The Hurricane’s Eye For Movies

This post goes out to Sandy, that’s right, the hurricane hitting all of us on the East coast. Good day to stay in and watch movies. Movies with hurricanes, as if looking out the window wasn’t enough. Tough to find though.  Here’s a few for starters.

The Perfect Storm (2000) – Big names such as Clooney and Wahlberg, this movie got a lot of hype and was based on a  book.  Most of it is on a boat and visually its part of a wave of movies (no pun intended) that featured new technical breakthroughs in CGI and visual development. Plotwise, well lets just say that was a secondary factor.

Trouble the Water (2008) – It’s technically not just about Hurricane Katrina, but is based “around” it, and set when it happened. It sort of serves as a semi-documentary about the storm but has a storyline within it of an aspiring young artist. I know a fair few people who got hit by Hurricane Sandy today and likely more come Tuesday, but at the same time, many have been lucky (myself included) and are grateful that it hasn’t ended up like Katrina, which was a mess in many ways, particularly how the “after” was managed.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – Leads the list of fake pics of Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath, as its where the Statue of Liberty hurricane pic originated. Suddenly everyone realizes how memorable this flick with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhall was. Good FX and yet another disaster movie based in NYC. I think that’s why I sort of like movies based elsewhere, because using NYC as the scene of disaster has been way overdone.

The Hurricane (1979 and 1937) – Hurricane in 1979 was with Mia Farrow and Jason Robards, directed by Jan Troell. It is loosely based on the 1937 film of the same name. I have never seen either, and took this description from the depths of the web. Same goes for this clip of the original.

Key Largo (1948) – Starring Humphrey Bogart & Edward G. Robinson. The movie was adapted by Richard Brooks and Huston from Maxwell Anderson’s 1939 play of the same name, which played on Broadway way back in the day. I’ve never seen this one either.

Honorable mention:

The Hurricane (1999) – This has NOTHING TO DO WITH A HURRICANE and stars Denzel Washington. It’s about boxing. A middleweight boxer who was committed of homicide and how he dealt with prison and life moving forwards. So if you are looking for themes for your hurricane Sandy movie night, this will feel out of place. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though.

Any others? Let me know if we missed any. Time to end the movie marathon and head outside.