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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
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