There were two things that prompted me to write this series. The first is my love for this movie. The second is that it features a total solar eclipse very similar to the one that is about to… what does an eclipse do? Attack? Block? Doesn’t matter. A total solar eclipse is scheduled here for later today and it’s going to continue all the way to Maine (the American state where Dolores Claiborne (1995) is set). So it’s very relevant. And the one non-Maine location in the movie is Manhattan. That ties nicely into the New York part of our trip.
We’re currently driving north on I-81 North and it looks like it’s going to be super cloudy so… who’s up for Iceland 2026!? Like I really have to experience an eclipse now. For some reason it was really low on my list of atmospheric phenomena I want to see. That is no longer the case.
Anyone who’s ever been with me on a long drive has heard my rant about the proliferation of progress bars in movies and why that is bad. The solar eclipse in Dolores Claiborne (1995) is not your typical time pressure device in that there’s no large calamity at time equals zero. It’s an event around which the story focuses and not what the story is about. No one is trying to stop a solar powered runway train.
Die Hard Three 
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