Sometimes all it takes is a film to be entertaining enough, regardless of how dumb it may be.

Really bad, but I absolutely love trash like this for some reason. I can watch movies like The Core over and over.

Same, my wife is a geologist and one of my favorite things is to make her watch cheesy disaster movies with me. The commentary is hilarious.

I wish my wife appreciated my commentary whenever there's an obligatory hacking/software related bit on TV, haha.

Can relate to this, "they apparently wrote their nuclear control software in HTML" haha

Trash disaster movies have their place, 2012, Day After Tomorrow, The Core, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Moonfall, etc. They are all entertaining in their own right, and are usually very self-aware of how stupid they are. Ben Affleck's commentary on Armageddon is gold. Though, I think that film was a higher tier than most of the list here, the Aerosmith song made for that film dominated the summer radio that year. I wish things like that still happened, you'll get a bump on Spotify but its cultural impact is much less.

Heck, my parents and I still get great comedy mileage from Poseidon Adventure memes.

If there's anything I know about 1998, it's that Steven Tyler was dreaming of me, and didn't want to miss a thing. I can't think of the last time a movie moved the cultural dial the way they used to in the 90s. I guess Frozen? It seems to be a lot rarer nowadays.

For me at least, a movie just isn't a spectacle the way it used to be. Going out to see Top Gun: Maverick, and seeing The Batman at a drive-in cinema is probably the closest I've been to that feeling since the original Avatar. Maybe I'm not giving enough credit to the Avengers movies.

Deep Impact doesn't quite deserve a place with the others. Its depiction of an asteroid impact and many other things is surprisingly realistic considering the source material.

>Ben Affleck's commentary on Armageddon is gold.

You no doubt are thinking of his famous anecdote of questioning Michael Bay about training oil drillers to be astronauts, as opposed to the other way around.

Bay's film's approach is correct, though. NASA had by then been flying payload specialists on the shuttle for more than 15 years, because it really is easier to train specialists in some subject to fly in space, than train astronauts an entire specialty for one flight.

Yes, but I know a group of geologists that made a drinking game out of everything the movie got wrong about geology. They are always quite drunk by the end!

Sounds dangerous!

What are you talking about, that movie is a National Treasure.

It made a Deep Impact on me.

Sandworms gotta live somewhere

It really made me think about what might happen The Day After Tomorrow.

I almost feel targeted at this point. Why are all of my favorite movies like this?

It appears you may have made "irony" into a personality trait.

Watching the movie I felt like I had Journeyed to the Center of the Earth.

We'll be hanging in there by a few Threads.

It’s absolutely amazing though.

absolutely amazingly bad though.

i recently (within a few weeks) watched this from beginning to end, and holy cow was i not impressed. to have so many actors of high report to end up such a horrible movie.

They wanted to make a disaster movie, and the movie indeed turned out to be a disaster :)

Is there a global-scale natural disaster movie that is any good?

I thought Shaun of the Dead was good. Also liked A Quiet Place. I don't know if they qualify as "natural disasters", but neither zombie viruses nor aliens are "human made" (depending on the type of zombie virus of course).

Contagion is a very realistic depiction of a global pandemic.

Second this recommendation. I loved Contagion, and watching it during the early days of our own very real recent pandemic put a whole new spin to an already great film.

Greenland is surprisingly good, and scandalously overlooked: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=...

I've always wanted a zombie/apocalypse/disaster movie where everyone works together and rebuilds civilization and the struggles therein, instead of it being about how humans are really evil when the shit hits the fan. So cynical!

>Is there a global-scale natural disaster movie that is any good?

Deep Impact is not a great film, but does a surprisingly good job of telling its story in a moving way.

Its archrival Armageddon is also not a great film, but is arguably even more effective at its job (that being "fun summer popcorn thriller").

It's absolutely atrocious but I've watched it dozens of times and I still love it

Same. The sciencey bits are deliciously absurd, but they all kind of hang together in their ridiculousness.

Unobtanium that gets stronger under pressure and can also generate power, and to tap that power you just need to weld conductors to the hull and plug that into the engine and it goes, just awesome nonsense.

Also it's great to watch Stanley Tucci be sniffy and pert nonstop.

I have a facination with disaster movies. 2012 and The Day after tomorrow are other faves of mine. The holy grail of those movies for me though is Children of Men.

One of these is not like the other…

Did you mean: _that was a really good movie_?

But actually, I can rewatch that movie endlessly on repeat

Opinions on Sharknado movies?

If your going to ditch science, may as well go all in.