Today we have a special episode, inspired by an internet post claiming that The Towering Inferno is the greatest disaster movie of all times, we test that hypothesis by watching and discussing the three greatest of the genre from the same period, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Earthquake. Join us as we spoil our way through action, adventure, romance, fire, foods, crumbling buildings, tidal waves and every A list actor of the era!
The movies:
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
And the Incidentals…
Escape from the Planet of The Apes
Cutting Class
Taking of Pelham 123
The Odd Couple
Die Hard
There Italian Job
Glass Onion
Knives Out
Momento
Volcano
Fall
Other Stuff… Airplane Censorship and Love Actually
How the SVB Crisis reflects Human Nature in a crisis
Wokeness, Blazing Saddles, All in the Family, The Jeffersons and the work of Norman Lear
Cocaine Bear
And Movies we didn’t like:
Licorice Pizza
Dead Ringers
Popeye
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: JSearching by Faith Yasar
Free download: https://snapmuse.com/track/searching-1909772
License By Snapmuse.com
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