 2012 effects or Day After Tomorrow effects, but Deluge is still pretty phenomenal. Just like the tidal wave in the Poseidon Adventure, and its later remake, Poseidon. CG might have made movie special effects easier in some regard, but they still present their own unique challenges.

As far as tornadoes go, the most iconic one in movie history is probably the Wizard of Oz tornado. The Wizard of Oz cyclone began as a massive rubber cone, but they threw it out and recreated the Wizard of Oz tornado scene with a muslin windsock filled with dust. By the time of the Twister movie, CGI had evolved to portray tornado special effects fairly convincingly. Cows… not so much. And in the days of Sharknado, everyone with a green screen can render a convincing cyclone. When it comes to earthquakes, the 1936 San Francisco movie was one of the first films to depict a shattering seismic event. By using practical sets and practical effects, the filmmakers were able to produce some pretty convincing earthquake scenes. So much so that the same effects were used for the most part in the 1974 disaster movie classic Earthquake. But that had a much more innovative gimmick: Sensurround. Earthquake installed giant subwoofers in theaters across the country to shake, rattle and roll moviegoers nationwide. But they reproduced the effects of an earthquake a little too well. Still, it’s a noteworthy precursor to modern theater gimmicks like 4DX, which we definitely have to see the Geostorm movie in. Ever since the first Geostorm trailer 2017, we’ve been excited to see Geostorm Gerard Butler, Geostorm Ed Harris, and all the other actors battling the elements in Geostorm 2017. With Geostorm, Dean Devlin has assembled all of the natural disasters into one film, Avengers style, and we can’t wait to see the insanity, and awesome effects.

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