To think 90’s disaster movies are simultaneously terrible and amazing

[Hippopotas]

Just watched Dante’s Peak and now moved on to Daylight. So cheesy terrible effects but it’s nostalgia central.

The Core is the most bonkersly badly brilliant of the lot

Yes! I was just going to mention the 70s PinkTonic. The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure are unbeatable.

I came on to say the core too. Amazing!

LOVE 90s disaster films, it's a genre of its own. I've been known to seek them out on a Saturday afternoon but almost always revert to Twister!

I also love them. Deep Impact is probably my favourite.

@Godzillaandgodzuki

I love a disaster movie, they are my go to film, very excited about Moonfall coming later this year (I think). I can't wait!!

I've just watched the trailer for Moonfall. It looks TERRIBLE - the moon gets knocked out of orbit I CANT WAIT.

Armageddon is one of my favourite films, I love everything about it and I always cry!!!!

BestIsWest I watched The Towering Inferno at the weekend!! Apart from swooning over Steve MacQueen and Paul newman it really was the ultimate in daftness!! Just kept thinking 'Why do that'! 😂

I love these types of films!

Love this

Yes - love all of these. It’s not 90s but San Andreas is a very good example of the genre I think

If we can go out of decade, I really like a subtitled Norwegian disaster movie called The Wave. It's brilliant.

I thought that was a metaphor. Chasing tornadoes, obviously.

I liked Deep Impact. I also loved Tremors, although that's more of a black comedy/horror than a disaster movie.

TRUE LIES!!!! Best film ever.

Not technically a disaster movie, but Jurassic Park anyone?

I love the Core. And Armageddon. Guilty pleasures

Jurassic Park is worth watching for Jeff Goldblum alone 😍

It must have been really challenging to come up with the plots to these films. Either:

Aliens come to earth and want to kill us all

Natural disaster/virus wants to kill us all

Yawn.

I love those movies

One thing I find interesting though is how often Russia and China were the “villains” in the big budget 80s & 90s movies. I read an article by an American journalist a few months ago where he was sombrely explaining how China often make movies where America is the villainous nation and how damaging and potentially dangerous this is to international relations. I was like “er, what?!” 🙄

I grew up watching things like the posiden adventure and towering inferno. Also the brillant Earthquake.

Love most of the films PPs have mentioned. Dantes Peak is a particular favourite of mine.

Also noteworthy is the Matthew Broderick version of Godzilla for pure cheese and Mars Attacks for the hilarious cameos.

@LondonWolf

Intersting to note that in Godzilla they change the baddies to the French doing the atomic tests in the pacific rather than the original Americans doing tests that the earlier Japanese versions have.

[quote mogschristmascalamity]@LondonWolf

Intersting to note that in Godzilla they change the baddies to the French doing the atomic tests in the pacific rather than the original Americans doing tests that the earlier Japanese versions have.[/quote]
The French made for good bad guys then. Particularly the cloak and dagger shit that followed the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in NZ only a decade earlier and the whisking away those who were convicted so that they didn't complete their sentence.

Not disaster movies but I’m sure you’ll all agree that

Speed
Con air
Under seige
Die Hard with a vengeance
Robin Hood Prince of thieves
Men in black
Air Force one
Interview with the vampire

Are some of the best 90s action films

Notting Hill
Pretty woman

For the classic chick flixs

Love this thread!! The 80s and 90s provided some of the best films and soundtracks ever!! (I’m a 80-90s girl )

@Binkybix

Yes - love all of these. It’s not 90s but San Andreas is a very good example of the genre I think

Totally. I watch that one quite a bit. Looking forward to the sequel.

For me the ultimate 90s disaster film is Schindler's List, obviously not a "natural" disaster (but then nor is Independence Day or Mars Attacks!) but it's a great look at the personal disasters/tragedies that unfolded during 1940s Germany and Poland. You get to see the gradual "ramping up" of the holocaust machine, from the crowding of the Jews into the ghettos, then the transport to and housing in the concentration/extermination camps.

Personally I can't think of a greater disaster than WWII during the whole of the 20th century, this does a fantastic job of showing some of the aspects that are usually omitted from war movies (they tend to focus on fighting or PoW escapes).