best disaster movie?

Poseidon has the best performances for sure, or at least the most enjoyable ensemble cast interactions ... still runs a pretty distant third for me behind Towering Inferno and Earthquake tho

I remember Earthquake mostly for the vibrating seats.

I miss gimmicks like that, even if Sensurround was kind of a fail (only really clicked in Rollercoaster.)

Belated New Year's Resolution: Watch Deluge (1933).

xpost Towering Inferno is great, prob my number one, but I think Poseidon is my second fave. Earthquake is waaaaay down on my list. So boring! So LONG.

When Earthquake was shown on network television they added a bunch of scenes that were deleted from the theatrical version, making it even longer (and the scenes had been cut for a reason.)

Earthquake feels against the grain in that most of its characters are basically rotten people, compared to Irwin Allen’s hero-villain dichotomies

maybe thats why else i didnt like it

Towering Inferno has an insane cast for what's almost a genre film

It also came out in... 1974

I saw the movie Murder by Death in Sensurround--Midway was playing in the next theater over.

The Last Voyage (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqG8WRnbJb0

If you have access to WatchTCM, The Johnstown Flood (1926) is available through 2/7. It also came out on Blu-ray late last year.

The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) also features a settlement swept away by a flood. (I don't remember the flood scenes. I do remember the comic relief shots of a naked miner running away.)

Andromeda Strain hasn’t been mentioned but in my head I think of it as a kid in the 70s as one of these disaster type thrillers.

I just watched that on Criterion last week... it's a very pro-scientist film, unlike a lot of Spielberg stuff where the scientists are invariably sneaky villains

Fuel for thought from a Roland Emmerich interview I did once, when I asked him about "The Day After Tomorrow":

I had a lot of anguish over doing it. I said, I can’t do this again, but it was worth it. Now I’m moving on. When I’m offered a movie where things break or a disaster happens, I immediately say I’ve done that. Also, don’t forget, Independence Day is now called a disaster movie, but it’s about an alien invasion! Hello!? And then Godzilla got called a disaster movie, but in the original Godzilla, Tokyo is in ruins. I only destroyed Madison Square Garden, a couple of buildings, and the Brooklyn Bridge. New York is still standing … on purpose. So it’s a little unfair when people say I’ve done the same movie three times. They’re very different from each other.

Makes you think.