Your favorite catastrophe movie

Villavic · #1 09-09-2004, 04:38 PM

Remember all those planes and ships in trouble, fires at buildings, earthquakes, etc? This kind of movies was very popular in the 70s and early 80s. Some of them were very silly. "Earthquake" was actually boring, at least in TV, but I guess the "sensurround" effect was the key of its success.

Since I love planes, my favorite saga was Airport (just the first 3 movies). And of course I enjoyed the Airplane! movie.

And yours?

DrummerDeanna · #2 09-09-2004, 04:44 PM

I actually enjoyed Armageddon though I remember thinking midway through - wouldn't it be funny if the whole mission failed and Earth was blown to oblivion? Why don't these movies ever end that way? I guess I have a twisted mind at times...

In addition I liked Deep IMpact and....gosh I guess I haven't seen a lot of those catastrophe movies....

melly · #3 09-09-2004, 04:46 PM

I like Airplane! too... I also like Final Destination 2, does that count? There are some great scenes in that film. A lot of the those films are good because they're bad.. I like the one set in LA where the tar pits bubble up and threaten the subway? And the two women go under the ground and one gets blasted by some magma or something. Maybe that is Earthquake? Sorry, I'm not really an expert on these films.

Avalanche (I think it's called) was pretty funny.

ontheEdgeof17 · #4 09-09-2004, 05:09 PM

Crossroads was pretty catastrophic.

amber · #5 09-09-2004, 05:11 PM

um, i liked independence day, but i heard that newish movie where water engulfed cities, etc, was pretty good...
AMber

heyjupiter678 · #6 09-09-2004, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Crossroads was pretty catastrophic.

Violet · #7 09-09-2004, 07:27 PM

My all-time favorite would be The Poseidon Adventure. I love that movie and if I'm clicking through all the channels and see it, that's what I'll stop on.
"It's got to be the morning after....."

Carol

strandinthewind · #8 09-09-2004, 07:41 PM

Well, as FABULOUS as Gloria Swanson was in Airplane No. ?, the award has to go to Shelley "I now weigh more than Mama Cass" Winters in the Poseidon Adventure - OOOOOOOOOOO - my girdle weighed me down on that long swim - Mr. Merman . . . I mean Borgnine - kiss me to revive me

dissention · #9 09-09-2004, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Well, as FABULOUS as Gloria Swanson was in Airplane No. ?, the award has to go to Shelley "I now weigh more than Mama Cass" Winters in the Poseidon Adventure - OOOOOOOOOOO - my girdle weighed me down on that long swim - Mr. Merman . . . I mean Borgnine - kiss me to revive me

You MUST see my Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure impression some day. Guaranteed fun.

That one would have to be my fave disaster flick. I've spent years and years pondering what the offspring of Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson would look like. Scary ****, I would assume. And Ernest Borgnine's hairy shoulders and arms petrify every time. Poor Tova.

strandinthewind · #10 09-09-2004, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

You MUST see my Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure impression some day. Guaranteed fun.

That one would have to be my fave disaster flick. I've spent years and years pondering what the offspring of Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson would look like. Scary ****, I would assume. And Ernest Borgnine's hairy shoulders and arms petrify every time. Poor Tova.

LOL - Tova is fab though!!!!!!!!!!!! We met after her Tallulah Hallleiluja (sp.? show - she is FAB.

My fav. Borgnine slam is from Merman's autobiography. It goes Chapter 4 "My mariage to Ernest Borgnine" - blank page - Chapter 5.

COuld you imagine those two together?

dissention · #11 09-09-2004, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

LOL - Tova is fab though!!!!!!!!!!!! We met after her Tallulah Hallleiluja (sp.? show - she is FAB.

My fav. Borgnine slam is from Merman's autobiography. It goes Chapter 4 "My mariage to Ernest Borgnine" - blank page - Chapter 5.

COuld you imagine those two together?

is right.

I was disappointed in the Merman book, she didn't talk about her torrid lesbian affair with Jacqueline Susann.

littlelies7 · #12 09-09-2004, 10:07 PM

I liked "The Day After Tomorrow"!!

estranged4life · #13 09-09-2004, 10:14 PM

I liked the TV movie "The Day After" about how people will continue their lives after the nuclear holocaust of World War III.

In a related way I also liked how the TV Mini-Series "The Stand" setup the whole good-vs.-evil story with the outbreak of the flu.

Brian j.

Gypsy-Rhiannon · #14 09-10-2004, 03:08 AM

I love disaster films! Old classics like The Poseiden Adventure and The Towereing Inferno and then more recent ones like Armageddon, Deep Impact, Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow

Pip

irishgrl · #15 09-10-2004, 06:35 AM

how about AFTER the Disaster? My fave would have to be Road Warrior with Mel Gibson

I too was going to mention the Poseidon Adventure, I think drowning at Sea would be horrible

another horrible way to go would be via Death by Shark (Jaws????)