Blog:My Top Ten Disaster Films Worse than Geostorm, The Core and Armageddon

Geostorm and The Core is an disaster film that gives mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and audiences, while Armageddon gives positive reviews from audiences, however I do enjoy it and I actually like it. If you see my list, you never see it coming. This countdown is inspired by Stephenfisher2001.

Atomic Train


This one had generic story that train is holding the bomb that causing to be huge bomb in Colorado at all. It also overuses generic sound effects that is obviously ripoff from better films. It was a good idea, but it was executive meddling.

Independence Day: Resurgence


This film is unnecessary since the first film has the perfect ending. Without Will Smith, it is rehashed of the first film, the original characters are absent. There is originally going to be sequel, but the director says he regrets for making third film.

Meteor (1979)


The missiles and satellites models look more like toys, and it's obvious when you can actually see their screws. It is too much boring and unnecessary dialogue and scenes. It was made a cash in for disaster films as well as Star Wars films. It reuses a lot of stock footage which is blatantly obvious before.

Titanic II


Yet another low budget movie that has ugly special effects for the tsunami, and as well as the breaking icebergs and even and floating iceberg that was heading straight to the ship. The title is misleading because they did not get a sequel as it was made by The Asylum. The DVD cover is also misleading since the ship, as well as the location ship in the movie, is actually the RMS Queen Mary, a museum ship in Long Beach, California, which looks nothing like the Titanic.

Left Behind (2014)


The subject matter of the end of the world is dumb and cliché ridden. It doesn't feels like it's scary. It lacks of drama. The religious themes of the film are highly offensive and ham-fisted. It's like almost like a Westboro-Christian propaganda film in which only the elected people, the pure righteous and the children are going to Heaven while everyone else will be forced to suffer God's wrath. There is product placement such as Chick-Fil-A. A lots of scenes is distracting. The poster is misleading because while Nicolas Cage's character gets a fair amount of screen time, the film mainly focuses on Chloe, Buck, the passengers and no one else in the film.

Rise of the Zombies


It is pretty much a generic zombie movie that steals a lot of elements from The Walking Dead, and this movie tries so hard to be a Walking Dead look like Dora the Explorer style, but it fails miserably. The children is turning into zombies is pointless. The original title is ripping off of The Walking Dead series. The title is also misleading because the title, and as well of a premise that stated that the zombies were rising at the beginning of the movie left before the zombies actually happened, but at the very opening scenes of the movie it seems pretty clear that the zombies have already risen.

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


It tries hard to conclude this chapter of the Poseidon stories, but they failed to do so leaving the film into an unsatisfying conclusion of the two-part Poseidon series. None of the new characters are likable. They can't decide what genres is. The trailer and posters are minor and predictable at all.

Disaster Movie


It's filled to the brim with gross-out jokes and other forms of toilet humor, racist jokes, homophobic jokes, transphobic jokes, and sex jokes. An example is the Amy Winehouse parody burping and not stopping for a very long time. Multiple out-of-place cameos, especially from Michael Jackson (a year before his death), Justin Timberlake, or any other celebrity that was popular back in 2008. The awful acting can ruin a somewhat funny scene, especially from Kim Kardashian. Terrible and unlikable characters. First, Will is a bland and uninteresting action hero. Second, his girlfriend, Amy, is a generic forced romantic interest. Third, Calvin is a token African American guy who is irritatingly unfunny, always saying perverted stuff, and behaves uncomfortably and passive-aggressively. Lastly, Juney (a parody of Juno MacGuff) is an annoying character because she only speaks in teenage hipster lingo. Airplane! already did the film's concept decades earlier and way better. The setting has no dark atmosphere to the end of the world, and it looks fake, much like Friedberg and Seltzer's other movies. The story is horrendous, and the film isn't invested with its world's end plotline and wants to shoehorn sketches that have nothing to do with the apocalypse, such as the "dance battle" scene. The pacing is horrific and sluggish. Despite the film being only 87 minutes long, some of the scenes feel like they drag on for a very long time. The longest the film can go without making a new reference is 4 minutes and 20 seconds! The humour is minimal, merely being based on popular films of 2007 or 2008 and toilet humour. Several continuity errors. For example, in one scene, Amy gets a facial cut, but in the next scene, it disappears with no explanation. Too many pop-culture references. In one scene where Juney and Paulie are talking, they referred both Facebook and eBay by their actual names, but on-screen, the parody names are shown (Facenook and uPay). It has some foolish ideas including rabid and monstrous chipmunks who are parodies of Alvin and the Chipmunks and an evil Kung Fu Panda (a parody of Po from Kung Fu Panda). Speaking of Alvin and Chipmunks and Kung Fu Panda, their costumes or puppets are horrible and hideous to look at, especially the Kung Fu Panda costume, which has horrendous lip-syncing.

Speed 2: Cruise Control


Another film that is unnecessary since the first film already had ending. The only reason Fox made it was so that it could continue making money off of the Speed name. Because of Keanu Reeves' refusal to reprise his role as Jack Traven, Jack was rewritten (near-effortlessly) into the character of Alex Shaw (Jason Patric’s character). Alex and Annie have a severe lack of chemistry with each other. The first half of the movie is very formulaic and pointless (eg. when Alex is in pursuit on his motorcycle chasing a thief in a van carrying stolen computers.) There is misleading poster since the boat is shown exploding on one of the film posters, but the boat doesn't blow up at all in the film.

The Swarm


This movie officially turned the disaster movie genre into a dead horse, with no room for any scares at all. To add of insult of injury: The special effects of the African killer bees. It has been known to be pretty atrocious, making the effects for the killer bees were pretty weak. Looking very fake, laughable, and not too scary at all. The whole story is just lousy, and cliche, and none of the parts that are too terrifying, or anything scary at all, also, the whole plot is just outright boring, with nothing exciting, or any other interesting stuff going on, and the whole movie so tried to be all scary, and even serious, even the other bad horror, and disaster movies like Dracula A.D. 1972, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Airport 1975 and The Terror had fun moments. Some of the trailers, and TV spots made the movie look like some fun-thrilling-disaster-horror movie when most of thrills and horror stuff actually happened in the third act.

Lights! Camera! Failure!