Hollywood has long had a fixation with showing our collective resilience when nature is at its most ferocious and uncontrollable. The genre of disaster movies emerged when filmmakers decided to show us swirling storms, raging fires, and drowning ships that put ordinary people in unbelievable circumstances. It was, in a way, fitting for the silver screen, where scripted drama and special effects could come together and break life into genuinely spectacular stories, both fictional and real-life-inspired.