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?

also a big lover of disaster movies and shark movies!

geostorm had some really cool scenes in it!

I only watched this recently for the first time, I loved it & yeah it has a fantastic cast

Does Tremors squeak into the genre?

What no SNAKES ON A PLANE

Thirteen Lives? About the football team in Thailand in 2018/9? Its brilliant.

oh - how could I forget "Don't Look Up"? On Netlfix, absolutely bloody brilliant and not in a "so shit it's good" way. A list cast and really interesting take on how we consume media, snub the intellectuals who actually know stuff and the actual disaster.

Can't believe only one person has mentioned The Core. It's the best. Complete nonsense science, some eccentric drilling expert, sinister government weapons development and the "science" being demonstrated to a load of sceptical politicians by Stanley Tucci spraying hairspray on an orange and setting it alight. Unbeatable.

Omg yes, that you, I’m not totally mad 😂

On Youtube someone has compiled Disaster Movie Dogs in Peril!

Jaws and Lake Placid. Should both be dreadful, but I love them both and have watched more times than I can count.

I love a disaster movie.. been making my way through this list...
https://www.vulture.com/best-disaster-movies-ranked.html
Crawl was brilliant!!

Just wanted to say I LOVE how many others enjoyed
Deep Blue Sea
Armageddon
Deep Impact
The Shallows
Day after Tomorrow
Twister!
My kids and other friends all laugh at my film choices but I see you all and applaud your choices!!🤩

Shamelessly placemarking! I've found my people!

A good gripping film for free on YouTube - Breakdown with Kurt Russell. Not a disaster film as such but on a par with some mentioned here in terms of genre.

Found it a really good, exciting watch with teen dd and it's free 😁

Is Jaws really a disaster movie though ?

If so I would probably put Panic at Lakewood Manor in my picks.

Apollo 13
Deepwater Horizon is bloody brilliant!

i love a good disaster move but especially the first 30 minutes where it’s all starting to go wrong. Also first 30 min of any sort of post apocalyptic movie e.g.
The tomorrow war with Chris Pratt and
Civil War with Kirsten Dunst.

there was one recently with Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke on Netflix.

👍🏻

The Impossible (about the Boxing Day tsunami)

The Undeclared War was brilliant in my opinion.

it was on channel 4 a couple of years ago.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-undeclared-war

I took liberties to extend the genre as the OP mentioned shark movies in her original post.

Thanks so much- just watched it, perilous right up to the last minute!did not disappoint!

Geostorm. I loved that one!

The end we start from is a new one that I enjoyed.

Absolutely.

In my top five.

All of the above and just adding in

Silent Night

End of the world with the bonus of also being a Christmas film.

I watched it last Christmas expecting it to be crap but really enjoyed it. It’s on my list for next year.

Sorcerer (1977) directed by William Friedkin, who is probably best known for The Exorcist. also Wages of Fear (1953), which it’s based on.

Only The Brave - True story about the Yarnell Hill Fire, which resulted in the most emergency service personnel deaths since September 11th.

While not exactly disaster films, when I’m pulling out my disaster films for a marathon I normally end up throwing Southern Comfort (US National Guards on exercise piss off the locals), Stake Land (vampires), Carriers (group of friends trying to outrun a pandemic), Battle LA (I can go down a rabbit hole with this one), and the recent Godzilla films.

Damn. I’ve got 2 days of maternity leave left 😂 I really needed this thread a couple of weeks ago. Opportunity missed 😂