Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Golden Age of Moviemaking: "Towering Inferno"

A couple of weeks ago I was jamming out to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack when Disco Inferno came on. Fantastic song, yes, but that's not why I'm here today. My OC-ADD brain immediately jumped to "Towering Inferno" , the epic 70s disaster flick about, well, a skyscraper on fire. Hopefully you have all seen this classic, but if not, the trailer below will get you sufficiently fired up (perhaps) to watch it, sometime, maybe:



Yep, that is indeed Orenthal James Simpson. AND Ernest Borgnine. Greatest casting ever. McQueen was salty Newman had 12 more lines than him in the movie. I mean, freakin' Fred Astaire is in this movie. John Williams, yeah that famous composer dude, did the score. Just ep-ic.

OK, get excited, next week I'm gonna ramble on about the original Poseidon Adventure...
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19 comments:

  1. TR10:17 AM, March 23, 2011

    I love a good tailer.

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  2. Danimal10:28 AM, March 23, 2011

    liz taylor says thanks for the tribute.

    never saw inferno. Faye "NO. WIRE. HANGERS!" Dunaway is a looker.

    poseidon adventure - you bet your ass.

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  3. T.J.10:41 AM, March 23, 2011

    The original Poseidon Adventure might actually be better than Towering Inferno. So over the top.

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  4. zman10:55 AM, March 23, 2011

    THIS is the most over-the-top disaster video of all time:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dS7onB-Mic

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  5. T.J.10:58 AM, March 23, 2011

    That is the most horrific thing I have ever seen.

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  6. Danimal11:03 AM, March 23, 2011

    you guys should be proud.

    they would have been better off posting a gay porn clip. that's awful.

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  7. zman11:06 AM, March 23, 2011

    I feel like I've posted that video here before.

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  8. TR11:08 AM, March 23, 2011

    You can literally go person by person in that video and link each to a Revenge of the Nerds character. Lots of Omega Mu candidates.

    Unfortuanately, I didn't see a Bogger in the video.

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  9. zman11:09 AM, March 23, 2011

    I saw a booger though.

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  10. T.J.11:17 AM, March 23, 2011

    This is...odd: http://bit.ly/gmipLy

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  11. mayhugh12:18 PM, March 23, 2011

    I checked out the FSU 2008 rush video that was linked on the side and that... was more like it.

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  12. zman12:40 PM, March 23, 2011

    It's snowing?!?

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  13. zman12:43 PM, March 23, 2011

    LT gives a fantastic interview:

    http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/news/story?id=6249691

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  14. jerome1:23 PM, March 23, 2011

    I love that every explosion sounds exactly the same.

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  15. rob2:03 PM, March 23, 2011

    i've been in that mit pi lam house. that was a very accurate video.

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  16. Dave6:18 PM, March 23, 2011

    more stars= more tragedy.

    i remember the poseidon adventure pretty clearly from when i was a kid, but not the towering inferno.

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  17. Dave6:21 PM, March 23, 2011

    that pi lam video is awesome! i wish people were nice to me in college! everyone was so negative and sarcastic. let's do it all over that way.

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  18. Squeaky10:39 AM, March 24, 2011

    This is pretty amazing. Infographic on the quakes that hit Japan. Wait for a minute or two before all the stuff starts happening.

    http://www.japanquakemap.com/

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  19. Geoff11:42 AM, March 24, 2011

    Merrill Hodge, and how to look like a smoldering douchenozzle. Pictures 3 and 4 are particularly enjoyable.

    http://bit.ly/eSUyiC

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