Coupled with the public's general love for disaster-based blockbusters throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, it's ...

However, spectacle isn’t always a bad thing. Most of the greatest disaster movies combine the thriller, action, drama and suspense genres, and others are unique takes on themes like destruction.

Over the years, few genres have brought moviegoers to theaters and packed auditoriums quite like the disaster film. For pretty much the entire existence of cinema, movies like Airport ...

Butler’s performances as a beloved action star. A throwback to 1990s disaster movies, Geostorm stars Gerard Butler as Jake Lawson, a scientist who designed a satellite system capable of ...

The 1996 disaster movie, Daylight ... but it would prove to be his last action movie to get a wide release until Get Carter in 2000 and Driven in 2001. The description reads, “A group of ...

Their coverage treated the disaster as entertainment rather than ... you were watching a behind-the-scenes special for an action blockbuster — not the real-life burning up of the planet.

Disaster movies used to be all the rage. Back in the 1990s, movie theaters were chock full of one disaster epic after another. Armageddon was a sensation, Independence Day remains an annual watch ...