31.   These are teen films modeled after disaster movies.

32.   They had seen it before in countless disaster movies in theaters.

33.   To be fair, the last time New York blew up in a big disaster movie, local residents tried their best to make a horrendous affair of it.

34.   Watching a disaster movie is a little like imagining your own funeral.

35.   What ratchets up the scale of destruction in modern disaster movies is the sense that the redemption we really need these days is national or global.

36.   Which was to say they had seen it before in countless disaster movies.

37.   Before his crew saw the disaster movie about the sinking of the Titanic cruise liner, Hartzell said some were not very attentive during weekly training sessions.

38.   But who expected an expensive disaster movie to be so humanistic and watchable?

39.   Disaster movie shatters box office predictions.

40.   Disaster movies require human conflict as well as natural havoc.