Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-20 (Friday)

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 6/21/2025 12:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 6/21/2025 6:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

I've been watching some old episodes of various incarnations of TO TELL
THE TRUTH if they have an interesting guest. Like Chuck Norris when
he was a baby. They had a special effects guy from the THE TOWERING
INFERNO, which made me realize I had never seen that movie except
bits and pieces here an d there.

I'm not sure if I've ever seen it before either.

Well, at least now I've seen it. I recently watched an even worse Irwin
Allen Paul Newman movie WHEN TIME RAN OUT.

I don't think I've seen this before.

I tagged you on the Facebook with the information for an upcoming 4K disc
of EARTHQUAKE

I do sometimes blind buy movies, but this is not one I've ever had much
interest in.

Earthquake! In Sensurround!

As a kid, I saw this in theater with the family; I've never bothered
to re-watch on tv. I did not see The Towering Inferno (by the way, it's
adapted from two similar novels) in theater and I've seen it once on tv.

The Sensurround wasn't all that impressive. They placed a couple of
large speakers in the auditorium and cranked up the base. You were
supposed to feel vibration synced with an earthquake tremor on screen,
but you didn't feel much. In very old theaters, it accelerated plaster
crumbling and they couldn't use it.

I am not a big fan of Irwin Allen disaster movies like The Towering Inferno
but they typically had John Williams scores, so that's something. Irwin
Allen had no credit on Earthquake. John Williams was the composer on
Earthquake.

For a disaster movie, Earthquake had an absurd amount of melodrama
especially with the Ava Gardner character.