OT. Favourite disaster movie?

Fleetwoodblack

Fleetwoodblack

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Seem like a fun choice for the family to get together and watch..
so we went for 2015's San Andreas last night, and we all loved it.
Great Effects, The Rock, A love story, great helicopter heroics, and explosions.

What do I watch next that is a family treat ? What's your fav ?
 
Another for the Towering Inferno ...(or The Glass Tower if watching on Turner Classic Movies)

I also liked the black and white Titanic film “A night to remember”....special effects obviously rubbish to modern eyes but acting and dialogue top notch compared with the Celine Dion version.
 
traffordtang said:
Earthquake
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The word was that in the cinema you got to experience the real feeling of an earthquake. Nope. I went with my mates to watch it at either the old Odeon or the Princess. We were near the back next to the giant base speaker that made all the rumbling effects. It was loud but no earthquake.
 
Macseasider said:
Titanic. A Cameron masterpiece.
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There are a number of reasons I don't like Titanic. The effects are very good and present the ship well. However, the idea of an upper-class girl picking up a fancy piece from stearage is ridiculous. As is the idea of them running through the bowels of the ship - and yes, I know Cameron needed to show off the super-structure.
Also, the sea breaking through the ship is way too clean. Where is the oil and the coal?
However, my biggest dislike us that it is particularly anti-British. The way that the officer class is portrayed and the whole scene in which Murdoch shoots himself after shooting a passenger is just wrong.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
There are a number of reasons I don't like Titanic. The effects are very good and present the ship well. However, the idea of an upper-class girl picking up a fancy piece from stearage is ridiculous. As is the idea of them running through the bowels of the ship - and yes, I know Cameron needed to show off the super-structure.
Also, the sea breaking through the ship is way too clean. Where is the oil and the coal?
However, my biggest dislike us that it is particularly anti-British. The way that the officer class is portrayed and the whole scene in which Murdoch shoots himself after shooting a passenger is just wrong.
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Titanic is big budget wank, A Night to Remember is miles better.

Armageddon is crap as well, Ben Affleck said it best to Michael Bay 'Why is it easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than to train astronauts to become oil drillers?'
 
I think I first saw A Night to Remember whilst at Baines Endowed around 1967, the annual Christmas film. It was the first one I thought of when I looked at this thread.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Titanic is big budget wank, A Night to Remember is miles better.

Armageddon is crap as well, Ben Affleck said it best to Michael Bay 'Why is it easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than to train astronauts to become oil drillers?'
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You remind me of a bloke from my work who, after watching independence day, said 'as if' .. It was so unrealistic...
FFS
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Titanic is big budget wank, A Night to Remember is miles better.

Armageddon is crap as well, Ben Affleck said it best to Michael Bay 'Why is it easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than to train astronauts to become oil drillers?'
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What does Affleck know?

Those drillers saved the earth.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
The word was that in the cinema you got to experience the real feeling of an earthquake. Nope. I went with my mates to watch it at either the old Odeon or the Princess. We were near the back next to the giant base speaker that made all the rumbling effects. It was loud but no earthquake.
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Saw that with my brother and Mum aged about 10 - yes, at the the Odeon or the ABC , think it might have been the latter. She looooved Charlton Heston. They called the system Sensurround or something equally daft 👍
 
dodgy, ‘heads down, mindless boogie’ was always the reserve of the great coated wallys of the early 70’s. Heavy metal dross and that! 🤣
 
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