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Gringo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:45 PM
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Poll question: Best Disaster Film
Best Disaster Film

(Feel free to add your own - "Unprecedented", the DVD about the 2000 election theft is one)
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LiberalVoice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:47 PM
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1. I really liked independence day...but...
The Poseidon Adventure is AWESOME!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:48 PM
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2. Earthquake; first movie to use "Sensurround" technology.
:D In reality, I go with The Towering Inferno.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:54 PM
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7. Sorry, Evil... "Earthquake"
was the biggest POS to hit celluloid in the '70s, IMO. (Although as a child I was quite impressed that one of our local TV newswomen, Inez Pedroza, had a cameo.)
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:58 PM
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11. I'm Wirth Bertha. (Love That Handle)
Movie was HORRIBLE!!!!! We got freebies to the Chicago premiere. We walked out.
The Professor
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:14 PM
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14. Actually, I hated Earthquake, too. I just like the "Sensurround" thing.
My actual vote went to The Towering Inferno.
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jokerman93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:48 PM
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3. The Core!
I saw it on DVD and loved it! Great genre piece. Just disappeared for some reason though. I had a great ride with that one!
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Gringo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:51 PM
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5. I kinda liked the Core, but
It struck me as more addventure than disaster, since most of the film is deep inside the earth.

Reminded me of that old movie where they shrink and travel through a human body. What was that called? Anyway, yeah, it was fun. Ludicrous, but fun.
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MariaS Donating Member (545 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:53 PM
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6. Fantastic Voyage
Is the film I think you are refering to.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:49 PM
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4. Airplane!
A great disaster movie and no Quinn Martin in sight.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:55 PM
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8. Airplane II - The Sequel
That movie was a disaster, wasn't it?

At least it gave us "The Ronald Reagan Hospital for the mentally ill"... :D
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:00 PM
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12. I'll take Space Disasters for $200
And the answer is: The Mayflower!


What do you think we should do?

We could try ignoring it sir.

I see, just go on as though we never heard it all..

Just a thought sir.

I've considered that..there's got to be a better angle!

*SHH* *SHH*



We'd better get tot the tower.

We don't have a tower sir.

No tower?

No. Just a bridge sir.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:55 PM
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9. Wow, you managed to get an entire list
of movies I either disliked or outright hated!

and where's Titanic? What is that if not a disaster movie?
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dwckabal Donating Member (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:56 PM
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10. Gigli or Heaven's Gate
Oh...I misunderstood the question...:evilgrin:
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 08:01 PM
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22. Ishtar with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty gets honorable mention.
n/t
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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:12 PM
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13. None of those. None were disaster films to compare with ...
any Dubya campaign ad.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:15 PM
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15. George W. Bush's Inauguration
It's been a real disaster for America.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:35 PM
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16. Airport
The orginal one was the best. What a great cast!
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:43 PM
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17. Pearl Harbor. (nt)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:49 PM
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18. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
Contest owned, biatches!
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:49 PM
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19. independance day was one of the worst films of ALL TIME.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:51 PM
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20. Anyone remember the 80's British film "Threads"? About nuclear
holocaust? To me that is the scariest disaster film of all time. It made me make the decision right then and there that I would run out in the street and be destroyed rather than take a chance at living through it. Brrrrr.
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 05:03 PM
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21. Anyone seen the preview of "Day After Tommorrow"?
I saw it in the theater at "Master and Commander". Cities getting flooded, blown up by hurricanes, volcanoes going off...everything! It comes out in June. The makers of ID4 strike again.
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