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 Any Forumss 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
Oliver Anderson
I like 28 days and weeks later
Jose Powell
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.
Caleb Long
I agree with that. Would of been much better without the kids.
Ian Reyes
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
William Anderson
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.
John Rivera
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
Jacob Brooks
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.
Colton Mitchell
I think the basement scene where they hide from the aliens works very well if you don‘t think about the logic too much
>Knowing with Nicolas Cage Fuck you for even reccomending that piece of shit.
Jonathan Robinson
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.
i remember the first act being utter kino then it devolves into Christianity and shit lel
Ryan Reed
>society maintains the same type of views and laws after the apocalipse I hate this meme
Xavier Cruz
actually looks pretty cool
Gavin Hughes
I'm exactly the same user. 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
Evan Thomas
I thought the same until I read your reply. But now I think it's lame.
Nicholas Smith
>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 fuck. I want the huge traffic jams of people trying to leave the city.
I Am Legend had a couple good scenes of societal collapse
Connor Carter
well ur lame so whatever u think is lame is actually cool anyway
