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Using flamethrowers to kill insects in enclosed spaces. What could possibly go wrong? Orangey the Cat could also be inside the enclosed space...
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I remember loving it as a kid along with all the other disaster films and being shocked when Chamberlain died in it. Would have to rewatch it. I like good bad films and still have a fondness for these kind of disaster epics!
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Jul 30, 2016 - 5:42 PM
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Brad Wills
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SWARM - Music score 10/10 MANITOU - Music score 10/10 SENTINEL - Music score 10/10 The films are all pretty entertaining too, at least for me. It really depends a lot on the amount of beer you have by your side, but I'd happily watch any of those films right now. And they're all fairly heavily scored, so if you close your eyes, just listen to the great music. Agreed. As I said in my previous post, I find THE MANITOU to be great fun. Likewise, THE SENTINEL. Neither of them could be considered quality films, but they both are enjoyable on their own merits and have tons of energy to spare. (And, dammit, I'd love to see those fantastic scores get official releases.) Not so THE SWARM; I find it to be totally unwatchable. Whereas I can laugh with the other two, THE SWARM takes itself so seriously, and yet is so utterly lifeless, that it becomes a cigar store Indian parody of itself...and not in a good way. Great score, though.
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Please pardon my ignorance, but what does "Score 10/10" mean? (I assume it has nothing to do with the old Bing Crosby song by Harry Warren and Leo Robin, "On the Ten:Ten from Ten-Ten-Tennessee.") FWIW, according to the review -- rated "BOMB," of course -- in Leonard Maltin's book, there is an even longer version "for masochists" available on DVD.
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Jul 31, 2016 - 5:32 AM
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Graham Watt
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Please pardon my ignorance, but what does "Score 10/10" mean? (I assume it has nothing to do with the old Bing Crosby song by Harry Warren and Leo Robin, "On the Ten:Ten from Ten-Ten-Tennessee.") It's simpler than that, Preston. It means 10 points outta a possible maximum of 10 points. Brad, I suppose it's just a matter of opinion, but I found THE SWARM a hoot. I remember laughing at how the old couple (offhand, was it Fred Astaire..... and Olivia DeHavilland?) are introduced, he gives her flowers, their romance blooms after about two minutes screen time, then they are both killed when the bees derail the train. That's not just common-or-garden genius. EDIT - Fred MacMurray?
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The Swarm is awe-inspiring in its badness... it is bad on such a magnificent scale (with so many famous and Academy Award winning talents in front of and behind the camera), I just have so laugh even thinking about this movie.... one of my all time favorite movie "conversations": "Billions of dollars have been spent to make these nuclear plants safe. Fail-safe! The odds against anything going wrong are astronomical, Doctor!" "I appreciate that, Doctor. But let me ask you. In all your fail-safe techniques, is there a provision for an attack by killer bees?" Note that these two are doctors. Apparently, they have no closeable windows in nuclear plants, but instead they have self destruct buttons that are so conveniently located they are easily accidentally pressed by anyone who is trying to avoid a bee, since indeed the nuclear plant blows up seconds after a few bees fly through the window.
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Irwin Allen loved casting Chamberlain in his movies. Killed him off real good too in THE TOWERING INFERNO! Ain't nothing like those great Movie Posters from the 70's with the Cast featured in those great photo boxes of each character. Loved those. EARTHQUAKE, TOWERING INFERNO and CAPRICORN ONE were great too with those photos. Guess it was "the thing" back in those days. These "box posters" were typical for the disaster movies of the 1970s (and are therefore particularly associated with Irwin Allen movies). The idea was to announce that this was an expensive movie, featuring many big time marquee name movie stars. Basically, the disaster movies were about throwing people into peril, and so it became more interesting if you "knew" the people by knowing the actors who played the characters.
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GRAHAM -- Right you are, the second time -- it's Fred MacMurray. (Allen cast Fred Astaire in THE TOWERING INFERNO.)
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