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Dante's Peak
Film
FilmPG-131997
Volcano
Directed by Mick Jackson
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA. From TMDB
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Volcano is a 1997 science fiction action drama film, directed by Mick Jackson, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche and Gaby Hoffmann.
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60 of 132 · most liked firstToday's lava is rainbow thin film interference on a piece of tachylite volcanic glass bubble. Might be the prettiest lava I've found! 😍🌈🌋 #volcano #iceland
neutral · AI labelView post →Volcano is a good movie basically because it's the only movie that recognizes the innate, superhuman heroism of major metropolitan mass transit agency employees.
positive · AI labelView post →Taco Bell Volcano Burrito (1995, 2009-2013): Initially released to promote the film "Congo", this beef burrito featured "fiery red sauce." Resurrected in 2009 with "lava sauce" and crispy tortilla strips.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact: I thought the La Brea Tar Pits were an entirely fictional invention of the movie Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones for an absurdly long time
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm now watching "Volcano" which might be the most absurd LA disaster movie until San Andreas. The cool thing about this movie is that I recognize almost everywhere they're at since I've moved to LA. This is a whole new experience for me.
positive · AI labelView post →I bring a Justin Whang energy to every newsroom I'm in presenting niche shit I found off the internet, and Volcano High is my latest. I stand ten toes down on Lil Jon being the best part of this weird, forgotten little action movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dealing with someone over the phone at work who acts and sounds just like the president in GUARDING TESS You guys have come around to admitting I was right about JOE VS THE VOLCANO, you may as well surrender here too. I love this movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Volcano, a film that tackles NIMBYism, racism and post-Rodney King uprising tensions, earthquakes, the Angelyne billboard, and the Beverly Center.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s like that neverending argument in JOE VS THE VOLCANO “I know you can film sex scenes but do people want sex scenes? I’m not arguing that with you!”
neutral · AI labelView post →Found this great film of the Parícutin Volcano eruption (the one that appeared in a farmer's cornfield) on the Smithsonian website. 🌋🌍⚒️ At 36 seconds in, one of the scientists lights a cigarette on a freshly erupted bit of lava rock (looks like a bit of a'a rubble). Do not recommend.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is like when two different movie studios release Volcano movies with all-star casts in the same summer. bsky.app/profile/moos...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm one of the seeming few who love "Joe Versus the Volcano," and this insightful essay from @chadperman.bsky.social does the movie delightful justice.
neutral · AI labelView post →VOLCANO (1997)-Terrible film, but the original teaser poster had a great tagline. Today, Tubi has apparently decided it's "Michael Bay's FORREST GUMP". 😀
negative · AI labelView post →I'll watch Twister whenever its on. I don't think it's a great film, I just like looking at tornados cause tornados are cool Volcanos are cool but I wouldn't bother with Volcano or Dante's Peak. That's why you put clips of Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman in between the footage of tornados.
negative · AI labelView post →someone’s never watched Volcano, the greatest disaster movie ever made about healing racial divides
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite movie at age 20 was Joe Versus the Volcano. And just yesterday I discovered the guy who played the limo driver was an avant-garde director in the 70s married to an activist poet. Hidden secrets of old movies. That movie was of the better meditations on death and courage.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen the movie Volcano? It's awful. I love it. 😂😂😂😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Malcolm Lowry (with scenes from the John Huston film adaptation of the Lowry novel "Under the Volcano") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →These photos are insane. If I didn't know there was a raging fire in LA? I'd swear they were lost set photos from the movie "Volcano"
neutral · AI labelView post →Those people have never seen Joe vs The Volcano. Good lord you don't know a real bad film until you've seen that.
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven’t watch this ridiculous movie since it came out, but maybe it should be viewed as an unintended comedy: ‘Volcano,’ the L.A. Disaster Movie That Boils Over With Unintended Comedy www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →New film out, on the extraordinary, 20-year saga of the Rainham Volcano.
neutral · AI labelView post →Malcolm Lowry (with scenes from the John Huston film adaptation of the Lowry novel "Under the Volcano") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →If I owned a movie theater, I would program a double feature of Joe Versus the Volcano and The Fisher King.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sure there are film snobs who hate this and won’t call it film at all, but ‘just a movie,’ but Joe vs. The Volcano is a truly great movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Volcano in LA was already a movie in the 90s. Anti-public transportation propaganda because the Metro extension under Wilshire caused the volcano
negative · AI labelView post →The best LA centric movie of that decade is Volcano
positive · AI labelView post →Joe verses the Volcano. The first time I saw this film, I was stuck in a decaying marriage, a shitty job, and a terrible neighborhood. The premise - "What if you knew you had only weeks left to live?" - hit me hard. Within a year or so, I'd changed everything. youtu.be/cmQDIne3CLo?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Turbo: A Power Rangers… Adventure? First Look at an Early Title Treatment from 20th Century Fox. The film was previously titled Power Rangers: Race to the Volcano. The two-page spread features a kid-sized Blue Ranger. Morphin Museum Exhibit 1042 ⚡️ Series: Turbo: A #PowerRangers Movie Year: 1997
neutral · AI labelView post →So with all that, are you saying that there was no way that Matt Damon could have grown potatoes on Mars to survive while waiting to be rescued? (I know it's just a movie, but I always poke at science in movies. You should have seen my notes on Tommy Lee Jones's Volcano.)
neutral · AI labelView post →#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 14: A song for a 90s teen movie montage. Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVS...
neutral · AI labelView post →#mexicocity #cdmx #volcano #film #filmphotography #35mm
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching It's Geologist Bond vs the Volcano... And it's so f🔪king boring. Everything takes too long and everyrhings in dutch angles. Looks like it was shot for TV. Stick to Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones for your volcano movie needs. Machete's down. #moviesky #filmsky
negative · AI labelView post →Movie 4 today, JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO
neutral · AI labelView post →VOLCANO (1997) Dir. Mick Jackson Part of the unofficial duology with Dante’s Peak, this cheesy, enjoyable film asks the hard question: what if Los Angeles had volcanoes? The answer is cinematic fun, with a solid cast and great effects grounding a silly story in a from of reality Always worth a watch
positive · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky Day 18: Volcano in a movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Acatenango Volcano Location: Guatemala Camera: Pentax kx Film: Portra 400 #film #photography #35mm #photo
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 24 ~ Volcano in a movie 🎬 You Only Live Twice ( 1967)
neutral · AI labelView post →when it comes to the 1997 film VOLCANO, naysayers may wail that "the idea of a volcano erupting in the middle of Los Angeles is ridiculous" and "this is geologically impossible," but consider this: what if a wizard summoned the volcano and was constantly chuckling, just out of frame
positive · AI labelView post →For the Maniac Pixie Dream Girl Project, I wrote up a movie that I absolutely adore: John Patrick Shanley's delightful 1990 romantic comedy, Joe Versus the Volcano nathanrabin.substack.com/p/meg-ryan-i...
neutral · AI labelView post →@omacolt.bsky.social #MayMovieChallenge May 18 Volcano in a movie Krakatoa East of Java 1969
neutral · AI labelView post →Don’t you mean DANTE’S PEAK/ VOLCANO situation? Both have an erupting volcano, so same movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Volcano in a film Joe Vs The Volcano (1990) My all time guilty pleasure film (although I have no guilt in saying it's one of the funniest and charming films I've seen)
positive · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge #Moviesky 24/8 Volcano in a movie
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky 📽️ #otd in 1997 the disaster film "Volcano" directed by Mick Jackson, and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche is released. Thoroughly passable disaster film hits all the right notes What’s your favorite disaster movie? Mine is The Towering Inferno
neutral · AI labelView post →Volcano in a Movie: Volcano (1997) A Tommy Lee Jones classic doomsday movie. When I think of volcanoes in a movie, this will always pop first in my mind. #FilmSky #AugustMovieChallenge #Day24
positive · AI labelView post →Malcolm Lowry in a scene from the film "Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life of Malcolm Lowry", directed by Donald Brittain, 1976 Stream this Oscar-nominated film free at the National Film Board's website nfb.ca/film/volcano/
neutral · AI labelView post →Wasn't the movie Volcano set in Los Angeles? You never know when you might need one there.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add food to a movie title: Sloppy Joe vs. the Volcano
neutral · AI labelView post →The best movie that features both Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan is Joe vs. the Volcano, obviously.
neutral · AI labelView post →Acatenango Volcano Location: Guatemala Camera: Pentax kx Film: Portra 400 #film #photography #35mm
neutral · AI labelView post →Right now Joe vs The Volcano is the film that makes the most sense to me and where we are at in America. Get a nice pay day just to jump into a volcano sounds appealing.
positive · AI labelView post →I do wonder about the thought process there. It's the obvious choice, based on what he was trying to do. And it was ~RIGHT THERE~. It's like the movie Volcano (1997) not using the Jimmy Buffett song "Volcano". (Which they didn't.)
neutral · AI labelView post →The urge to watch a volcano-themed movie vs. the knowledge that pretty much every volcano-themed movie out there indulges in Annoying Volcano Movie Tropes, to degrees varying from egregious to just plain infuriating.
negative · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge Volcano in a movie Joe vs The Volcano (1990) A cult film in which I definitely belong in the cult....
positive · AI labelView post →JOE VS THE VOLCANO is a completely underrated film. I'll die on this hill. #TCMParty #FieldOfDreams
positive · AI labelView post →Volcano is a movie about how a Volcano going off in LA would bring people together and stop racism
neutral · AI labelView post →His only genuinely good film was Joe vs. The Volcano and we all know it.
positive · AI labelView post →Malcolm Lowry in a scene from the film "Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life of Malcolm Lowry", directed by Donald Brittain, 1976 Stream the film free at the National Film Board website (which is an awesome resource!) https://nfb.ca/film/volcano/ 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Day 24 Volcano in a movie Joe vs The Volcano (1990) youtu.be/yNYFtQIMB2Q?...
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