What is your favorite disaster movie or show ?

Deep Impact (1998)

It got less attention because Armageddon came out at the same time, but its a way better apocalypse movie.

I agree, i enjoyed it more than Armageddon. Its also more realistic story.
Absolutely. This has been my favorite end-of-the-world film since I saw it the first time.
(You can find it on Youtube!)
Gotta love Ellie

Day After Tomorrow (2004)

YES! I rewatched recently. I thought it would age poorly but it’s still extremely watchable.
I don't like the part with the wolves on the ship. Always skip that part on every rewatch. Otherwise it's very entertaining.
- Not that there's anything wrong with skipping something, but I'm curious why you don't like that section?

Independence Day (aka ID4) was just a fun, fun time.

Don't Look Up

This movie is depressing
- Honestly, it makes me feel more at peace about our likely demise. I rewatch it when I'm feeling especially pessimistic.

28 Days Later

There is also 28 Weeks Later (2007) very good and underrated zombie movies.
- The opening of Weeks is better but i felt like the rest of Days was better
- I could only take it seriously until ::: spoiler spoiler the helicopter scene. :::
I liked this one. I've only seen it the one time, but it was obviously excellent because it still evokes memories that I liked it.

If we're going "so bad it's good" I'll give you The Core.

I LOVE The Core. It is so stupid on every level that it's fantastic.
Fun fictional movie but there is almost zero or zero science behind it.
- You said disaster movie, not scientifically accurate documentary.

Contagion (2011) remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, even now that I've lived it. Just imagining an encephalitic virus with a 20-30% mortality rate like the one depicted in the movie makes me nauseous. (Loosely based on real life Nipah virus.)

Jude Law selling the fictional version of ivermectin was an eerie prediction.

Mars Attacks! of course.

Because the disaster part is so fundamentally ironic.

Dr. Strangelove

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
"... They were going to annouce it on Thursday."

"Love and monsters" was a great scary conceptualism about humans living in a post apocalyptic bug world but kept it light and comical. Great intro showing the realism of that world followed by a great comical story line. I've seen other descriptions calling it a better "zombieworld".

Zombieland

The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Fantastic set design. All star cast. Oscar winning theme song. Irwin Allen was the master of disaster.

I actually liked the remake movie more Poseidon (2006) but original was good too.

Cloverfield. I watch it often something about it makes me want to rewatch it often

Cats (2019)

Cats is disaster related?
- Well it is a disaster (of a) movie :)

Has to be Volcano (1997) by far. Has the best over the top scene :) https://youtu.be/R01bex9Ejvg?si=yAcwY7vGTxL0JD7s

Holy hell this is great 🤣
- New response just dripped. Google a croissant.
I’ll see your over the top Volcano scene and raise you the grandma in Dante’s Peak dying via boiling-acid-lake-water death scene. How both of these movie came out at the same time AND had so many weird similarities will forever be beyond me.
- I'm in my fourth decade on this planet and I'm still haunted by that shitty movie.
- There must be a name for the phenomenon of two studios releasing similar films almost simultaneously? Volcano / Dante's Peak, Ants / A Bug's Life, Deep Impact / Armageddon, etc.
Is this the one where they use concrete road dividers to stop the lava flow?

Airplane

I wasn't sure whether this counted as a disaster movie since technically no one died (that I remember at least). But I'll upvote it :D

Armageddon. Science aside, it hits all the feels.

It's not just science. You have to simply forget everything you know about science, relationships, the government, space agencies, logic, and smart people, but the payoff is that you get to hear a guy sing about how much he wants to fuck his daughter.

Evolution (2001) IMDB.

Book of Eli (2010) with Denzel Washington is my favorite post-apocalyptic movie.

War of the Worlds (2005) with Tom Cruise is easily one of the most stressful movies I've ever seen, and I love it.

2012

This needs to be way higher. It’s so full of over the top destruction, crazy characters, and a fun message of how people of all classes deserve to fight for survival. I rewatch this movie all the time because it’s just so much fun.

Avenue 5 on HBO was a very fun disaster to watch unfold. Would definitely recommend.

I also enjoyed it but didn't it wind up getting cancelled?
- I've assumed that it didn't get renewed seeing as how there hasn't been another season. such a shame.. Honestly surprised it wasn't more popular.

I feel compelled to add a few:

Titanic
Deepwater Horizon
The Wave
The Impossible

... and so many others. The Towering Inferno gets an honourable mention.

And for those who want an outlandish one: Sharknado. It's so bad, they made a second one.

Actually there is like six Sharknados.
Sharknado (2013)
Sharknado The Second One (2014)
Sharknado Oh Hell No (2015)
Sharknado The 4th Awakens (2016)
Sharknado Global Swarming (2017)
Last Sharknado Its About Time (2018)
- I wonder if they'll ever catch up to The Land Before Time. Hell, I'd pay to watch a crossover: Megalodonado
- I didn't know. No choice, I will have to go look for them.
  So awesome, they made 6 of the series! I'm stunned. 😄

The Road

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/

The best movie I've never watched again.

I can't say that I watch a lot of disaster movies all that often, however in terms of TV shows I had a good time watching Jericho. Honestly it's probably about time for me to re-watch it again.

I'm surprised this one died. It wasn't the best show, but worse shows have gone on longer.
Did you read the comic continuation? There’s an official season 3 in comic book form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Season_3:_Civil_War
- WHAT! No, I hadn't seen this before! I'll have a look, thank you!!
It wa quite nice but on rewatch I got very annoyed by the weird background music

have elements of disaster which is good enough here

Going by this criterion, my favorite disaster movie is Con Air (1997)

Airplane! (1980)

"Surely you can't be serious?!"

"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

By Dawn's Early Light (1990)

Fail Safe (1964)

A Boy And His Dog (1975)

Dr. Strangelove (1964) -- This movie had me cracking up the entire time

Fun movies: Airplane, Armageddon, Independence Day Scary movies: 28 days later, alien, world war z. Thoughtful or fun tv: Silo, Jericho, station 11.

Airplane is a completely different kind of movie altogether.
- "It's a completely different kind of movie!"
- Well, it's a parody of the airport disaster movies from it's time. They died off, or survived.
Silo was astonishingly good. The set and costume design really evoked the world.

Station 11 on Max is a thoughtful, heartfelt, and artistic post apocalypse show. Very different from the standard fair.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10574236/

Came here to answer this. Don't confuse it with Station 19 (Eleven is spelled out), my sister did and watched 2eps before she relized it was not what I suggested :) I've watched well over 10 times at this point. I was listening to the soundtrack (Dan Romer of FarCry5 soundtrack fame) when I came across this post, I usually listen to it at least once a day. Every creative aspect of the show, writing, directing, acting, music, sound design, is so god damn good. Anyone that hasn't seen it, I suggest at least getting to ep3 before judging. If you like it, rewatch it and the commentary after the episodes (X out the stupid automatic Next Episode. Also do that for ep7 on the first watch just to get to the end of the credits). There's so many little things to notice, and reoccuring themes through out the show, it has a lot of replay value. I've been thinking about starting a Station Eleven community on Lemmy but haven't really seen it mentioned anywhere until now.

Twisted Metal (2023 on peacock) was surprisingly good, even though you kinda have to ignore its source material to really enjoy the show, because beyond a character and cars with guns, it really doesn’t follow much else.

You need to watch Sam Esmail's newest movie Leave The World Behind. It just premiered on Netflix this past weekend. It's mind-blowing.

I just watched Leave the World Behind and it’s pretty good.

I wanted to like it more than I did but did not feel like I wasted my time. Could have been a bit shorter, imo
- Yeah it’s not amazing but I was entertained.

Since no one else has mentioned it: Shin Godzilla. While I'm happy to watch some goofy movie about giant monsters punching each other as well, this movie brings Godzilla to his roots as an allegory for disasters. The movie was apparently influenced by the 2011 earthquake/tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident as well as the classic Hiroshima/Nagasaki reference that inspired the original Godzilla. To top it all off, it was directed by the creator of Evangelion.

Have you seen Godzilla Minus One? It was excellent. One of the best movies I've seen in a long time.

A lot of great movies/shows are already mentioned! I wanted to add a quite unknown one "The Salute of the Jugger". And when I think of it with a similar scenario "Mad Max Fury Road"

Movies: The Road (2009) & Mad Max Fury Road (2015)

TV: The Last of Us

The Postman. A shitty movie based off an absolutely amazing book.

Starting to get into Monarch (Apple TV). Sweet Home (Netflix) just released their second season and I'm geeked to check that out.

I think my favorite Movie in the Disaster category is going to be This is the End (2013).

Oh man thanks for the recommendation. I don't know what happened to my Netflix but there was a point where I kept getting recommended these dubbed Korean shows that were amazing. All of us are dead. Silent sea. Squid game. So good. I'm definitely going to watch this one.
I loved Sweet Home will defiantly watch second season. There are few more similar shows. Alice in Borderland (2020) and Duty After School (2023)
- We're caught up on Alice and are awaiting a second season of Hellbound (2021).
  Just added Duty to our watch list.

I enjoyed Greenland with Gerrard Butler. I appreciated the focus on the human element that didn't feel annoying.

Called Greenland.
Clearly goes to Iceland.

I actually liked the Sharknado movies. They're dumb as shit, but it's a good stupid kinda laugh.

Dantes peak is a movie I think I liked more than other folks, not my fav but definitely in the rotation.

Tidal Wave (2009) is a Korean disaster flick that has some of the most realistic tsunami scenes I've ever seen (some fun over-the-top ones too). Takes a while to get to the action, it makes sure you care about the characters before all hell breaks loose. Definitely worth checking out.

Geostorm is one of my guilty pleasures!

Falls into the category "so bad it's ~~watchable~~ good".

I unironically enjoyed Knowing (2009).

Also more light-hearted - Seeking A Friend for the End of the World (2012)

Not entirely disaster films, but the world ends in both.

I love disaster films and I thought "Knowing" was great. I do think the ending could've been better, but everything up to that point was very entertaining.
- Have to agree with you there. The ending was the weakest part of it.

Wyrmwood! Australian zombie movie. Hilariously ridiculous!

It's a Disaster (2012) very fun little indie with David Cross

The Posiden Adventure. I must have seen this 20 times growing up in the 80s.

The Host

This is one of my favorites too, i heard 2nd coming out on of this days.

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