DANTE'S PEAK (1997) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

When James Bond meets Sarah Connor.

Don’t miss Pierce in “Miss Doubtfire” With Robin Williams Back me up people

Pierce Brosnan was James Bond in four films and before that he was in the hit TV show Remington Steele.

Grandma in this movie was inspired by an old man that refused to leave his home on Mt. Saint Helens

Dante’s Peak was also a nominee for best visual effects in 1997 but lost to Titanic by just a few votes. A couple of reasons why this movie was pretty accurate to what a volcano can do is because the director, Roger Donaldson (also directed Species and The November Man) went to college to get a degree in geology but later decided to go into film directory. The production crew even had several volcanologists and geologists from the USGS on hand to make sure that the movie was as accurate as possible, including some inspiration from Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Pinatubo. The incident at the beginning of the movie was based on the Galeras Volcano when several volcanologists perished when doing surveys in the mountain when it unexpectedly erupted.

I went to a volcano in Costa Rica. The tour guide said not to worry unless we saw him running away.🤣

Gotta love the boss guy's logic: Call a guy back from vacation because he's the only person that can be trusted, then immediately ignore his advice entirely.

The story of Ruth refusing to leave was inspired by actual events. In 1980 when Mt. St. Helens was about to blow, local resident Harry R. Truman, who was living in a failed tourist lodge that he had owned for fifty years, adamantly refused to leave.

This is one of my favourite repeat watch movies, along with The Mummy and Jurassic Park 😊 My comfort viewing.

Oh, and Pierce Brosnan in The Thomas Crown Affair was fantastic!!

Pierce Brosnan was in the movie Mrs. Doubtfire and Mars Attacks.

The effects in this movie are amazing. The flood scene and the pyroclastic flow were filmed using miniatures, all the water is real, and it was filmed on one of the largest miniature sets ever. The whole valley is a miniature set that they could flood.

I'm from Washington State. Graduated in 1980. I was out hiking when St. Helen's blew. We woke up from the eruption. Sometime later we heard what sounded like rain. Looked outside the tent and it was ashing! We were grey men by the time we got to the truck a couple hours later. It was otherworldly outside. Dark, quiet, with dust swirling on the roads. No one out, rightfully so. Something I'll never forget.

In the early 1990s before the Second set of eruptions people were allowed to walk into the crater of Mt Saint Hellens. Me and some friends got into my new van and took a road trip from Seattle to the Mountain for a day hike. We walked into the crater on a beautiful sunny day. I got to put my hand on the lava dome. In that moment I realized how truly tiny I was as I felt the pulls of the earth under my palm. It was Life changing.

The grandma's story mimics the story of Harry Truman, caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake near the base of the mountain. He refused to evacuate and the mountain took him when it erupted on 18 May, 1980. The site where the lodge was is buried under 150' of debris and ash from the eruption. As a kid who experienced that eruption from a safe distance away, I can tell you, everyone was surprised by it and it shook up a lot of people. This film is amazing because they went to great lengths to show what goes on with an eruption. While Dante's Peak is a fictional town, there are many small towns surrounding the volcanos in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, Oregon, and California that could all face similar circumstances if their particular volcano erupts. I'm glad you got a chance to see this film, and I highly suggest you take a vacation to the west coast and experience the various volcanoes up close and personal. You'll have a stronger appreciation for them when you see just how big they are.

You probably weren't alive yet when Mt St Helens blew in 1980. I think you'd really find the documentaries about it very interesting. There was an elderly named Harry R. Truman who refused to leave his home just like Grandma here, and he lost his life in the Mt St Helen's eruption

Pierce Brosnan is an Irish actor. Besides James Bond, which others mentioned, he also played Robin Williams' rival in Mrs. Doubtfire. He first came on the scene in the 80s starring in the detective series Remington Steele.

Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones is another good 1:)

Volcano, San Andreas, the original Poseidon Adventure are all great disaster movies to consider.

The town, this is filmed in, is Wallace ID. There is no mountain where the movie shows Dante's Peak to be...it is digitally added. Real shots of the mountain are of Mt. St. Helens. I've hiked in and done some flyfishing at Castle Lake, next to St. Helens, a handful of times. Beautiful up there.

Volcano (1997), twister (1996), Daylight (1996), river wild (1994) and dante's peak were such great movies exploring the nature phenomena as a background...

This came out the same year as “Volcano;” kind of like “Deep Impact,” and “Armageddon.” “Dante’s Peak” is like “Deep Impact,” and “Volcano,” is “Armageddon.” Be sure to check it sometime.

Granny was based on 84 year old Harry Truman who refused to leave his lodge by the lake at Mt St Helens and ultimately did not make it. Pierce Brosnan was an excellent James Bond.

My 8th grade science teacher had us watch this in class and for the rest of the school year we would all shout, “Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee, cappu-CCINOOOO, javaaaaaaa” 😂

The inspiration for this movie was Mt. St. Helen’s Erupting in 1980. My home town. It was absolutely pandemonium. They actually filmed in Mt St Helen’s for a lot of the areas in 1981. It’s about 7O mikes from Oregon and 170 miles to Seattle. We all remember where we were and what we were doing when it happened. My family and I were booking it South because the ash made everything dark. I lived in Vancouver wa. about 53 miles away. I wanted to wait for my Husband who was in Seattle. We had to leave. It literally wiped everything out.

2012 The Impossible is a true story of a family who survives the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Mother nature sure can be shocking at times.

I must have watched this movie every year or two since it came out. James Bond (007 series) & Sarah Conner (Terminator series) together. One of my favorites. Thanks for the reaction.💜

I live near Mt. St. Helens The USGS learned a LOT of things from that volcano. The town was filmed in Wallace ID. Mt. St. Helens was the model for the mountain. There is no "peaks" near Wallace. All Rocky mountain foothills. The ash from Mt. St. Helens would Literally KILL an engine on a car. The helicopter had zero hope!! Not all volcanoes spit out lava. Mt. St. Helens has lava but it is basically a dome inside the crater. St. Helen's was mainly ash. When that ash hits water like rivers, it turns into mud that has a texture of wet cement. When Paul died, he was stuck in the same kind of river...called a Lahar. The Toutle (tootel) river was a lahar that was shown with houses flowing down it and collided with the Interstate 5 bridge. The house got further totaled, The bridge pretty much survived.

Best disaster movie ever in my opinion! The effects still hold up to this day!

I highly recommend the movie Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones. It's another disaster movie I think you guys would enjoy.

“Got to be CGI: there’s no place like that”. 🤣 literally my office every day.

And the other character Paul, the red haired actor, was in The Thing 1982 version. He was the one whose head ripped off and turned into a spider if you recall.

Yes, ma'am, he is, indeed, BEAUTIFUL!!!

People underestimate the power of a volcanic eruption. When Mt. Saint Helens erupted in 1980. Every tree in an 18 mile diameter around the mountain was knocked down from the blast. The pyroclastic flow went for many more miles beyond that. The ash cloud circled the earth in a few days. You can Google images of the eruption.

I think this is one of Pierce Brosnan's best peformances.

Not a super-hero. But a James Bond.

Loved watching this movie!! You need to find the movie Volcano as well!!

Pierce Brosnan was in a tv show called Remington Steele in the early 80’s and took up the mantle of 007 in the 90’s as well as bunch of other roles he played most recently as Dr Fate in the Black Adam movie.

This movie is loosely based on the real-life Mount St. Helens disaster.

Also for a great horror, thriller, A QUIET PLACE 1 & 2 should be on your radar!

Pierce Brosnan is an Irish actor with a long career. Most remember his TV show Remington Steele and his stint as James Bond. I'd recommended something a little less known. A movie called Evelyn. It's loosely based on a true story of a father's fight to regain custody of his children, removed by Irish law after his wife abandoned the family. Very touching movie. And the little girl playing Evelyn is terrific.

If you're ever looking for another natural disaster movie, I recommend The Core. If you ignore the unrealistic science and just watch to enjoy, it's great. 😊 Love your reactions. I look forward to them every time.

I always loved that even in this movie Pierce Brosnan's car had a snorkel. 007 gadgets for life.

Pierce is Irish and first starred in a mini series "The Manions of America."

In addition, he is in Mama Mia. A movie that includes ABBA song after ABBA song, etc.

the boat scene is one of the creepiest scenes in a movie. always scared me when i was little.

Pierce Brosman was James Bond from 1995 to 2002

Great to see people reacting to this movie, it's so underrated and it's effects are literally outstanding, not seen a more real looking volcanic eruption put on screen since then.

He played 007 for a few movies.

Volcano, with Tommy Lee Jones, came out at the same time and was a little more fun.

We passed through that town every so often. They have this amazing flea market underneath the overpass every year. We usually stop there for the night when going to and from Seattle. Great little breakfast place in an old garage. Haven't been through for about 10 years though.

So weird!!! I was just talking about this film the other day, trying to remember a scene, and thought I should rewatch it, so here I am. Let's gooo!

Pierce Brosnan was on "Mrs. Doubtfire" which is a hilarious movie featuring Robin Williams that also tugs at the heart strings

A pyroclastic flow (or cloud as he calls it in the movie) is the BIG ashy, explosive eruption we think of when we picture Mt. St. Helens and is the type of volcanos found in the Cascade Range of the West coast. They are called composite volcanos. A geology professor of mine said it's like being sandblasted at 10,000 degrees. The debris the killed his girlfriend in the beginning of the movie was a lava bomb. Blobs of molten rock that are ejected and harden when falling. In this movie there was lava but with composite volcanos, lava is not the danger. It would be the pyroclastic flow if you're on the mountian or the lahars (mudflows) that form when the heat from the blast rapidly melts glaciers and causes sudden and massive flooding that takes out trees, buildings and bridges like it did in the movie.

46:11 The whole Frog in boiling water thing is an urban legend, it doesn't matter how slowly you raise the temperature, when the water gets too hot the Frog will try to jump out.

The town used for filming was Wallace, ID, but the volcano was added with CGI.

Pierce Brosnan has played two popular spies. He was Remington Steel on TV and then James Bond in the movies. What does a volcano and dead squirrels have to do with each other? Poisonous gas released from fissures on the mountain kill the squirrels. This is one of my favorite movies. I used to watch it every time i'd find it playing and just stop channel surfing no matter where it was in the movie. They did a lot of research on volcanoes to make this realistic as far as what happens in a true eruption. A lot of people think the lava is the most destructive part of an eruption, but the explosion and pyroclastic cloud destroys everything in its path like an Abomb. That's what happened at Mt. St. Helens. For my suggestion...watch the movie called THE WAVE.

The guy that said, "coffee coffee coffee!" Was in Congo. A fun adventure that's often regarded as a terrible movie, but I like it. He was also in True Lies. Not sure if you've done that one yet. Off the chart good action flick.

Love this movie for the realism. I've walked a few active volcanos in my time. One thing that gets me is that you're not usually walking on rock near the crater. Its usually compacted ash, and it sounds hollow when the soundwaves from a blowing volcano vent pass through it. A very weird experience. My tip of the day. Watch out for Pele's Hair, even miles away from the volcano. Its lava that has been blasted into the air and stretched by the wind into very fine strands of glass-like obsidian. I made a very painful mistake going for a barefoot walk across what looked and felt like black sand 2 miles away from an active volcano. A few hours later and the pain from all the very tiny cuts hit hard. No blood. Just pain.

Another good disaster movie - on a more personal scale - is 'The Perfect Storm'. But when you get a yearning for a really great crime film, 'LA Confidential.' It's great.

Fun fact: Volcanic ash makes Roman concrete and is both naturally hydraulic and about 10 times stronger than modern Portland cement based concrete. Much of Rome was built with it and lasted over 2000 yrs. It also has been found to have some self repair properties with minor cracks. One dome that had cracked, has resealed itself slowly over time through a process like what makes marble from limestone. Leached material re-crystalizes sealing the crack. That dome was made with broken pottery in the place of much of the gravel we use making it lighter as well. The poured dome also saved mass through a box like rib design. Wish I remembered the name of the site but it is often shown in roman design documentaries. I studied some of this in a History of Technology class while I got my BA in History. I also wished I remembered the spelling of the other name for Roman Concrete that starts with a "P" I can say it but the phone doesn't get it when I try to use foreign words in English. I took French in school and in my studies picked up a few words in others but not good outside English.

90's cheese is second only to 80's cheese. This is an oldie but goodie.

The main filming for Dante's Peak was shot on location in Wallace, Idaho, very close to the Idaho/Montana border. My late great-aunt Aunt lived there until she passed away.

Nature is so beautiful, amazing, unpredictable and oh so terrifying. Thanx so much, Peace

The film company attempted to contact several volcanologists to consult on the film but had trouble finding one. Everyone they tried to contact had died in a volcano or earthquake.

I've never watched this and thought about the 1994 earthquake in Northridge CA until today. That was the most jarring thing I've ever felt, and watching everything start to come apart before the eruptions just brought back the terror of that pre-dawn quake. I lived less than a mile from the epicenter and my house took a lot of damage.

This is one of my favorite movies ever! I have watched this movie hundreds of times and I still love it! Watching it with you all was so much fun! Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it as much as I do!❤

YOOOOOO! Haven't watched the reaction yet, just so hyped to see my favorite movie of all time pop up in my sub box. Almost nobody reacts to this thing and the hype I just felt seeing this show up is...just a great way to wrap out the day. Thank you! 17:56 This scene scared the crap out of me as a child, specifically the horn section of the music. No idea what about it got to me, but I would hide under the covers from that buildup. 20:26 "You better go to bed 'cause Mama's thirsty too." Girl, you broke me with that. Fun Fact: during the initial eruption, almost everything is practical effects. The volcano erupting was a massive scale model with explosives rigged inside superimposed on the skyline, and they actually destroyed a part of the town they filmed in that then got rebuilt by the money made from the movie (if I remember correctly). 31:26 Oh, it must've not come across. Ruth got out of the boat because they weren't going to make it, they were going too slow and the boat was filling too fast. She hopped out and pulled the boat to the shore so the rest of them could make it. 33:10 A somber note, but rest in peace Charles Hallahan. The actor who played Paul died of a heart attack while driving only 9 months after the release of this movie. So happy you guys enjoyed this as much as you did. As I said, my favorite movie of all time. It's funny you mention watching this over and over, because I did as a kid. My dad, to this day, says he's ok never seeing it again because I drove him crazy with it. If you need another, similar, disaster movie, I recommend Volcano. I don't think it's as good as this, and the science is a lot more hollywood-y, but it's still a very enjoyable one that came out at the same time starring Tommy Lee Jones. Thank you guys so much for watching this, as almost nobody does and I'm so glad it got some great attention from great people.

As a regular Cinema goer one forgets some folks rarely go and so not knowing PB still comes as a surprise 🎩

It hurts my heart every time you guys ask where you've seen Pierce Brosnan. LOL. Check out Remington Steele TV show (1982 - 1987) one day. jk

The pyroclastic cloud is a cloud of ash and fire. That is what destroyed Pompei and Herculaneum when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

Sunday morning May 18th 1980, I was 9 years old and I remember seeing plume coming off of Mt St Helen’s as we were heading to church. Crazy!

The Matador is Pierce Brosnan's most underrated movie.He should have won an Oscar. My favorite will always be The Thomas Crowne Affair. Wonderful! You guys would love both!!

Around the same time, "Volcano" came out staring Tommy Lee Jones.

Thats so funny, i literally was just noticing your shirt just as you mentioned it. Man, as an Okie that grew up in the 80s and into the 90s The Boz was the man!

I saw this film in the theater as a kid. It was a good experience. Great reaction! 👍🏿

Dang... What a coincidence. I just recommended this movie to another reactor who asked for Pierce Brosnan recommendations. It's a really good movie.

In my youth, these were my playgrounds, all year. The cascade range is spectacular.

town scenes filmed in Wallace Idaho, about 80 miles east of Spokane, WA. at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

Pierce Brosnan was James Bond in a few of the 90s and early 2000s Bond films. He was also the new love interest in Mrs. Doubtfire.

Jay says he's tired of the bad breaks in this movie. Moments later, Harry (the lead character) suffers a compound fracture. 🤣

All crater scenes were shot at Mont St. Helen's. Most of the film's exteriors were shot in Wallace, Idaho. Dante's Peak and surrounding scenery were then digitally added.

Wallace, Idaho is a city used for the set of Dante's Peak. This city is located in the Silver Valley. Many of the shots of Dante's Peak feature the landscape of Mount St Helens. Pierce also was in Mrs. Doubtfire...the "new boyfriend." The man you called boss hogg, lol, played in The Thing.

He's better than the superhero he was 007 a few times, great movies too. You need to start doing reviews on Pierce browsden 007 movies

A town named Wallace in Idaho, some extrerior town shots was in California. The Volcano it's self was a combo of several different elements. The Wilheim scream when Paul goes down with the bridge will never not make me laugh.

Dante's Peak is hands down the best volcano movie ever made. Both in terms of story and realism. Pretty much everything you see in the movie is relatively accurate though I can't speak to the accuracy of the timing of the various events. Geothermal energy powers hot springs, so the magma rising upwards would increase the hot springs temp. The gases that are leaking out are deadly and can cause volcanic crater lakes to turn acidic. The pyro flow at the end there is absolutely insanely destructive. If I recall properly, a flow reaches speeds of 600-700 MPH on average though those numbers may have been in KPH, can't recall. It also is incredibly hot and will kill you in moments. Quite literally the heat will cause your brain to boil in your skull. Horrible way to go, though as a small mercy, it's reasonably quick. Watch some documentaries on Pompeii when you have the time. The destruction and deadly nature of it is quite fascinating if you have an interest in earth science.

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I was on one of the sets during the filming of this movie. We met Linda Hamilton and she commented on a wooden bow that I was carrying in my hand that I made. I was star struck. 6:03 is the Silver Bridge and it's a fun place to chill in the summer. I'll be going back there in August.

If you like this movie, check out Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones. My favorite Pierce Brosnan movie is Thomas Crowne Affair. It's definitely worth a watch.

Pierce Brosnan was James Bond in the 90s and early 2000s, and the female lead was Sarah Connor in the first two Terminator movies.

What The film doesn't show us, the years of Therapy both kids would have to go through after everything that happened to them. lol

Hi, Dante's Peak was filmed in Wallace Idaho for the town scenes and Mount St. Helen's for the Volcano scenes.

I remember this movie a lot when I saw this at the movie theaters. I was such a good movie and to this day I still love watching this movie. I was only 20 years old when I saw this in theaters with my best friend.

My dad and I were on Mt St Helens when the groundwater and glaciers finally boiled and there was a huge steam explosion and eruption. We had found a way inside the Red Zone on logging trails and through clear-cuts where we had a good view. Every Sunday we would drive up there and my dad would set up his tripod and put his camera on automatic and we would sit around listening to music wearing dust masks for the ash that had already come down so close. He was making a few bucks on the side selling stock images to the local paper, trying to justify his camera rig. This was a Thursday and I had In-Service from school, and my dad was free, too. We had been watching steam plumes turn into fluffy clouds for weeks, but then a plume just kept going. You could feel something in the ground, a low rumble like a buzzing, just below the threshold for noise. You could feel it in your feet and teeth. And that plume just kept getting bigger and bigger. I remember thinking I hadn't really grasped how high 'Up' went before that. We got out of there and it was pitch dark at 3pm, before we got to Cougar, Washington, and we were stuck in evacuation traffic, cars choked out from the ash, people panicked and honking and making bad decisions. It was a good jam for a while. My dad was white knuckling it and trying not to sweat or show me that he was afraid. But I didn't really care, as I was a fatalistic teenager at the time. It was interesting, but I couldn't be bothered to worry.

Good call on the Dad from Rush hour. I didn't catch that one before.

I always enjoy watching Dante's Peak. We moved to Washington State A year after Mt. St. Helens blew. I believe this movie loosley based on that event. I live about 40 miles from Mt. Rainier which is another volcano. I live 3 miles from work, and on my way I see the mountain from the overpass. It looks like it is right there, but once I get to the shop, it looks like it is 100 miles away. Really cool illusion. Mt Rainier is another Dormant Volcano, for now at least.

The grandmother was based on an older man named Harry Truman (not the president!) who owned a lodge and refused to evacuate when Mt. Saint Helens was getting close to erupting in 1980. He wouldn’t leave and was one of the 57 people who died.

Another good Volcano movie is “Volcano” it has Tommy Lee jones in it it’s about if a volcano happens in LA

Pierce Brosnan (Remington Steele-James Bond he was also in Black Adam with the Rock)

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