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bestcee

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Munchkin is obsessed right now with watching all the disaster Movies. We watched 2012 yesterday, and he's watching 2012: ice age now. Next on his list: Armageddon and the Day after Tomorrow. He likes to analyze how bad the graphics are and how unrealistic the story is ( he's 10, so his analysis leans towards "mom, that ice Berg looks so fake! And, yeah right a camper can't outrun a volcano!" I may give him Twister next! I can't wait to hear what he thinks of cows flying!
Are you a disaster movie fan? What's your favorite?
Do you analyze movie graphics while you watch? Have you gone back to an old movie and realized how badly it aged?
 
You really need to go back and watch some of the ones from the early 70's. I lived in a 14-story tower my first year in college. A friend and I decided to go see a movie over Christmas break... The Towering Inferno! Not a good choice but thankfully I had a few days to recover before going back to school!

The Towering Inferno - 1974
Earthquake - 1974 (love, love, love Charleton Heston)
The Poseidon Adventure - 1972
Airport - 1970
Airport 1975 - 1975
Airport '77 - 1977
Gray Lady Down - 1978

That's all I got for ya. And, yes, your son will get a kick out of them. Definitely another era.

A little side note about Gray Lady Down. I never saw it in the theater but I heard about it at one of my employers in the mid-80's so when it came on TV, I watched it (another Charleton Heston film). The reason I heard about it is because of one of the lines in the movie... For context the sub is going down:

Capt. Paul Blanchard:
Fourteen hundred and fifty feet! They really built this baby!

Murphy:
Thank God!

Capt. Paul Blanchard:
God and General Dynamics!

I worked for General Dynamics. We built Army tanks in the division I worked in. Another division built submarines.
 
Not as a rule. BUT my first date ever (age 16) was to go to see Towering Inferno. Sad to think of it and 911. Yikes. That's why I don't watch many of them- because I correlate too much. Hubster analyzes/critiques almost everything- ESPECIALLY if it is military or weapon related; guess he can cos that was his military occupational specialty: "That would not have fired that far", "there is no way you could walk away from that explosion", "that unit patch is not appropriate for that branch of service", "you don't salute when not under cover(head covering) and carrying a weapon"...yeah. That's his thing!
Did watch San Andreas. Not impressed, lol. I will not watch any epidemic films. Seeing the report of the struggling nurses last week was too much for me. Steering clear of that stuff. And @bestcee when you said Twister, I thought of the game first, LOL!!
 
I do really enjoy all of them! I remember when The Towering Inferno came out and my dad went to see it. I was about 9 at the time and wanted to go with him so bad and he wouldn't let me :(. I do love to analyze the graphic and I love seeing how far technology has come.
Not a disaster movie, but my granddaughter and I were watching Disney+ the other day and I introduced her to Escape to Witch Mountain, which was one of my favorites as a little girl and we got such a big kick out of the flying camper scenes LOL. It was so bad.
 
Oh, how I remember The Towering Inferno! I think that's why I never wanted to go up high! In Detroit, we used to go to the top of The RenCen for dinner occasionally. It was on the 71st floor and it turned. It was still very cool to go there for dinner.
 
I remember the seeing at the movie theatre - The Towering Inferno ... it was featured in a special I watched on TV the other day about Steve McQueen. I used to be a fan of both Steve McQueen and Paul Newman who were both in this movie.

I have in the past enjoyed watching The Poseidon Adventure. Has never put me off enjoying going on Cruises but now after all that has happened with COVID19 I might be a little hesitant about cruising.
 
I'll admit to re-watching Contagion with DH about 2 weeks back but I'm usually like your DS & can't suspend disbelief - DD's class watched The Day After Tomorrow in Science in yr 8 (I think it was filler really while the teacher was marking yr12 stuff) but she missed some being off sick one day I think so I watched it again with her and DS (who would of been in yr4 then) & they both liked it (especially the ship in among the city buildings). I forgot about Twister! You'll need to try to capture his expression during that cow scene!
The Day the War Began is a modern Aussie disaster classic (the series they made a good decade after was rubbish to me) but it's more an invasion disaster I guess (& one of the original teen girl hero type books/movies).
 
We've watched our fair share of disaster movies (Twister, Independence Day, etc) and usually I don't mind them but when hubby wanted to watch I am Legend the other day because it was on tv, I put my foot down and said NO! It's just too close to home right now and that one didn't sit well with me the first time I saw it... too freaky!
 
IntenseMagic said:
I do really enjoy all of them! I remember when The Towering Inferno came out and my dad went to see it. I was about 9 at the time and wanted to go with him so bad and he wouldn't let me :(. I do love to analyze the graphic and I love seeing how far technology has come.
Not a disaster movie, but my granddaughter and I were watching Disney+ the other day and I introduced her to Escape to Witch Mountain, which was one of my favorites as a little girl and we got such a big kick out of the flying camper scenes LOL. It was so bad.
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I remember Escape to Witch Mountain! I loved it as a kid. I wonder if my kids would want to watch it again.
 
HavaDrPepper said:
Definitely another era.
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Thanks for the suggestions! I'll look for them and see what we can find!
We watched that skyscraper one last year that is like a remake of towering inferno. It was so bad!!!
 
AJK said:
That's why I don't watch many of them- because I correlate too much.
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I think that's why we enjoy the bad ones. Like the one this morning? 2012-ice age? Oh my gosh! The graphics of the plane flying? My kid is all that's so fake!!! And then they run up the statue of liberty and make it to the crown in like 3 minutes. He's all: we climbed that! You can't do it that fast! Plus, it'd be cold. And him telling the tv that you can't shoot missiles at an iceberg. He killed me. I was laughing so hard!
I don't care for the more realistic ones, but the B or even C ones are great fun!
 
A-M said:
I used to be a fan of both Steve McQueen and Paul Newman who were both in this movie
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This is part of the fun for me. I've been able to sneak in older actors and actresses. He watched Casablanca with me the other month. It's not a disaster, but I figure I'll get him to watch meet me in st. Louis soon too!
 
bellbird said:
DD's class watched The Day After Tomorrow in Science in yr 8
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I had to watch Dante's peak and analyze all the science issue with it. It was actually kinda fun. That movie did not age well!
I'll see if I can find the Aussie one you mentioned.
 
A-M said:
I remember the seeing at the movie theatre - The Towering Inferno ... it was featured in a special I watched on TV the other day about Steve McQueen. I used to be a fan of both Steve McQueen and Paul Newman who were both in this movie.
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There were some good looking men in that movie besides Steve and Paul. William Holden, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner. Even the women were a pretty good bunch... Faye Dunaway, Susan Blakely, Jennifer Jones and one of my favorites from years ago, Susan Flannery.
 
Hubby is a huge fan of action and disaster movies. I will sometimes sit with him and watch them, but usually I let him watch on his own. Right now, I think it would make my nerves even more jangly than they already are.
 
We watch all the action disaster movies!!! The last one that sticks out was the one with the rock, san andreas. The new Race to Witch Mountain also has him in it. Oh and Skyscraper. That was the one we saw most recently. They are silly and we do always seem to talk about how certain things would not happen that way. Or where was security. Or if its a movie that has a bomb in it how the bomb should have gone off by now since the timer had 2 minutes left about 5 minutes ago. Things like that
 
Good movie suggestions above, how about a tv series.....the new Lost in Space.
 
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