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Greatest disaster movie ever, would sit in the theatre for multiple showings, ushers didn't give a shit.  For some strange reason, the movie I became a Leslie Nielsen fan. 

I hope you and Shelley share a wonderful New Years Eve tonight.  

I saw this movie the says before I went on my first cruise as a newly aged 18yo. 

Do not recommend. Or watching Final Destination the night before a flight. 

I saw this movie the says before I went on my first cruise as a newly aged 18yo. 
Do not recommend. Or watching Final Destination the night before a flight. 
yes, Shelly Winters' ginormus fat ass IS quite terrifying.

i love this one and The Towering Inferno. 

i always thought the set designers did a fantastic job with the world being upside down, lots of little details that really brought home how disorienting it would be. the ship was an actual character.

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On 1/2/2020 at 11:11 AM, mchookem said:

i love this one and The Towering Inferno. 

i always thought the set designers did a fantastic job with the world being upside down, lots of little details that really brought home how disorienting it would be. the ship was an actual character.

PA, TI and the Airport series, loved them as a kid.  Never really cared for Earthquake. 

1 hour ago, Underdog said:

PA, TI and the Airport series, loved them as a kid.  Never really cared for Earthquake. 

Your hat tip to PA deserves respect.  There are no two greater sacrifices to 70s disaster films than Gene Hackman and Shelly Winters (RIP).

However your disrespectful note on Earthquake shall not go without a firm rebuke.  I present to you the tits of Victoria Principal, a porn dude I do not know, SHAFT, and Academy Award winner George Kennedy.  Charlton Heston also laughs at your dismissive take on the greatness that is EARTHQUAKE 1974. 

*Also thread title sucks*

 

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you're, and apparently caps lock

Funny thing about Poseidon Adventure.  I was a little kid when it came out and was (and remain) fascinated by ships.

In any event, at one point Gene Hackman calls someone a pompous ass (or gets called one).

As little kids, we knew "ass" but not "pompous."  So of course, we went around calling each other pompusasses.  You pompusass!

I loved all these Irwin Allen movies, but PA was the first and ship-related, and also arguably more realistic.

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Towering Inferno

Chief O'Hallorhan:
You know we got lucky tonight, body count's less then 200. Someday your gonna kill ten-thousand in one of these firetraps, and I'll keep eating smoke and carrying out bodies until someone asks us how to build them.

Doug Roberts:
Ok, I'm asking.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
You know where to reach me.

 

After that movie I would drive around Dallas and think “that tall ass building was built by the low bidder.”

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Lynley and Pamela Sue in hotpants, Stella was even looking good...

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Carol Lynley used to be a complete smoke show:
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Morning after . . .

Meteor, Avalanche and Black Sunday were decent as well.  Scary as hell for little mullet.

Shelly Winters was graceful underwater.  That other blonde chick had huge knockers and water was our friend.

On 1/3/2020 at 8:02 PM, Underdog said:

PA, TI and the Airport series, loved them as a kid.  Never really cared for Earthquake. 

I was excited to see Earthquake in “Sensurround” at the theatre as a kid, until I realized it just amounted to the projectionist turning the bass up a couple of clicks

The Airport Series kicked ass for a while, then petered with out the last two. A submerged 747 and a Concorde dodging guided missiles was just, well... horribad. The original was the best, '75 with Chuck Heston #2.

Irwin Allen was the king of disaster movies!

 

The book by Paul Gallico was excellent as well. Delved deeper into Pamela Sue Martin's character's sexual attraction to Gene Hackman's character.

I saw most of the movies mentioned in this thread at the drive in theatre when I was a kid.

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1 hour ago, mr. sunshine said:

I was excited to see Earthquake in “Sensurround” at the theatre as a kid, until I realized it just amounted to the projectionist turning the bass up a couple of clicks

Sensurround reminds me of this bit in KFM...

 

Loved this movie as a kid.  And it taught me one thing that I carry with me to this day.

No matter the emergency, no matter how dire the situation, no matter the fire or flooding or threat to life and safety...never...ever...take off your bowtie. 

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27 minutes ago, RPM said:

The Airport Series kicked ass for a while, then petered with out the last two. A submerged 747 and a Concorde dodging guided missiles was just, well... horribad. The original was the best, '75 with Chuck Heston #2.

I liked '77 but agree with your rankings...

 

22 minutes ago, Nole-4-Life said:

Irwin Allen was the king of disaster movies!

 

The book by Paul Gallico was excellent as well. Delved deeper into Pamela Sue Martin's character's sexual attraction to Gene Hackman's character.

Have never read the book, I should find it and do so. 

9 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Sensurround reminds me of this bit in KFM...

 

 

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Have never heard of that, any good?  Looks good. 

It's nothing great. Just fit the narrative.

38 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Sensurround reminds me of this bit in KFM...

 

Anyone that posts a Grateful Dead video will immediately get all of my rep!

  • 4 weeks later...

Woke up to the pleasant surprise of The Towering Inferno on Cinemax. Newman, McQueen, Holden, Dunaway, Astaire, OJ, Roberts Vaughn and Wagner. There’s got to be some tie-in with Kevin Bacon 

On 12/31/2019 at 8:03 PM, Js1 said:

I saw this movie the says before I went on my first cruise as a newly aged 18yo. 

Do not recommend. Or watching Final Destination the night before a flight. 

Full Metal Jacket before boot camp...

June of 89, before it was quite as widely proclaimed.  Scared the hell outta me, yet there I went...LOL.

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Turns out Newman is only a Roddy McDowell (Judge Roy Bean) from Bacon (The Big Picture)

I loved all the disaster movies of the 70's but for me the icing on the cake was the MAD magazine parodies that followed. "The Towering Sterno" was probably my favorite. 

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