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To ask for your favourite disaster films?

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Mammyloveswine · 26/08/2024 21:38

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?

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Mammyloveswine · 27/08/2024 21:44

AllThePotatoesAreSinging · 27/08/2024 19:22

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 😂

Edited

Haha sorry! I'm in a similar boat with the end of the summer hols coming up...

Ooh some new choices there! Will have a look thank you!

Watching "fall" on Netflix now, awaiting Chinese!

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Mammyloveswine · 27/08/2024 21:49

@GasPanic shark films are permitted.. anything with peril!

I mean I binged the channel 5 series "terror at 30,000 feet" about planes and that was serious nail biting docu stuff!!

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FieldInWhichFucksAreGrownIsBarren · 27/08/2024 21:55

Recently downloaded 'No way up' to watch on the flight to our holiday, possibly not the best choice which I would have realised had I read the film description 🤣
Good film though.

Mammyloveswine · 27/08/2024 22:14

FieldInWhichFucksAreGrownIsBarren · 27/08/2024 21:55

Recently downloaded 'No way up' to watch on the flight to our holiday, possibly not the best choice which I would have realised had I read the film description 🤣
Good film though.

Oh god I couldn't watch it on a plane 🤣🤣

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Peanutbuttercrumble · 27/08/2024 22:49

I've just watched 13 lives after googling some of these suggestions and jesus christ it was emotional.

Boxofstars · 28/08/2024 00:15

Fangisnotacoward · 26/08/2024 22:00

While not strictly disaster films.They all start with one, so I'm going to throw the Final Destination films into the mix

I have never liked or used sunbeds.
But that scene in final destination made me unlike sunbeds even more.

Boxofstars · 28/08/2024 00:17

A night to remember.
Any thing about Titanic is good.

BustingBaoBun · 28/08/2024 10:18

I've just watched 13 lives after googling some of these suggestions and jesus christ it was emotional.

I loved that film and want to watch it again and again, but in some way don't want to watch it again.

There's a film I want to watch again but have searched and can't find the name!

A group of 30 something couples are on a boat (more of a ship than a boat, it's big) and they decide to have fun swimming and jump in the sea. Each couple thought the other had opened the hatch/put the ladder down/whatever you need to do to get back on the ship.
No one had
They are desperately trying to find a way to scale the shiny surface of a boat/ship. There might've been sharks involved, can't remember
Thanks for anyone who knows this film!

ChickenandaCanofCoke · 28/08/2024 12:41

The documentary Skywalkers on Netflix now is terrifying

ChickenandaCanofCoke · 28/08/2024 12:43

@BustingBaoBun is it Open Water 2 Adrift?

BigFatLiar · 28/08/2024 12:59

SelMarin · 26/08/2024 23:22

I'd love to watch Threads but can't find it anywhere.

We got threads on dvd from amazon ages ago.

Meteor with Sean Connery
10.5 & 10.5 Apocalypse first is about an earthquake that destroys the west coast of America and the next one follows on destroying mid west America.
Can't remember if it's the proper name but Just Look Up, about the meteor.
Supervolcano about Yellowstone erupting.

BustingBaoBun · 28/08/2024 14:31

ChickenandaCanofCoke · 28/08/2024 12:43

@BustingBaoBun is it Open Water 2 Adrift?

That's it! Thank you 😊

Poppyling · 29/08/2024 21:26

BellaPommefritio · 27/08/2024 18:02

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

Ah brill, so glad you liked it!!

Poppyling · 29/08/2024 21:32

SelMarin · 26/08/2024 23:22

I'd love to watch Threads but can't find it anywhere.

I watched it on the Internet Archive website.

IcedPurple · 29/08/2024 21:40

Train to Busan.

Maybe more of a zombie film than a disaster film in the classic sense, but it's fab. The lovely Gong Yoo is the main attraction.

illiad · 29/08/2024 22:31

Daylight
Attack the Block
The Perfect Storm
Outbreak
The Mist
I am Legend

Threewheeler1 · 30/08/2024 10:13

ChickenandaCanofCoke · 28/08/2024 12:41

The documentary Skywalkers on Netflix now is terrifying

Oh my god, yes.
We watched it and my legs were shaking just looking at the screen.
I can't believe humans can do these things, it's so beyond what my brain can cope with 😮

ChickenandaCanofCoke · 04/09/2024 21:42

Terrifying isn't it. Just watched Infinite Storm on Netflix. Based on a true story and very good

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