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San Andreas
2015 · Film · 114 min
Directed by Brad Peyton
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
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Can't have a good quake without The Rock! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_(film)
Uh, OP here.... Calling the Rock's San Andreas a documentary was, in fact, a joke.
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There was a pretty bad flooding event portrayed in the documentary movie San Andreas.
https://youtu.be/jvIGFhqbe0c?si=ZCaVjWjw-oi84HgD&t=1m39s
In the movie San Andreas, the character parachutes into AT&T Park in San Francisco, then casually strolls a few blocks and is suddenly in Chinatown without breaking a sweat. Chinatown is miles away and up a pretty steep hill.
From that It’s clear you didn’t intend to minimize earthquakes in general which is good, it was just a matter of not the best wording/phrasing.
“Big yawn” is a loaded word: It was not in the least terrifying and actually a big yawn; no known damage or injuries; …
Dismissing earthquakes: nothing like all those San Andreas movies. …
Minimizing risk: in case there's a big aftershock, which there almost never is.
Comparing earthquakes to sporting events: You want to worry about something that's actually broken, then worry about whether the US MNT will get it together to call up leading goalscorer Jordan Pefok by 13 Nov deadline for the World Cup
Experts believe a major quake in the Bay Area is “likely” (>=6.7) by 2032 per the usgs
It was not in the least terrifying and actually a big yawn; no known damage or injuries; "near San Jose" is inaccurate, it was 14km east of San Jose up the (fairly sparsely-populated) foothills near Alum Rock, 6.9 km depth, 37.311°N 121.677°W, inside Joseph D. Grant Park, zipcode 95140, total population only a tiny 191. So, remote, not urban and nothing like all those San Andreas movies. We felt the floor ripple for a couple of seconds and that was all. All transit is still running, just at reduced speeds (standard practice just in case there's a big aftershock, which there almost never is).
You want to worry about something that's actually broken, then worry about whether the US MNT will get it together to call up leading goalscorer Jordan Pefok by 13 Nov deadline for the World Cup. Now that's worth losing sleep over. Or worry about Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico reconstruction from Hurricane Ian; Cuba got it bad.
USGS.gov has a page up near-instantaneously with the details including crowdsourced reports of perceived intensity by location, as they always do: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/executive
PPS: in that area, Mt Hamilton (4265') and Lick Mill Observatory are worth a visit. And over west in Menlo Park visitors can visit the USGS station for free, that's a very fun and educational thing to do.
I've been doing vfx for 20+ years. So...
- watch a movie :
2020 Upside Down Magic
2017 The Fate of the Furious (visual effects artist)
2015 San Andreas
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
2013 R.I.P.D.
2011 Happy Feet Two
2011 Mars Needs Moms
2009 A Christmas Carol
2008 The Tale of Despereaux
2007 Enchanted
2006 The Shaggy Dog
2005 Constantine
2004 Hellboy
2003 The Matrix Revolutions
2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- or a more recent TV show:
Another Life
Gabby and the Unsittables
Charmed
There's certainly other things I've worked on, but they're lost down the memory hole for good.
Hollywood, as we know it is dead for 10+ years. The mass of super hero movies is appalling.
Where are the action movies and funny comedies, that were so great in the late 1980s, 1990s and earlier 2000s.
Last year's San Andreas was pretty good, but so many other movies are just boring, unfunny, too dark, too shaky camera, too much CGI, etc. That TV series got too much attention by Hollywood studies hurts movies a lot. The only TV series I saw last year was Silicon Valley, I don't know were people have the time to watch that many series - I would trade TV series for great movies all day.
I had a pretty funny story a few months ago. I was watching San Andreas and there is one part where Paul Giamatti (Dr. Lawrence Hayes) yells "ALEXI..." and sure enough Amazon Echo turns on. I had to stop the movie and turn the Echo off because the it subsequently tired to process everything the movie was saying after the trigger word.
So is the fact that the movie San Andreas came out before this potentially happens considered Inception?