Your favourite disaster movie?

[TrueWierdness]

Love a good disaster film. Just watching 2012. What's your favourite?

I measure disaster by proximity to impending disaster x % if time in clench mode during film. Near death experience due to catastrophic crippling of spacecraft is a qualifier on the Clenchometre

I do though like a film featuring lava and lava melting/boiling people too therefore Dante’s Peak and Volcano are favourites. Also films featuring the Rock averting disaster.

The Rock is so versatile in disaster.

I bloody love a good disaster film. One of my faves is Unstoppable. A PP mentioned it. About a train without a driver hurtling around.

Also the 70s disaster films Airport, there were several in the series. Actually the 1970s were fab for disaster movies.

My favourite genre. Love most of those mentioned.

Think I must be alone in thinking Die Hard is a disaster film........

Must proof read...

I Don’t think of Die Hard as a disaster film (or a Christmas film for that matter, remove the Xmas element and it doesn’t change the plot).

Geostorm
Twister
The day after tomorrow
San Andreas
Dante’s peak
The impossible
Deep impact
Lost in space
Gravity
Life
Godzilla
The wave
Pompeii
Vertical limit
Contagion

I have fond memories of Earthquake which I remember watching as a child (and has given me a life-long fear of lifts)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=fHXxHje_Ezc

Pure cheese!

Deepwater horizon
Everest

Towering Inferno.
Totally dated but I can walk into a room at any point in the film and I have to keep watching. I cant stand the whiney kids though

Everest.

Daylight with Sylvester Stallone doesn’t seem to have been mentioned, ridiculous but good disaster movie. Bonus points for a young, very attractive, Viggo Mortensen.

I was trying to remember the name of Daylight earlier! Love that film, used to be on ITV all the time but haven't seen it in a few years.

Does Threads count? And The Day After, American nuclear holocaust film.

Gravity - refuse to watch that until Tess gerritsen is rightly credited and compensated for the fact it's her idea and based on her book! She's been totally shafted on that!

Always had a soft spot for the Cassandra Crossing after watching it whilst off sick from school one afternoon
Features Richard Harris, Sofia Loren, Martin Sheen and Ava Gardner

I'm loving all your suggestions...I think I'm a fan of more recent films, like Everest and San Andreas, maybe it's the special effects.

Threads was brilliant.

Threads was terrifying! Lived through the Cold War, cried to see the Berlin Wall come down and dismayed at the way Russia is going with Putin.
Loved Cassandra Crosding- you’d like Jugganaut if you like Richard Harris.
Apollo 13 is brilliant- that bit where they are in radio silence still brings tears to my eyes, can remember it really happening. And the first aeroplane disaster film - the book was good too.

Has anyone seen No Escape with Owen Wilson? I thought that was pretty good.
Liked The Impossible (surprising since I'm not keen on true stories) and foreign film The Wave was ok too.
My favourites would have to be 2012 and most zompoc films.

trueweirdness re San Andreas, I urge to to consider my earlier post. I think you’ll find it’s The Rock.

@dontopen I’ve seen No Escape and really enjoyed it. Very tense!

Ahhh, the original Posiden Adventure! I watched it so many times as small child, and it gave me a holy terror of boats. Even though the only boat I’d ever been on at that point was the Isle of Wight ferry. (Because 7 year old me didn’t realise just how unlikely a tsunami in the Solent was.)

Aaah, that clip coffeeagogo Who the heck tries to get in a lift during an earthquake?? Everyone, apparently.

It’s an essential component of a good disaster movie; that people are REALLY stupid!

Watched San Andreas last week & enjoyed it 💪

The Wave. It's brilliant. Disaster films are my favourite and The Wave is the best of them.