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I like these movies for the same reason I like USA’s blue sky TV which came a few years later. Even with disaster movies, they had a sort of sunny idealism to them.
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Dennis Quaid and Sam Neill will be recognized as the actual important mainstream stars of the era. The seem like B-listers, but they worked the biggest movies in the hybrid era when movies were getting bigger than stars. They knew how to play second fiddle to the true star: FX
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It is no accident that War of the Worlds (2005) is the only Tom Cruise movie I actually like. Some movies that belong aesthetically in the era, like 2012 (2009) and World War Z (2013) bled into the next era (extended universes)
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