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In Dante’s Peak – a movie portraying the eruption of a big volcano in a small town was unrealistic. This is shown in many ways such as; bathers dying in hot springs, thin lava flows, dramatized earthquakes, robots for making observations and the driving of motor vehicles across hot molten lava. From the very beginning this film was found to be unrealistic. Two bathers went for a swim in a hot spring, two minutes after getting in – the temperature suddenly changed and they were burned alive. According to scientists – although the temperature of hot springs can increase or decrease to higher or lower temperatures it takes days or weeks for these changes to occur. Therefore the two minute change in temperature was unrealistic. The lava flows in Dan