Airport was 1970. The Poseidon Adventure was 1972.
Nutty is wrong.
This is interesting.
Oh, look at the pretties!
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2007 6:38:34 pm PDT #9705 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Nutty - Jun 27, 2007 3:54:54 am PDT #9706 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
Fred Pete - Jun 27, 2007 5:22:48 am PDT #9707 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
Glamcookie - Jun 27, 2007 5:35:15 am PDT #9708 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
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!
Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2007 5:38:08 am PDT #9709 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love Go too! It's one of my favorite movies.
Glamcookie - Jun 27, 2007 5:47:06 am PDT #9710 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
GF and I got dragged to see it in the theater, thinking it was just a fluffy teen movie. We were very pleasantly surprised. We both loved it (we have it on DVD and still watch it on occasion). As we live in the Valley (818 area code), a fave line of ours is, "Don't go 818 on me, Claire!"
Frankenbuddha - Jun 27, 2007 5:50:23 am PDT #9711 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Olyphant was also great in Go.
He wasn't doing the righteous part, but he was working that same freak-eyed intensity he used for Bullock, except with a Santa hat instead of a mustache.
I love that movie as well. Just so wonderfully random.
Strega - Jun 27, 2007 6:20:09 am PDT #9712 of 10001
Dave White on Live Free Or Die Hard:
What I love most about this, and movies that steal from it, is that plausibility is dispensed with early on, and there's never such thing as Too Much when it comes to piling on the threat or destroying property. It's like, "Oh, I'm dangling over a pit of molten metal? And you're shooting at me with a machine gun while I dangle? Well, check this out: I just happen to be dangling in the exact spot where the secret lever that releases liquid nitrogen lives! Now it is you who are doomed!" That's what I came to see, and that's what I got, and now I'm happy. (No, that example isn't actually in the movie.)
Tom Scola - Jun 27, 2007 6:24:15 am PDT #9713 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
(No, that example isn't actually in the movie.)
Darn.
Strega - Jun 27, 2007 6:32:27 am PDT #9714 of 10001
I enjoy imagining Bruce Willis saying, "Now it is you who are doomed!"