Watch Our Earthquaking, World-Shaking, Alien-Invading Ultimate Disaster Movie Trailer

Are you looking for the thrills and edge-of-your-seat action of totally predictable plot points? Then get ready for Disaster! The Motion Picture. 

Inspired by San Andreas, the Rock’s seismological thriller that rumbles into theaters on Friday, we took a spin through some famous disaster movies like War of the Worlds, 2012, and World War Z to single out these apocalyptic adventures’ very obvious tropes, and carefully turned them into a super-cut trailer (above). Take notes, aspiring screenwriters.

You’ve got a heroic (and potentially divorced) leading man who’s about to spend some quality time with his beloved kids. Unfortunately, the desperate warnings of some geeky scientist are going ignored by the powers-that-be.

Everyone jokes about the weird phenomena that seem to be happening, until true disaster suddenly strikes: Cities are flattened, countless millions die, and the children of our hero are suddenly in peril. Never fear though! Luckily, their dad is a movie star.