Talk:List of disaster films

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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)

[edit] Merge proposal

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

Should Lion King really be included under Political Unrest?

For Lady Aleena 02:43, 12 February 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)

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)

Lion King is in no way a disaster film, i'm removing it. --User:Supermatt4818

[edit] Rename list

Should this article be renamed List of disaster films to be inline with other film lists? Lady Aleena 07:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] delete this

list! Many films listed are in wrong categories. Black Tuesday, The Sniper and Armored Car Robbery are terrorist films? Wrong! Steve-O

Then fix it!
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 03:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

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)

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

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)

I think the Terminator movies should be on this list.

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