The Poseidon Adventure is my favorite. My high school girlfriend and I took the train to Chicago's Loop on New Year's Eve to see it at the State Lake Theater. It was perfect; the movie takes place on New Year's too. The theater was packed and the audience loved it. When we walked out of the theater, it was about 11 p.m., and the street was filled with crowds waiting for midnight and the new year. What a great experience!
Saw The Poseidon Adventure at the Riviera Cinema in Teignmouth, Devon, Uk in July 1973. It was my first Disaster Movie. I was 10 years old. The Movie became one of my favourites and the Morning After, my favourite song. The Poseidon Adventure was the last movie I saw before Immigrating to Australia. Then once in Australia I saw all the other Disaster Movies. These 1970's Classics are for ever Etched into my Psyche.😊👍
I love the Morning After song, it truly resonates with you as you reflect on the film. I also am glad Irwin used Maureen McGovern again in Towering Inferno with, "We may never love like this again" and it won best song as well at the Oscars.
Mine too even with the major inconsistencies. You never see any smoke in that huge function room even when the first flames start licking and it’s minutes away from burning also this was a gala banquet evening for 300 VIP guests all about to be served dinner yet, apart from one bar tender and one waitress, you never see any sign of the dozens of catering workers such a function would require.
I was born in 1969 and grew up watching these movies when they made it to TV. Absolutely loved The Towering Inferno and Earthquake. I remember one night on TV they showed a double feature of "Earthquake" followed by 1976's "Flood!". Best night of the 70s, lol.
Grew up watching all of these, loved your walk down memory lane. A couple more honorable mention. The 1969 film 'Marooned', and the 1977 film 'Black Sunday'.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and share those other great movies! Welcome to the channel! Let us know if there’s another topic you would like to see in future!
@@sprocketsintime Since you asked, other possible topics might include: TV spin-offs of the 1970s. There were so many during that decade, it seemed as if every hit TV sitcom had at least one spin-off. Everything from 'All in the Family' to 'Happy Days'. The majority didn't last more than one season or even a pilot episode, but a few did stick. Among other topics, you might consider 1970s fads, such as mode rings, pet rocks, pop rocks, and time capsules.
The Poseidon Adventure great film full of good actors. Never forgot the end where the priest (Hackman) sacrifices himself to save the others. Miss the old 70s films.
@chuckselvage3157 Shelly winters death scene was pretty sad too especially when Borgnine calls out to thank her and she doesn't respond. If you think about it without Winters going in to save hackman who was trapped underwater, none of them would've made it out. Great film!
My best friend and I saw The Poseidon Adventure at the drive-in (remember those?)and we were on the edge of our seats the whole time!! It still holds up today!
I'm with you. The Poseidon Adventure was my favorite. My dad took me to see. The only other one on this list I saw in theaters was The Towering inferno. How that building didn't collapse is beyond me
For those of us who saw all these movies, and their accompanying music and songs in the 70's, todays generations will never understand how they effected our psyche. Todays movies just don't seem to cut it despite their brilliant special effects. Disaster Movies in the 70's drew huge crowds into the Cinemas that Todays Theatres could only dream of.😊
You're so right! Today's movies just don't cut it. From the acting, to the film scores, it just doesn't have that same presence that movies back then had.
@@sprocketsintime Boy you can say that again Mr. Sprocket. The 1970's seem to be a golden age for all movie genres with the last year 1979 filled by that Scifi Classic Alien. Then things starting going down hill from then on. 😊👍
@@sprocketsintime I had never seen _Saturday Night Fever_ - that was where the original disco scene came from, right? - but I still thought that scene was hilarious. (I still haven't seen any John Travolta movies except _Face/Off,_ which I loved.)
@@DalokiMauvais fair warning, Saturday Night Fever is not a comedy. I went in thinking it would be like Grease and uff no. It’s good, don’t get me wrong (imho), but funny it is not
When my parents took my brothers and I to see The Cassandra Crossing, I thought it was going to be a snooze fest. I loved it! All the disaster movies of the 70's were awesome.
Thank you for bringing back so many happy memories spent in the cinema in the 70's. It brought back the memory of my grandfather taking me and my brother to the Guamont in Birmingham UK (the largest screen in Europe at the time) to see Earthquake in sensurround. I'm going to search the house for the DVD of this and earthquake, they're here somewhere I hope
WOW that means more than I can say to think this video gave you a good memory of your childhood with your grandad. I think sometimes adults don't realize how big a deal it is when they take you to see a movie. Especially a grown up movie. Earthquake is available on RUclips Movies for free. :) Towering Inferno is also now free on YT movies
Earthquake is so awful but it's special effects were fascinating to me at 14 years old. I bought every book I could find about film effects after that. I loved Poseidon Adventure immediately, and still do. Stella Stevens rocks. It's so funny how every aging celebrity became cash cows for awhile. This was really fun. Thanks.
Hey there thanks so much for sharing your memory! So glad you enjoyed the video! I have loved movies all my life and it's great to connect with others who have shared some of the same experiences!
@@sprocketsintime I know! Growing up in Mississippi around 1958 or 1959 one summer I saw Hitari like 15 days straight for $.10 a show. I was 5 or 6. But then, it was the absolute time of my life! It must have been for me to still remember that!!!#@!#@!!
A friend of mine said that was like his Summer of 1967 and seeing "You Only Live Twice" over and over all summer. For me the most times I ever paid to see a movie was, "Phantom of the Paradise" 16 times. Thanks for sharing, great post!
@sprocketsintime I love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ these nostalgia back in times posts. Ahh... the days of our youth! It seems so different today. I wonder how kids now will see their history in say - 2070? Things change so quickly today.
My mom took 13 year old me and my 10 year old brother to see Airport 75. The entire theater was silent watching in anticipation for Chuck Heston to enter the hole in the cockpit to save the day. Just before the theater can all cheer when Heston successfully enters, mom calls out loudly, "Way to go, Moses!" Instead of cheering the theater erupts in laughter.
LOLOLOL That's brilliant! I once went to see the movie, "Hard Target" with Van Dam and when Wilford Brimley came on the screen someone yelled, "Hey dat's the oatmeal man!"
A very good video summarizing the decade's most notable on-screen disaster projects. Most of the disaster movies of said period benefited from stacked casts. Irwin Allen, in particular, spared no effort in what he put on the screen and in the names he got for his projects. His list of disaster flicks makes you wonder if he had something against the fundamental elements! In Airport, the enemy was air. In Poseidon, the threat was water; and in The Towering Inferno, fire was the deadly adversary. I was seven years old during the winter of 1974-75 and I remember all the talk and excitement at the time about The Towering Inferno. I remember the big names in the movie's TV spots. It was clear it was a movie to see. 'The Poseidon Adventure' also had a great cast, albeit a bit smaller and lesser in name magnitude. Like disco music, however, the disaster genre soon found itself running out of fuel. Irwin Allen tried to sustain momentum with 'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure', which I've always regarded as being nothing more than a rip-off exploitation film.
Yup. My parents took me to many of those. I still remember seeing Earthquake in ”Sensurround.” That was very loud and low bass sound that vibrated the seats when the earthquakes were happening. Awesome!
To quote from the black book of Disaster movie director Frank Kincaid: "Rule #22: Only one person knows how to avert a disaster, but nobody ever believes them." "Rule #101: Explosions are good, slow-motion explosions are better." "Rule #32: Never kill a house pet." "Rule #14: The annoying guy always dies."
I remember "Earthquake" the most because of the "Evil Kineval" dude who tried to make the loop. Hahah! Evil Kineval was such a massive star then. I had his wind-up motocycle toy. What a time the 70s were!
OH yeah, Richard Roundtree as Miles Quade. Totally busted up laughing when he tried to loop the first time and fell out...I was like, how did they do that? Did an actual stuntman fall out of it!!!
It was. Even our Made For Tv movies were great. Most don't remember that Steven Spielberg's first movie was a made for tv movie named Duel starring Dennis Weaver.
EXACTLY!!!! Duel was scary! And a great made for tv movie. I remember so well, "The ABC Movie of the Week" with its great music intro, so many that I loved that scared me too! Like, The Night Stalker, Legend of Lizzie Borden, When Michael Calls, Scream Pretty Peggy" so many! Thanks for sharing your memories with us!
I was born in 1964 and grew up in Ft. Worth, Texas. Going to the theater in the early and mid 70s with my brothers and friends from the old neighborhood was magic. The old disaster movies were great. Some of the first tastes of "freedom" being taken to the theater and dropped off. Spent a lot of fun, magical summer days and nights at Six Flags as well. Those were good times indeed, I will have those wonderful memories of my youth the rest of my life.
We're almost the same age and YES! I totally remember the freedom of being dropped off at the movies with friends, going to see all those great movies. Just caught up in the magic of movie imagination. Thanks so much for sharing your awesome memory with us! Welcome to the channel!
There's going to be plenty more to come, I promise! I started this channel to share my passion for movies and TV from a time when it all seemed so much better!
OH YEAH!!! I was a TOTAL horror fan. I've got one I'm working on right now about that subject. But we are backlogging a ton of horror movies we're going to be sharing! :)
I watched Earthquake on TV too. It was a 2 part movie and they added scenes like the airport when the airplane was attempting to land. That part was not in the movie when at the theaters.
The 70s disaster movies--possibly my single favorite film genre--I love 'em all, even the REALLY bad ones! Even the cheap TV movies. Even the parodies like the "Big Bus" and the parody which signaled the end of the genre, "Airplane." A few not mentioned: Concorde--Airport 1979, Skyjacked, Two-Minute Warning, Rollercoaster, Grey Lady Down, Avalanche Express, City on Fire, and Hurricane. Thanks for this fun video!
Pretty sure I saw every single one of those. Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure are tied for number one. Enjoyed the airport movies pretty well at the time. A young Eric Estrada was the copilot who got sucked out the hole in airport 75. I actually enjoyed the Cassandra Crossing even though it was a bit cheesy. When I saw the Hindenburg I just remember the audience cheering when it was shown that the dog survived. Some of the later ones I only ever saw on TV, I'm looking at you Swarm. Never have seen the volcano movie. That was a really fun era though overall.
Airplane! was the greatest sendup of disaster movies and for those of us, who grew up with the disaster genre of the 70's, the film hit the nail on the head. And of course to see Leslie Nielsen, who had been the captain on The Poseidon, playing a doctor was just the icing on the cake!
I love THE TOWERING INFERNO so much! It is by far my favorite disaster flick. I loved WHEN TIME RAN OUT as a kid. It played many times on The Movie Channel when we lived in Atlanta, back between 1980 and 1982. We pretended the floor was lava and had to use a footstool as a boat to stay off of the lava.
Poseidon Adventure in a NYC Times Square theater with a sound system that had the sirens whooping off all around us as the tsunami was closing in and the ship capsized!!
Yeah baby...Airport '75, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, The Hindenburg, Black Sunday, Two Minute Warning, Jaws, and Rollercoaster. What a roster of great movies which literally defined a decade.
I forgot about "Black Sunday" and "2 minute warning". Good ones! And terrorism wasn't as common back then which makes me feel like we're living in THEIR dystopian future. Yikes!
In the 70s there was also a rash of quite good made for TV disster movies. Like The Day The Earth Moved, The Triangle Factory Fire and The Fire In The Sky ...SOS Titanic . and several others I can't recall for now ...
I remember seeing practically all of them. I love horror and back in the seventies, disaster movies were the next best thing. Thanks for sharing these gems from my youth!
I remember my parents taking me to see The Poseidon Adventure in Feb '73, shortly after my 6th Birthday. They were hesitant at first, but after my constant pleading, they relented...lol. I remember standing in the long line to get our tickets and falling in love with the gorgeous artwork on the movie poster, which started my hobby of collecting original movie posters in my teens. I was mesmerized when the ship capsized and in awe throughout the entire movie. I saw it over half a dozen times with family and relatives well into the summer and again when it was re-released in '74. I also have fond memories of seeing The Towering Inferno, Earthquake (in sensurround), Airport 1975, Jaws, (although not technically a disaster film), Airport '77 and Airport '79. Growing up as a kid in the 70's and a teen in the 80's was a really special time. Great memories!!!
Really good put together footage. As a kid I watched several of the presented movies on television. Disaster movies come in waves. The storm, Twister, Volcano, Titanic, the day after tomorrow, 2012, deep impact. The list goes on and on. Keep up the good work.
Kingdom of the Spiders aired on television when I was a child. I couldn't have been more than four. For years I wondered why on earth my parents allowed me to watch such a thing!
I also remember the 1979 City on Fire starring James Franciscus, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Leslie Nielsen and Shelley Winters. Very bad but so kitschy...
Airport was my first disaster film, I was about 8-9 years old, it was thrilling. I'll never forget that title coming at you in the beginning (and that music!), you knew you were in for a wild ride, and boy was it ever. It had everything, drama, comedy, action, melodrama. I understood, even at that young age, the sorrow and despair of Van Helflin's character, and the desperation of his wife, the great Maureen Stapleton. Towering Inferno was my favorite of the disaster films, but Jaws, well, it's my favorite film of all time, period. Such a great time going to the movies in the 70's.
I feel exactly the same! I was about 7 I think when it came out and I just remember Maureen Stapelton running through the airport crying and apologizing to everyone...I felt so bad for her. I also remember the priest slapping the guy who kept causing all the problems! GREAT Movie! Thanks for your amazing memory, I love hearing these stories! Welcome to the channel!
Great video and lots of blasts from the past. they would always have these on TV during the 80's as the friday night movie or on a a sunday afternoon when the cricket was cancelled because of rain. good memories!
Thanks so much for your comment Rob! Yeah I'm with you there! I remember how exciting it was when one of these would come to the Friday or Saturday night movie on TV. As there was no home video yet. And if you didn't have Channel 100 before the days of HBO...it was a waiting game!
These movies were Saturday afternoon gold in the 80s. Every area had that one channel that would play movies like this on the weekend, and if you had nothing else to do, you would totally be in front of the TV glued to these!
Excellent review -- thank you!! Made me very nostalgic about this exciting era of cinema. Oh, and don't forget "The Concorde... Airport '79" -- so bad, it was brilliant!! 👏👏 🤭
I did enjoy this little jaunt down memory lane. I was in my teens and loved the genre. Earthquake was my favourite at the time. Now I find most of them disappointing. Disaster films have always been there. Here are a few others to put the 1970's bunch in context - The Rains Came, When Worlds Collide, The High and the Mighty, A Night to Remember, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Last Voyage, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Twister, Volcano, United 93, Melancholia. This list would not be complete without the best disaster movie of them all, Airplane!
same here. Saw it at the drive-in, then watched it when it first aired on TV. I remember seeing it in the TV guide and being excited. But I fell asleep halfway through the movie. I woke up before it was over.
Thanks for the video! I also grew up in the '70s and have fond memories of most of these. I love 'Airport '77' and 'The Towering Inferno' - but my favorite has to be 'The Poseidon Adventure'. The situation was so unique and diabolical, it really captured my imagination.
Hey Ian thanks for sharing your memory! I love hearing about fellow film lovers that grew up in a time where movies were really good and going to the theater was entertaining! Welcome to the channel!
Great video! Fun fact: The (lousy) Meteor--which I sat through twice, though--bought FX footage from Roger Corman's (much cheaper, but more inventive) Avalanche to supplement its meager FX. Thanks!
It’s looks very Roger Corman. It’s strange those later disaster movies used the worst green screen or rear screen projection ever. Even though Allen used miniatures in Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure they look much better. Water is the biggest give away for miniatures. Thanks for sharing!
Hey there! Thank you so much for that! It was such a great time to be a kid and grow up in a time where movies and music was at their best! Welcome to the channel!
I loved all those movies when I was kid. I counted the days to go to the movie theaters to see them. On those days I only depended on my parents or relatives to take me to the movies. You mentioned Tidal Wave. I saw that movie when I was only 8 years old. That movie shocked me. The special effects were amazing for the time of the film. I talked about that movie for weeks. Thank you for those amazing memories.
Hey thanks for sharing your memory with us! That's so how it was for me. Wanting to go to the movies but needing someone to take me. It was fun when you could get dropped off and see the movie on your own.
Jaws, The Poisedon Adventure, and Earthquake were my favorites. I remember the Airport movies fondly too. The Poseidon Adventure is the first movie I clearly remember seeing in an indoor movie theater. I was 7.
My favorite of the air disasters is the original Airport. Helen Hays steals the show, elevating the film to the next level. Jacqueline Bassett pretending to get angry and smack Helen Hays, Helen, playing along, starting to cry, was marvelous. I found myself laughing out loud, it was so outrageous. The character Helen plays capable of deceiving anyone, jumping right into the part of being roughed up, to get the bomb away from the crazy man. I remember her as the wonderful old lady in Herbie rides again, as the widow of a fire cheif in San Francisco, in wich she was simply great.
YES!!! and I remember Herbie Rides Again too. My mom took me and some friends to see that, and it's one of the few movies I remember my mom laughing at a lot. She was not a big movie goer. But it's a fond memory.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My father took my two older brothers and I to see most of those, plus a couple others, like 'Damnation Alley' and 'Capricorn One'.... In between 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars', a disaster movie was a good 100 minutes of 'what the heck did I just watch?' time.
Oh man that is the best when your mom or dad take you to see those movies that really stick with you. I remember seeing "Damnation Alley" the bugs in Vegas freaked me out!!!
The Giant subwoofers used in"Sensurround" were a hoot! When the low frequency super deep bass got going you could feel it in your gut. Back then, movies didnt have that kind of sound mix. It led the way for Dolby Surround, DTS, THX and Dolby Atmos.
I grew up watching them. I watched The Poseidon Adventure every New Years Eve when I was a kid.Nos that I own most of the disaster movies on DVD I can watch them any time I want.
WOW! That's crazy! He didn't know the boat turned over! ....It's like a friend of mine that went to see Gone With The Wind and left at Intermission thinking that was the end of the movie. For years he didn't know.
I loved the blockbuster disaster films of the 70s with their all star casts and big special effects. The Towering Inferno was the best. Why? Because OJ saved the cat. It did not matter how many people went up in smoke or met some other horrible end. When OJ saved the cat the theater erupted in applause. Those sure were the days...
Ah the 70's - not only the best decade in all cinema, but a time when disaster movies of the pre-CG age completely blew our minds in ways they still do today!!! Even the bad ones are guilty pleasures!!!
The Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno was my favorite they don't make movies like that anymore and that's sad I really don't go to the movies I would prefer to watch these all were great actors..We need more movies like this..🌍👍🌍😘🌍🍀🌍💯🌍🙏🌍🌟🌍💃🌍👏🌍🎉🌍
So true and I know what you mean! I never go the movies anymore. Last time I went was 2019. And those movies were so good for the time they were. There are no more movie stars.
I remember to this day..the last line of the Movie "Disaster 76"..the hero puts his hands on his hips and says.." Someone's gotta rebuild Los Angeles!" I've used that line a few times in my life.😂
Oh yes, I was a 70s kid and disaster movies like “Earthquake” and “The Poseidon Adventure” made a real impression on me at the time! Younger folks could never understand what a TREND they were. For there to be FOUR different “Airport” movies like that is just - hilarious. But back then it was normal, for some bizarre reason. We didn’t even see those as “sequels”, at least I didn’t. It’s sad to realize how many of these “All star casts” were the last hurrah for so many CLASSIC movie stars of the golden era. I cherish those memories so much, especially watching these at the drive in in the station wagon with my whole family. Good times! Nice retrospective.
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome memory! I love these kinds of comments! It's refreshing to see someone else had some of the very same positive experiences! Welcome to the channel!
Also I wanted to say...YESSS that's so true...I didn't think of them as sequels either! I have so many movie memories and the Drive-In, In fact, I'm working on a new video about an all-nighter at the Drive-In once, with 5 horror movies.
Thanks so much! I am so glad that it brought back some fond memories for you. It's the same for me, thinking back to the movie theaters and friends I saw them in and with.
The Poseidon Adventure was the first "grown up film" that my cousin and I were able to see by ourselves at age ten. We loved it and went on to watch all the other famous ones mentioned here, up to the "Cassandra Crossing ". Not surprisingly,we didn't see the latter money losers.
Agreed Jennifer, it's my favorite too. I remember seeing in the movie theater playing right next to Earthquake. Thank you for sharing your memory! Welcome to the channel.
Never realized just how much I loved those sorts of films as a kid in the 70s. Seems the genre made a massive comeback in the 1990s - 2010s. Hate to see what they would do with this fun genre today.
Me too!!! For me this movie never gets old, and I just love John Williams music for this film. Back during a time when film scores themselves were as much a character in the film. Thanks for sharing your post! Welcome to the channel!
The Poseidon Adventure is my favorite. My high school girlfriend and I took the train to Chicago's Loop on New Year's Eve to see it at the State Lake Theater. It was perfect; the movie takes place on New Year's too. The theater was packed and the audience loved it. When we walked out of the theater, it was about 11 p.m., and the street was filled with crowds waiting for midnight and the new year. What a great experience!
THAT is such a great story! Those are the best memories ever! I love that story. Thank you so much for sharing that with us! Welcome to the channel!
Poseidon Adventure, the best one of the lot !!
Saw The Poseidon Adventure at the Riviera Cinema in Teignmouth, Devon, Uk in July 1973. It was my first Disaster Movie. I was 10 years old. The Movie became one of my favourites and the Morning After, my favourite song. The Poseidon Adventure was the last movie I saw before Immigrating to Australia. Then once in Australia I saw all the other Disaster Movies. These 1970's Classics are for ever Etched into my Psyche.😊👍
I love the Morning After song, it truly resonates with you as you reflect on the film. I also am glad Irwin used Maureen McGovern again in Towering Inferno with, "We may never love like this again" and it won best song as well at the Oscars.
@@sprocketsintime Yep another great song. They don't write songs like that anymore.
Giant sharks, earthquakes, fires, aeroplane and ship disasters - they threw it all at us in the 70s, and we loved it!
RIGHT!!! Today's movies just don't even compare.
Couldn't get enough of it
Probably the best decade to be a stunt performer. ☺️
Seriously, what was happening in the world, that Hollywood wanted to see the world end?
The Towering Inferno was my favorite!!Just a classic movie!!
It's my personal favorite!!! Love John Williams score in that film.
My all time favorite disaster movie😊
Mine too even with the major inconsistencies. You never see any smoke in that huge function room even when the first flames start licking and it’s minutes away from burning also this was a gala banquet evening for 300 VIP guests all about to be served dinner yet, apart from one bar tender and one waitress, you never see any sign of the dozens of catering workers such a function would require.
Towering Inferno, second best Disaster film, John Williams score adds the cherry on top for a box office hit.
My favorite scary movie!
I was born in 1969 and grew up watching these movies when they made it to TV. Absolutely loved The Towering Inferno and Earthquake. I remember one night on TV they showed a double feature of "Earthquake" followed by 1976's "Flood!". Best night of the 70s, lol.
For sure!!! Love this memory Thank you for sharing!
I grew up in that era and decided that if I ever saw George Kennedy board a plane I was on, I would get the hell off!
Very good point! 👍😆
Grew up watching all of these, loved your walk down memory lane. A couple more honorable mention. The 1969 film 'Marooned', and the 1977 film 'Black Sunday'.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and share those other great movies! Welcome to the channel! Let us know if there’s another topic you would like to see in future!
@@sprocketsintime Since you asked, other possible topics might include: TV spin-offs of the 1970s. There were so many during that decade, it seemed as if every hit TV sitcom had at least one spin-off. Everything from 'All in the Family' to 'Happy Days'. The majority didn't last more than one season or even a pilot episode, but a few did stick. Among other topics, you might consider 1970s fads, such as mode rings, pet rocks, pop rocks, and time capsules.
Thank you Kenneth! That for a sure a cool idea to look into! I remember all that stuff!
The Poseidon Adventure great film full of good actors. Never forgot the end where the priest (Hackman) sacrifices himself to save the others. Miss the old 70s films.
I know, I was so sad, as he was so close to making it all the way.
@chuckselvage3157
Shelly winters death scene was pretty sad too especially when Borgnine calls out to thank her and she doesn't respond. If you think about it without Winters going in to save hackman who was trapped underwater, none of them would've made it out. Great film!
Actually the best decade for disaster movies.
Best decade for music too imo. The 1970's were the bomb
@@JohnSmith-it6hjMy Great Uncle says it was the best decade for rock.
My best friend and I saw The Poseidon Adventure at the drive-in (remember those?)and we were on the edge of our seats the whole time!! It still holds up today!
100% still holds up!
I'm with you. The Poseidon Adventure was my favorite. My dad took me to see. The only other one on this list I saw in theaters was The Towering inferno. How that building didn't collapse is beyond me
Disaster movies of the 70's were much better than the disaster movies of the present.
So true. CGI makes it all so dull.
Part of the fun was the blending of a zillion stars. You don't see that now
For those of us who saw all these movies, and their accompanying music and songs in the 70's, todays generations will never understand how they effected our psyche. Todays movies just don't seem to cut it despite their brilliant special effects. Disaster Movies in the 70's drew huge crowds into the Cinemas that Todays Theatres could only dream of.😊
You're so right! Today's movies just don't cut it. From the acting, to the film scores, it just doesn't have that same presence that movies back then had.
@@sprocketsintime Boy you can say that again Mr. Sprocket. The 1970's seem to be a golden age for all movie genres with the last year 1979 filled by that Scifi Classic Alien. Then things starting going down hill from then on. 😊👍
Because today's movies are all special effects and no heart.
That was the best time as a kid growing up with those movies.
It sure was!!! I'm so thankful we got to experience it!
I remember "Airplane" being a terrific send-up of thia whole genre. Excellent stuff.
Yes, I remember seeing the first Airplane in the movies laughed like crazy. Especially the disco bar scene
_Airplane_ was fantastic. Before streaming, I used to watch it every time it was on. Will anybody ever forget, "And don't call me Shirley!"?
@@sprocketsintime I had never seen _Saturday Night Fever_ - that was where the original disco scene came from, right? - but I still thought that scene was hilarious. (I still haven't seen any John Travolta movies except _Face/Off,_ which I loved.)
@@DalokiMauvais fair warning, Saturday Night Fever is not a comedy. I went in thinking it would be like Grease and uff no. It’s good, don’t get me wrong (imho), but funny it is not
When my parents took my brothers and I to see The Cassandra Crossing, I thought it was going to be a snooze fest.
I loved it! All the disaster movies of the 70's were awesome.
The Cassandra Crossing was a very well done movie.
Good movie and plot
a scene was shot on the Crumlin Viaduct a small town 8 miles north of Newport South Wales @@MrJestyler
Towering Inferno is one of my favourites.....
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman in the same film, can't get better than that!
My favorite too! Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were great, also a big fan of William Holden.
All hail Irwin Allen!
New Movie Box Set Of Irwin Allen Is Out,Contains 9 Films Directed By Him- Theatrical Versions!😊
I talked my mother and stepfather to take me to see Posiden Adventure in the theater.
I was 8 or 9 years old and loved every moment of it.
The Poseidon Adventure is my favorite still today. It traumatized me as a child but loved it at the same time.
Such a great movie!
That's when I began my lifelong crush on Carol Lynley.
Damn!
I kinda agree, it was rough, but I do not think I blinked watching it the first time in our one screen theatre.
I felt so sad for Ernest Borgnine.
Thank you for bringing back so many happy memories spent in the cinema in the 70's. It brought back the memory of my grandfather taking me and my brother to the Guamont in Birmingham UK (the largest screen in Europe at the time) to see Earthquake in sensurround. I'm going to search the house for the DVD of this and earthquake, they're here somewhere I hope
WOW that means more than I can say to think this video gave you a good memory of your childhood with your grandad. I think sometimes adults don't realize how big a deal it is when they take you to see a movie. Especially a grown up movie. Earthquake is available on RUclips Movies for free. :) Towering Inferno is also now free on YT movies
Earthquake is so awful but it's special effects were fascinating to me at 14 years old. I bought every book I could find about film effects after that. I loved Poseidon Adventure immediately, and still do. Stella Stevens rocks. It's so funny how every aging celebrity became cash cows for awhile. This was really fun. Thanks.
Hey there thanks so much for sharing your memory! So glad you enjoyed the video! I have loved movies all my life and it's great to connect with others who have shared some of the same experiences!
I’ve seen most of them. I love disaster movies, even hokey made for tv ones.
Wow the 70's movie experience! So great. Today going to a movie is a monthly pay check. So it's just not the same.
That certainly is the truth! I think I paid $0.75 to see Towering Inferno in 1974.
@@sprocketsintime I know! Growing up in Mississippi around 1958 or 1959 one summer I saw Hitari like 15 days straight for $.10 a show. I was 5 or 6. But then, it was the absolute time of my life! It must have been for me to still remember that!!!#@!#@!!
A friend of mine said that was like his Summer of 1967 and seeing "You Only Live Twice" over and over all summer. For me the most times I ever paid to see a movie was, "Phantom of the Paradise" 16 times. Thanks for sharing, great post!
@sprocketsintime I love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ these nostalgia back in times posts. Ahh... the days of our youth! It seems so different today. I wonder how kids now will see their history in say - 2070? Things change so quickly today.
Thank you I love thinking back to all of it too!!! Nice to connect with others who love this too.
My mom took 13 year old me and my 10 year old brother to see Airport 75. The entire theater was silent watching in anticipation for Chuck Heston to enter the hole in the cockpit to save the day. Just before the theater can all cheer when Heston successfully enters, mom calls out loudly, "Way to go, Moses!" Instead of cheering the theater erupts in laughter.
LOLOLOL That's brilliant! I once went to see the movie, "Hard Target" with Van Dam and when Wilford Brimley came on the screen someone yelled, "Hey dat's the oatmeal man!"
Back then they were calling a double feature of Earthquake and The Towering Inferno, "Shake n Bake".... I don't know if anyone else remembers that.
I do remember that!
A very good video summarizing the decade's most notable on-screen disaster projects.
Most of the disaster movies of said period benefited from stacked casts. Irwin Allen, in particular, spared no effort in what he put on the screen and in the names he got for his projects.
His list of disaster flicks makes you wonder if he had something against the fundamental elements! In Airport, the enemy was air. In Poseidon, the threat was water; and in The Towering Inferno, fire was the deadly adversary.
I was seven years old during the winter of 1974-75 and I remember all the talk and excitement at the time about The Towering Inferno. I remember the big names in the movie's TV spots. It was clear it was a movie to see.
'The Poseidon Adventure' also had a great cast, albeit a bit smaller and lesser in name magnitude. Like disco music, however, the disaster genre soon found itself running out of fuel. Irwin Allen tried to sustain momentum with 'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure', which I've always regarded as being nothing more than a rip-off exploitation film.
Yup. My parents took me to many of those. I still remember seeing Earthquake in ”Sensurround.” That was very loud and low bass sound that vibrated the seats when the earthquakes were happening. Awesome!
Such a fun time to go to the movies back then! Thanks for your comment! Welcome to the channel
Earthquake ride at Universal Studios was such a good time!
To quote from the black book of Disaster movie director Frank Kincaid:
"Rule #22: Only one person knows how to avert a disaster, but nobody ever believes them."
"Rule #101: Explosions are good, slow-motion explosions are better."
"Rule #32: Never kill a house pet."
"Rule #14: The annoying guy always dies."
Disaster is my favourite genre and 70s disasters are the greatest. Towering inferno, The Swarm, Meteor and Airport 77 are my personal favourites.
I remember "Earthquake" the most because of the "Evil Kineval" dude who tried to make the loop. Hahah! Evil Kineval was such a massive star then. I had his wind-up motocycle toy. What a time the 70s were!
OH yeah, Richard Roundtree as Miles Quade. Totally busted up laughing when he tried to loop the first time and fell out...I was like, how did they do that? Did an actual stuntman fall out of it!!!
We also had the best music as well.
Airport ignited my decades long love of disaster movies. I think I've seen just about every one ever made since then.
Such a great time for movies!!!
It was. Even our Made For Tv movies were great. Most don't remember that Steven Spielberg's first movie was a made for tv movie named Duel starring Dennis Weaver.
EXACTLY!!!! Duel was scary! And a great made for tv movie. I remember so well, "The ABC Movie of the Week" with its great music intro, so many that I loved that scared me too! Like, The Night Stalker, Legend of Lizzie Borden, When Michael Calls, Scream Pretty Peggy" so many! Thanks for sharing your memories with us!
@@sprocketsintime you're welcome. 70's was mostly my teen years since I graduated in '79.
class of 81 here!
I was born in 1964 and grew up in Ft. Worth, Texas. Going to the theater in the early and mid 70s with my brothers and friends from the old neighborhood was magic. The old disaster movies were great. Some of the first tastes of "freedom" being taken to the theater and dropped off. Spent a lot of fun, magical summer days and nights at Six Flags as well. Those were good times indeed, I will have those wonderful memories of my youth the rest of my life.
We're almost the same age and YES! I totally remember the freedom of being dropped off at the movies with friends, going to see all those great movies. Just caught up in the magic of movie imagination. Thanks so much for sharing your awesome memory with us! Welcome to the channel!
@@sprocketsintime My pleasure. Thank you for stirring my pleasant memories with your video, sometimes a trip down memory lane does you good.
There's going to be plenty more to come, I promise! I started this channel to share my passion for movies and TV from a time when it all seemed so much better!
Can you name some OTHER movies you saw back then? Were you into horror movies ?
OH YEAH!!! I was a TOTAL horror fan. I've got one I'm working on right now about that subject. But we are backlogging a ton of horror movies we're going to be sharing! :)
I remember seeing Earthquake, Airport, Airport 75, Airpot 77, and the Towering Inferno when they were on broadcast television.
I watched Earthquake on TV too. It was a 2 part movie and they added scenes like the airport when the airplane was attempting to land. That part was not in the movie when at the theaters.
The 70s disaster movies--possibly my single favorite film genre--I love 'em all, even the REALLY bad ones! Even the cheap TV movies. Even the parodies like the "Big Bus" and the parody which signaled the end of the genre, "Airplane." A few not mentioned: Concorde--Airport 1979, Skyjacked, Two-Minute Warning, Rollercoaster, Grey Lady Down, Avalanche Express, City on Fire, and Hurricane. Thanks for this fun video!
Pretty sure I saw every single one of those. Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure are tied for number one. Enjoyed the airport movies pretty well at the time. A young Eric Estrada was the copilot who got sucked out the hole in airport 75. I actually enjoyed the Cassandra Crossing even though it was a bit cheesy. When I saw the Hindenburg I just remember the audience cheering when it was shown that the dog survived. Some of the later ones I only ever saw on TV, I'm looking at you Swarm. Never have seen the volcano movie. That was a really fun era though overall.
WOW I remember that too about the dog surviving in The Hindenburg!!! Funny how collective memories can be shared! Thanks for sharing your experience!
I love The Big Bus!!
Me too!!! It's a total guilty pleasure of mine!
Thats where I fell in love with Stockard Channing. I watched everything she was in
People tend to forget "The Big Bus", which was poking fun at the genre four years before "Airplane!".
Raise Flags of all Nations
Airplane! was the greatest sendup of disaster movies and for those of us, who grew up with the disaster genre of the 70's, the film hit the nail on the head. And of course to see Leslie Nielsen, who had been the captain on The Poseidon, playing a doctor was just the icing on the cake!
Laughed myself silly seeing Airplane in the theater when it came out! Loved the disco scene
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
I love THE TOWERING INFERNO so much! It is by far my favorite disaster flick. I loved WHEN TIME RAN OUT as a kid. It played many times on The Movie Channel when we lived in Atlanta, back between 1980 and 1982. We pretended the floor was lava and had to use a footstool as a boat to stay off of the lava.
My favorite was the original "Airport." AWESOME theme music.❤
Yes! I love the theme from Airport! It's a movie I have enjoyed so much more as I got older.
Poseidon Adventure in a NYC Times Square theater with a sound system that had the sirens whooping off all around us as the tsunami was closing in and the ship capsized!!
WOW I bet that was totally amazing experience! Thanks for sharing that memory with us!
Yeah baby...Airport '75, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, The Hindenburg, Black Sunday, Two Minute Warning, Jaws, and Rollercoaster. What a roster of great movies which literally defined a decade.
I loved "Black Sunday" and, "The Towering Inferno". However, they are no longer rewatchable to me after 9/11.
I'm not sure if The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 would be considered a disaster film but it's one of my fav films of the 1970s
I forgot about "Black Sunday" and "2 minute warning".
Good ones! And terrorism wasn't as common back then which makes me feel like we're living in THEIR dystopian future.
Yikes!
Black Sunday and rollercoaster 👍👍
My favorite disaster movie is The Towering Inferno, too. And I like Airport’ 77 very much either!
Me too! Loved both those movies!
I watched these movies as a kid alongside my Dad so when I watched Airplane! it hit for me on a whole nother level lol. Thanks for the video!
Hey Perry! You are so welcome! Airplane was such a fun experience! I remember the disco scene cracked us up
The Big Bus was directed by James Frawley, who directed the lion's share of The Monkees' tv show episodes. He also directed The Muppet Movie.
The Poseidon Adventure was the greatest sleeper-movie of all time.
In the 70s there was also a rash of quite good made for TV disster movies. Like The Day The Earth Moved, The Triangle Factory Fire and The Fire In The Sky ...SOS Titanic . and several others I can't recall for now ...
I remember "The Fire in the Sky" and SOS Titantic. (David Warner managed to be in both Titanic films)
I saw most of these when I was a kid, on the big screen. Towering Inferno was my favourite out of the bunch.
mine too!
Earthquake was my favorite
Earthquake is still a favorite of mine as well.
Some of the best FX ever without CGI! I'm a big FX geek going waaaay back till today.
Yes! Practical FX over cgi any day!
I remember seeing practically all of them. I love horror and back in the seventies, disaster movies were the next best thing. Thanks for sharing these gems from my youth!
You are welcome! I love horror movies too! Such a great time for movies! Welcome to the channel!
I remember my parents taking me to see The Poseidon Adventure in Feb '73, shortly after my 6th Birthday. They were hesitant at first, but after my constant pleading, they relented...lol. I remember standing in the long line to get our tickets and falling in love with the gorgeous artwork on the movie poster, which started my hobby of collecting original movie posters in my teens. I was mesmerized when the ship capsized and in awe throughout the entire movie. I saw it over half a dozen times with family and relatives well into the summer and again when it was re-released in '74. I also have fond memories of seeing The Towering Inferno, Earthquake (in sensurround), Airport 1975, Jaws, (although not technically a disaster film), Airport '77 and Airport '79. Growing up as a kid in the 70's and a teen in the 80's was a really special time. Great memories!!!
I lOVE THEM ALL. AIRPORT 77 was my fav airplane movie.
Loved Airport 77 too!
Really good put together footage. As a kid I watched several of the presented movies on television. Disaster movies come in waves. The storm, Twister, Volcano, Titanic, the day after tomorrow, 2012, deep impact. The list goes on and on. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much!!! Glad you liked it! I am forever a disaster movie fan too!
Kingdom of the Spiders aired on television when I was a child. I couldn't have been more than four. For years I wondered why on earth my parents allowed me to watch such a thing!
oh no Julie.....no spiders!!! I would have been terrified!
What a well organized video. Thanks!
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel!
Disaster movies are my favourite can't get enough of them
I also remember the 1979 City on Fire starring James Franciscus, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Leslie Nielsen and Shelley Winters. Very bad but so kitschy...
Airport was my first disaster film, I was about 8-9 years old, it was thrilling. I'll never forget that title coming at you in the beginning (and that music!), you knew you were in for a wild ride, and boy was it ever. It had everything, drama, comedy, action, melodrama. I understood, even at that young age, the sorrow and despair of Van Helflin's character, and the desperation of his wife, the great Maureen Stapleton. Towering Inferno was my favorite of the disaster films, but Jaws, well, it's my favorite film of all time, period. Such a great time going to the movies in the 70's.
I feel exactly the same! I was about 7 I think when it came out and I just remember Maureen Stapelton running through the airport crying and apologizing to everyone...I felt so bad for her. I also remember the priest slapping the guy who kept causing all the problems! GREAT Movie! Thanks for your amazing memory, I love hearing these stories! Welcome to the channel!
Irwin Allen is the best!!.... so many movies and tv shows... like Towering Inferno and Lost In Space, to name a few.
Agreed, I can’t imagine my childhood without Irwin Allen!
Great picks. I really appreciate you naming all the actors and showing their photos
You are welcome! That stuff is important to me too!
Great video and lots of blasts from the past. they would always have these on TV during the 80's as the friday night movie or on a a sunday afternoon when the cricket was cancelled because of rain. good memories!
Thanks so much for your comment Rob! Yeah I'm with you there! I remember how exciting it was when one of these would come to the Friday or Saturday night movie on TV. As there was no home video yet. And if you didn't have Channel 100 before the days of HBO...it was a waiting game!
Loved Earthquake saw it opening night and when the sense O round effect started plaster fell off the theatre ceiling, Fantastic!
Yikes! I'd thought uh-oh...is this real or Memorex.
These movies were Saturday afternoon gold in the 80s. Every area had that one channel that would play movies like this on the weekend, and if you had nothing else to do, you would totally be in front of the TV glued to these!
Excellent review -- thank you!! Made me very nostalgic about this exciting era of cinema. Oh, and don't forget "The Concorde... Airport '79" -- so bad, it was brilliant!! 👏👏 🤭
Thank you for sharing this! I am always so happy to know the video brought back fond memories! Welcome to the channel! 👍
Irwin Allen movies were the best because of the All Star Casts. Love seeing some of the best!
I did enjoy this little jaunt down memory lane. I was in my teens and loved the genre. Earthquake was my favourite at the time. Now I find most of them disappointing. Disaster films have always been there. Here are a few others to put the 1970's bunch in context - The Rains Came, When Worlds Collide, The High and the Mighty, A Night to Remember, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Last Voyage, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Twister, Volcano, United 93, Melancholia. This list would not be complete without the best disaster movie of them all, Airplane!
I loved Earthquake - "in Sens-Surround!" and Airport 1975!
I remember seeing The Poseidon Adventure in both the movie theatre and on TV back in the mid 70's.
same here. Saw it at the drive-in, then watched it when it first aired on TV. I remember seeing it in the TV guide and being excited. But I fell asleep halfway through the movie. I woke up before it was over.
Thanks for the video! I also grew up in the '70s and have fond memories of most of these. I love 'Airport '77' and 'The Towering Inferno' - but my favorite has to be 'The Poseidon Adventure'. The situation was so unique and diabolical, it really captured my imagination.
Hey Ian thanks for sharing your memory! I love hearing about fellow film lovers that grew up in a time where movies were really good and going to the theater was entertaining! Welcome to the channel!
Watching the Poseidon adventure in the theater was a great experience. Love the Towering Inferno and the first two Airplane movies.
So true! Those were movies that were best experienced in the theater!
Great video!
Fun fact: The (lousy) Meteor--which I sat through twice, though--bought FX footage from Roger Corman's (much cheaper, but more inventive) Avalanche to supplement its meager FX.
Thanks!
It’s looks very Roger Corman. It’s strange those later disaster movies used the worst green screen or rear screen projection ever. Even though Allen used miniatures in Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure they look much better. Water is the biggest give away for miniatures. Thanks for sharing!
This is a great presentation. This was my great time to be a kid and I loved all these movies.
Hey there! Thank you so much for that! It was such a great time to be a kid and grow up in a time where movies and music was at their best! Welcome to the channel!
I loved all those movies when I was kid. I counted the days to go to the movie theaters to see them. On those days I only depended on my parents or relatives to take me to the movies. You mentioned Tidal Wave. I saw that movie when I was only 8 years old. That movie shocked me. The special effects were amazing for the time of the film. I talked about that movie for weeks. Thank you for those amazing memories.
Hey thanks for sharing your memory with us! That's so how it was for me. Wanting to go to the movies but needing someone to take me. It was fun when you could get dropped off and see the movie on your own.
I’m a professional beekeeper, so the Swarm will always be my favorite, but I love all of these movies, especially Airport.
You are much braver than I!!!! :)
Jaws, The Poisedon Adventure, and Earthquake were my favorites. I remember the Airport movies fondly too.
The Poseidon Adventure is the first movie I clearly remember seeing in an indoor movie theater. I was 7.
Great experiences weren't they!
@@sprocketsintime absolutely!
My favorite of the air disasters is the original Airport. Helen Hays steals the show, elevating the film to the next level. Jacqueline Bassett pretending to get angry and smack Helen Hays, Helen, playing along, starting to cry, was marvelous. I found myself laughing out loud, it was so outrageous. The character Helen plays capable of deceiving anyone, jumping right into the part of being roughed up, to get the bomb away from the crazy man. I remember her as the wonderful old lady in Herbie rides again, as the widow of a fire cheif in San Francisco, in wich she was simply great.
YES!!! and I remember Herbie Rides Again too. My mom took me and some friends to see that, and it's one of the few movies I remember my mom laughing at a lot. She was not a big movie goer. But it's a fond memory.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My father took my two older brothers and I to see most of those, plus a couple others, like 'Damnation Alley' and 'Capricorn One'.... In between 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars', a disaster movie was a good 100 minutes of 'what the heck did I just watch?' time.
Oh man that is the best when your mom or dad take you to see those movies that really stick with you. I remember seeing "Damnation Alley" the bugs in Vegas freaked me out!!!
@@sprocketsintime ah yes, the Killer Cockroaches!!! And the sound effect for them.... ick!
The Giant subwoofers used in"Sensurround" were a hoot! When the low frequency super deep bass got going you could feel it in your gut. Back then, movies didnt have that kind of sound mix. It led the way for Dolby Surround, DTS, THX and Dolby Atmos.
Was cool to experience that back in 1974
Oh, I want to go back to the early 70s....I miss being a teenager and these times.... the actors...real actors
Was 7 years old when Earthquake came out and it scared me!! The sensoround felt so realistic!! Great memories!!
I grew up watching them. I watched The Poseidon Adventure every New Years Eve when I was a kid.Nos that I own most of the disaster movies on DVD I can watch them any time I want.
Same here! I watch them every chance I get.
I was an extra in "The Poseidon Adventure" (in The New Years Eve party scene!). Great movie and Great memories!
How cool is that Kevin!!! Did you get to take any onset photos?
I missed the first 30 min of Possiden Adventure too. I was with my brother, and at the end of the movie he says, "Oh! The boat was upside down!"
WOW! That's crazy! He didn't know the boat turned over! ....It's like a friend of mine that went to see Gone With The Wind and left at Intermission thinking that was the end of the movie. For years he didn't know.
I loved the blockbuster disaster films of the 70s with their all star casts and big special effects. The Towering Inferno was the best. Why? Because OJ saved the cat. It did not matter how many people went up in smoke or met some other horrible end. When OJ saved the cat the theater erupted in applause. Those sure were the days...
Ah the 70's - not only the best decade in all cinema, but a time when disaster movies of the pre-CG age completely blew our minds in ways they still do today!!! Even the bad ones are guilty pleasures!!!
*I liked 'The Big Bus'! It predates 'Airplane!'*
Loved the Big Bus. Saw it years ago on a local tv station and video taped it. Watched it over and over! "Raising Flags of All Nations!"
The Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno was my favorite they don't make movies like that anymore and that's sad I really don't go to the movies I would prefer to watch these all were great actors..We need more movies like this..🌍👍🌍😘🌍🍀🌍💯🌍🙏🌍🌟🌍💃🌍👏🌍🎉🌍
So true and I know what you mean! I never go the movies anymore. Last time I went was 2019. And those movies were so good for the time they were. There are no more movie stars.
Thanks for the memories. I love disaster movies. Even 2012. Great video.
Hey there Mary! Thanks for the comment and welcome to the channel!
I remember to this day..the last line of the Movie "Disaster 76"..the hero puts his hands on his hips and says.." Someone's gotta rebuild Los Angeles!" I've used that line a few times in my life.😂
For sure!
Had it pegged even as a kiddo after '74 we were close to the end of disaster movies. I did however like the the old greats (actors) teaming up. ❤
Me too! No today to me comes close to the stars then
my god!! i have to watch all of these!! thank you for the hit list!!
Earthquake and Towering Inferno are both free on RUclips movies!
@@sprocketsintimesweeeeet!! thank you!!
Oh yes, I was a 70s kid and disaster movies like “Earthquake” and “The Poseidon Adventure” made a real impression on me at the time! Younger folks could never understand what a TREND they were. For there to be FOUR different “Airport” movies like that is just - hilarious. But back then it was normal, for some bizarre reason.
We didn’t even see those as “sequels”, at least I didn’t. It’s sad to realize how many of these “All star casts” were the last hurrah for so many CLASSIC movie stars of the golden era. I cherish those memories so much, especially watching these at the drive in in the station wagon with my whole family. Good times!
Nice retrospective.
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome memory! I love these kinds of comments! It's refreshing to see someone else had some of the very same positive experiences! Welcome to the channel!
Also I wanted to say...YESSS that's so true...I didn't think of them as sequels either! I have so many movie memories and the Drive-In, In fact, I'm working on a new video about an all-nighter at the Drive-In once, with 5 horror movies.
Fantastic review, a trip down memory lane..I can remember lining up outside the royal cinema to get in to see Poseiden adventure.
Thanks so much! I am so glad that it brought back some fond memories for you. It's the same for me, thinking back to the movie theaters and friends I saw them in and with.
The Poseidon Adventure was the first "grown up film" that my cousin and I were able to see by ourselves at age ten. We loved it and went on to watch all the other famous ones mentioned here, up to the "Cassandra Crossing ". Not surprisingly,we didn't see the latter money losers.
I loved The Towering Inferno. I saw it when I was 10 years old. Also saw Earthquake in Sensurround. Was the greatest ❤
YES!!! Towering Inferno was so awesome! I saw it when I was 11 and loved Earthquake in Sensurround too! Thanks for commenting! Welcome to the channel.
Oh, childhood memories!
Right! How I miss those days.
Throwback growing up My favorite tower inferno , the Poseidon Adventure Airport 75
The Towering Inferno is not only my all-time favorite disaster movie, it's one of my favorite movies of ANY genre.
Agreed Jennifer, it's my favorite too. I remember seeing in the movie theater playing right next to Earthquake. Thank you for sharing your memory! Welcome to the channel.
Disaster movies, bring 'em on.
Never realized just how much I loved those sorts of films as a kid in the 70s. Seems the genre made a massive comeback in the 1990s - 2010s. Hate to see what they would do with this fun genre today.
Agreed 👍
I loved all of them! The Towering Inverno! My #1
Me too!!! For me this movie never gets old, and I just love John Williams music for this film. Back during a time when film scores themselves were as much a character in the film. Thanks for sharing your post! Welcome to the channel!