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Hey guys! Here is the YT edit for Dante's Peak, which will premiere shortly. Hope you enjoy! Also, Ben says thank you for all the well wishes, thoughts, and prayers, he's glad to be back! 

Direct link in case the above player doesn't work. 

Here is the full reaction to this movie. 

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[YT Edit] Dante's Peak (1997)

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Anonymous

Oh my goodness please do No Escape with Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosmanan

Brent Fugett

Glad to hear your hubby is better! I appreciate your "stay on mission" commitment but feel liberty to take care of yourself. Your fans will be graceful with you! Have a good trip and try to enjoy this time.

Anonymous

So fun fact. I lived through the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991. I was in the Air Force and stationed at Clark Air Base. I experienced the entire eruption, drove through the intial eruption/ash fallout, that mixed with a typhoon, so it was like wet cement falling out of the sky, sticking to the windshield This movie really reminded me of my hell on earth there. If you get a chance, search Youtube for that eruption. It was insane. Cooled the earth's temperature for a couple of years because of the amount of ash blown into the atmosphere.

Thoko

I wish this reaction channel was more picky about the films. So often I come here, and see an interesting movie title, and am keen to pay the $5 to rent the film so I can watch it for the first time. But when I do a quick look at the Rotten Tomatoes film review website, just to be sure the film is worth my time, I find terrible critic and audience reviews. Dantes Peak is another of these.

rakeshldn

Who's going to be the arbiter of taste? Rotten tomatoes? YouTuber, Twitter or Critics who are paid to shill movies? Fellow film goers? People who only watch popular movies? I've seen hundreds of movies and TV shows. I'd say about 10% of those are truly worth watching and rewatching. I'd never have gotten to that without watching all the movies I've had. I became more picky about what I watched in later years, but really even with the best of intentions it's trial and error. I've found gems that I wouldn't have thought I would have liked and likewise seen popular movies which I've thought were terrible. PIB movies 95% of these polls my picks never get chosen! My own PIB requests I've chosen films which are great, don't have a lot of votes, but things I think Cassie enjoy. I suspect a lot of people do the same because it's her channel, and they want her reaction. No channel is going to be able to give you what you desire. But if you're looking for kino, check out my PIB requests.💯 Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition), Zack Snyder's Justice League, No Way Out, The Road, Amour, Green Card, Lars and the Real Girl, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, They Live, The Thing, The Whale, Colossal, Watchmen, Swingers, Lucy, Take Shelter, The Mist, The Fly, Triangle, Coherence, Dredd, The Elephant Man, The Pink Panther, 30 Days of Night, Kingpin, The Father

Thoko

I never said that I expect a channel to pick what I want every time. But generally it is common sense that if only 30% of Rotten Tomatoes viewers like a movie, it is likely that very few subscribers to a reaction channel are going to enjoy that movie. It is extremely rare that an amazing, worthwhile movie gets an appallingly low audience score. Usually that only happens if there is something politically motivated about an aspect of an otherwise good film, like rebooting a popular film (or adapting a popular comic/game/book) with woke stuff inserted in there by Hollywood.

Christopher B.

While I can appreciate the sentiment of time being precious and not a thing you want to spend idly, maybe it should bare mentioning that the act of watching another persons reaction to a movie or show is not primarily about one's own enrichment, but instead at its core is equal parts communal voyeurism and symbiotic sharing of interests. You aren't really "watching" a movie or show when you watch these; you are seeing in semi-real time how others are reacting to something as we all communally watch along, and while I'm not saying that as a knock against whatsoever, it is still distinctly its own separate experience (as humans we tend to love sharing favorite stories with one another). If what Cassie and her family choose to watch at any given time doesn't really agree with you, sit that one out. Maybe share your own favorite "stories" that you think they would enjoy. As an aside: cultivating a set of people in your life that you trust for movie recommendations would be a better use of your time than worrying about rotten tomatoes scores, in my opinion. The RT score is only an aggregated percentage of critics and audience with which a movie positively resonated, and you may find there are films out there that maybe didn't work for either critics nor audiences but still become a personal classic for you.

Shawn Kildal

I brought up the OMG's in overdrive in our ladies' reaction to this but I didn't see an official counter here on the YouTube edition so I thought I'd take it upon myself to do it unofficially as best I could on the Full Reaction. There were also plenty of "OHs", "Oh My's" and "Oh Goshes" but I did just the complete OMG's. Cassie didn't have has many as I first thought as I've only got her down for 20. Carly on the other hand made up for it as I've got her down for a whopping 66 (plus one "Absolutely not!!"). Very thankful Ben is doing better as well.

Mike Lemon

If you don't want to watch it, don't watch it. Lately, I have only watched one out of ten, maybe one out of six, movies here. Something you like will eventually come around.

Mike Lemon

@Christopher - Or you get a great movie like Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995) that critics and most non-critics missed, so there aren't many reviews, just that one weird guy in the comments trying to spread the word about it.

Dryfesands

Imagine letting other people curate your opinions and then having a go at other people who don't because you have, bizarrely chosen to make a financial commitment based on received wisdom. Weird.

Thoko

@Christopher Who are you to decide what the point is of reaction videos? The evidence is not even on your side. If you were correct, then most reaction channels would see a fairly even spread of views between their videos but they don't. In fact, when I look at the PIB YouTube channel and sort all videos by popularity I find it very easy to spot reactions that I am very interested in watching. Clearly, this is not a coincidence. This phenomenon occurs precisely because the vast majority of people want to see someone react to a good film or TV show. Most people are not interested in watching somebody reacting to lousy dialogue and dull scenes. If this was just about voyeurism and community, we would be spending our time watching Twitch instead, where those aspects are more strongly emphasized.

My_Cousin_Mose

Glad to hear you're back Ben.

Thoko

@Dryfesands What "other people" did I have a go at? I never attacked anybody for their choices. I just pointed out facts about the films low scores. Its you who is having a go at me. Why does it offend you so much that I want to share my opinion? Don't I have just as much right as anybody else, so long as I am following the rules and being respectful? If you people are not happy with my opinion just ignore it and move on, just like some people suggested I do with the reactions to films that I don't like.

Andrew Hogan

Not sure if there was an update post, but glad everything is okay. Welcome back.

Richard Maurer

Welcome back, glad everything turned out well.

Richard Maurer

They pick movies based mostly on patron recommendations and put them in a poll. Then the patrons pick the most popular movie out of a list of movies. You, me, and everyone else may not always like those choices, but they represent what the majority wants and are what makes the channel viable for Cassie to continue to do. It's as simple as that, and it's not going to change. Anyone that thinks any reactor is going to be able to run a channel based on less popular but more "worthy" films is living in a dream world.

Christopher B.

@Thoko Never said it's up to me in deciding the point of reaction videos, nor am I looking to start an argument. Your comment inspired me to post the above thoughts on using rotten tomatoes as a barometer of quality, as well as my thoughts on reaction videos themselves; nothing more.

Thoko

@Richard Maurer That is simply not true. It is not a "dream world". Over the years I have been a patron of between 5 - 10 reaction channels and all of them had similar or even more subscribers on YouTube/Patreon. And literally every one of them, except this one has a policy where the reeactor/s will only put suggestions on the poll that the reactor is interested in watching and they freely tell the patrons that and people accept it. And one of those channels is paying several full time reactors, several part time reactors, and several editors. I admit that they have many TV shows that I'm not interested in watching, but they're not low scoring shows. Its just that they're a genre I don't want to commit to for several months. But the movies have reasonable scores the vast majority of the time, even if they're not a genre I'm into. So I don't know what you're talking about.

Richard Maurer

@Thoko - Do these 5-10 reactors just happen to choose movies that are really popular? Or do they just not care if they do well on YT? Because I'm currently a member of 6 reaction channels and in the past a considerable number more and not one of them did a majority of the movie selections themselves. Some do a few now and then but nowhere near a majority of them. I also subscribe to many more reactors on YT and the vast majority of them rely on polling and patron choices. So don't try to pretend Cassie's channel is some kind of outlier among reactor channels. And what exactly do you consider "reasonable scores" on YT? Realistically if they're consistently below 20k the reactor isn't doing well, and under 40k isn't exactly lighting up the YT analytics either. You say you don't know what I'm talking about but I think the problem might be on your end. None of this really matters anyway as the way Cassie has been doing things has been working well for her, she's one of the most popular (there's that word again) reactors on YT and I guarantee she's not going to change her way of doing things just to please you.

Thoko

@Richard Maurer You haven't been paying attention to my argument. I'm not saying that they pick unpopular movies or that they ignore patrons. I'm saying that their patrons suggest many films both good and bad, but the reactors simply limit the options on the polls to those suggestions that strike a good balance between "the reactors will enjoy this" and "the fans will enjoy this". So what we end up with, is movies that are hot and that end up performing very well on YT. I never said "reasonable scores on YT". There's no such thing as a "score" on YT. If you look back at the thread I'm talking about reasonable score on Rotten Tomatoes. Like something above 55% audience score. But since you asked, the channels I'm talking about get about 90k to 200k for a movie.

Thoko

@Richard Maurer Another point I will add that is different about this channel: every time I see a poll it is full of things that I have never heard of and when I try to research them so that I can pick one based on its reputation I don't hear anything appealing to me. So I just don't vote. I haven't done any analysis on the polls here, but I do remember a similar situation happened once on another channel, and many people were commenting that they just sat out of the vote because they had no idea. And I could see that compared to other polls there were significanly less people voting. So was that outcome a representation of "what the patrons wanted to see"? Not really. But technically this person had done exactly what you are describing.

Shawn Kildal

You're not likely to find a lot of well received disaster movies. Most critics believe it to be a "tired" genre.

Eric

Glad Ben is doing better.

Richard Maurer

@ Thoko - I know there are no such thing as scores on YT, I didn't know what scores you were talking about as I never mentioned Rotten Tomatoes, nor would I as it's not relevant to the discussion, but YT views certainly are. Most people don't base their viewing habits on critic sites, or at least they shouldn't. Why let other people tell you what to think. As for you not hearing of these films - so? I for one rarely see anything on Cassie polls that I consider obscure, in fact all the films on the disaster poll were familiar to me and I have seen most of them. And I'm sure they were familiar to most people on here. Just because you personally never heard of a film doesn't make it obscure, it just means your film knowledge isn't particularly good. As for the way Cassie runs her channel I stand by what I've said: it's not really very different than what most other people do. You keep saying I'm not understanding you then you change what said from the previous post. For instance in one post you said the reactors you watch "only put suggestions on the poll that the reactor is interested in watching" then the next post you said "patrons suggest many films both good and bad, but the reactors simply limit the options on the polls to those suggestions that strike a good balance between "the reactors will enjoy this" and "the fans will enjoy this"". I guess if you keep redefining your argument you can never be wrong. Anyway as I said before this really a waste of time because Cassie's not going to change a working formula because you and few others don't like it. You need to either accept that or move on. That's what I'm going to do - move on from this ridiculous conversation.

Padraig Glennon

✌😅P.I.B this was such a fun watch, Dante's Peak is so intense. 🤓Popcorn info: Linda Hamilton is the female lead(better known as Sarah Connor from the 'The Terminator'1984)....fromerly married to James Cameron director of Avatar movies, The Terminator, True Lies, Aliens(the second movie). oh and of course Titanic!!! .... Glad to hear everything is going good. awesome vid 🎢

David Zabel

You can't mention golf movies without mentioning Caddyshack, the best golf movie of them all.

Mary Alice

Non disaster movies: Sister Act; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; Mamma Mia (pierce is in this one too); kindergarten Cop (original with Arnold S.) ; Liar Liar; Working Girl (Harrison Ford); Free Willy; Soapdish (so funny as long as you understand soap operas and the craziness that is involved in front of and behind the camera); Cool Runnings-about the Jamaican bobsled team. The full Monty I remember being good and finally Calendar girls.

Russell Teo

Pierce Brosnan & Linda Hamilton can’t act