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Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

But then sometimes it is sort of a smaller thing, and I feel like it does qualify. So like in the case of โ€“ you know, like a bridge collapse or a collapse tunnel or like daylight Stallone's movie about the one that one of the the New York tunnels was collapsing or collapse like I considered that a disaster movie. So I'm like contradicting myself. And that's what makes this all fun.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. Obviously, surviving the disaster is a big part of the plot point. We know some people won't make it out alive, but usually like most of the A-list cast will make it out alive unless they're really trying to like pull one over on you in a scream sort of way.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. Obviously, surviving the disaster is a big part of the plot point. We know some people won't make it out alive, but usually like most of the A-list cast will make it out alive unless they're really trying to like pull one over on you in a scream sort of way.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. Obviously, surviving the disaster is a big part of the plot point. We know some people won't make it out alive, but usually like most of the A-list cast will make it out alive unless they're really trying to like pull one over on you in a scream sort of way.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. I mean, I guess more recently they may throw you a bone with like a woman as president. But then she's like commissioning the team of men to usually solve the problem. Good point.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. I mean, I guess more recently they may throw you a bone with like a woman as president. But then she's like commissioning the team of men to usually solve the problem. Good point.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. I mean, I guess more recently they may throw you a bone with like a woman as president. But then she's like commissioning the team of men to usually solve the problem. Good point.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah, for sure. And I think we would be remiss if we didn't bring up a little bit of a prickly topic for our African-American listeners. It has long been a movie trope in horror movies, disaster movies or whatever, where the black characters will die almost certainly and usually first. And that has become such a trope.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah, for sure. And I think we would be remiss if we didn't bring up a little bit of a prickly topic for our African-American listeners. It has long been a movie trope in horror movies, disaster movies or whatever, where the black characters will die almost certainly and usually first. And that has become such a trope.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah, for sure. And I think we would be remiss if we didn't bring up a little bit of a prickly topic for our African-American listeners. It has long been a movie trope in horror movies, disaster movies or whatever, where the black characters will die almost certainly and usually first. And that has become such a trope.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

It's become a joke and lampooned in like, you know, the parody movies and stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

It's become a joke and lampooned in like, you know, the parody movies and stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

It's become a joke and lampooned in like, you know, the parody movies and stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

But we have to mention that. And what I'm curious about, and hopefully we'll hear from some of our listeners, if that has now become so ridiculous and crossed over to where it's now just sort of funny and expected and a movie thing and not like truly upsetting. Right. So I'm curious how our African-American listeners feel about this at this point in 2025. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

But we have to mention that. And what I'm curious about, and hopefully we'll hear from some of our listeners, if that has now become so ridiculous and crossed over to where it's now just sort of funny and expected and a movie thing and not like truly upsetting. Right. So I'm curious how our African-American listeners feel about this at this point in 2025. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

But we have to mention that. And what I'm curious about, and hopefully we'll hear from some of our listeners, if that has now become so ridiculous and crossed over to where it's now just sort of funny and expected and a movie thing and not like truly upsetting. Right. So I'm curious how our African-American listeners feel about this at this point in 2025. Yeah.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

I'd vote for Morgan Freeman.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

I'd vote for Morgan Freeman.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

I'd vote for Morgan Freeman.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah, he's been rocking those for a while.