also if Maureen McGovern is ever singing at your party or cruise, haul ass
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 February 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
towering inferno feels like a breezy 90min compared to earthquake (or worse, the swarm)
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 February 2016 03:21 (eight years ago) link
Earthquake is funnier crap, tho/because the cast is significantly worse
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 February 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
(cept George Kennedy)
i just do not enjoy earthquake much until the very end
towering inferno has more good/lol *moments*
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 February 2016 05:56 (eight years ago) link
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/
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
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”?
― Josefa, Saturday, 22 April 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
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)
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 23 April 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
It was actually "The Morning After" that beat a better, bigger song: "Ben."
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 23 April 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
we need tapes of Benji singing Summer-Moroder-Bellotte's "I Feel Love."
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 April 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
Growing up, and not having seen the movie, I legit thought that was the same song
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 23 April 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
That’s a good point about the lack of original song competition at that year’s Oscars, but I was watching The Towering Inferno the other day and when that song came on I LOLed and thought “what hackwork!” Granted, we watch these disaster films for the embarrassing moments as much as for the impressive ones.
― Josefa, Sunday, 23 April 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
can we talk more about how Poseidon Adventure is great
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 January 2024 05:01 (four months ago) link
I remember when it came out, my science teacher spent the better part of a class session explaining why it was impossible for a tidal wave to be that big so far out at sea.
― henry s, Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:14 (four months ago) link
thanks to Mad Magazine this movie will forever be The Poopside Down Adventure to me
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:25 (four months ago) link
That was apparently their all-time bestselling issue of Mad, at least based on newsstand purchases
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:27 (four months ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c3/37/f8/c337f819e24e9ac53c98734e17975c8d.jpg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:31 (four months ago) link
If Mad did Earthquake, I desperately need to find that
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:39 (four months ago) link
https://archive.org/details/mad-magazine-180-1976/MAD%20Magazine%20180%201976/page/n43/mode/2up
― henry s, Thursday, 4 January 2024 15:14 (four months ago) link
omg, and it's a Dick DeB script at that!
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 15:22 (four months ago) link
Shelly Winters delivers a performance for the ages.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:00 (four months ago) link
she’s so good! i love her and Jack Albertson together, they were great.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:05 (four months ago) link
Poseidon has the best performances for sure, or at least the most enjoyable ensemble cast interactions ... still runs a pretty distant third for me behind Towering Inferno and Earthquake tho
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:14 (four months ago) link
I remember Earthquake mostly for the vibrating seats.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:42 (four months ago) link
I miss gimmicks like that, even if Sensurround was kind of a fail (only really clicked in Rollercoaster.)
― henry s, Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:44 (four months ago) link
Belated New Year's Resolution: Watch Deluge (1933).
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 5 January 2024 00:27 (three months ago) link
xpost Towering Inferno is great, prob my number one, but I think Poseidon is my second fave. Earthquake is waaaaay down on my list. So boring! So LONG.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 January 2024 01:21 (three months ago) link
When Earthquake was shown on network television they added a bunch of scenes that were deleted from the theatrical version, making it even longer (and the scenes had been cut for a reason.)
― henry s, Friday, 5 January 2024 01:54 (three months ago) link
Earthquake feels against the grain in that most of its characters are basically rotten people, compared to Irwin Allen’s hero-villain dichotomies
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Friday, 5 January 2024 02:01 (three months ago) link
maybe thats why else i didnt like it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 January 2024 02:19 (three months ago) link
Towering Inferno has an insane cast for what's almost a genre film
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 02:26 (three months ago) link
It also came out in... 1974
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 02:27 (three months ago) link
I saw the movie Murder by Death in Sensurround--Midway was playing in the next theater over.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 5 January 2024 05:46 (three months ago) link
The Last Voyage (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqG8WRnbJb0
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 5 January 2024 06:27 (three months ago) link
If you have access to WatchTCM, The Johnstown Flood (1926) is available through 2/7. It also came out on Blu-ray late last year.
The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) also features a settlement swept away by a flood. (I don't remember the flood scenes. I do remember the comic relief shots of a naked miner running away.)
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 22:22 (three months ago) link
Andromeda Strain hasn’t been mentioned but in my head I think of it as a kid in the 70s as one of these disaster type thrillers.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:44 (three months ago) link
I just watched that on Criterion last week... it's a very pro-scientist film, unlike a lot of Spielberg stuff where the scientists are invariably sneaky villains
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:47 (three months ago) link
Fuel for thought from a Roland Emmerich interview I did once, when I asked him about "The Day After Tomorrow":
I had a lot of anguish over doing it. I said, I can’t do this again, but it was worth it. Now I’m moving on. When I’m offered a movie where things break or a disaster happens, I immediately say I’ve done that. Also, don’t forget, Independence Day is now called a disaster movie, but it’s about an alien invasion! Hello!? And then Godzilla got called a disaster movie, but in the original Godzilla, Tokyo is in ruins. I only destroyed Madison Square Garden, a couple of buildings, and the Brooklyn Bridge. New York is still standing … on purpose. So it’s a little unfair when people say I’ve done the same movie three times. They’re very different from each other.
Makes you think.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 00:32 (three months ago) link