To ask for your favourite disaster films?

Have you seen The Shallows with Blake Lively. Girl stuck on rock with circling shark.

Yep, Shelley Winters swimming underwater used to terrify me as a kid...
I always knew I'd be dead at that point, rubbish at holding my breath.

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Thanks for the recommendations, really enjoy a disaster film.
Can't remember the name, but the recent Julia Roberts film o Netflix was quite good

Forgot about Cloverfield @Suzuki70 - I kind of think of disasters as being weather or geology related 🤔

I rewatched it recently- it's a bit bleak to do too many times but something I read that spooked me was that in the footage from the date at the beach at the very start of the film, there was like a grey shooting star falling into the sea at one moment, which some people suggested was the arrival of the creature.

Forgot Arachnophobia too.

I feel like Anger in Inside Out: "These are my kind of people!"

I think Day After Tomorrow and Dante's Peak are my favourites - former for Ian Holm and the fact there are not quite so many insanely dumb choices made by the characters in it. Latter has got quite a few though, the main being the final bridge incident - your body would never act as passively as Paul's does when staring death in the face.

I've overwatched Twister now, but it was also a huge favourite for ages. It beats Dante's Peak 'overly contrived nerd-o-meter' score, which is saying something.

I prefer Deep Impact to Armageddon. I still can't fathom how Independence Day can be so contrived and awful, and yet hugely enjoyable at the same time. Jurassic Park is the same.

Probably the best all round disaster thing I like is the BBC's two parter called 'Supervolcano'. It's awesome.

@EnjoyingTheSilence genuinely wrote my opening sentence after reading the first five or so posts 😂 Thought I should read a few more before posting and saw your comment!

I can't see it on here so I'd like to add:
World War Z.

“Time to hack the earth”

a good disaster movie must be cheesy and ridiculous. If it is realistic, it’s just depressing.

i love a good apocalypse film like “the day after”, but I wouldn’t class that as a disaster movie. just like the disease movies are their own genre, “outbreak”, “contagion”, etc.

people have listed all the big ones. We really had a hey-Dey in the early 00s.

I don't think they are good films, but I have always found the Airport films very entertaining.

Airport 1970, Airport 75, Airport 77 scratch the disaster itch quite well.

Airport 1980 The Concorde is so ludicrous that it is quite funny.

I love disaster films and/or anything dystopian. Deep Impact and Armageddon, two of my favourites, are currently on All4.

Greenland is fantastic. It’s on Prime and is one of my favourite movies at the minute. We liked it so much we got the kids ( both teenagers) to watch it the next day.

Me too!

Don't look up!

Yesssssss

O I suggested a disaster movie tonight but no one was up for it. Think I will just watch one on my own tomorrow 😂

Classics are of course Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure, original over remake but will watch the remake. I actually feel like I’ve watched something recently that a character makes reference to being afraid of ships based on The Poseidon adventure then the very same thing happens. I’m not sure if I’ve made it up, it’s a dream (yes I dream about disasters 😝) or I actually did watch something.

My go to lazy day movies would be 2012 and The Day After tomorrow. Like many others watching some of The Rock is always a hit. I actually enjoyed The Meg 2 mainly for it’s cheesy jokes, the emergency condoms ( had to tell my DDs not quite 10yo friend to ask his mum why I laughed at that bit, I messaged her before he got home) and my 10yo DD who thought eating people was ok but not Pippin! My girl has inherited my disaster genes and loves Sharks, she begged me to take her to see The Meg 2 after falling in love with the Jaws movies.

I don’t think I have anything to add to the lists though.

I was looking forward to the new twister movie but not sure of the reviews.

Oh "A Night to Remember" is another of my favourites

"Rollercoaster" with George Segal, Richard Widmark and Timonthy Bottoms. It was made in 1977 and it's one of my favourite films of all time.

I love Deep Impact & yeah pretty much everything that's already been mentioned, disaster films are my comfort watch

My faves are already here,

Twister
Independence Day
The Day after tomorrow
War of the worlds

I loved Under Paris too and think yes, these kind of films are supposed to be a bit ridiculous OP so with that I put forth Pacific Rim. It’s more of an invasion Independence Day type than disaster, but an awfully fun watch!

Also enjoyed The Perfect Storm and Extinction.

I bloody love The Poseidon Adventure - I watched it as a kid with my Grandad - totally OTT and gripping - all the characters were stupendous and you became really invested in their safe escape …

Another Earth

I haven’t watched it for a few years - I know it had been on you tube. The actor who played Zak Dingle is in it - playing a local government worker with no real resources but who’s somehow responsible for sorting out housing after the nuclear attack on Sheffield . He briefly wonders if tents would help but quickly see the futility of any kind of action. “bastards!” he screams.

Are you me?! I need to go back and read the whole thread but I wanted to add one that I loved as teen that’s not exactly a disaster film, but given the similar taste you might like: Deadly Pursuit. MAJOR b movie vibes, in a good way

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) - absolute bloody classic 👌👌

Is Daylight the one with people trapped in a car tunnel and Sylvester Stallone manages to get in and rescue them? I really liked that one. I do enjoy a good disaster movie. Watched Greenland the other day which was pretty good. Also loved Day After Tomorrow. Oh and Sully about the real plane crash on the Hudson River. Oh, my favourite as a teenager was Alive, about the plane crash in the mountains that led to survivors having to eat their dead friends. Think there's been a new version recently but haven't seen it.