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

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

Just watched Volcano yesterday, I absolutely love them. Dante's peak, Independence Day, Armageddon, inject them straight into my veins!!

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Just watched Volcano yesterday, I absolutely love them. Dante's peak, Independence Day, Armageddon, inject them straight into my veins!!

Oh forgot my favourite - Twister!

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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 )

Right you've just started a list of films I need to watch again asap!!

Apollo 13 - not a disaster movie but one of my faves

I know it is universally panned but I liked The Haunting with Catherine Zeta Jones

However one of the best is Executive Decision.

Nice to see so much Dante’s Peak love.
The bit where they row the rapidly dissolving boat across the acid lake is particularly special.

I adore a disaster movie, Armageddon is the greatest movie of all time imho.

“This is not even space, it’s just the beginning of space,” or something. Classic. Once did a live watch along on Twitter and it was the best night I’ve had in ages.

Also love the 70s disaster movies - Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno? Yes please.

Erm, sorry but I don’t think Schindler’s List quite fits into this category.

I absolutely love a cheesy disaster film.

Thank you to who mentioned Moonfall. I cannot wait!

Con Air is a masterpiece! Now, put the bunny back in the box .
I sometimes idly wonder where Garland Greene is now……

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Daylight yet! Drop whatever you're doing and watch it right now

What about Titanic? I used to just skip the first half.

Oh, you are all my people!

I love a good disaster action movie and agree that the 70s and 90s were both peaks (Dante's Peaks, even) for the genre. The Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure and Earthquake are my favourites from the earlier decade and then Dante's Peak, Volcano, Deep Impact, Independence Day etc were amazing in the 90s.

Did anyone else do the Earthquake ride at Universal Studios, Florida in the 90s? We went on holiday when I was 11 in 1990 and I'm pretty sure this started my obsession - it wasn't just the start of the 90s which brought all the aforementioned films to screens but after the holiday, my dad bought Earthquake on VHS as a memento(!) and I watch it obsessively, which led my mum to introduce me to Poseidon etc.

Independence Day isn't just a stonkingly good film but also gives me warm memories of seeing it with a large group of schoolfriends and one of the boys holding my hand for the entire film - nothing more happened which really confused me at the time but I remember that warm glow of holding hands with a boy in the dark while watching Will Smith punch the living daylights out of an alien.

The Rock has done a great job to trying to revive the genre recently - San Andreas and Skyscraper are both amazing. Rampage worth a look too.

Oh, and Greenland with Gerard Butler is another more recent example of plot-hole filled brilliance.

More action than disaster but I do have a soft spot for The Peacemaker from the 90s. Geoge Clooney and Nicole Kidman trying to stop Goran Visnjic from detonating a nuclear warhead? Yes please!

I love a good disaster movie, or even a cheesy one

Even the 10 year old loves twister and dantes peak

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Con Air is a masterpiece! Now, put the bunny back in the box . I sometimes idly wonder where Garland Greene is now……

Cracking quote 😆 Also not forgetting my favourite con air quote “ They call him Cyrus the Virus, he claims to have killed more men than cancer” 🙈🤣

Oh, and Greenland with Gerard Butler is another more recent example of plot-hole filled brilliance.

An entire movie practically dedicated to the importance of holding your kid's hand in a disaster.

Bloody love a disaster movie

Yes! Definitely Independence Day and Armageddon. Also Deep Impact and the first Final Destination film.

I found it harder to enjoy (if that's the right word) these sorts of films after the events of September 11 2001 (personally affected) and the other terrorist acts that followed. Although I did quite enjoy Knowing (a 2009 film). And I do think that these films, however grief/gore filled they might be, can have something worth saying in them about the human spirit.

I think there's something about the spectacle, along with the relative innocence (!) of the 90s disaster films that's appealing. Also glad that in most of the ones to feature one, the dog generally survived. I liked Boomer.

@Dogmum40It’s just so gloriously tongue-in-cheek (perhaps not the best turn of phrase for a film with Garland Greene in…..). The way they unveil an increasingly bad-ass list of criminals and you just know they are going to escape

I’ve just watched day after tomorrow

I enjoy watching disaster films. Don’t know why.

What about the remake of Poseidon? It’s not as good as the original but has a fabby Armageddon style ending. Also skyscraper which is loosely based on towering inferno AND stars the rock. Heaven.

Not strictly a disaster film but The Mummy is brilliant.

We watched Conair the other night. I loved it the first time but it was a bit cringy the second time.

Blasphemy.

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We watched Conair the other night. I loved it the first time but it was a bit cringy the second time.

Blasphemy.

Not 90's but I liked the first few Airport movies.

I love most of the films mentioned. Dante peak, volcano, twister etc can watch multiple times

Amazing how unrealistic 'Outbreak' seems now we're living in a pandemic. Vaccine within a couple of hours that completely cures everyone? Yeah, right!

I must admit DH and I just take the piss out of it now. 'You're not social distancing' and 'Next slide, please' when they're showing the President's committee the virus swallowing up the USA within 48 hours.