What are currently your 2 favorite disaster films and why ?
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A Night to Remember
the movie Jim Cameron ripped off for his titanic oscars
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Maybe the original War of the Worlds or maybe something European like La Fin Du Monde - 1930 something French Black and White, a biblical apocalypse and a comet nukes Earth
Not has funky as Bruce Willis blowing up an asteroid but I like these anyways
3Airplane
sometimes you just have to laugh in the face of disaster
A Night to Remember
the movie Jim Cameron ripped off for his titanic oscars
2
Maybe the original War of the Worlds or maybe something European like La Fin Du Monde - 1930 something French Black and White, a biblical apocalypse and a comet nukes Earth
Not has funky as Bruce Willis blowing up an asteroid but I like these anyways
3Airplane
sometimes you just have to laugh in the face of disaster
The Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno. They are iconic and sealed the deal for me as a kid. I love both because they involve common things in uncommon circumstances and because they are essentially cut off from the whole of humanity to some degree and all the focus is on this separate little unit of existence. This is probably some of the same mind set that made me love Star Trek and even Lost In Space.
Individual reasons? Well there are many I suppose but examples:
The Poseidon Adventure because it turns everything over on its head and makes you see things from a different point of view.
Towering Inferno because of the sheer heights involved.
These are two of the movies that made me love ships and skyscrapers at a very young age.
Individual reasons? Well there are many I suppose but examples:
The Poseidon Adventure because it turns everything over on its head and makes you see things from a different point of view.
Towering Inferno because of the sheer heights involved.
These are two of the movies that made me love ships and skyscrapers at a very young age.
1997.
Damned if I remember, I've just been hearing this claim on the internet literally since the film was released.
Dante's Peak and the original Poseidon Adventure.
And TITANIC is hardly a ripoff of A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, just because they were both based on the same historical event. There have been multiple books and movies about the sinking of the Titanic. And no doubt there will be many more . . .
And TITANIC is hardly a ripoff of A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, just because they were both based on the same historical event. There have been multiple books and movies about the sinking of the Titanic. And no doubt there will be many more . . .
Does "disaster" have to be on an global, epic scale, or can it be more intimate here?
I'm only counting big-ass stupid noisy crap in this category...
The Poseidon Adventure is the most inventive and fun of the disaster flicks. Plus I get a little thrill every time I spell "Poseidon" correctly without looking it up.
All time silliest moment: that earthquake TV show they did a while back that had an earthquake chasing a train.
2012 gets special mention as the ultimate blow-em-up movie. How much more could you blow up, anyway?
The Poseidon Adventure is the most inventive and fun of the disaster flicks. Plus I get a little thrill every time I spell "Poseidon" correctly without looking it up.
All time silliest moment: that earthquake TV show they did a while back that had an earthquake chasing a train.
2012 gets special mention as the ultimate blow-em-up movie. How much more could you blow up, anyway?
I just rewatched The Poseidon Adventure the other day. It was on AMC while I was taking a sick day.
And what struck me about it how it is now not just a fun disaster film, but has become a historical document.
I absolutely love its 70's backgrounds. Look how shabby everything was in the 70's! How abysmal and tawdry looking! And this is supposed to be a luxury cruise liner. If you had a cruise liner or resort that looked like these sets now, you'd be out of business in two days. And look at the horrible clothes. Not just the styles, but the wretchedly low quality of the clothes. Observe how nobody looks like they're taken a shower in a couple of weeks, even before the disaster hits.
It's awesome.
And what struck me about it how it is now not just a fun disaster film, but has become a historical document.
I absolutely love its 70's backgrounds. Look how shabby everything was in the 70's! How abysmal and tawdry looking! And this is supposed to be a luxury cruise liner. If you had a cruise liner or resort that looked like these sets now, you'd be out of business in two days. And look at the horrible clothes. Not just the styles, but the wretchedly low quality of the clothes. Observe how nobody looks like they're taken a shower in a couple of weeks, even before the disaster hits.
It's awesome.
1.) The Poseidon Adventure - Perfected the genre. Memorable characters, gripping story, exciting situations.
2.) Airport '77 - Again great character development, but what stands out here is the disaster itself. An airplane trapped beneath water seems ridiculous, yet this movie manages to make an overly fantastic plot seem plausible. Keeps its suspense very well.
2.) Airport '77 - Again great character development, but what stands out here is the disaster itself. An airplane trapped beneath water seems ridiculous, yet this movie manages to make an overly fantastic plot seem plausible. Keeps its suspense very well.
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