10 Movies Which Insult Your Intelligence

1997 saw the release of two big volcano-themed movies within months of each other; Dante’s Peak, which people liked, and Volcano, which people didn’t. 

Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, and Don Cheadle among others, Volcano starts with an Earthquake in Los Angeles which forms a giant volcano under the city. It’s up to some assorted eggheads to figure out what to do before it’s too late. 

The sensible option would probably be to evacuate before molten hot magma kills millions of people, but nope, the scientists in this film waste a bunch of time poking around in the sewers before coming to that conclusion.

Things get really silly when a plan is devised to use concrete from destroyed buildings to divert the lava flow away from populated areas. If you need someone to explain to you why that’s not a feasible long-term solution, then you probably need to have a long lie down.

By its very nature, Volcano is a stupid, overblown disaster movie, but it really stretched that genre to its limits. This was B-movie schlock on a $90 million budget, and anyone who watched it almost certainly lost brain cells.