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« on: October 20, 2009, 09:40:03 PM » |
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Yeah, they were bad, but they had a certain undefinable charm to them. I'm talking about the Airport movies and the Irwin Allen disaster movies. They were bad, but they were a LOT better than the disaster movies from the 90's and 2000's, in my opinion all those flat out stunk.
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2009, 10:31:48 PM » |
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Gotta love Irwin Allen! Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure are my favorite. He also produced a couple of TV disaster flicks. Flood! and the next year Fire! Great stuff. He was also the inspiration for the band Killdozer's epis song Man Vs. Nature. (even though they think Irwin did Earthquake) <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-xy-kUckbTw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-xy-kUckbTw</a>]]> |
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2009, 10:42:31 PM » |
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Gotta love Irwin Allen! Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure are my favorite. He also produced a couple of TV disaster flicks. Flood! and the next year Fire! Great stuff.
He was also the inspiration for the band Killdozer's epis song Man Vs. Nature. (even though they think Irwin did Earthquake)
Ahhh, those were the days weren't they (No pun intended)?  You know I really wish I could have lived during the 70's. Problem is I was only alive to witness 2 of them, and I don't remember much of 1978 and 1979 at this point in my life. |
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2009, 12:33:26 AM » |
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You know I really wish I could have lived during the 70's.
No, you really don't. Take it from someone who was there. Horrible fashion. Inflation high enough so that even a kid could notice it. (My Star Wars went from $2 for the first batch of twelve to $6 each by the time Empire came out. I think my Hot Wheels, Matchboxes and Corgis doubled in price over the same time as well.) Divorces were beginning to enter the mainstream, so every few weeks, you'd have one of your classmates suddenly become proto- Morrisseys as their parents split up. The music sucked. Most radio stations didn't play Springsteen or The Sex Pistols, they were playing Tony Orlando and Dawn, or the Osmonds or "I've got a band new pair of rollerskates." (Well, in my area, they were playing Glenn Campbell and Willie Nelson, but that wasn't the norm.) TV? For every "Taxi", "Barney Miller" or "Columbo", you'd have multiple "Carter Countrys" or "The Osmonds Variety Hours" or "BJ and the Bears." The movies sucked too. For every "Jaws", there'd be an "Orca." For every "Poseidon Adventure", you'd get a "Meteor." For every Star Wars there'd be a dozen "Starship Invasions" or "Laserblasts". Our Bond films had Roger Moore. And there was just a general unhappiness in the country at the time. Watch the films of the era and see how gritty they are and how depressed everyone is and how quickly these folks plunge to the depths of their nature. Heck, look at "Earthquake" and note how quickly the film has people going from normal to "Hmm. I think I'll shoot those guys who called me gay, and then I'll rape that pretty blonde." It wasn't a happy time to be around, even for us kids. |
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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2009, 12:36:06 AM » |
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No, you really don't. Take it from someone who was there. Horrible fashion. Inflation high enough so that even a kid could notice it. (My Star Wars went from $2 for the first batch of twelve to $6 each by the time Empire came out. I think my Hot Wheels, Matchboxes and Corgis doubled in price over the same time as well.) Divorces were beginning to enter the mainstream, so every few weeks, you'd have one of your classmates suddenly become proto- Morrisseys as their parents split up. The music sucked. Most radio stations didn't play Springsteen or The Sex Pistols, they were playing Tony Orlando and Dawn, or the Osmonds or "I've got a band new pair of rollerskates." (Well, in my area, they were playing Glenn Campbell and Willie Nelson, but that wasn't the norm.) TV? For every "Taxi", "Barney Miller" or "Columbo", you'd have multiple "Carter Countrys" or "The Osmonds Variety Hours" or "BJ and the Bears." The movies sucked too. For every "Jaws", there'd be an "Orca." For every "Poseidon Adventure", you'd get a "Meteor." For every Star Wars there'd be a dozen "Starship Invasions" or "Laserblasts". Our Bond films had Roger Moore. And there was just a general unhappiness in the country at the time. Watch the films of the era and see how gritty they are and how depressed everyone is and how quickly these folks plunge to the depths of their nature. Heck, look at "Earthquake" and note how quickly the film has people going from normal to "Hmm. I think I'll shoot those guys who called me gay, and then I'll rape that pretty blonde." It wasn't a happy time to be around, even for us kids.
You know what? For some reason now I agree with you. |
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« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2009, 12:38:07 AM » |
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Gotta love Irwin Allen!
Speaking of Irwin Allen, has anyone seen the made for TV version of Alice in Wonderland he made in the 80's? I enjoy it for nostalgic reasons, but it would make great riffing material. |
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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2009, 06:24:06 AM » |
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I think some of the 70's Irwin Allen movies would make PERFECT Rifftrax!
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2009, 06:38:39 PM » |
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I think some of the 70's Irwin Allen movies would make PERFECT Rifftrax!
Agreed. Poseidon Adventure would be great, if it wasn't out of print. |
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« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2009, 08:58:11 AM » |
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I graduated high school in 1977. I thought the seventies were a blast!  |
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« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2009, 09:05:37 AM » |
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I think some of the 70's Irwin Allen movies would make PERFECT Rifftrax!
Agreed. Poseidon Adventure would be great, if it wasn't out of print. No. That's impossible. After all, isn't that what young punks say whenever you point out that they're making too many remakes? "What's the problem? You can always watch the original anytime you want..." |
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« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2009, 01:29:26 PM » |
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Earthquake (1973-4) starring Loren Greene  <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/yh4cIdQYf9o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/yh4cIdQYf9o</a>]]> |
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« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2009, 01:37:45 PM » |
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I am watching The Concorde: Airport 79 right now, and I see why universal sold the movie as a comedy. There's plenty of riffing gold here. One character is named Robert Palmer ... and George Kennedy is in the movie(like he was in all the Airport movies too). |
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« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2009, 02:39:42 PM » |
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Yeah, they were bad, but they had a certain undefinable charm to them. I'm talking about the Airport movies and the Irwin Allen disaster movies. They were bad, but they were a LOT better than the disaster movies from the 90's and 2000's, in my opinion all those flat out stunk.
You mean better than the disaster that was Transformers 2? Yes, I agree. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2009, 09:12:33 PM » |
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You mean better than the disaster that was Transformers 2? Yes, I agree.
I presume you saw one of my comments saying that I actually liked the movie and this was a response to that? If so, you are dangerously close to flame baiting. I don't go around taking pot shots at films you like that may not be the best critically or peer reviewed, I think it's fair enough to ask that you don't do it to my face. |
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« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2009, 08:21:37 AM » |
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You mean better than the disaster that was Transformers 2? Yes, I agree.
I presume you saw one of my comments saying that I actually liked the movie and this was a response to that? If so, you are dangerously close to flame baiting. I don't go around taking pot shots at films you like that may not be the best critically or peer reviewed, I think it's fair enough to ask that you don't do it to my face. I didn't mean to offend. It was intended to be in good fun. I'm sorry if it was not taken that way. |
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