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The Towering Inferno (1974)
Top of the line 70's movie...
I'm not saying this movie is a 10 compared to modern movies, but it IS a great movie from the 70's. Top of the line green Naugahyde seat covers with white piping, lots of harvest gold material, lots of bell-bottom clothing, O.J. Simpson and Bobby Brady - what else could you ask for?!?! I do think this movie has a high pucker-factor - some scenes may leave a hole in your 70's Naugahyde easy chair. I also like that this movie keeps you on the edge of your seat without using silly 60's horror movie terror buildup techniques.
I guess my only gripe would be the number of explosions throughout the movie. I know Paul Newman finds a gas leak, but why? Fire didn't cause it and it was just sitting in the stairwell leaking. So what you have is a room here and a room there on fire then "BOOM!!" Maybe I missed the part where OJ comes back with a list of tenants for McQueen saying "Ok on 79 we got "FullGasCans R Us" and on floor 100 we got "Bob's Quality Bombs" and on 110 there's a "TNT Mart"". I just don't see what would be in a skyscraper that would cause such huge explosions (and so many) in the movie.
Maybe that 1974 "Walkman" that Bobby Brady was wearing on his head was nitrous powered back then. Man, talk about high tech - with those antennae, McQueen could have just used HIM as the forward command communication post.
I still think there could have been a lighter side in the movie if the elevator floors would have been shown covered with "Twister" mats. After seeing the gob of people crammed in there on top of each other trying to escape, I thought that's what they were doing.
Overall, I wouldn't miss this movie if you have the chance to watch it. Just the opening scenes in the fire control rooms with OJ flipping switches have one of the highest BLF (Blinky Light Factor)levels yet seen until Star Wars came along.
Best, rpoe
The Blue Bird (1976)
The Blue Bird of Crappiness...
I thought I had seen bad movies but this is the WORST movie ever laid down on film. If the film used to make this movie had been simply used for toilet paper, wound around a film reel then threaded and shown through a movie projector, it would have been a much better movie and a plot might even have been evident.
Please don't waste even 1 second of your life watching this movie. The only good thing that I received from this movie was the encouragement that a book I started writing (but quit because I thought it stunk) might be worth finishing, since ANY work of writing turned into a movie would be better than this one - even the directions on a frozen dinner would have been better than this movie, if made into a film.
However, I must say that if you love the sappiest 70's flute riffs ever made, you will LOVE this movie.
I see Elizabeth Taylor, standing at the gates of pearl, apologizing profusely and long for ever even CONSIDERING starring in a movie such as this....
...and poor TylTyl, having to go back to his earth-bound 6th grade class and suffer the laughter, derision, and persecution from his school mates after the movie came out..........I....I...
I'm sorry, the tears are flooding my keyboard such that I cannot continue...save yourselves and don't watch this movie!! rp