My favourite part of disaster movies is when people first start realizing the world is ending and seeing their shock and panic. I also like the calm before the storm, where everything is normal and the characters are oblivious to the disaster that's about to happen, but you can feel it in the air but they don't know yet. There's something fun about running around the house gathering supplies and getting ready to flee the city and get away from disaster.
Then usually there's a sleeping scene where the characters have survived the first day, and are now trying to get some rest in a temporary shelter before hitting the road again tomorrow.
What are Cinemaphiles top disaster movies? I like ones that are at least somewhat scary and realistic.
yeah i am the same OP
I love the slow build up of dread.
I would heavily recommend Knowing with Nicolas Cage
>Knowing with Nicolas Cage
Frick you for even reccomending that piece of shit.
filtered hard
That movie is great
i seriously do not get the hate for the movie
aside from the car crash scene with the woman and the goofy deer on fire effect the movie is great.
zoomer literally ripped of its premise when the made the “bart is dead episode” creepypasta
i remember the first act being utter kino then it devolves into Christianity and shit lel
no it doesn't, how can you be this moronic? it actually implies christianity isn't real and instead it's aliens
I like 28 days and weeks later
I watched 28 Weeks Later today, that first scene was great
The first half of this movie is legitimately a master piece.
The second half (after the boat scene) falls off pretty hard I'd say.
I agree with that. Would of been much better without the kids.
I did like the scene where the apache helicopters and tanks were attacking the tripods. The dumb kid running to join the soldiers was stupid, but the army stuff was cool. All the explosions and loud helicopters and guys talking on the radio. Very apocalyptic. Also when the train speeds by all on fire that was cool too
Yeah the army stuff was cool, but at that point when Robby ran over the hill that's where the movie went to shit. Which to be fair was like the last 25 minutes of the money so about 80% of the movie was damn near a master piece.
Maybe in the book the basement scene with the crazy guy was better. Probably the description of the tube needle thing extracting the blood out of the dead guy was really brutal and vivid. But it didn't translate well to the screen. Plus the actor didn't really seem crazy. He just said crazy dialogue, but he didn't "feel" like a real crazy person that would be uncomfortable to have to talk to and negotiate with so he doesn't do something stupid and get everyone killed.
It would have been cooler if he was a prepper guy and he knew all about the aliens and he's been getting ready but nobody would believe him. He tells them all about the aliens and he has pictures and documents etc. And they hide out in the basement and are shocked to see humans getting grinded up by the aliens and make it really disturbing.
I think the basement scene where they hide from the aliens works very well if you don‘t think about the logic too much
Indeed. The part in the basement with the crazy guy is shit and drags the movie down entirely. Then it rushes to the unsatisfying conclusion with the last 5-10 minutes. The fact that Robbie somehow survives without explanation just screams that there was a longer, better cut of this film at some point.
>unsatisfying conclusion
i haven’t read the book but isn’t the conclusion pretty much the same with the protagonist just finding out that the aliens die due to earth bacteria with him having zero impact on the war?
i honestly can’t think if a way to make the ending work in a more satesfying way without completely changing the story to be about a government scientist
Yes. But frankly, that was never my problem with it as it is a logical conclusion. The problem is that the movie goes from him getting captured and blowing up the tripod to the ending in a huge rush. The pacing got fricked, like they just wanted it to be over all the sudden. I feel there was more action and story to be had.
yeah totally agree with you. the tripod explotion should have been cut. all the people trying to rescue cruise is cool but goes against the earlier movie where humans got depicted as panicked and selfish. he and his daughter should have been captured but then the aliens dies and a group of soldiers (including his son) show up and help them out if the cage
I Am Legend, when they're in the car talking about how she got $600 out of the ATM and he's going to meet them out at grandmas, and outside people are all freaking out in the streets. You feel safe and isolated in the car driving by them, but then all of a sudden a sick guy jumps on the windshield suddenly. Also the helicopter scene where people are begging to get across and things start to deteriorate as the crowd gets out of control and there's zombies in the mix and they jump on the helicopter. Saw it in theatres and it was so scary lol
good movie
Not a movie but there is this dev that's making an open-world survival horror War of the Worlds game that looks pretty promising. The discord faq said it gonna be both multiplayer, single-player co-op, PVP, and Aliens vs Humans. Apparently, War of the Worlds is public domain so anyone can use the idea but the models & sounds from the Spielberg version are copyrighted so the dev remade everything as close as possible. I hope it works out for them since most of the few WotW games so far have been meh.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1898920/War_of_the_Worlds/
actually looks pretty cool
I thought the same until I read your reply. But now I think it's lame.
well ur lame so whatever u think is lame is actually cool anyway
>society maintains the same type of views and laws after the apocalipse
I hate this meme
I'm exactly the same anon. Why shit like walking dead pisses me off as we miss the actual depictions of societal collapse.
We nearly experienced it ourselves in the early days of covid, had it been a more severe virus we would have fallen apart. It's sort of weird how things carried on as normal until suddenly it didn't and even during it people desperately tried to cling to normalcy
>Why shit like walking dead pisses me off as we miss the actual depictions of societal collapse.
I hate that shit. They just skip over the best part. One day everything is normal, then all of a sudden it's apocalyptic zombie land.
I want the build up, the ominous warning signs missed by the main characters. I want to see the news broadcasts about the first zombie attacks. I want the hazmat suits freaking out on-lookers. I want to see the characters in disbelief at the news, then calling up family members and making survival plans. I want the scene where people's phones go off with an alert, and the tv stations interrupt a sports broadcast with zombie warnings. I want the normally battle hardened, cynical hospital staff/ambulance crew bewildered and terrified by the new virus. I want to see the president address the nation about the new virus. I want the fake social media websites that don't exist (because of copyright) full of posts from people talking about the outbreak. I want the scene in the situation room where the president is being briefed about the outbreak and how they're going to be moving him to a bunker in the mountains. I want to see the night scene where the city is in complete shambles, fires everywhere, sirens, gun shots, car alarms, people running around, looting, driving recklessly etc. I want the scene where the army is handing out a shitty rushed vaccine to a huge line of people who desperately want it. And the characters can't get it because of some malfunction with the eye reader machine whatever the frick. I want the huge traffic jams of people trying to leave the city.
I Am Legend had a couple good scenes of societal collapse
There was the Dawn of the Dead remake that had a bit of that at the start, but it was less of a buildup and more like it all happened overnight.
That’s why I loved The Last of Us. It does jump foreword a bit but you get a good idea of how it all does down.
Shaun of the Dead did this better than any other zombie film, despite being a comedy.
i want all this but instead of a virus people do some mining on the moon and accidentally open the prison of an eldrich god that starts to turn people into mindless ghouls
did you jump when you saw this scene? I did, shit got me good
I thought that scene was really scary
The first scary movie I ever saw. And damn it scared me. I was seriously afraid I might get attacked by aliens in a cornfield despite living in the suburbs that barely had grass.
i refused to sleep with my windows open even just a crack even in the middle of the summer because i feared that i would hear or see aliens running around the house at night
Literally every time I watch it
This is the best scene from that entire movie, head and shoulders above the rest. Set up was great, monster is revealed but just enough that your imagination fills in the blanks and your reptile brain just has time to register NOT Human before it's gone.
this film might be the favorite, lots of threads about it for some reason. It's pretty damn underrated so
it is on netflix and thanks to the threads i finally watched it beginning to end yesterday
Cloverfield was quite a masterpiece for its genre
same reason why i play dayz
what i really want to be doing is going out hunting and fishing and being alone without any care, have unlimited continues
2012. You know everything that happens before they happen but it's just so over the top and the characters are all lovely. Even the ending song is cheesy but it hits just right after that rollercoaster ride.
The best disaster movie is Miracle Mile because it understands the build up is better than the pay off if you do it right.
i closed my eyes and told my dad to tell me when it is over
saw the movie again years later and it was still scary
does this movie have a similar feeling of dread and slow build up to mass panic?
>that scene in the communications room where they're trying to figure out what to do with the dead bodies
I just watched The Day After Tomorrow and even though it was stupid and full of cliches.... i couldnt help but watch it to the end. If anything, it wasnt stupid enough. We needed more animal attacks and people running down collapsing towers as they freeze from the top.
i love the day after tomorrow, such a cool movie
2012 is one of the best disaster movies of all time and I'm tired of pretending it's not
Look at this scene, it's fricking marvellous
A TRAIN FLIES OVER A PLANE INTO AN OIL REFINERY
2012 is fun but not scary
good to watch on a home theatre with surround sound
its just disaster porn without any stakes or investment, none of the main characters are likeable and the destruction they found themselves in was just so ridiculous that I lost any ability to fear for their safety or root for their success.
the whole movie is just a demo reel to show of what CGI can do
World War Z also gets unnecessary hate when it brings such great spectacle
Just watched War of the Worlds. Easily one of the best Cruise movies I've ever seen. Also probably one of the best Spielberg movies I've seen
It was good, not fricking great, but good