Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow are just a few disaster movies we think are thrilling from start to finish.

Pick a method of destructive devastation – runaway asteroid, out-of-control inferno, ginormous iceberg or a whole bunch of avian menaces – and Hollywood has likely made a movie out of it.

A system of satellites and lasers that controls the weather, as depicted in the new climate change-inspired disaster film Geostorm: Yeah, sounds pretty laughable. But the premise of the 2004 ...