I am watching Towring Inferno

[DotH]

I saw it the week it was released and it was one of the best of the Disaster Movie era, what was your favourite disater movie? (Up to and Including Titanic if you like)

[shammydodger]

Well, Titanic would be at the bottom of my list. A movie that had a daft script, dire dialogue (why couldn't somebody have persuaded Cameron that he's not a scriptwriter?) and was only saved by the special effects. I think in years to come that AMPAS will be severely embarrassed at the number of Oscars this tripe was awarded.

My own favourite would be A Night to Remember.

[Dizzieblonde]

Not sure if it counts, but it should do - 'Threads', shown on the BBC in the 80s, and recently re-released, demonstrating the effects of a nuclear attack on the U.K. The effects are a bit dated by today's CGI standards, but it's still excellent, and terrifyingly realistic.

[Leight0n]

Towering Inferno and the original Posiden Adventure, Stivie Mac and Genie Hac at their bests!

[gerry]

I noticed that Channel 4 cut a scene from the movie today.When Robert Wagner runs out with the wet towles around him the roof caves him & kills him.The blonde hair girl panics & grabs a chair.She smashes 1 of the windows at this point the fire sweeps into the room,sets the girl on fire & she leaps out of the window.

When channel 4 showed it today they showed Robert Wagner leave the room wearing the wet towels & then it skipped to another scene.

[DotH]

I know that watching it, especially that very last scene where McQueen predicts the future disaster of the huge Skyscrapers, the World Trade Centre was definately brought to mind. It is probable this print of the film to be shown in our age, has been edited for that reason.

[texol]

Ever seen a film called Runaway train? does that count as a disaster movie.

[DotH]

I have come across it on Tv and I know it was all jumping between carriages and i remember it being quite ruggede as far as i recall, no idea how it ended though.

[reinganum]

My favourite has to be When Worlds Collide, a George Pal production from about 1951 (same team as made War of the Worlds two years later. Stars crashing into the earth beats most disasters, I think?

A little known film I wouldn't mind seeing again is an eco-disaster B movie from about 1970 called No Blade of Grass. Not much of a disaster movie because it focused mainly on social breakdown after all the grain harvests failed, but a curiosity. Idea spawned TV series such as Survivors and Doomwatch.

[DotH]

Oh I was a Doomwatch fan, 1969 Toby Wren, oh yes, first thing Robert Powell did I think