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[I collect VHS tapes]

I've been on a natural disaster movie kick lately, was hoping for some recommendations. I feel like I've watched every single major natural disaster film, definitely all the blockbusters, but was wondering if I might be missing some.

In no particular order, over the past week or so I've watched:

2012
San Andreas
The Core
Into the Storm
Greenland
Don't Look Up
Armageddon
Deep Impact
Knowing
The Wandering Earth
The Wave
The Day After Tomorrow
Twister
Geo Storm
Volcano
Aftershock
Melancholia
Sunshine
edit: I'm aware pretty much every movie on this list is terrible. idk why I can't stop watching them. guilty pleasure I guess?

I've also watched countless random horrible films like the recent Chinese mega blockbuster Skyfire:



it's basically volcanos meets Jurassic World. it's terrible. really, really terrible. at least the lead actress is cute. but I'm so desperate for natural disaster films I stuck with it.

I'm at a point where I'm actually debating watching The Asylum films. for the unfamiliar, The Asylum are responsible for knockoff blockbusters like Atlantic Rim. They became well known with Sharkando. They have a huge library of natural disaster films, such as:

You get the idea. pls help.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I think part of the reason I'm doing this is to fill the void left from 2021. for the unaware, in 2021 I had self imposed rule where I had to watch a single horror movie each day

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/you-ever-challenge-yourself-to-do-stupid-inane-pointless-things.1616657/

 

[T8SC]

Dante's Peak, The Impossible (Based on true events), Volcano & Skyscraper.

Edit: Gravity?

 

[carlosrox]

Does The Road count?

Excellent movie, but depressing as fuck.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Dante's Peak, Volcano & Skyscraper.

I watched Volcano, forgot to add it to the list

maybe it's time I rewatch Dante's Peak. I actually enjoyed Volcano and remember Dante's Peak being the superior film.

 

[Slaylock]

If you're wanting to complete the genre, you might want to go back to some of the originals: Airport, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, etc

 

[Batiman]

Sadly I think Armageddon is the most enjoyable.

 

[Aggelos]

Hard Rain

Hard Rain (film) - Wikipedia

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Hard Rain Blu-ray

Hard Rain Blu-ray Release Date February 9, 2010. Blu-ray reviews, news, specs, ratings, screenshots. Cheap Blu-ray movies and deals.

www.blu-ray.com

Some Wolfgang Petersen stuff?

Poseidon (film) - Wikipedia

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Poseidon Blu-ray

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The Perfect Storm (film) - Wikipedia

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The Perfect Storm Blu-ray

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And of course, Roland Emmerich's Moonfall which is only a month away....

 

[IDKFA]

The film is average at best, but have you watched Pompeii? It's based on true events, but it plays hard and lose with the facts. Still, better than some disaster films on the original list.

 

[nush]

If you're wanting to complete the genre, you might want to go back to some of the originals: Airport

I actually watched this over the holidays, the first one as the title suggests focuses more ON the Airport. It's the later movies in the series that focus on the Airplane side of the disaster.

Anyway Airport is still great and George Kennedy is a fucking boss!

I collect VHS tapes don't be sleeping on The Towering Inferno, it's the GOAT. Those movies listed in the OP are millennial weak sauce.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Earthquake in sensurround!

Can't download the picture but I saw this in the theater.

 

[Insane Metal]

Twister.

 

[Gameboy415]

Sunshine (2007) is sort of a natural disaster movie - the crew is on a mission to reignite the dying Sun to save Earth.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Just rewatched Dante's Peak last night. Still amazing to this day.

Sunshine (2007) is sort of a natural disaster movie - the crew is on a mission to reignite the dying Sun to save Earth.

oh man i love that movie. good shout.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Greenland for me was the most realistic depiction of a natural disaster as compared to Armageddon. Deep Impact is also up there.

All in all they're great movies. Feel like firing up a few of them right now lol. Thanks for starting this thread OP.

 

[Sosokrates]

Thanos

 

[DragoonKain]

Melancholia maybe? Far more of a slow burn drama than your typical natural disaster popcorn flick, but technically it qualifies

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

thanks guys I'll check out some of the classics

Melancholia maybe? Far more of a slow burn drama than your typical natural disaster popcorn flick, but technically it qualifies

technically it does

if we count it as one, it is by far the best film of the genre IMO.

movie is incredible

I'll add it to my list of watched movies, not sure why I left it off

someone else recommended Sunshine which technically probably counts, it's a great film but I consider it more of a scifi thriller

 

[DragoonKain]

Ad Astra could also maybe technically count as one. It isn't in the traditional sense, but the mission Brad Pitt goes on was to save the galaxy or whatever.

Contagion could technically count also.

 

[thegame983]

Does 'The Core' count?

The Core (2003) ⭐ 5.5 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

2h 15m | PG-13

www.imdb.com

woops, mentioned by OP

 

[Fox Mulder]

The moonfall trailer before Spider-Man looked stupid insane.

 

[Biff]

Cool thread idea - thanks for posting. Do you have a top 2 or 3 from the list you'd recommend?

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Cool thread idea - thanks for posting. Do you have a top 2 or 3 from the list you'd recommend?

The Wave is excellent if you just want a solid disaster flick. Greenland is also surprisingly good. I expected trash and was pleasantly surprised.

Dumb blockbuster popcorn film:
Day After Tomorrow - this movie is objectively pretty bad but I always have a fun time watching it

Excellent films that are technically disaster:
Melancholia (depressing drama but great)
Sunshine if you can even count it, like I said earlier tho it’s a sci-fi thriller. While I think Melancholia meets the criteria for this thread not sure I can say Sunshine does

Geo storm is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, just a warning. It has Gerald Butler, whose in Greenland, but it’s a much much stupider movie

Greenland / The Wave / Day After Tomorrow would make a fun triple feature

Watch Day After Tomorrow in the middle maybe as a break as it’s definitely more light in subject matter

Edit: make sure you watch the right The Wave. You want the Norwegian film from 2016

The Wave | Rotten Tomatoes

A Norwegian geologist (Kristoffer Joner) and his family (Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro) fight for survival when a massive landslide causes a 250-foot tidal wave.

www.rottentomatoes.com

That one

 

[Biff]

The Wave is excellent if you just want a solid disaster flick. Greenland is also surprisingly good. I expected trash and was pleasantly surprised.

Dumb blockbuster popcorn film:
Day After Tomorrow - this movie is objectively pretty bad but I always have a fun time watching it

Excellent films that are technically disaster:
Melancholia (depressing drama but great)
Sunshine if you can even count it, like I said earlier tho it’s a sci-fi thriller. While I think Melancholia meets the criteria for this thread not sure I can say Sunshine does

Geo storm is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, just a warning. It has Gerald Butler, whose in Greenland, but it’s a much much stupider movie

Greenland / The Wave / Day After Tomorrow would make a fun triple feature

Watch Day After Tomorrow in the middle maybe as a break as it’s definitely more light in subject matter

Edit: make sure you watch the right The Wave. You want the Norwegian film from 2016

The Wave | Rotten Tomatoes

A Norwegian geologist (Kristoffer Joner) and his family (Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro) fight for survival when a massive landslide causes a 250-foot tidal wave.

www.rottentomatoes.com

That one

I've never heard of either The Wave or Greenland but they both sound right up my alley... Added to the Watch List! Thanks

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I've never heard of either The Wave or Greenland but they both sound right up my alley... Added to the Watch List! Thanks

If you dig the wave I think they recently made a sequel called The Quake

I haven’t gotten around to watching it for some reason. It’s supposed to be good too

 

[Kenpachii]

The wave movie was really good indeed.

 

[El Pistolero]

OP, have you watched the Quake, a movie from Norway? It came out two-three years ago. There's also a South Korean film titled Heundae (Tidal Wave), which is a bit older.

 

[jason10mm]

No mention of the GREATEST NATURAL DISASTER FILM OF ALL TIME??????

The HAPPENING!!!!!!