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To ask for your favourite disaster films?

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Mammyloveswine · 26/08/2024 21:38

I unashamedly love a disaster film, tbh usually a shark film but currently watching "the towering inferno".

Other favourites of mine are the poisedon adventure, Dante's peak, anaconda, volcano, Armageddon, 2012, no escape (couldn't actually breathe).

Any other recommendations?

Also any one watch and realise you would just simply not survive due to having no upper most strength and being unable to achieve any of the feats the actors do to survive?

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everythingthelighttouches · 27/08/2024 16:59

The Impossible (about the Boxing Day tsunami)

OneTC · 27/08/2024 16:57

PotteringAlonggotkickedoutandhadtoreregister · 26/08/2024 21:53

The original Poseidon adventure is an absolute classic!

👍🏻

everythingthelighttouches · 27/08/2024 16:55

Apollo 13
Deepwater Horizon is bloody brilliant!

i love a good disaster move but especially the first 30 minutes where it’s all starting to go wrong. Also first 30 min of any sort of post apocalyptic movie e.g.
The tomorrow war with Chris Pratt and
Civil War with Kirsten Dunst.

there was one recently with Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke on Netflix.

GasPanic · 27/08/2024 16:47

EmeraldIsla · 27/08/2024 12:52

Jaws and Lake Placid. Should both be dreadful, but I love them both and have watched more times than I can count.

Is Jaws really a disaster movie though ?

If so I would probably put Panic at Lakewood Manor in my picks.

Poppyling · 27/08/2024 15:41

A good gripping film for free on YouTube - Breakdown with Kurt Russell. Not a disaster film as such but on a par with some mentioned here in terms of genre.

Found it a really good, exciting watch with teen dd and it's free 😁

jaychops · 27/08/2024 12:59

Shamelessly placemarking! I've found my people!

ADHDGURL · 27/08/2024 12:58

Just wanted to say I LOVE how many others enjoyed
Deep Blue Sea
Armageddon
Deep Impact
The Shallows
Day after Tomorrow
Twister!
My kids and other friends all laugh at my film choices but I see you all and applaud your choices!!🤩

EmeraldIsla · 27/08/2024 12:52

Jaws and Lake Placid. Should both be dreadful, but I love them both and have watched more times than I can count.

BellaPommefritio · 27/08/2024 12:51

On Youtube someone has compiled Disaster Movie Dogs in Peril!

AliceMcK · 27/08/2024 12:30

Oldfatandfrumpy · 27/08/2024 08:38

That was on 911, you didn't dream it!

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Omg yes, that you, I’m not totally mad 😂

DappledThings · 27/08/2024 12:19

Can't believe only one person has mentioned The Core. It's the best. Complete nonsense science, some eccentric drilling expert, sinister government weapons development and the "science" being demonstrated to a load of sceptical politicians by Stanley Tucci spraying hairspray on an orange and setting it alight. Unbeatable.

RhaenysRocks · 27/08/2024 12:11

oh - how could I forget "Don't Look Up"? On Netlfix, absolutely bloody brilliant and not in a "so shit it's good" way. A list cast and really interesting take on how we consume media, snub the intellectuals who actually know stuff and the actual disaster.

RhaenysRocks · 27/08/2024 12:09

JanglyBeads · 26/08/2024 22:11

What's the one about cave diving, possibly based on a true event? Absolutely terrifying, wouldn't recommend it to me iyswim.

Thirteen Lives? About the football team in Thailand in 2018/9? Its brilliant.

NomenNudum · 27/08/2024 12:06

What no SNAKES ON A PLANE

ReturnoftheBink · 27/08/2024 11:40

Does Tremors squeak into the genre?

Scorchio84 · 27/08/2024 10:35

SeaweedSundress · 27/08/2024 09:15

Twister is great. It looks gorgeous, has an incredible supporting cast (Philip Seymour Hoffmann and Alan Ruck in tiny roles, Cary Elwes as the baddie), and Helen Hunt’s hair deserved its own Oscar.

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I only watched this recently for the first time, I loved it & yeah it has a fantastic cast

Alwaystired94 · 27/08/2024 10:25

also a big lover of disaster movies and shark movies!

geostorm had some really cool scenes in it!

SingingSands · 27/08/2024 10:24

I love all of these! My gran introduced me to Earthquake (1974), The Towering Inferno (1974), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) with her when I was a kid in the early 80s and I was hooked on disaster films ever since.

It's an oldie but I also love Ice Cold in Alex - not about a natural disaster or invasion but the characters do get stuck in a sandstorm!

ReturnoftheBink · 27/08/2024 10:17

BellaPommefritio · 27/08/2024 09:30

I became hooked on this genre via Poseidon (poor, brave strong swimmer Mrs Rosen!) and Towering Inferno as a kid!
I like the way dogs often play a crucial heartstopping moment to ramp up tension- from memory:
a collie with a homeless man in Day after Tomorrow only just getting into the library beofre the tidal wave,
'C'mon Boomer!'- cue slow mo jump of dog getting into fleeing vehicle in Daylight,
and the aforementioned Pippin in The Meg upthread! Can anyone remember any others?

The dog in the tunnel in Independence Day only just makes it when the road tunnel catches fire!

GasPanic · 27/08/2024 09:49

Starflight One with Lee Majors as Cody Briggs.

Airport 80 : The Concorde.

harriettenightingale · 27/08/2024 09:48

I also enjoyed "Right At Your Door", which is really quite horrifying:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RightattYourDoor

Right at Your Door is a 2006 American thriller filmm^ about a couple and follows the events surrounding them when multiple dirty bombss^ detonate in Los Angeles.

harriettenightingale · 27/08/2024 09:46

Possibly a bit close to the bone but a pseudodocumentary — the day Britain stopped

At that time the BBC did a series called "If" which was about different possible (and quite scarily plausible) future scenarios if things went they way they were going. I also love a disaster film or doom doc and they were great!

"If the Generations Fall Out" considered life in 2024 looking from 20 years ago.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0451084/plotsummary/?ref=tttovpl

BellaPommefritio · 27/08/2024 09:33

Has Black Water Abyss been mentioned? flooded cave with crocs!

BellaPommefritio · 27/08/2024 09:30

I became hooked on this genre via Poseidon (poor, brave strong swimmer Mrs Rosen!) and Towering Inferno as a kid!
I like the way dogs often play a crucial heartstopping moment to ramp up tension- from memory:
a collie with a homeless man in Day after Tomorrow only just getting into the library beofre the tidal wave,
'C'mon Boomer!'- cue slow mo jump of dog getting into fleeing vehicle in Daylight,
and the aforementioned Pippin in The Meg upthread! Can anyone remember any others?