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Dante's Peak (Widescreen)

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i own it on hd and its very encredible, scary and spectacular to see the volcano blow up, the hd sounds is crazy for this movie!! i recommanded to own it on hd !!

This movie is a good disaster movie with all the elements of a disaster movie. There are all the stereotype disaster characters form the "I'll ride it out" to the "You are scaring my customers".

Naturedly the person that knows what will happen (Pierce Brosnan) has no credibility with the authorities. Then the disaster happens and he must save the beautiful (Linda Hamilton) and family. At first indifferent soon to become enamored.

I do not want to go too much into detail as you will lose the shock value. I can tell you it involves a volcano and a budding love story.

This movie is a good disaster movie with all the elements of a disaster movie. There are all the stereotype disaster characters form the "I'll ride it out" to the "You are scaring my customers".

Naturedly the person that knows what will happen (Pierce Brosnan) has no credibility with the authorities. Then the disaster happens and he must save the beautiful (Linda Hamilton) and family. At first indifferent soon to become enamored.

I do not want to go too much into detail as you will lose the shock value. I can tell you it involves a volcano and a budding love story.

This movie is a good disaster movie with all the elements of a disaster movie. There are all the stereotype disaster characters form the "I'll ride it out" to the "You are scaring my customers". I do not want to go too much into detail as you will lose the shock value. I can tell you it involves a volcano and a budding love story.

Many seem to have hashed "Volcano" which came out around the same time as "Dante's Peak" and it's a shame because both of them are highly realistic and te things that happen in them could literally happen in real life. Both of them are really excellent disaster flicks and are enough to really make you 'think' but even then they deliver incredible amounts of entertainment. In all honesty though, "Dante's Peak" is more realistic and has a more compelling twist to it due to the volcano's more destructive power.

In this case, a small town is thriving in the mountains of Washington state and has recently been declared one of the best places to live in in the United States. Dr. Harry Dalton, a scientist is sent to the vicinity to survey unusually high geological activity but one day he makes an alarming discovery that the volcano that the town sits on the base of, has come back to life and geological surveys have cofirmed that Dante's Peak is about to erupt in a cataclysmic eruption and wipe out the town and it's people. Rachel Wando, the town's mayor along with Dalton now must try to evacuate the town before the volcano erupts but their safety is stifled by their economic interests.

This is a really excellent and highly compelling movie. The special effects are absolutely thrilling and highly realistic and the movie's plot and script are very good. The lava and plumes of ash and dust are highly realistic looking and scary to watch as the volcano starts spewing out it's contents into the atmosphere and surrounding vicinity. The characters are excellent even though the acting could've been a little better but the acting for the most part is excellent by almost if not the entire cast.

I was thrilled to see this on the big screen because I have had a longtime fascination with volcanoes for almost my entire life and "Dante's Peak" succeeds in delivering a thrilling tone and is very enjoyable for most of its length. The DTS edition is absolutely incredible because the sound quality is a gargantuan improvement on both the VHS and older DVD editions and if you have a stereo system with speakers all around you, then hook them up and the surround audio speakers will make you feel almost like you're back at the movie theatre with the awesome sound quality.

If you can, get this movie whenever possible because it is a really excellent natural disaster thriller and delivers far more scares than these so called 'horror' movies because most of them are just mindless gorefests that are more gross than scary but "Dante's Peak" is scary because it is so realistic and such things could happen and could turn out much worse. For example Mt. Rainier near Seattle could erupt at any time and cause a lot of damage nearby and Seattle may be choked with dust if a full blown eruption occurs even though the city and most of its suburbs would pull through relatively unscathed apart from having a snow of volcanic ashes but it could cause social instability. Even Mt. St. Helen's caused a great deal of destruction and wiped out a large amount of forests around it. "Dante's Peak" is an excellent movie that should not be passed up. End of story.

While it contains remarkably realistic special effects, those who have been told that "Dante's Peak" is merely a piece of "eye candy" can consider themselves among the woefully misinformed. It isn't a simple sugar-coated snack to be consumed and hastily digested; it is an elaborately composed symphony of a film. It contains riveting performances, breathtaking locales, a captivating love story and an extremely agile dog. Thus, the "eye candy" label would be ill-suited for this particularly film and more properly directed at other assembly-line disaster movies. Reader, I assure you, after one viewing you will understand: to watch "Dante's Peak" is to have your retinas treated to 109 minutes of cinematic fillet mignon.

The story involves the charmingly quaint town of Dante's Peak and its charmingly quaint inhabitants. While the town is the embodiment of peace and tranquility, there is trouble brewing beneath the surface. Geologist Harry Dalton (played with unwavering masculinity by Pierce Brosnan) and Mayor Rachel Wando (played with unwavering masculinity by Linda Hamilton) believe the town in danger of being destroyed by an unexpected eruption from the presumed-dormant neighboring volcano. Their quest to rescue the town meets resistance in the form of a stubborn city counsel, Dalton's ignorant boss and, of course, an enormous volcano.

It should be noted that "Dante's Peak" is the perfect star-vehicle for Pierce Brosnan. He is pitch-perfect as the resolute Dalton. In fact, it occurred to me while watching the film that nobody other than Brosnan could have played the role (he just looks like a "Harry Dalton," doesn't he?). In the face of Mother Nature's wrath, Brosnan provides the searing rivers of magma with a worthy human adversary. Early in the movie, his character is introduced vigorously doing a grueling set of pushups. Seeing this, we immediately think, 'The volcano doesn't stand a chance.' Indeed, Brosnan is a force of nature all his own.

The film itself is an uplifting one; a tribute to the human spirit. The only thing which disappoints me is that a sequel has yet to materialize. Years have passed since the film's initial release and it has failed to escape the consciousness of movie-goers. "Dante's Peak" has given us such rich characters and wonderfully-realized scenarios, who wouldn't want to witness the further exploits of Harry Dalton & Friends? Personally, upon first viewing the film, I envisioned a trilogy. I could imagine a sequel where the U.S. government calls Dalton out of retirement to stop the potential volcanic eruption of Mount Rushmore. Perhaps in the third installment Dalton & Co. could be thrust into the deep unknown of outer space as they investigate the unusual seismic activity of a dormant volcano on Mars. These sequels, I believe, would prove to be lucrative for the studio while also satiating the overwhelming public thirst for more "Dante's Peak."

Regardless of how many sequels are made, the original film will always remain a classic. A skillfully-crafted spectacle filled with wonderful performances and indelible images, you don't have to be a geologist to realize that "Dante's Peak" is a gem.

I saw this movie in my science class for our unit and this movie was awesome! It begins with a volcano erupting and killing a scientists wife. But then he returns to the town of Dante's peak where it is being named 2nd best place on Earth to live. But the fun turns to terror when the huge volcano erupts, and the town must flee before the final pyroclastic cloud eruption wipes them all out. Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton are the two main people in the movie, in which Pierce and Linda, along with Linda's two kids and their grandma must escape the town. The movie is a little scary, with chases, explosions, and more. But if you like disaster movies like "Twister" then DANTE'S PEAK will blow you away!! The movie is PG-13 for violence/gore/peril.

Dante's Peak, was the first of two "volcano diaster flicks" of '97. While it is infinately better than the Tommy Lee Jones version, of a similar story, I still found "Peak" somewhat lacking.

Volcanologist Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is sent reeling, followong the death of his wife, while studying the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in Columbia. Soon after though, he finds himself back at work, called to a small Pacific Northwest town to investigate the rumblings of the local dormant volcano. Though he instantly fears the worse, he must convince the skeptical townspeople and his suspicious superiors who believe he is overreacting in the wake of his own tragic loss. The town's beautiful, widowed mayor Rachel Wando (Linda Hamilton) believes him, however, and soon they find themselves in a fight for surrvival, as "Dante's Peak" erupts ten miles high, raining ash and fire over everything in its path.

Director Roger Donaldson has helmed his share of thrillers over the years, with modest success, including 13 Days and The Recruit. For Dante's Peak though, he shows some "spunk" with the special effects for the film. They are quite good in the movie. Quite frankly though, that also oulines part of the problem here, while Brosnan and Hamilton are serviceable, it's the script that knocks Peak off its stride. While the actors and action compensate somewhat, things can still get overwrought and predictable at times.

The Collector's Edition DVD offers a fairly wide array of bonus material. The commentary by director Donaldson and production designer J. Dennis Washington is pretty solid but can also be dry at times as well. The documentary is a fairly typical excercise but offers interviews with Donaldson, Brosnan, Hamilton, Ilona Herzberg and vulcanologist David Harlow, and their thoughts. As a bonus you can hear the film's underscore, in stereo, on a separate audio track during the documentary. Production notes, the theatrical trailer, storyboards, production designs, on set still photographs, the original advertising campaign, and access to the shooting script top of the disc.

Despite the film's problems, if you have to choose between either volcano flick, Dante's Peak is the better way to go.

Actually, the best part of this Golden Turkey is when the town
gets wiped out by a pyroclastic flow-I cheered for the volcano!

Hilariously bad performances from a cast who should have known
better, but then, maybe they needed the money.....!

Grab a bowl of popcorn, and enjoy this turkey!