History Film / SanAndreas

** The girl from the beginning of the movie shows complete disregard of driving safety (averting her eyes from the road too long to drink alcohol from the back seat or to check on her cellphone) while going uphill on a two-way road at the side of a cliff with incoming traffic, making you think a near-miss or a head-on collision is bound to happen. Turns out a random rock-fall is what knocks her off the road.

** The protagonist, who is a trained rescue helicopter pilot, ignores orders and deserts his job and fellow rescue workers to travels hundreds of miles to get to his family.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Emma and Blake remain perfectly made-up throughout most of the movie. Emma, who gets very grubby during the first quake, even finds the time to wash the blood off her face, reapply her makeup, and go through a complete wardrobe change at one point. It really is way too obvious for comfort. Even when Blake is drowning, visibly inhaling water, her beauty is on full display.

* HisStoryRepeatsItself: Ray could not save one of his daughters from drowning. His other daughter is drowning. [[spoiler:This time he will manage to save her.]]

* MaleGaze: Gugino and Daddario have quite a few scenes where their faces are, for lack of a better term, not the focus of the shot. [[spoiler: Even in the climax when Blake (Daddario) is drowning and visibly inhaling water, it comes into play.]]

* MsFanservice: The '''very first time''' we see Blake, she's in a black bikini. A lot of her scenes toward the end of the film, in a ''very'' form-fitting (and later soaking-wet) red tank top, also qualify. She's played by Creator/AlexandraDaddario, who often serves as this.

* TheDulcineaEffect: Subverted. Ben runs some risks for Blake, but his actions repeatedly make clear that he and his brother come first. After all, he only met her that day. However, his reaction to her after seeing her risk her life to keep Ollie safe veers into this trope, with him dreamily calling her amazing.

* TheDulcineaEffect: Averted. Ben runs some risks for Blake, but his actions repeatedly make clear that he and his brother come first. After all, he only met her that day.

** BigSisterInstinct: Blake herself has no qualms risking her life to pull Ollie to safety and does so several times throughout the film.

* BigBrotherInstinct: While Ben does his best to help Blake, if punch comes to shove, it is obvious that his little brother comes first to him. That said,
* BigSisterInstinct: Blake herself has no qualms risking her life to pull Ollie to safety and does so several times throughout the film.

* BigBrotherInstinct: While Ben does his best to help Blake, if punch comes to shove, it is obvious that his little brother comes first to him.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Emma and Blake remain perfectly made-up throughout most of the movie. Emma, who gets very grubby during the first quake, even finds the time to wash the blood off her face, reapply her makeup, and go through a complete wardrobe change at one point. It really is way too obvious for comfort.

* DrowningPit: [[spoiler:Blake, who is locked in a room and drowns before her father can rescue her. She gets better, though.]]

* MaleGaze: Gugino and Daddario have quite a few scenes where their faces are, for lack of a better term, not the focus of the shot. [[spoiler: Even in the climax when Blake (Daddario) is on the verge of drowning, it comes into play.]]

* [[spoiler:DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Daniel Riddick is crushed by shipping container, so Emma is free to get back into a relationship with Ray.]]

* DisasterMovie: Naturally.
* DivorceIsTemporary: Would consider this a spoiler, except when your ex-husband is an ex-military firefighter played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, it's a foregone conclusion that this will happen.

'''Emma:''' Do I look ready?\\

[[caption-width-right:300:By the way, [[CoversAlwaysLie he never flies a helicopter over San Francisco in the movie]].]]

* JiggleShow: For some reason not a woman in this film is wearing a supportive bra and [[MaleGaze the camera knows it]].

** In even more fairness to Ray, the helicopter he was in was explicitly being taken in because its winch (an extremely important tool in air rescue) was broken and needed to be fixed. While the severity of the disaster shown would undoubtedly make the broken winch moot, as all hands and vehicles would be needed, it would also require returning to a staging area and getting new orders. The call from Emma gives Ray knowledge that there are people in need of help "right now" and he knows "exactly" where they are. If anything, going to save as many people as possible alone "and" with busted equipment is a testament to Ray’s dedication to and skill at his job.