Volcano

Volcano (1997)

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Corrected entry: When the lava is flowing down the streets, all the glass in the buildings shatter. At that heat, the gas would melt not shatter. The temperature that is used to melt and mould glass is a lot less than the temp of the lava flow.

Correction: The glass is shattering from the shock of the sudden air temperature change. It would be unlikely to melt instantly unless it was much closer to the lava.

J I Cohen

Corrected entry: When Anne Heche and Tommy Lee Jones are hanging on the fire ladder above the lava stream, the fire hose on the ladder starts to burn. Why not Tommy's and Anne's clothes? They are even closer to the lava than the hose.

Correction: One of the firefighters was moving the ladder to Tommy and Anne, when it got caught in a fire (I think it was from a car) that's why the hose was on fire, and the ladder was beginning to melt and bend.

Corrected entry: When they are trying to stop the lava from flowing down the street, they make a "U" shape in the street with the cement highway dividers. If they had laid the dividers the other way, they would have supported themselves, and not need the trucks behind to hold them.

Correction: It doesn't matter. They would have used the trucks to hold off the lava anyway. It was a good idea. By the way, the barricade can be made anyway they wanted to build it. Besides, it was safer to build it the way they did.

Corrected entry: When the co-star Anne Heche goes to check out the flow of the lava in the red line tunnel she goes to a payphone and calls Tommy Lee Jones' cellphone but his cell phone burned up in his car. The phone she calls him on is a phone that he took from a news reporter. So how did she get his number to call him.

Correction: Mike changed the number on the cell phone to his number, wrote it down on paper, and gave it to Amy in case of another emergency.

Continuity mistake: When Amy Barnes and Rachel are in the tunnel trying to find out what happened, Rachel falls in the crack of the tunnel, and Amy is thrown back. When it cuts to a different view, Amy Barnes falls or is thrown backwards, yet in the following shot when her hand slips from Rachel's, she falls back again. Also, when she is thrown back by the force, she is thrown back some distance, yet when the smoke subsides she is only about 1 or 2 feet from the crack in the tunnel. (00:27:35)

The-Immortal

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Amy: Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.
Roark: What's magma?
Rachel: Lava.
Roark: Lava? Right here in L.A?
Amy: It is one of the possibilities.
Roark: We have a history of that here in the downtown area?
Rachel: Paricutin... 1943, a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is.

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Trivia: The lava was primarily made of methylcellulose, the thickening agent used in fast-food milkshakes, and the ash was made mostly of ground newspaper.

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Question: How could Stan and the train driver still be alive in such extreme heat and with lava just underneath them? Shouldn't it destroy their lungs? Shouldn't they get incinerated by the extreme heat of magma?

Answer: Yes, the chances of surviving those circumstances is completely impossible. Not just the heat, but also toxic fumes which will incapacitate you very quickly. At one point the soles of his shoes were melting, at that point you would have been dead. It's a heroic scene, but not very believable.

lionhead

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