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Best '70's Disaster movie

What was the best 1970's disaster movie?  

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  1. 1. What was the best 1970's disaster movie?

    • Earthquake
      3
    • The Towering Inferno
      4
    • The Poseidon Adventure
      5
    • Airport
      0
    • Airport 1975
      0


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In the 1970's there was a popular trend in Hollywood for making "disaster movies". Which one do you think was the best of the ones listed above?

 

I loved "The Poseidon Adventure", and for a while when I was pretty young I thought it was a true story :blink:

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Earthquake. It simulated a real earthquake and made the whole theatre shake. It seemed very cool at the time.

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Earthquake is on right now, and I think that Airport 1975 was on a few minutes ago. I've never seen any of them, but I do like disaster movies. Volcano was a good one.

Airport 1975 was what inspired this poll I watched the end of it while I was eating my chili :blink:

 

Volcano was pretty good but it wasn't in the 1970's so it's not really part of that "Genre" (IMO)

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I've always thought Earthquake has the best effects of them all but I voted for The Poseidon Adventure. It's main character (the Preacher) and his anger at the Lord was something I never saw portrayed on screen before so I call it the better story.

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I've always thought Earthquake has the best effects of them all but I voted for The Poseidon Adventure. It's main character (the Preacher) and his anger at the Lord was something I never saw portrayed on screen before so I call it the better story.

Agreed, it was a really good story. I always loved the way he led them through the bowels of the ship and how Shelly Winters had to save the day by swimming, as a kid I was always saddened when she died.

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Meteor with Sean Connery!

:blink:

Sure,the meteor never collides with the Earth,but I recall being very drawn into the movie and nervewracked by the suspensefulness of it all,while watching it.The disaster potential was there.

As a second place film,I'd pick the Towering Inferno.Loved it.

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Earthquake!!I love movie.Very well done.I have it on VHS

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Dont' ban me but my first thought was "best seventies disaster movie" is an oxymoron. However, after I saw the list I did vote for poseidon adventure, now that I think of it there was a lot to that movie but it has been forever since I saw it. From what I remember Airplane was pretty good too - wasn't it the first disaster movie?

 

Now don't laugh but I've actually used the Poseidon Adventure as a sort of personal metaphor for life. Everyone needs to do their part for the group reach the goal - but we know not everyone will make it. We just have to hope and do our best. Does that make sense?

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I voted for Earthquake. I loved the way the sound system in the theater simulated the rumbling and shaking of an earthquake every time a quake happened on screen! When I saw the movie way back when, I thought that was really cool! Only problem is, when I saw the movie a few years later on TV without the elaborate sound system, it just wasn't the same!!

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Meteor with Sean Connery!

:laugh:

Sure,the meteor never collides with the Earth,but I recall being very drawn into the movie and nervewracked by the suspensefulness of it all,while watching it.The disaster potential was there.

As a second place film,I'd pick the Towering Inferno.Loved it.

Hrmm,was meteor a 70's flick?I dunno...uh,for some reason that feels like the early 80's.Could be wrong,I guess...I could be.Well,if it was a 70's movie,I'll pick it.Hrmm,otherwise I take the Poseidon Adventure.Hrmm.... :klingon:

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I'll vote for the Towering Inferno.Airport is a close second,with Poseidon close on its heels.

Hey,how about Apocolypse Now?The Vietnam war was the biggest $#@! government sponsored disaster in the 20th century!

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