Things That Entertain Us - Ep.15 - 70’s Disaster!

Today we have a special episode, inspired by an internet post claiming that The Towering Inferno is the greatest disaster movie of all times, we test that hypothesis by watching and discussing the three greatest of the genre from the same period, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Earthquake.   Join us as we spoil our way through action, adventure, romance, fire, foods, crumbling buildings, tidal waves and every A list actor of the era!  

 

The movies:

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Earthquake (1974)

 

And the Incidentals…

Escape from the Planet of The Apes

Cutting Class

Taking of Pelham 123

The Odd Couple

Die Hard

There Italian Job

Glass Onion

Knives Out

Momento

Volcano

Fall

 

Other Stuff…
Airplane Censorship and Love Actually

How the SVB Crisis reflects Human Nature in a crisis

Wokeness, Blazing Saddles, All in the Family, The Jeffersons and the work of Norman Lear

Cocaine Bear

And Movies we didn’t like:

Licorice Pizza

Dead Ringers

Popeye

 

The following music was used for this media project:

Music: JSearching by Faith Yasar

Free download: https://snapmuse.com/track/searching-1909772

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