Are disaster movie scripts becoming less of a calamity?

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2016)

I still hanker after those halcyon days of the 1970's tragi-pic after being mesmerised at the capsizing dining salon sequence in The Poseidon Adventure as an inquisitive 12 year old.
How that effect was achieved became a consuming desire and kick-started my interest in cinema.
I didn't care a jot about the hackneyed dialogue, characterisation or preposterous scenario.
But that type of blockbuster disaster drama is on the wane. In an age of openness and transparency, fact-based calamity cinema is all the rage, with Sully following Deepwater Horizon by sticking closely to the events that happened during and after tragedy.
Tom Hanks, cinematic short-hand of the everyman character, was the right choice to play Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who breached accepted aviation protocol by ditching his stricken airline in the Hudson River. He is ably, amusingly supported by Aaron Eckhart.