To ask for your favourite disaster films?

[Mammyloveswine]

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?

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

"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.

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

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.

Yesssssss

Don't look up!

Me too!

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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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.

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

To echo the pp who said I've found my tribe but yes! My most favourite genre. Going to check out all the suggestions now.
I've just watched Deep
Blue Sea for the first time! Might see if I can find Sharknado anywhere 🤔

The Poseidon Adventure (original)
Sanctum (cave diving/flooding)

Contagion , made before covid and
So eerily on the money

Frozen (about teens stuck on a chairlift over a long weekend)
The Grizzly ( very old)

This this this!!

What was the one with the 2 girls trapped at the top of that ariel after climbing it? That is worth watching, specially if you're scared of heights!😉

Just googled it. Fall (2022)