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May. 31st, 2010 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardI like to think of Dante's Peak as "James Bond and Sarah Connor fight Mother Nature and Mother Nature wins."
(For bonus sci-fi/genre fun times: Elizabeth Hoffman, a.k.a. Catherine Langford in Stargate SG-1, is also present, but Mother Nature really wins there.)
I passed through the town where they filmed Dante's Peak a couple of years ago -- nice little Idaho town, although the movie itself is set in Washington, up around where I live, though probably a little more north along the Cascades. There's a rumor that recurs every few years that part of the movie was actually shot in Ellensburg, mostly because when the pyroclastic cloud is destroying the town, there's a street corner that looks identical to one in downtown Ellensburg. But I see they've taken that rumor down from both IMDB and Wikipedia since the last time I googled the movie.
You know, if I'd remembered I liked volcanology a couple of years ago, I'd be a geology major right now desperately trying to get an internship with the USGS instead of a MEMS/Classics major. (This actually is the sort of thing I forget.) For a huge chunk out of my life, I was going to be a scientist, volcanology or paleontology.
(For bonus sci-fi/genre fun times: Elizabeth Hoffman, a.k.a. Catherine Langford in Stargate SG-1, is also present, but Mother Nature really wins there.)
I passed through the town where they filmed Dante's Peak a couple of years ago -- nice little Idaho town, although the movie itself is set in Washington, up around where I live, though probably a little more north along the Cascades. There's a rumor that recurs every few years that part of the movie was actually shot in Ellensburg, mostly because when the pyroclastic cloud is destroying the town, there's a street corner that looks identical to one in downtown Ellensburg. But I see they've taken that rumor down from both IMDB and Wikipedia since the last time I googled the movie.
You know, if I'd remembered I liked volcanology a couple of years ago, I'd be a geology major right now desperately trying to get an internship with the USGS instead of a MEMS/Classics major. (This actually is the sort of thing I forget.) For a huge chunk out of my life, I was going to be a scientist, volcanology or paleontology.