You are welcome to some of my guava paste and mozzarella. Yummy.
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I'm eating a mozzarella stick. Er, the string cheese kind, not the fried cheese kind.
Wait, do people think STAR WARS was a good movie?
I mean, I enjoyed (even LOVED) the hell out of it, but the only one that was remotely a GOOD movie was EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Why even Star Wars fans hate Star Wars: [link]
I'd date the action movie back to the '30s (Errol Flynn) or even 1920 (Douglas Fairbanks plays Zorro). But I'll agree that the action movie has changed over the years.
Personally, I like to think I was the big summer blockbuster of 1976.
They had lots of fireworks! And released a special quarter! And built scaffolding around the Statue of Liberty!
This is the second time today somebody has brought up The Towering Inferno, although really, I tend to think that the weirder and more obscure the 70s disaster movie, the better. That one about how a psychopathic anti-Nazi agent might have downed the Hindenberg? Classic!!
That one about how a psychopathic anti-Nazi agent might have downed the Hindenberg? Classic!!
I believe that's what they call a blimpbuster, not a blockbuster (plus, it was a famous dog at the box office).
Sad to say, I saw all of those disaster flicks in the theaters in their first release--Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Hindenberg, all of 'em. Very entertaining to the pre-adolescent me.
Airport was the first of the all-star disaster movie. It also made the most sense.
I'm sorry? Isn't The Poseidon Adventure first? If it isn't, it should be.