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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. And, you know, they movie posters back then reflected that, too, because I remember stuff like Towering Inferno. They would be the more artistic, like the Inferno, you know, the building on fire. But then like at the top or the bottom, they would literally just have like frames of people's faces of the cast, like just just tagged on there. Like, look at all these all the star power.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

I love it.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

I love it.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

I love it.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. You know, they're trying to appeal to a broad demographic. So they would definitely bring back like some of the stars from like the golden age of Hollywood when they were in their later years would be in these like Fred Astaire was in one of them. Right.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. You know, they're trying to appeal to a broad demographic. So they would definitely bring back like some of the stars from like the golden age of Hollywood when they were in their later years would be in these like Fred Astaire was in one of them. Right.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah. You know, they're trying to appeal to a broad demographic. So they would definitely bring back like some of the stars from like the golden age of Hollywood when they were in their later years would be in these like Fred Astaire was in one of them. Right.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah, so they're clearly trying to appeal to all age groups. Another thing a lot of these had in common, at least in the 1970s, was a man named Irwin Allen, the master of disaster. He came up in the 1950s, but he really hit his stride in the 70s with things like Poseidon Adventure, aforementioned Towering Inferno. Each of those was the top box office hit of their respective years. Yeah.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah, so they're clearly trying to appeal to all age groups. Another thing a lot of these had in common, at least in the 1970s, was a man named Irwin Allen, the master of disaster. He came up in the 1950s, but he really hit his stride in the 70s with things like Poseidon Adventure, aforementioned Towering Inferno. Each of those was the top box office hit of their respective years. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
What Makes Disaster Films Great

Yeah, so they're clearly trying to appeal to all age groups. Another thing a lot of these had in common, at least in the 1970s, was a man named Irwin Allen, the master of disaster. He came up in the 1950s, but he really hit his stride in the 70s with things like Poseidon Adventure, aforementioned Towering Inferno. Each of those was the top box office hit of their respective years. Yeah.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Poseidon Adventure, very famously, was about an ocean liner that flips upside down and sinks, basically. That's such a good movie, too. So everybody is upside down on this boat, on this ship, trying to get out while they're underwater. Pretty great.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Poseidon Adventure, very famously, was about an ocean liner that flips upside down and sinks, basically. That's such a good movie, too. So everybody is upside down on this boat, on this ship, trying to get out while they're underwater. Pretty great.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Poseidon Adventure, very famously, was about an ocean liner that flips upside down and sinks, basically. That's such a good movie, too. So everybody is upside down on this boat, on this ship, trying to get out while they're underwater. Pretty great.

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What Makes Disaster Films Great

Such a brutal, tragic, very upsetting end for such a wonderful person.