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mchookem

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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. 

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Mach 1

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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*

 

EarthquakePrincipalTshirt.jpg

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TwiceHorn

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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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Brandywine

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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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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

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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.

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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...

 

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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. 

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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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