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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.
Airport was 1970. The Poseidon Adventure was 1972.
Nutty is wrong.
This is interesting.
Dude, have you not been paying attention? I'm wrong all the time! It is my duty in life to convince people of inaccurate information via my enthusiasm and eloquence.
That is called marketing.
Airport is half disaster movie, half all-star soap opera. (Kind of like the novel it's based on, but I digress.) As much as anything else, it's about the manager of a thinly-disguised O'Hare Airport trying to cope with a major snowstorm, neighbors who can't stand the noise of airplanes taking off, a crumbling marriage, and half a dozen other crises. The disaster part doesn't happen until 2/3 of the way through.
Olyphant rocked the hell out of Deadwood, but that pretty much goes for everyone involved in the enterprise.
I am Corwood. Olyphant was also great in Go. I love Go even though it has Katie Holmes in it. It has Sarah Polley!
I love Go too! It's one of my favorite movies.