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ricarleite
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"catastrophe" movies
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Date created
23-May-2004, 1:38 PM
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
I like the American ones in that train-wreck sort of way. Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Earthquake and even Independence Day are all gleefully bad, but you just can't help but watch. Airport '77, when the plane winds up underwater, is absolutely priceless.


Really? That reminds me of a Futurama quote, one of the few I can remember, when their spaceship was under the ocean, it was something like: "The preassure around the ship is 20 atmospheres!" - "How many atmospheres can this ship resist to?" - "Well it's a spaceship, so anything between zero and one."

And how come those airport movies, and some other movies from the 70s, had the year they were made with the title? Like Airport 74, Airport 77... It's like they were proud of being in the 70s.