I thought it would be fun to start some discussions from a family card game, Movie Talk, which I never got to play with my family. The forty-fourth card I pulled said:
“Popular films about natural disasters include Twister, about tornadoes, Deep Impact, about asteroids, and The Day After Tomorrow, about global warming. Dante’s Peak and Volcano depict disastrous volcanic eruptions.
What is your favorite disaster film? Why?”
I don’t really remember The Day After Tomorrow very well, but I remember liking it. I watched it for the first, and only, time in my Freshman year Earth and Space science class. It may not have been an amazing movie, but it got us out of doing any kind of classwork, and that make for a good movie in my book. I also like Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Emmy Rossum.
For me, I haven’t seen a whole lot of Disaster films with natural disasters in them. The most I watch are on bad movie nights with my friends of family. Off the top of my head the first two that came to mind were Sharknado and Hurricane Heist. Both ridiculous, but both fun. Sharknado is insane in its plot, but has fun characters and cool ideas. Hurricane Heist is so insane that it even suggests there is such thing as a hurricane with a vendetta, showing a skull within the clouds of the hurricane multiple times in the movie. They’re both fun to sit down and make fun of with your friends.
If we’re talking about non-natural Disaster films, then my favorite would have to be Gojira (1954). The destruction in that movie is devastating and the horror among the people that Godzilla causes is shown in pretty gruesome detail. Godzilla himself is also an allegory for nuclear weapons.
I would love recommendations for more Disaster movies, as I’m not very well-versed in the genre and would be very interested in watching more.
TLDR: What is your favorite disaster film? Why?
Submitted September 05, 2020 at 05:00AM by DParks247 https://ift.tt/32SlIMI