re: Great Cracked article about why current movies seem to fall short

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But that wasn't "character-driven, on-film" destruction. I'm talking about onscreen deaths of thousands. Real, visceral destruction.

For instance, I always felt that Independence Day, as cheap as that film could be, made sense in how it handled that stuff. Characters were dealing with that destruction constantly. The President's Wife? The prayer circles? It all made sense, even if only slightly.

And characters dealing with it.

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Right, but outside of disaster movies, when does that happen (Man of Steel notwithstanding)..? Weirdly enough, I almost brought up 2012 as an example because millions of people died in that one, but it wasn't some indepth look at people dealing with tragedy though.

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Yeah but at no point did even hundreds die in TDK.

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Right, but they didn't have to die. the threat of blowing up the two boats (with hundreds on them) or blowing up a hospital is what drove the fear in that movie. And that was definitely all "character-driven" from a fantastic villain.