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I've nealy completed the list of disater movies article, you can add more movies (disaster movies) if you wish Storm05 20:21, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Merged with redirect to here. Lady Aleena 10:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC) For Lady Aleena 02:43, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Should Lion King really be included under Political Unrest?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.30.72.136 ( talk) 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
this list is an absolute mess and therefore essentially useless. it doesn't follow the relatively narrow and relatively useful defintion of a disaster movie given in the main article. i would attempt to fix it but i have a feeling these 'list of ____ movies' pages are impossible to control. people will just keep adding stuff that fits their own personal definition of the genre or type of film being listed. i would just advise any thinking of using this list to take it with a grain of salt. Aglie 03:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Lion King is in no way a disaster film, i'm removing it. -- User:Supermatt4818— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.81.154 ( talk) 21:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Should this article be renamed List of disaster films to be inline with other film lists? Lady Aleena 07:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
list! Many films listed are in wrong categories. Black Tuesday, The Sniper and Armored Car Robbery are terrorist films? Wrong! Steve-O—Preceding undated comment added by Noirish ( talk • contribs) 02:07, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
I think the Terminator movies should be on this list.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.109.68.32 ( talk) 11:37, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
I myself question if many of these are really "disaster" movies. Cast Away may start with a disaster, but it is on such a small scale that only a few people were actually involved. In a great many of the movies listed, the disaster is nothing but a MacGuffin to ge tthe movie started, not the actual plot of the movie. Otherwise, everything from Dog Day Afternoon to Titan AE could qualify as a "disaster movie". 75.120.89.159 22:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Mad Max series of films Matrix—Preceding unsigned comment added by Benstern ( talk • contribs) 19:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
It is just a thought since that list is long, but I won't do it unless there is a great need for it. - LA @ 02:08, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
If you look at the history, you will see all the clean up that I have been doing to this list, but it has a way to go yet. Any input would be gratefully received. - LA @ 02:24, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
After reading the article on disaster, I decided to use the headings there on this list. I haven't used them all since I don't know enough films to do so now. Some of the headings on the companion articles on disaster have their own film lists, so I just linked to them. Here is a short list of changes to this list. For more details please see the history. - LA @ 22:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
The headings for this list have been taken from Disaster, Natural disaster, and Man-made hazards articles. - LA @ 22:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I alphabetized all of the lists.
The first paragraph is largely correct when it states "Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster", unfortunately the list does not reflect this with the inclusion of various movies that fall way outside this description and the genre of disaster film. Either the title of the article should be changed to "movies which feature disasters" or the content should be amended. I will be (again) removing the most dubious ones (movies which plainly do not fall withing the disaster genre) as a starter and then examine many of the others which probably be in this list. Please discuss any changes that may be unjustified before attempting to revert wholesale ,Cheers Deckchair ( talk) 11:58, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
You have stated that i need to read read the articles, whereby you need to re-read my statement "i.e. films which fall within the disaster movie genre" Many of the films you have listed may contain a disaster but that does not make them disaster movies. At the moment your list is neither fish nor fowl. It either needs to be a list of disaster movies (which it currently isnt as many of the films are not within the disaster moved genre) or it needs to be a list of movies which contains disasters (which it currently is). There is a big difference between the two. I will continue to remove films which contain disasters if they do not fall into the "Disaster movie catagory" because that is what this article purports to be (a list of disaster movies"
Once more i would like to point out why we are working at cross purposes. You currently have a "list of films which contain disasters" - I am working on the "list of disaster films" as per the article description. My changes are correct as per the article title. All movies in this list should be disaster movies and not movies from other genres unless there is a crossover i.e. Titanic (disaster/romance).
You also state "you still have no given any explanation as to why you are wholesale ripping films out of their proper placements". Yes i have. As i have already stated I have removed these movies as they are not disaster movies, they are movies which contain disasters which as i explained above are two completely different things. Cheers Deckchair ( talk) 13:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there any reason why the list cant be in two sections. Disaster Movies and Movies with Disasters in them. That way everyone is happy. One way of determining which goes where is if the movie has its own entry and is refered in that entry as a Disaster Movie. Two movies show the difference. Knowing and The Day after Tommorow Both have multiple types of disasters in them. But one is about people trying to survive the disaster. The other is about man trying to trying to understand what a series of numbers on missing page means. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.76.81.200 ( talk) 12:19, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm wondering where to put a certain movie which fits pretty much every single category except "Avalanches" and "Transportation Disasters". Its called Seven Signs of the Apocalypse. -- haha169 ( talk) 01:44, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Shouldnt these two movies be under cars?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.65.124.161 ( talk) 05:13, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I will "soon" remove all redlink entries which do not have an inline reference to a reliable source providing information confirming their status as notable disaster films. A link to a catch-all site such as AllRovi is probably not enough to establish notability. You would be welcome to restore such an entry with a suitable reference. If the film really is notable you should consider creating an article for it. -- Mirokado ( talk) 20:57, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
We clearly need to tidy this article up, so I have transferred the redlinks to List_of_disaster_films/Sandbox. As articles are created, links can be moved back to the main article, I'm happy to help with any merging. -- Mirokado ( talk) 00:39, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
I have removed part of the Aliens section list since it appears to be an indiscriminate listing of science fiction films scraped from somewhere with no effort to format it either consistently with the rest of the article or even in a human-readable form. Many of the films included are clearly not disaster films although some may be. The original author should take the trouble to verify each film and format the entries correctly. Somebody else is of course welcome to do that if they wish, but there is no excuse for such slapdash content preparation. -- Mirokado ( talk) 23:45, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
I have just noticed that the edit is marked as minor in my watchlist. That must have been a slip of the finger, it is of course not a minor edit! Sorry. -- Mirokado ( talk) 00:10, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Japan sinks. Not really the end of the world film. More like the end of Japan lol. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.247.134 ( talk) 06:04, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Absolute zero http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451998/ earth magnetic field changes / causes ice age — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.118.28.43 ( talk) 06:49, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Why haven't people bothered to subscribe to the notion that a disaster movie is a film where:
It should not take too much common sense to form a consensus concerning what a disaster movie is or isn't. Kransky ( talk) 21:19, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure [the disaster is not of a fanciful, science fiction or otherwise unrealistic nature] would work or not. The other two I'm fully in agreement with; excluding alien invasion from war, for the time being. I think my next step will be to make a set of tables here, with a single word 'description' tab under each category. From there it will be much easier to figure out what is/not a disaster worth noting. Lostinlodos ( talk) 17:09, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Superfire (2002) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.44.164.5 ( talk) 15:50, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
A list of all the movies in different languages across the world is too big to fit in a page. It comes under the scope of a category. And we already have them. Anu Raj ( talk) 08:37, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
What about all those hundreds of other great disaster movies, like Where Eagles Dare (disaster for the Germans), or Black Beauty (disaster for the horse), or Saving Mr. Banks?! (disaster for Disney).
Those qualify as "disaster" films about as much as half your list. I mean, Cloverfield? Battle LA? and Gamera..?! Seriously? And True Lies?? WHAT?! Worthless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.210.60.112 ( talk) 05:19, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.imdb.com/. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Mirokado ( talk) 12:15, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
I have again removed many unsourced entries. The low quality of these updates is exemplified by the addition of an incorrect wikilink presumably intended to refer to Bedtime Stories (film) which, described as a family-fantasy-comedy, is obviously no disaster film. Contributor notified. -- Mirokado ( talk) 15:17, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
-- 46.130.147.23 ( talk) 12:14, 1 June 2016 (UTC) Why some pages have red links and don't exist?
Since spiders are NOT insects, shouldn't the films that have spiders be moved to the "Animals" section or get their own section? Charlotte Allison (Morriswa) ( talk) 16:40, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
I am inclined to remove The Last Man on Earth - for example - because the disaster, whatever it was, occurs before the movie begins. In a "Disaster film" the disaster its self has to be heavily featured. Also movies that do not threaten pretty much all mankind (or at least all the people in the Skyscraper, ocean liner, or whatever) really (opinion) do not belong. Your thoughts? Carptrash ( talk) 17:48, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
I have concerns about using promotional text as a source for this list. Can you back it up with a third-party source? DonIago ( talk) 14:53, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
I don't know if I'd consider The Core to be a natural disaster movie given it was human actions that caused it in the first place (i.e. The DESTINI project) 202.153.211.166 ( talk) 02:18, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
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I've nealy completed the list of disater movies article, you can add more movies (disaster movies) if you wish Storm05 20:21, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Merged with redirect to here. Lady Aleena 10:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC) For Lady Aleena 02:43, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Should Lion King really be included under Political Unrest?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.30.72.136 ( talk) 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
this list is an absolute mess and therefore essentially useless. it doesn't follow the relatively narrow and relatively useful defintion of a disaster movie given in the main article. i would attempt to fix it but i have a feeling these 'list of ____ movies' pages are impossible to control. people will just keep adding stuff that fits their own personal definition of the genre or type of film being listed. i would just advise any thinking of using this list to take it with a grain of salt. Aglie 03:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Lion King is in no way a disaster film, i'm removing it. -- User:Supermatt4818— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.81.154 ( talk) 21:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Should this article be renamed List of disaster films to be inline with other film lists? Lady Aleena 07:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
list! Many films listed are in wrong categories. Black Tuesday, The Sniper and Armored Car Robbery are terrorist films? Wrong! Steve-O—Preceding undated comment added by Noirish ( talk • contribs) 02:07, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
I think the Terminator movies should be on this list.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.109.68.32 ( talk) 11:37, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
I myself question if many of these are really "disaster" movies. Cast Away may start with a disaster, but it is on such a small scale that only a few people were actually involved. In a great many of the movies listed, the disaster is nothing but a MacGuffin to ge tthe movie started, not the actual plot of the movie. Otherwise, everything from Dog Day Afternoon to Titan AE could qualify as a "disaster movie". 75.120.89.159 22:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Mad Max series of films Matrix—Preceding unsigned comment added by Benstern ( talk • contribs) 19:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
It is just a thought since that list is long, but I won't do it unless there is a great need for it. - LA @ 02:08, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
If you look at the history, you will see all the clean up that I have been doing to this list, but it has a way to go yet. Any input would be gratefully received. - LA @ 02:24, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
After reading the article on disaster, I decided to use the headings there on this list. I haven't used them all since I don't know enough films to do so now. Some of the headings on the companion articles on disaster have their own film lists, so I just linked to them. Here is a short list of changes to this list. For more details please see the history. - LA @ 22:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
The headings for this list have been taken from Disaster, Natural disaster, and Man-made hazards articles. - LA @ 22:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I alphabetized all of the lists.
The first paragraph is largely correct when it states "Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster", unfortunately the list does not reflect this with the inclusion of various movies that fall way outside this description and the genre of disaster film. Either the title of the article should be changed to "movies which feature disasters" or the content should be amended. I will be (again) removing the most dubious ones (movies which plainly do not fall withing the disaster genre) as a starter and then examine many of the others which probably be in this list. Please discuss any changes that may be unjustified before attempting to revert wholesale ,Cheers Deckchair ( talk) 11:58, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
You have stated that i need to read read the articles, whereby you need to re-read my statement "i.e. films which fall within the disaster movie genre" Many of the films you have listed may contain a disaster but that does not make them disaster movies. At the moment your list is neither fish nor fowl. It either needs to be a list of disaster movies (which it currently isnt as many of the films are not within the disaster moved genre) or it needs to be a list of movies which contains disasters (which it currently is). There is a big difference between the two. I will continue to remove films which contain disasters if they do not fall into the "Disaster movie catagory" because that is what this article purports to be (a list of disaster movies"
Once more i would like to point out why we are working at cross purposes. You currently have a "list of films which contain disasters" - I am working on the "list of disaster films" as per the article description. My changes are correct as per the article title. All movies in this list should be disaster movies and not movies from other genres unless there is a crossover i.e. Titanic (disaster/romance).
You also state "you still have no given any explanation as to why you are wholesale ripping films out of their proper placements". Yes i have. As i have already stated I have removed these movies as they are not disaster movies, they are movies which contain disasters which as i explained above are two completely different things. Cheers Deckchair ( talk) 13:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there any reason why the list cant be in two sections. Disaster Movies and Movies with Disasters in them. That way everyone is happy. One way of determining which goes where is if the movie has its own entry and is refered in that entry as a Disaster Movie. Two movies show the difference. Knowing and The Day after Tommorow Both have multiple types of disasters in them. But one is about people trying to survive the disaster. The other is about man trying to trying to understand what a series of numbers on missing page means. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.76.81.200 ( talk) 12:19, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm wondering where to put a certain movie which fits pretty much every single category except "Avalanches" and "Transportation Disasters". Its called Seven Signs of the Apocalypse. -- haha169 ( talk) 01:44, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Shouldnt these two movies be under cars?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.65.124.161 ( talk) 05:13, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I will "soon" remove all redlink entries which do not have an inline reference to a reliable source providing information confirming their status as notable disaster films. A link to a catch-all site such as AllRovi is probably not enough to establish notability. You would be welcome to restore such an entry with a suitable reference. If the film really is notable you should consider creating an article for it. -- Mirokado ( talk) 20:57, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
We clearly need to tidy this article up, so I have transferred the redlinks to List_of_disaster_films/Sandbox. As articles are created, links can be moved back to the main article, I'm happy to help with any merging. -- Mirokado ( talk) 00:39, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
I have removed part of the Aliens section list since it appears to be an indiscriminate listing of science fiction films scraped from somewhere with no effort to format it either consistently with the rest of the article or even in a human-readable form. Many of the films included are clearly not disaster films although some may be. The original author should take the trouble to verify each film and format the entries correctly. Somebody else is of course welcome to do that if they wish, but there is no excuse for such slapdash content preparation. -- Mirokado ( talk) 23:45, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
I have just noticed that the edit is marked as minor in my watchlist. That must have been a slip of the finger, it is of course not a minor edit! Sorry. -- Mirokado ( talk) 00:10, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Japan sinks. Not really the end of the world film. More like the end of Japan lol. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.247.134 ( talk) 06:04, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Absolute zero http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451998/ earth magnetic field changes / causes ice age — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.118.28.43 ( talk) 06:49, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Why haven't people bothered to subscribe to the notion that a disaster movie is a film where:
It should not take too much common sense to form a consensus concerning what a disaster movie is or isn't. Kransky ( talk) 21:19, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure [the disaster is not of a fanciful, science fiction or otherwise unrealistic nature] would work or not. The other two I'm fully in agreement with; excluding alien invasion from war, for the time being. I think my next step will be to make a set of tables here, with a single word 'description' tab under each category. From there it will be much easier to figure out what is/not a disaster worth noting. Lostinlodos ( talk) 17:09, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Superfire (2002) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.44.164.5 ( talk) 15:50, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
A list of all the movies in different languages across the world is too big to fit in a page. It comes under the scope of a category. And we already have them. Anu Raj ( talk) 08:37, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
What about all those hundreds of other great disaster movies, like Where Eagles Dare (disaster for the Germans), or Black Beauty (disaster for the horse), or Saving Mr. Banks?! (disaster for Disney).
Those qualify as "disaster" films about as much as half your list. I mean, Cloverfield? Battle LA? and Gamera..?! Seriously? And True Lies?? WHAT?! Worthless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.210.60.112 ( talk) 05:19, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.imdb.com/. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Mirokado ( talk) 12:15, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
I have again removed many unsourced entries. The low quality of these updates is exemplified by the addition of an incorrect wikilink presumably intended to refer to Bedtime Stories (film) which, described as a family-fantasy-comedy, is obviously no disaster film. Contributor notified. -- Mirokado ( talk) 15:17, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
-- 46.130.147.23 ( talk) 12:14, 1 June 2016 (UTC) Why some pages have red links and don't exist?
Since spiders are NOT insects, shouldn't the films that have spiders be moved to the "Animals" section or get their own section? Charlotte Allison (Morriswa) ( talk) 16:40, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
I am inclined to remove The Last Man on Earth - for example - because the disaster, whatever it was, occurs before the movie begins. In a "Disaster film" the disaster its self has to be heavily featured. Also movies that do not threaten pretty much all mankind (or at least all the people in the Skyscraper, ocean liner, or whatever) really (opinion) do not belong. Your thoughts? Carptrash ( talk) 17:48, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
I have concerns about using promotional text as a source for this list. Can you back it up with a third-party source? DonIago ( talk) 14:53, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
I don't know if I'd consider The Core to be a natural disaster movie given it was human actions that caused it in the first place (i.e. The DESTINI project) 202.153.211.166 ( talk) 02:18, 23 March 2023 (UTC)