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The Towering Inferno


I thought I'd jump into the way back machine and bring up a movie that's even older than I am.  I was big into disaster movies when I was a kid and there was quite the string of them of them in the 70's.  This was a grand-daddy of them with a who's who from a couple major studios coming together.  You had superstars of the time together in this thing.  Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.  They have exactly the same number of lines.  There are a ton of other recognizable stars of the day in there and the score to the film was done by none other than John Williams.  (of Star Wars theme and Jaws theme fame, you heathen!)

 

Great movie.  Top notch acting.  Top notch special effects from a time before computers.

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AC Benus

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And there's a Gay character who's bashed around by homophobic meatheads, but gets his revenge in the end 

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TetRefine

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This, along with the Airport movies, are the best in the genre!

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JamesSavik

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There was a spate of disaster movies in the  70s that were awesome.

 

Towering Inferno and Earthquake were the good ones. The rest... not so much.

 

There were more and bigger disaster movies but these defined the genre with their star studded casts and special effects.

 

 

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