best disaster movie?

Still have not ever seen this film. For years I figured the SCTV spoof was good enough.

nice to see Cassandra Crossing get so much love it's amazing!

also..

http://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/juggernaut-quad.jpg

Answer to the thread is The Exterminating Angel btw

For years I figured the SCTV spoof was good enough.

That is the second time in two weeks that particular episode has come up for me. Weird.

Endorsing Inferno and dismissing Red River? Looks like I should check Tim's Vermeer out.

He loves North by Northwest too, you cretin.

Towering Inferno is pretty entertaining though I dunno if I'd go around claiming its at a lack for contrived drama.

Richard Chamberlain's got some amazing bits at the sneering heel at fault for the inferno. Best is when his wife says she'll stand by him despite his heel status, and he indifferently responds that all he needs is *this*, holding up a drink.

Earthquake is definitely a crappier film (though pretty amusing at points) but its weird to say that ones unpleasant and devoid of escape and then praise another movies newfound 9/11 parallels.

Yeah, was going to say "You don't learn anything from Earthquake" is a particularly hysterical statement/criticism.

Best is when his wife says she'll stand by him despite his heel status, and he indifferently responds that all he needs is *this*, holding up a drink.

A bottle, actually. Even better.

originally it was a dildo

This Is the End

All the early-80s nuclear disaster movies (other than Testament) on YouTube now:
Threads
Special Bulletin
Countdown to Looking Glass
The Day After

The Day After scared the shit out of me as a kid, I still can't watch it without getting anxiety flashbacks.

xxp in the Director's Cut it's a double-ender...

other than Testament

this one is the most horrifying/the one I am most loathe to watch again

xp The Towering Double-Ender

"A monument to all the bullshit in the world."

Lester's Juggernaut is p damn good... and often INTENTIONALLY funny! No wonder if gets no mention from the camp crowd.

(Roy Kinnear with possibly his funniest perf for Lester, as the social director)

Thanks, crossed it off my list.

yeah it's killer, a proper nail-biter. excellent dialogue and top legging about and tearing around by the cast. i'm astonished there's never been a remake. also, Hopkins in still-boozy years.

yes Eric, while yer at it let's reclassify Showgirls as a disaster film.

Richard Harris is a hoot... "Fallon, the undefeated champion!"

You're a disaster film.

in fact, the guy Lester brought on to rewrite the script resulted in the producer-original writer using a pseudonym.

i'd accept being Juggernaut.

You're The Swarm, honeybunch!

should a disaster film feed off your deeper fears, like a good horror flick? or is it better when the disaster is more of a pretext and the actual horror of the situation is rather synthetic and unreal?

Both can produce worthy films.

I went on a kick a while back and rewatched Earthquake, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Airport & Airport 75, and The Swarm.

The Swarm is not very enjoyable except for the hilarious bees. Mostly it just loooooong and v v boring

Towering Inferno still my favorite of all, the pacing is tense & the effects are still impressive

No mention of Black Sunday - love that one!

Earthquake is ok but the ending is stupid

Not a huge fan of the genre, aside from Leslie Nielsen's stone-faced "My God" as the sight of the tidal wave in The Poseidon Adventure.

only ppl who like prefer bad movies are fans of the genre

*side-eye*

Veg, watch Juggernaut

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Black Sunday is mostly "political thriller," only part disaster movie.

*throws helmet on the ground*

Jet Storm by Cy Enfield is basically a British low-budget Airport 1959 'cept classier, in the Nihilism vs Humanism faceoff of a twitchy bomber and an unflappable yet gently mach plane captain (Richard Attenborough and Stanley Baker, of course). Half the pasengers are as crazy as Attenborough, including prefab rock star Marty Wilde and future "Maude" maid Hermione Baddeley.

Captain Baker's plan to steady the passengers includes TRANQUILIZER-SPIKED CHAMPAGNE, and platonically matched seatmates Dame Sybil Thorndike and Goon Harry Secombe happily partake!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84MKSGQzgik

that's EnDfield btw (he later made Zulu -- American victimized by the blacklist)

so i watched The Towering Inferno for the first time in 41 years and Christ, it is endless. (165 goddamn minutes.) Newman and McQueen ALMOST save it with star power. (Also, McQ has one of the best "oh shit"s in Hollywoodcrap history after he's told he has to go on a neo-suicide mission by his deputy -- Dabney Coleman!)

It's basically like Mad Mad Mad Mad World with fire and explosions as all the slapstick. Are Robert Wagner and his secretary the oldest characters who ever got the genre-movie death penalty for illicit sex?

Richard Chamberlain's got some amazing bits at the sneering heel at fault for the inferno.

Chamberlain's sniveling is amazing, and pretty queer. Susan Blakely's line to him needs more attention: "If you've done anything to Daddy's building, God help you."

and by endless i meant it couldn't end til OJ gave Astaire that cat.

Still have never seen (not my fave genre), but the SCTV parody is pretty great.

also if Maureen McGovern is ever singing at your party or cruise, haul ass

towering inferno feels like a breezy 90min compared to earthquake (or worse, the swarm)

Earthquake is funnier crap, tho/because the cast is significantly worse

(cept George Kennedy)

i just do not enjoy earthquake much until the very end

towering inferno has more good/lol *moments*

Welcome news for those who, like me, regretted not buying the FSM disc of The Towering Inferno before it went out of print:

https://lalalandrecords.com/disaster-movie-soundtrack-collection-music-by-john-williams-limited-edition-4-cd-box-set/

How the hell did the song that Maureen McGovern sings in The Towering Inferno win an Oscar? The one from The Poseidon Adventure I can kind of get, but who remembers “We May Never Love Like This Again”?

What was supposed to win that year? No way they would've given it to "Blazing Saddles" and the other three ... woof!

Benji	"I Feel Love"	Euel Box (music); Betty Box (lyrics)
Blazing Saddles	"Blazing Saddles"	John Morris (music); Mel Brooks (lyrics)
Gold	"Wherever Love Takes Me"	Elmer Bernstein (music); Don Black (lyrics)
The Little Prince	"Little Prince"	Frederick Loewe (music); Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)

It was actually "The Morning After" that beat a better, bigger song: "Ben."

we need tapes of Benji singing Summer-Moroder-Bellotte's "I Feel Love."