A serious movie about disaster would need to have the kind of respect for the scale of human suffering that is so markedly missing from pretty well all those jolly movies.

There've been a few movies about the kind of thing that humans do to each other that measure up to that I suppose - mostly about war or the Holocaust. But I can't remember ever seing anything about a natural disaster with those qualities.

Just wait till the Tsunami movies start rolling out, Brad Pitt and so forth.