Disaster movies are melodramas. The whole point of making the villain a natural phenomenon is that it can’t be held accountable for its actions. You can’t make it a movie where the hero spends his time chasing down the bad guy à la Dirty Harry, so he can put a bullet in a hurricane. You can’t put a flood on trial and turn it into a court room story. When bad things happen that are beyond your control and there’s nothing you can do about it the story is about the impact a tragedy has on people, a

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