Talk:List of disaster films

message: 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)
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message: Merged with redirect to here. Lady Aleena  10:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: 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)
replies: text: I went ahead and removed some of the more questionable ones. Some I won't argue if they are set back in, but Erin Brockovich? Really? --Bacteria 16:36, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: Should this article be renamed List of disaster films to be inline with other film lists? Lady Aleena 07:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename list 

message: 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)
replies: text: Then fix it!—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 03:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know what you are saying about 'fix it', but this list is so long it seems too daunting to try and fix. I almost tried a couple of times, but gave up. The other thing I thought was that just like the Jumping the Shark page, another editor will probably just come in and revert all the deletions anyway.  Asa01 06:41, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

text:  General fixes to this list will be made as an ongoing process as many films are not only in the wrong catagories but are also do not even fall within the disaster movie gene Deckchair (talk) 12:00, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  easier said than done.  "A disaster film is a film that has an impending or ongoing disaster (e.g. a major fire, earthquake, shipwreck, or an asteroid collision with Earth) as its subject."  Do you really want me to go in and remove all the questionalbe ones?  Cocoon, Zoolander, Alien (doesn't a disaster movie have to take place at least near large masses of people?), Babar: The Movie, JFK?  Come on!  This list is usless.. that's why it should be deleted.  It looks like people are just listing movies here.  Steve-O—Preceding undated comment added by Noirish (talk • contribs) 04:32, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I tried to better define what is a disaster film and what isn't in an expanded introduction. I also sorted through the list and removed some of the more inexplicable entries and categories. Civil unrest? C'mon... any number of non-disaster films could fit into that category (including some of the ones listed there... JFK?). Volatile 22:03, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Terminator 3 is a pretty obvious disaster movie. The first two I find a little more questionable. cmadler 20:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  delete this 

message: 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)
thread_title: Disaster Movie

message: Mad Max series of films
Matrix—Preceding unsigned comment added by Benstern (talk • contribs) 19:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't now what categories/too lazy 

message: 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)
replies: text: I think the whole list needs cleaning really. And a better grasp and definition of what a "disaster film" really is. the All Movie Guide has a pretty good definition here.  The animal based ones seem more based around horror films. Check out the list Category:Natural horror films for the "when nature (animals/plants, rather then enviromental ones) begin to attack. Andrzejbanas (talk) 04:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I took a look at :Category:Natural horror films, and not all of those film are about animals and animal attacks. Plus there are films on the list which have yet to have articles here. So, I think we still may need to spin that section off into its own list. - LA @ 09:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the List of eco-horror films, so I will moved the section there. Most films in the animals section are already listed on the eco-horror list, so I will just add the ones that aren't. - LA @ 23:48, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split animals to List of animal attack films 

message: The headings for this list have been taken from Disaster, Natural disaster, and Man-made hazards articles. - LA @ 22:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is X on the list?

message: *red links - should I add them back? 23:55, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What is gone?

message: :spin List of disaster films#Terrorism off into its own list by combining it with what is at List of war films#War on Terrorism.
::Done. - LA @ 09:16, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: spin List of disaster films#Animals of into its own list. 22:52, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What could be done in the near future?

message: 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)
thread_title: Question

message: Shouldnt these two movies be under cars?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.65.124.161 (talk) 05:13, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Christine and The Car

message: 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)
thread_title:  Movies to add 

message: Superfire (2002)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.44.164.5 (talk) 15:50, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forgot this movie 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Out of scope for a list 

message: 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)
replies: text: I have only just noticed this contribution to the talk page. You correctly point out that many of the entries in this list are not really disaster films. Have a look at the lead for this article to see generally what is regarded as "a disaster film". Often films with the characteristics or "a disaster film" are categorised by reliable sources in another genre. Most horror films, adventure films, science fiction films etc are not disaster films, even when the odd structure, town or planet gets destroyed. I go through this list from time to time rounding up the usual suspects. If you or anyone else think that an entry has been removed incorrectly, please start a section here explaining why you consider it "a disaster film", preferably providing a reliable source which states so. See WP:BRD in such cases. --Mirokado (talk) 15:30, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ya forgot some flix! 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Unsourced entries 

message: --46.130.147.23 (talk) 12:14, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why some disaster film articles don't exist? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Spider films 

message: 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)
replies: text: A citation was provided; do you have reason to believe that it doesn't support this classification for the film? DonIago (talk) 03:00, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Core