The Towering Inferno was my number 1 favorite disaster movie of all-time I got the Special Edition DVD 📀 on my 22nd Birthday Present since December 2022
Disaster movies were so much better back then. They didn't try to flatten entire cities, they didn't give you the same old plots about estranged scientists and rescue workers trying to get back with their ex-wives and reconcile with their kids, they didn't just randomly put children and pets in danger, they didn't end with some corny "this disaster has touched every one of us, but we will rebuild" message. They actually presented stories of real people whose real lives are interrupted by calamity without CG special effects or force-fed sentimentality.
Started with Airport, then the success of The Poseidon Adventure got all the studio's to jump on the bandwagon. They beat that drum until Airplane skewered the lame horse of a theme and finally put the ensemble cast disaster movie into the grave.
Rosemary Forsyth's role in _Gray Lady Down_ was almost completely cut from the film, so it's weird (but nice) to see a little bit of it in the trailer.
I choose my top 5 favorite 70s disaster movies of all-time 5. The Hindenburg 4. City on Fire 3. The Poseidon Adventure 2. Earthquake 1. The Towering Inferno
In 1974/1975 Disaster movies were MY LIFE . I was obsessed . I even acted out various disaster movies with my MEGO Planet of the Apes figures . LOL. My 2 faves were Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno. I even put together a 747 plane model and smashed the front to look like the damage on the Airport 1975 plane. I was SUPER excited that Towering Inferno was nominated for Best Picture that year and was PISSED OFF that it lost! LOL. The next summer ... JAWS eradicated , destroyed and demolished all pervious trends . I was obsessed with a new movie ..for now.. Nothing really BLEW my mind util Summer 1979 : Dawn of the Dead and ALIEN !
And Karen Black should have been nominated for Best Actress for 'Airport 1975'. I mean, come on...I can't imagine anyone else then - or now, pulling off that role.
I'm hoping to get a DVD of "The Poseidon Adventure" for Christmas, as well as the original Paul Gallico novel. Although, in my opinion, the best disaster film came out not in the 1970s, but in 1958. I am of course talking about "A Night to Remember", which, more than 60 years later, still remains the most faithful screen account of the Titanic disaster.
Love the comment just below about disaster movies being better back then - indeed! all the corny crap you point out about contemporary flicks is so true...the 70s films were quite nihilistic: a bit Darwinian but also quasi religious ('The Poseidon Adventure' - to which both the Vatican and the Catholic Legion of Decency should have cut a cheque) and very 70s (disaster as metaphors for social ills usually caused by the failure or corruption of institutions). Just a nod to Ernest Borgnine, whose performance as Mike Rogo is less celebrated than it should be - this is one role where the actor SHOULD chew up the scenery and Borgnine does it in spades, outshining Hackman, Winters and (almost) Stevens.
Jeez, Louise, who WASN"T in 'The Cassandra Crossing' - easily the most nihilistic of the bunch...and so much fun watching Michael Caine commit career suicide (nothing seemed to destroy Slim Pickens or Telly Savalas!) in 'The Swarm' and 'Beyond the P.A.' only to laugh all the way to the bank of his later resurrection. Thank you for sequencing these by date but how dare you tantalize us with that flash frame of the 747 in 'Airport '77' and not have the trailer. Also, where's 'Meteor' and 1975's 'Tidal Wave' (which was actually made in 1973 in Japan as 'Submersion of Japan' but was dubbed and had footage of Lorne Greene edited in for distribution by New World Pictures? And while everybody (well, almost everybody) was laughing their As off at 'Airplane!' thinking it original, lest we forget 1976's 'The Big Bus' - which satirized the genre four years before that more well known blockbuster. and by golly its the only film you're ever gonna see with Stockard Channing almost drowning in Pepsi and doughnuts!
The acting back then was amazing. Real actors. Not like todays flavor of the month thrown into movies. "Oh she has a hit song." 'Well put her non acting ass in a movie".
...also 1979's "Hurricane" starring Mia Farrow, Jason Robards, Timothy Bottoms, Max Von Sydow, Trevor Howard and Dayton Ka'ne . Produced by Dino DeLaurentiis.
The Towering Inferno was my number 1 favorite disaster movie of all-time I got the Special Edition DVD 📀 on my 22nd Birthday Present since December 2022
Disaster movies were so much better back then. They didn't try to flatten entire cities, they didn't give you the same old plots about estranged scientists and rescue workers trying to get back with their ex-wives and reconcile with their kids, they didn't just randomly put children and pets in danger, they didn't end with some corny "this disaster has touched every one of us, but we will rebuild" message. They actually presented stories of real people whose real lives are interrupted by calamity without CG special effects or force-fed sentimentality.
Wow. I had completely forgotten about Skyjacked! Parts look so similar to Airport '75!
My favourites are The Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, The Swarm ! xx
I remember Earthquake, it used a special sound system called Sensoround. It made me feel I was part of the action.
Started with Airport, then the success of The Poseidon Adventure got all the studio's to jump on the bandwagon. They beat that drum until Airplane skewered the lame horse of a theme and finally put the ensemble cast disaster movie into the grave.
Rosemary Forsyth's role in _Gray Lady Down_ was almost completely cut from the film, so it's weird (but nice) to see a little bit of it in the trailer.
The trailer for Airport 75 is priceless lol...
I choose my top 5 favorite 70s disaster movies of all-time
5. The Hindenburg
4. City on Fire
3. The Poseidon Adventure
2. Earthquake
1. The Towering Inferno
In 1974/1975 Disaster movies were MY LIFE . I was obsessed . I even acted out various disaster movies with my MEGO Planet of the Apes figures . LOL. My 2 faves were Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno. I even put together a 747 plane model and smashed the front to look like the damage on the Airport 1975 plane. I was SUPER excited that Towering Inferno was nominated for Best Picture that year and was PISSED OFF that it lost! LOL. The next summer ... JAWS eradicated , destroyed and demolished all pervious trends . I was obsessed with a new movie ..for now.. Nothing really BLEW my mind util Summer 1979 : Dawn of the Dead and ALIEN !
The evolution of trailers ! There is a before and an after 1975...
And Karen Black should have been nominated for Best Actress for 'Airport 1975'. I mean, come on...I can't imagine anyone else then - or now, pulling off that role.
I'm hoping to get a DVD of "The Poseidon Adventure" for Christmas, as well as the original Paul Gallico novel.
Although, in my opinion, the best disaster film came out not in the 1970s, but in 1958. I am of course talking about "A Night to Remember", which, more than 60 years later, still remains the most faithful screen account of the Titanic disaster.
Airport, airport 75 and skyjacker are so hilarious/atrocious to watch after watching Airplane from the ZAZ...🤣
You actually included AIRPLANE! ? LMAO!! Surely you can't be serious!
I agree, that movie wasn't a disaster by any means. It was a HIT!🍻😂
That's right,AIRPLANE was a hit,a comedy that pokes fun at disaster movies....and don't call me surely!!!
City on Fire is a great disaster movie
they skipped airport 77
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@@CaptainJZH The Bastards
Love the comment just below about disaster movies being better back then - indeed! all the corny crap you point out about contemporary flicks is so true...the 70s films were quite nihilistic: a bit Darwinian but also quasi religious ('The Poseidon Adventure' - to which both the Vatican and the Catholic Legion of Decency should have cut a cheque) and very 70s (disaster as metaphors for social ills usually caused by the failure or corruption of institutions). Just a nod to Ernest Borgnine, whose performance as Mike Rogo is less celebrated than it should be - this is one role where the actor SHOULD chew up the scenery and Borgnine does it in spades, outshining Hackman, Winters and (almost) Stevens.
Airport '79: the Concorde; the lengths an industrialist will go to to stop incriminating documents from reaching the authorities.
The trailers make you want to see the movies, but they also spoil a lot of the plot.
Where was 1974's 'Hurricane' and 1976's 'The Big Bus' and 1979's 'Meteor'?
Didn't include them
What happened with "Airport '77"?
@@johnclossick7034 was cut due to copyright claims
Jeez, Louise, who WASN"T in 'The Cassandra Crossing' - easily the most nihilistic of the bunch...and so much fun watching Michael Caine commit career suicide (nothing seemed to destroy Slim Pickens or Telly Savalas!) in 'The Swarm' and 'Beyond the P.A.' only to laugh all the way to the bank of his later resurrection.
Thank you for sequencing these by date but how dare you tantalize us with that flash frame of the 747 in 'Airport '77' and not have the trailer. Also, where's 'Meteor' and 1975's 'Tidal Wave' (which was actually made in 1973 in Japan as 'Submersion of Japan' but was dubbed and had footage of Lorne Greene edited in for distribution by New World Pictures? And while everybody (well, almost everybody) was laughing their As off at 'Airplane!' thinking it original, lest we forget 1976's 'The Big Bus' - which satirized the genre four years before that more well known blockbuster. and by golly its the only film you're ever gonna see with Stockard Channing almost drowning in Pepsi and doughnuts!
one time i was engaged to the towering Inferno that my actually bought the DVD i really like it although it's super long.
My mom bought me the DVD I didn’t put right. My apology
The acting back then was amazing. Real actors. Not like todays flavor of the month thrown into movies. "Oh she has a hit song." 'Well put her non acting ass in a movie".
Airport 77 ??
Had to be removed due to a copyright claim
…Charlton Heston…
makes 1980-1990 pls
Where is “Meteor (1979)” and “Black Sunday (1977)”??
Forgot them!
@@CaptainJZH damn 😢
...also 1979's "Hurricane" starring Mia Farrow, Jason Robards, Timothy Bottoms, Max Von Sydow, Trevor Howard and Dayton Ka'ne . Produced by Dino DeLaurentiis.
@@goodowner5000 dont know this one? A good movie.
Black sunday is more a thriller as for Juggernaut...
3:27
2 minutes warning?
Meteor?
Virus?
Forgot about them lol
1973 "Submersion Of Japan", I just will say that
you forgot airplane the sequel
That's 1982, I'm only doing 1970-1980
@Mogens Schmidt its a two years a +
5:59 its a scene of collides of flight 502
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