In the history of cinema, the theme of disaster movies has been an area that many directors and screenwriters have tried to explore. Here are five disaster movies, each of which approaches the theme from a unique perspective and presents a different post-apocalyptic vision for the audience.
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Doomsday Collapse is a disaster movie released by Warner Bros. Pictures in 2015, starring Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Guchino and others.
The story of the film tells the story of 9 large-scale ** events in the California area due to the San Andreas Fault.
Ray Gaines, played by Dwayne Johnson, serves as a pilot in the Air Force Squadron of the Fire Department, flying planes between Los Angeles and San Francisco to find and rescue his young daughter.
On the way through Los Angeles to San Francisco, Johnson suddenly discovers that a huge ** has quietly arrived.
Everything in the city was shattered in an instant, with buildings collapsing, fires, fissures, roads dislocated, and gas stations facing each other across deep canyons.
With this happening, the whole city has become chaotic.
The more serious problem is that this time ** actually destroyed the strong dam.
The flood rushed like a beast to the city that was suffering, and the world seemed to be about to be destroyed.
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2012 is a disaster science fiction film released in 2009, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring John Cusack, Amanda Pitt, and Chiwetel Egaf, among others.
The story of the film tells that in the year 2010, when the end of the world comes, scientists reveal that in 2010, the earth will suffer a serious catastrophe in two years, when the sea will flood the land.
Therefore, the leaders of various countries held a special meeting and planned to build Noah's Ark to save part of humanity in order to continue human civilization.
Most ordinary people are unable to buy a ticket to life, and can only lose their lives in disasters.
In order to avoid panic, this plan must be kept strictly secret. As a result, art curators, politicians and other insiders died mysteriously one after another.
In 2012, the male protagonist Jackson and his children came to Yellowstone National Park for a vacation, only to find that the place had become a forbidden area, the lake had dried up, and the animals had died.
He meets a Mayan named Charlie, who claims that the Earth is on the verge of collapse due to depleted resources and environmental destruction.
Humanity is facing an unprecedented catastrophe, and some countries are privately building spaceships to cope with the crisis.
Jackson didn't believe Charlie at first, until his boss urged him to take his two sons to hide.
So he quickly rushed to his ex-wife's place, escaped with his family, and got the escape route map from Charlie, and rushed to the place where the ark was built.
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The film is a 2012 drama film produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, based on the true events of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Directed by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayana, it stars Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Tom Holland and Geraldine Chaplin.
The story of the film tells the story of Maria and Henry, who take their three sons to Thailand to celebrate Christmas, but the day after Christmas, a beast-like 10,000-foot wave hits them.
Shocked by what she saw, Maria was unable to react for a while, and was unfortunately swept away by a huge wave.
And although Henry grabbed his two sons in time to flee, it was still too late, and the ferocious waters finally broke them away.
Maria, who had been knocked unconscious by the waves, woke up to find herself floating on the surface of the sea, and everything that had surrounded her had been submerged under the water.
Convinced that her family had been killed, she found her eldest son, Lucas, floating on the surface of the sea only a few meters away.
Maria was suddenly shot in the arm, and she decided to do everything she could to leave alive with her eldest son, Lucas.
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The Day After Tomorrow is a disaster science fiction film released in 2004, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Rosen and other actors.
Set against the backdrop of climate change, the film tells the story of a series of extreme weather events that cause global disasters and people's survival.
The film takes place in the not-too-distant future, where sudden climate change has led to extreme weather events around the world.
As Arctic and Antarctic glaciers melt, sea levels rise and global temperatures plummet, the world has entered the prelude to an ice age.
The main characters of the story include Jack Hall, a meteorologist, and his son Sam.
However, when a series of catastrophic meteorological events began to sweep across the planet.
Jack and Sam must struggle to find safe shelter and try to reconnect with their families trapped around the world.
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Japan Sinks is a Japanese sci-fi disaster film adapted from Sakyo Komatsu's name** and directed by director Yasuhiro Yoshida.
The film tells the story of scientists who discovered large-scale crustal movements near the Japanese Trench during a deep-sea survey, which predicted that the Japanese archipelago would soon sink.
Large-scale ** and volcanic eruptions have occurred in various places, and the once prosperous metropolis has sunk into the sea in an instant.
The whole of Japan was in a great panic.
In the film, there will be horror disaster scenes such as 8-level **, submarine volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, which can be called a "disaster concentration camp".