Movies are the best way to indulge the dark fascination topic of natural disasters and the end of the world’s situations.
Hollywood has done a great job by making some great natural disaster movies that serve as a sensible word of warning to everyone for taking care of our valuable Earth as well as for helping each other in times of need.
Let’s take a look at some of the best natural disaster movies in Hollywood
● Twister (1996)
Directed by Jan de Bont, Twister is a Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton’s film who played the roles of husband and wife. Both are advanced storm chasers and do not want to live with each other anymore.
How extremely violent tornadoes make them join together to make a superior weather alert system is the story of the movie. Twister is truly an unforgettable film that ranks at the top of the list of best natural disaster movies in Hollywood
● The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
A film depicting a situation of natural disaster due to global warming was directed by Roland Emmerich. The movie is based on the story of Jack Hall, a climatologist, his equals, and his son who try to stay alive in the hazardous storm that is headed their way.
● The perfect storm (2000)
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, The Perfect storm features a true story of some commercial fishermen who are stuck in deadly danger caused by a hurricane. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Diane Lane starrer movie is one of the best movies in the list of best natural disaster movies of Hollywood.
● Dante’s Peak (1998)
Dante’s Peak is a 1999 thriller that is based on an earthquake. The movie screens a volcanologist who enters at scenery ‘Dante’s Peak’ after an extensive latent volcano.
What happens after that is the real thrill of Roger Donaldson’s dramatization that includes Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, and many more as the star cast of this one of the best natural disaster movies.
- Volcano (1997)
From the list of best natural disaster movies of Hollywood, Volcanois an excellent movie about a threatening scenario where a volcano (caused by an earthquake) continues to erupt in Los Angeles.
The director of the movie is Mick Jackson while Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, and Don Cheadle are included in the star cast of this excellent disaster movie. The volcano is indeed a movie that has the power to inspire its viewers and bring them together.
● Armageddon (1998)
Another one of the best natural disaster movies of Hollywood, directed by Michael Bay, and starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Ben Affleck portrays the situation when N.A.S.A hires a misfit group of deep core drillers to save the world after learning that an asteroid the size of Texas will blow Earth in within no time.
● 2012
This 2009’s film and starring John Cusack, Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Amanda Peet, 2012 is based on a prediction 2012 would be the end of the world due to natural disasters. The movie depicts the scary situations of floods, volcanoes, and earthquakes that cause a huge destruction of the earth and life.
