When this blog-a-thon was announced by The Midnite Drive-In and Dubsism, we were all at the beginning of the donning of surgical masks, rubber gloves, and self-quarantining. Since then, in America we’ve replaced the virus with firebomb-throwing anarchists. But as we said back then, this event is here to remind us all we can still be killed by volcanoes, tornadoes, wild fires, plagues of locusts, or any number of other forms of murderous mischief Mother Nature can conjure.
As film bloggers, we would be completely derelict in out duties if we didn’t point out there’s an entire genre dedicated to disasters. So, as a means of taking your mind off your inevitable death, we are teaming up once again to bring you an event which coincides with the birth of disaster movie mogul Irwin Allen, which happened on June 12th, 1916.
Participants in the “Disaster” Blog-A-Thon:
- Dubsism – The Concorde: Airport ’79 (1979) and an Examination of the Two Movies Spoofed By “Airplane!”
- The Midnite Drive-In – The Stand (1994 mini-series)
- ReelWeegieMidget Reviews – Airport (1970)
- Angelman’s Place – Deep Impact (1998)
- SportsChump – Independence Day (1996)
- Caftan Woman – The Hurricane (1937)
- The Spriochaete Trail – Hero (1992)
- MovieRob – The Swarm (1978), Mars Attacks (1996), The Wandering Earth (2019)
- Cinematic Catharsis – It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955)
- Taking Up Room – The Towering Inferno (1974)
- Moon In Gemini – The Andromeda Strain (1971)
- Phyllis Loves Classic Movies – The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
- Silver Screenings – When Worlds Collide (1950)
- The Stop Button – Ashfall (2019)
- Hamlette’s Soliloquy – The High and the Mighty (1954)
- John V’s Eclectic Avenue – Miracle Mile (1988)
- Horseback to Byzantium – Exit (2019)
- Charity’s Place – Pompeii (2014)
- And You Call Yourself A Scientist!? – No Time At All (1958)
- Pure Entertainment Preservation Society – Titanic (1953) and an article about the Production Code’s influence on disaster films made during the Breen Era (1934-1954) called “Code Concepts: Disaster Films, Responsibility, and Irrational Fear.“
- An Aging Broad with a Scrapbook – Deluge (1933)
- Totally Filmi – Virus (2019)
- Critica Retro – The Last Days of Pompeii (1973)
Let the blog-reading survival begin!
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Goldwyn and Ford take us to the South Seas: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2020/06/disaster-blog-thon-hurricane-1937.html
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Hi! My entry is up at http://jveclectic.blogspot.com/2020/06/miracle-mile-fate-love-apocalypse.html.
Thanks for having me as part of the blogathon!
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[…] more of the Disaster Blog-a-thon, please see J-Dubs and Quiggy. Thanks for hosting, guys–this was cathartic. Thanks for reading, everyone, and […]
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Hi J-Dub! Here’s my post: https://takinguproom.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/the-towering-inferno/
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Hi J Dub, here’s my link:
https://angelman.blogspot.com/2020/06/deep-impact-1998.html
Thanks for hosting!!!!
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[…] The Disaster Blog-A-Thon is being hosted by J-Dub of Dubsism and Quiggy of The Midnite Drive-In on June 10-12. This blogathon is these gentlemen’s response to the current disaster plaguing the world, the global coronavirus pandemic. These two film bloggers are using this blogathon dedicated to disaster movies to remind readers that the current health concern is not a disaster as serious as many other situations. This blogathon is full of earthquakes, floods, sinking ships, tornados, locusts, and many other acts of God or freak accidents which can occur. I decided to join this disastrous affair with a review of the Code film account of one of the most infamous disasters of modern history, the sinking of the Titanic, an unlucky combination of natural phenomena and human error. […]
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Dear J-Dub,
Here is my review of “Titanic:” https://pureentertainmentpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/100-new-code-films-45-titanic-from-1953-heroism-during-disasters-for-the-disaster-blog-a-thon/. I greatly enjoyed this film! Good luck during your blogathon.
Yours Hopefully,
Tiffany Brannan
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Here’s my contribution: https://spirochaetetrail.blogspot.com/2020/06/hero-aka-where-have-all-good-men-gone.html
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Hi! I just witnessed The Last Days of Pompeii twice for the blogathon:
https://criticaretro.blogspot.com/2020/06/os-ultimos-dias-de-pompeia-1913-last.html
Cheers!
Le
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Posted! https://www.thestopbutton.com/2020/06/12/ashfall-2019/
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[…] June 10-12, J-Dub of Dubsism and Quiggy of The Midnite Drive-In are hosting the Disaster Blog-a-Thon. This blogathon focuses on movies about natural disasters and massive catastrophes of all kinds. […]
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Dear J-Dub,
Here is my article about the Code and disaster films: https://pureentertainmentpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/code-concepts-7-disaster-films-responsibility-and-irrational-fear-for-the-disaster-blog-a-thon/. I’m sorry for sending it to you late.
Yours Hopefully,
Tiffany Brannan
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