Should disaster movies be exciting or sad?

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I was watching Deep Impact last night. A movie from 1998. The plot is about 2 meteors that were about to destroy the Earth and the plan of choosing only 800 000 people for getting a new life, in the caves with plants, animals, food and some essential things. Organised by national lottery and if you get a call. If you don't and if you're over 50, that's it for you. Movie was set in the USA but according to the plot, this disaster was happening all over the world. We have Tea Leoni as a journalist who was onto something concerning the project, Morgan Freeman as the American President, Robert Duvall, who was in a space ship with bombs and should destroy 1 of 2 meteors and other crew. It was heroic that Tea Leoni switched places with her coworker or boss with a daughter. Instead, she spent her last days with her father. Her mum didn't cope well with the age thing. Elijah, dicovering one of the meteors as a high schooler in a astronomy class and they even named one part of meteors' name after him, he couldn't take with him the family of his sweetheart so, that was painful to watch. I mean, he survived but yes, felt too realistic and yes, scientists and other important people had a free pass. The movie got me thinking and yes, reminding me that i don't like tsunami, not even in my dreams. That was the only after effect of the first meteor. Second one was destroyed. If it wasn't, according to Freeman, there would be 2 years of total darkness. Man... Did you watch this movie?