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Disaster Movies- what do I need to watch?

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Oreosareawful · 16/01/2025 14:26

I've seen most of the usual ones- 2012, The day after tomorrow, Geostorm, The Core, Armageddon etc

Please recommend one I might not have seen? I love anything involving weather, climate change and such.

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roundaboutthehillsareshining · 16/01/2025 15:56

Ooh also Contagion

MoiraRoseVibes · 16/01/2025 16:04

I thought Station 11 was going to be a really good disaster type series but after the first episode it went on a tangent I didn't like at all - anyone else?

JimHalpertsWife · 16/01/2025 16:11

Festschriften · 16/01/2025 15:47

You mean like when the Rock rescues his estranged wife in a helicopter, mid-earthquake, from the top of an exploding skyscraper where she's been having lunch with nasty Kylie Minogue, who is rude to a waitress and is thus killed, at around the same time as Nasty Kylie's brother Ioan Gruffudd, who abandons the Rock's daughter in a trapped car and is killed his cowardice and for not being the Rock? Cheese-o-rama. But fun. 😀

Interesting fact - San Andreas is Comedian Sarah Millicans favourite film (along with Muppets Christmas Carol).

Ted27 · 16/01/2025 16:13

Towering Inferno - a classic
The Poseiden Adventure (1972)

Locutus2000 · 16/01/2025 16:25

I just wish I knew why disaster movies are my happy place. Probably best left alone.

FindingMeno · 16/01/2025 16:26

Second The Wave.
And also The Quake ( also Norwegian and linked to The Wave)

AmateurNoun · 16/01/2025 16:30

Take Shelter is kind of interesting and not well known, although it's a bit of an odd disaster movie.

Festschriften · 16/01/2025 16:31

JimHalpertsWife · 16/01/2025 16:11

Interesting fact - San Andreas is Comedian Sarah Millicans favourite film (along with Muppets Christmas Carol).

Dear me. Why, Sarah, why? My DS (now 12) has a bit of a yen for disaster movies, which is why I seem to have seen so many, but they give me the serious heebie-jeebies, even the milder kind with the Rock parachuting into baseball pitches.

queenofthemay · 16/01/2025 16:39

Under Paris

Winterdazy · 16/01/2025 16:49

There aren’t enough disaster movies - I love them and have seen them all!!!

XiomarasHandbag · 16/01/2025 16:58

Not a proper movie, more a 2 part made for TV movie, but Flood is a decent (if unbelievable in parts!) London based disaster one - its on Amazon Prime I think. Based on the idea of a once in a lifetime storm surge overwhelming the Thames Barrier. The book is better though.

Alwaystired2023 · 16/01/2025 17:01

Children of Men so good
the end we start from
I liked world war z

HotCrossBunplease · 16/01/2025 17:03

Oh also The Last of Us TV series, absolutely epic.

HotCrossBunplease · 16/01/2025 17:03

And Snowpiercer, both original movie and TV series.

EasternStandard · 16/01/2025 17:04

I really like disaster movies and I’m
sure there’s appetite for more good ones to be made

notanaskhole · 16/01/2025 17:24

MoiraRoseVibes · 16/01/2025 16:04

I thought Station 11 was going to be a really good disaster type series but after the first episode it went on a tangent I didn't like at all - anyone else?

I love the book. Episode one was great, and I liked the airport bit too. Definitely worth watching.

The last of us
The Road
Leave the world behind (NF)
I am legend
Into the forest

Chuchoter · 16/01/2025 17:24

Obviously all the ones from the 70s were far superior to modern day films.

I saw Earthquake in 1974/5 in Sensuround which had special sound effects to make you feel you were actually experiencing an earthquake. It was fab!

Modern day one you might like is Flood 2007

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 16/01/2025 17:29

Cliffhanger - if you want a disasterous evening watching a dreadful film, badly acted with an implausible plot, then this is the film for you.
Personally I'd rather stand on Lego bricks for an evening while eating tofu.

Threewheeler1 · 16/01/2025 17:37

DazedandConfused1234 · 16/01/2025 14:33

Deep Impact is epic if you haven't seen it. The Wave is excellent too (Norwegian). There is a recent one with Jodie Comer - The End we start from. Also good.

Love The Wave, funnily enough watched that and The Quake again the other night!

Threewheeler1 · 16/01/2025 17:41

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 16/01/2025 17:29

Cliffhanger - if you want a disasterous evening watching a dreadful film, badly acted with an implausible plot, then this is the film for you.
Personally I'd rather stand on Lego bricks for an evening while eating tofu.

Is that the one with Sly Stallone looking like an even sadder smooshed up version of Steven Seagal? Prime keeps telling me to watch something with him in it. They don't know me at all...couldn't sit through anything with either of them in!

Bananalanacake · 16/01/2025 17:43

What was the one with Robert Carlyle and the whole of London flooding,

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 16/01/2025 17:45

Threewheeler1 · 16/01/2025 17:41

Is that the one with Sly Stallone looking like an even sadder smooshed up version of Steven Seagal? Prime keeps telling me to watch something with him in it. They don't know me at all...couldn't sit through anything with either of them in!

That's the one. 💩

ACatAsleepInYourHat · 16/01/2025 18:01

Speaking of Sly Stallone, Daylight is pretty good.

TiffanyIceberg · 16/01/2025 18:30

Threads on iplayer
The Day After, on youtube I think, American version of Threads
Silent Night

DecayingRelic · 17/01/2025 09:51

2012

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