IF YOU GREW UP IN THE 1970s: DISASTER MOVIES!

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  • @richardblayneamerican8149
    @richardblayneamerican8149 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    The Poseidon Adventure is my favorite. My high school girlfriend and I took the train to Chicago's Loop on New Year's Eve to see it at the State Lake Theater. It was perfect; the movie takes place on New Year's too. The theater was packed and the audience loved it. When we walked out of the theater, it was about 11 p.m., and the street was filled with crowds waiting for midnight and the new year. What a great experience!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      THAT is such a great story! Those are the best memories ever! I love that story. Thank you so much for sharing that with us! Welcome to the channel!

    • @ed008ue
      @ed008ue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Poseidon Adventure, the best one of the lot !!

    • @iamgod6464
      @iamgod6464 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Saw The Poseidon Adventure at the Riviera Cinema in Teignmouth, Devon, Uk in July 1973. It was my first Disaster Movie. I was 10 years old. The Movie became one of my favourites and the Morning After, my favourite song. The Poseidon Adventure was the last movie I saw before Immigrating to Australia. Then once in Australia I saw all the other Disaster Movies. These 1970's Classics are for ever Etched into my Psyche.😊👍

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I love the Morning After song, it truly resonates with you as you reflect on the film. I also am glad Irwin used Maureen McGovern again in Towering Inferno with, "We may never love like this again" and it won best song as well at the Oscars.

    • @iamgod6464
      @iamgod6464 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sprocketsintime Yep another great song. They don't write songs like that anymore.

  • @johnjames-glover4630
    @johnjames-glover4630 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +129

    Giant sharks, earthquakes, fires, aeroplane and ship disasters - they threw it all at us in the 70s, and we loved it!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      RIGHT!!! Today's movies just don't even compare.

    • @Educatingben
      @Educatingben 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Couldn't get enough of it

    • @alyzu4755
      @alyzu4755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Probably the best decade to be a stunt performer. ☺️

    • @jesustovar2549
      @jesustovar2549 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Seriously, what was happening in the world, that Hollywood wanted to see the world end?

  • @jefferysteen1041
    @jefferysteen1041 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

    The Towering Inferno was my favorite!!Just a classic movie!!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      It's my personal favorite!!! Love John Williams score in that film.

    • @atanasynikolic8579
      @atanasynikolic8579 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      My all time favorite disaster movie😊

    • @gerardmackay8909
      @gerardmackay8909 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Mine too even with the major inconsistencies. You never see any smoke in that huge function room even when the first flames start licking and it’s minutes away from burning also this was a gala banquet evening for 300 VIP guests all about to be served dinner yet, apart from one bar tender and one waitress, you never see any sign of the dozens of catering workers such a function would require.

    • @ed008ue
      @ed008ue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Towering Inferno, second best Disaster film, John Williams score adds the cherry on top for a box office hit.

    • @hilarygarrison6139
      @hilarygarrison6139 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My favorite scary movie!

  • @TR-wm3sg
    @TR-wm3sg 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I was born in 1969 and grew up watching these movies when they made it to TV. Absolutely loved The Towering Inferno and Earthquake. I remember one night on TV they showed a double feature of "Earthquake" followed by 1976's "Flood!". Best night of the 70s, lol.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      For sure!!! Love this memory Thank you for sharing!

  • @paulh7589
    @paulh7589 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    I grew up in that era and decided that if I ever saw George Kennedy board a plane I was on, I would get the hell off!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Very good point! 👍😆

  • @jimbotron70
    @jimbotron70 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Actually the best decade for disaster movies.

    • @JohnSmith-it6hj
      @JohnSmith-it6hj 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Best decade for music too imo. The 1970's were the bomb

    • @jesustovar2549
      @jesustovar2549 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@JohnSmith-it6hjMy Great Uncle says it was the best decade for rock.

  • @iamgod6464
    @iamgod6464 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    For those of us who saw all these movies, and their accompanying music and songs in the 70's, todays generations will never understand how they effected our psyche. Todays movies just don't seem to cut it despite their brilliant special effects. Disaster Movies in the 70's drew huge crowds into the Cinemas that Todays Theatres could only dream of.😊

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      You're so right! Today's movies just don't cut it. From the acting, to the film scores, it just doesn't have that same presence that movies back then had.

    • @iamgod6464
      @iamgod6464 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@sprocketsintime Boy you can say that again Mr. Sprocket. The 1970's seem to be a golden age for all movie genres with the last year 1979 filled by that Scifi Classic Alien. Then things starting going down hill from then on. 😊👍

    • @idalily3810
      @idalily3810 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Because today's movies are all special effects and no heart.

  • @chuckselvage3157
    @chuckselvage3157 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    The Poseidon Adventure great film full of good actors. Never forgot the end where the priest (Hackman) sacrifices himself to save the others. Miss the old 70s films.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I know, I was so sad, as he was so close to making it all the way.

    • @brianlawton8172
      @brianlawton8172 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @chuckselvage3157
      Shelly winters death scene was pretty sad too especially when Borgnine calls out to thank her and she doesn't respond. If you think about it without Winters going in to save hackman who was trapped underwater, none of them would've made it out. Great film!

  • @gerardflynn7382
    @gerardflynn7382 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    Disaster movies of the 70's were much better than the disaster movies of the present.

    • @alyzu4755
      @alyzu4755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      So true. CGI makes it all so dull.

    • @grannyweatherwax8005
      @grannyweatherwax8005 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Part of the fun was the blending of a zillion stars. You don't see that now

  • @Julie-p6u6m
    @Julie-p6u6m 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    My best friend and I saw The Poseidon Adventure at the drive-in (remember those?)and we were on the edge of our seats the whole time!! It still holds up today!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      100% still holds up!

    • @marcribaudo1965
      @marcribaudo1965 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm with you. The Poseidon Adventure was my favorite. My dad took me to see. The only other one on this list I saw in theaters was The Towering inferno. How that building didn't collapse is beyond me

  • @mlee65
    @mlee65 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    That was the best time as a kid growing up with those movies.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It sure was!!! I'm so thankful we got to experience it!

  • @markcampbell8622
    @markcampbell8622 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I talked my mother and stepfather to take me to see Posiden Adventure in the theater.
    I was 8 or 9 years old and loved every moment of it.

  • @m3talentagency680
    @m3talentagency680 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    When my parents took my brothers and I to see The Cassandra Crossing, I thought it was going to be a snooze fest.
    I loved it! All the disaster movies of the 70's were awesome.

    • @FischerFan
      @FischerFan หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Cassandra Crossing was a very well done movie.

    • @MrJestyler
      @MrJestyler หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Good movie and plot

    • @johndixon5668
      @johndixon5668 หลายเดือนก่อน

      a scene was shot on the Crumlin Viaduct a small town 8 miles north of Newport South Wales @@MrJestyler

  • @janmcguire5268
    @janmcguire5268 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I’ve seen most of them. I love disaster movies, even hokey made for tv ones.

  • @riinak7212
    @riinak7212 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    I remember "Airplane" being a terrific send-up of thia whole genre. Excellent stuff.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yes, I remember seeing the first Airplane in the movies laughed like crazy. Especially the disco bar scene

    • @DalokiMauvais
      @DalokiMauvais 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      _Airplane_ was fantastic. Before streaming, I used to watch it every time it was on. Will anybody ever forget, "And don't call me Shirley!"?

    • @DalokiMauvais
      @DalokiMauvais 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sprocketsintime I had never seen _Saturday Night Fever_ - that was where the original disco scene came from, right? - but I still thought that scene was hilarious. (I still haven't seen any John Travolta movies except _Face/Off,_ which I loved.)

    • @elanthys
      @elanthys 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DalokiMauvais fair warning, Saturday Night Fever is not a comedy. I went in thinking it would be like Grease and uff no. It’s good, don’t get me wrong (imho), but funny it is not

  • @leandromv170
    @leandromv170 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The Poseidon Adventure is my favorite still today. It traumatized me as a child but loved it at the same time.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Such a great movie!

    • @QuinStifler
      @QuinStifler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That's when I began my lifelong crush on Carol Lynley.
      Damn!

    • @jerseyforhawks
      @jerseyforhawks 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I kinda agree, it was rough, but I do not think I blinked watching it the first time in our one screen theatre.

    • @censorshipsucks9493
      @censorshipsucks9493 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I felt so sad for Ernest Borgnine.

  • @alanbragg9466
    @alanbragg9466 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Disaster is my favourite genre and 70s disasters are the greatest. Towering inferno, The Swarm, Meteor and Airport 77 are my personal favourites.

  • @brianlawton8172
    @brianlawton8172 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    All hail Irwin Allen!

    • @thomashumphrey48
      @thomashumphrey48 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      New Movie Box Set Of Irwin Allen Is Out,Contains 9 Films Directed By Him- Theatrical Versions!😊

  • @alexgeorge501
    @alexgeorge501 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    To quote from the black book of Disaster movie director Frank Kincaid:
    "Rule #22: Only one person knows how to avert a disaster, but nobody ever believes them."
    "Rule #101: Explosions are good, slow-motion explosions are better."
    "Rule #32: Never kill a house pet."
    "Rule #14: The annoying guy always dies."

  • @KennethStringer1985
    @KennethStringer1985 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Grew up watching all of these, loved your walk down memory lane. A couple more honorable mention. The 1969 film 'Marooned', and the 1977 film 'Black Sunday'.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and share those other great movies! Welcome to the channel! Let us know if there’s another topic you would like to see in future!

    • @KennethStringer1985
      @KennethStringer1985 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sprocketsintime Since you asked, other possible topics might include: TV spin-offs of the 1970s. There were so many during that decade, it seemed as if every hit TV sitcom had at least one spin-off. Everything from 'All in the Family' to 'Happy Days'. The majority didn't last more than one season or even a pilot episode, but a few did stick. Among other topics, you might consider 1970s fads, such as mode rings, pet rocks, pop rocks, and time capsules.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you Kenneth! That for a sure a cool idea to look into! I remember all that stuff!

  • @AlisonMiller-o8r
    @AlisonMiller-o8r 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Towering Inferno is one of my favourites.....
    Steve McQueen and Paul Newman in the same film, can't get better than that!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My favorite too! Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were great, also a big fan of William Holden.

  • @jeaniegodbey5551
    @jeaniegodbey5551 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My mom took 13 year old me and my 10 year old brother to see Airport 75. The entire theater was silent watching in anticipation for Chuck Heston to enter the hole in the cockpit to save the day. Just before the theater can all cheer when Heston successfully enters, mom calls out loudly, "Way to go, Moses!" Instead of cheering the theater erupts in laughter.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      LOLOLOL That's brilliant! I once went to see the movie, "Hard Target" with Van Dam and when Wilford Brimley came on the screen someone yelled, "Hey dat's the oatmeal man!"

  • @hiridavidfeign
    @hiridavidfeign 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Earthquake is so awful but it's special effects were fascinating to me at 14 years old. I bought every book I could find about film effects after that. I loved Poseidon Adventure immediately, and still do. Stella Stevens rocks. It's so funny how every aging celebrity became cash cows for awhile. This was really fun. Thanks.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hey there thanks so much for sharing your memory! So glad you enjoyed the video! I have loved movies all my life and it's great to connect with others who have shared some of the same experiences!

  • @FischerFan
    @FischerFan หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    A very good video summarizing the decade's most notable on-screen disaster projects.
    Most of the disaster movies of said period benefited from stacked casts. Irwin Allen, in particular, spared no effort in what he put on the screen and in the names he got for his projects.
    His list of disaster flicks makes you wonder if he had something against the fundamental elements! In Airport, the enemy was air. In Poseidon, the threat was water; and in The Towering Inferno, fire was the deadly adversary.
    I was seven years old during the winter of 1974-75 and I remember all the talk and excitement at the time about The Towering Inferno. I remember the big names in the movie's TV spots. It was clear it was a movie to see.
    'The Poseidon Adventure' also had a great cast, albeit a bit smaller and lesser in name magnitude. Like disco music, however, the disaster genre soon found itself running out of fuel. Irwin Allen tried to sustain momentum with 'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure', which I've always regarded as being nothing more than a rip-off exploitation film.

  • @Bridgukule
    @Bridgukule 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you for bringing back so many happy memories spent in the cinema in the 70's. It brought back the memory of my grandfather taking me and my brother to the Guamont in Birmingham UK (the largest screen in Europe at the time) to see Earthquake in sensurround. I'm going to search the house for the DVD of this and earthquake, they're here somewhere I hope

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      WOW that means more than I can say to think this video gave you a good memory of your childhood with your grandad. I think sometimes adults don't realize how big a deal it is when they take you to see a movie. Especially a grown up movie. Earthquake is available on TH-cam Movies for free. :) Towering Inferno is also now free on YT movies

  • @charliegeo2779
    @charliegeo2779 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Pretty sure I saw every single one of those. Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure are tied for number one. Enjoyed the airport movies pretty well at the time. A young Eric Estrada was the copilot who got sucked out the hole in airport 75. I actually enjoyed the Cassandra Crossing even though it was a bit cheesy. When I saw the Hindenburg I just remember the audience cheering when it was shown that the dog survived. Some of the later ones I only ever saw on TV, I'm looking at you Swarm. Never have seen the volcano movie. That was a really fun era though overall.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      WOW I remember that too about the dog surviving in The Hindenburg!!! Funny how collective memories can be shared! Thanks for sharing your experience!

  • @robbush6822
    @robbush6822 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I love THE TOWERING INFERNO so much! It is by far my favorite disaster flick. I loved WHEN TIME RAN OUT as a kid. It played many times on The Movie Channel when we lived in Atlanta, back between 1980 and 1982. We pretended the floor was lava and had to use a footstool as a boat to stay off of the lava.

  • @akira808state4
    @akira808state4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I remember seeing Earthquake, Airport, Airport 75, Airpot 77, and the Towering Inferno when they were on broadcast television.

    • @haveanicedave1551
      @haveanicedave1551 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I watched Earthquake on TV too. It was a 2 part movie and they added scenes like the airport when the airplane was attempting to land. That part was not in the movie when at the theaters.

  • @EC-mc7vg
    @EC-mc7vg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I was born in 1964 and grew up in Ft. Worth, Texas. Going to the theater in the early and mid 70s with my brothers and friends from the old neighborhood was magic. The old disaster movies were great. Some of the first tastes of "freedom" being taken to the theater and dropped off. Spent a lot of fun, magical summer days and nights at Six Flags as well. Those were good times indeed, I will have those wonderful memories of my youth the rest of my life.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We're almost the same age and YES! I totally remember the freedom of being dropped off at the movies with friends, going to see all those great movies. Just caught up in the magic of movie imagination. Thanks so much for sharing your awesome memory with us! Welcome to the channel!

    • @EC-mc7vg
      @EC-mc7vg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sprocketsintime My pleasure. Thank you for stirring my pleasant memories with your video, sometimes a trip down memory lane does you good.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There's going to be plenty more to come, I promise! I started this channel to share my passion for movies and TV from a time when it all seemed so much better!

    • @LannieLord
      @LannieLord 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Can you name some OTHER movies you saw back then? Were you into horror movies ?

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      OH YEAH!!! I was a TOTAL horror fan. I've got one I'm working on right now about that subject. But we are backlogging a ton of horror movies we're going to be sharing! :)

  • @GregginHOU
    @GregginHOU 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The 70s disaster movies--possibly my single favorite film genre--I love 'em all, even the REALLY bad ones! Even the cheap TV movies. Even the parodies like the "Big Bus" and the parody which signaled the end of the genre, "Airplane." A few not mentioned: Concorde--Airport 1979, Skyjacked, Two-Minute Warning, Rollercoaster, Grey Lady Down, Avalanche Express, City on Fire, and Hurricane. Thanks for this fun video!

  • @kevmorris3000
    @kevmorris3000 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yup. My parents took me to many of those. I still remember seeing Earthquake in ”Sensurround.” That was very loud and low bass sound that vibrated the seats when the earthquakes were happening. Awesome!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Such a fun time to go to the movies back then! Thanks for your comment! Welcome to the channel

    • @vikker8274
      @vikker8274 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Earthquake ride at Universal Studios was such a good time!

  • @QuinStifler
    @QuinStifler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I remember "Earthquake" the most because of the "Evil Kineval" dude who tried to make the loop. Hahah! Evil Kineval was such a massive star then. I had his wind-up motocycle toy. What a time the 70s were!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      OH yeah, Richard Roundtree as Miles Quade. Totally busted up laughing when he tried to loop the first time and fell out...I was like, how did they do that? Did an actual stuntman fall out of it!!!

    • @armlovesmetal1036
      @armlovesmetal1036 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We also had the best music as well.

  • @simonm7133
    @simonm7133 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Airplane! was the greatest sendup of disaster movies and for those of us, who grew up with the disaster genre of the 70's, the film hit the nail on the head. And of course to see Leslie Nielsen, who had been the captain on The Poseidon, playing a doctor was just the icing on the cake!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Laughed myself silly seeing Airplane in the theater when it came out! Loved the disco scene

    • @jenniferbrewer5370
      @jenniferbrewer5370 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

  • @jefferysteen1041
    @jefferysteen1041 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    I love The Big Bus!!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Me too!!! It's a total guilty pleasure of mine!

    • @macwyll
      @macwyll 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thats where I fell in love with Stockard Channing. I watched everything she was in

    • @terryhall3960
      @terryhall3960 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      People tend to forget "The Big Bus", which was poking fun at the genre four years before "Airplane!".

    • @Solitude47152
      @Solitude47152 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Raise Flags of all Nations

  • @Godzillajeff
    @Godzillajeff 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    My favorite was the original "Airport." AWESOME theme music.❤

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes! I love the theme from Airport! It's a movie I have enjoyed so much more as I got older.

  • @xandercruz900
    @xandercruz900 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    These movies were Saturday afternoon gold in the 80s. Every area had that one channel that would play movies like this on the weekend, and if you had nothing else to do, you would totally be in front of the TV glued to these!

  • @shazwadz5059
    @shazwadz5059 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Disaster movies are my favourite can't get enough of them

  • @johnpatterson4272
    @johnpatterson4272 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Yeah baby...Airport '75, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, The Hindenburg, Black Sunday, Two Minute Warning, Jaws, and Rollercoaster. What a roster of great movies which literally defined a decade.

    • @jmchez
      @jmchez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I loved "Black Sunday" and, "The Towering Inferno". However, they are no longer rewatchable to me after 9/11.

    • @preving
      @preving 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm not sure if The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 would be considered a disaster film but it's one of my fav films of the 1970s

    • @QuinStifler
      @QuinStifler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I forgot about "Black Sunday" and "2 minute warning".
      Good ones! And terrorism wasn't as common back then which makes me feel like we're living in THEIR dystopian future.
      Yikes!

    • @MrJestyler
      @MrJestyler หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Black Sunday and rollercoaster 👍👍

  • @PerryCoxPF93
    @PerryCoxPF93 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I watched these movies as a kid alongside my Dad so when I watched Airplane! it hit for me on a whole nother level lol. Thanks for the video!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hey Perry! You are so welcome! Airplane was such a fun experience! I remember the disco scene cracked us up

  • @booth2710
    @booth2710 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    In the 70s there was also a rash of quite good made for TV disster movies. Like The Day The Earth Moved, The Triangle Factory Fire and The Fire In The Sky ...SOS Titanic . and several others I can't recall for now ...

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I remember "The Fire in the Sky" and SOS Titantic. (David Warner managed to be in both Titanic films)

  • @lefantomer
    @lefantomer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Poseidon Adventure in a NYC Times Square theater with a sound system that had the sirens whooping off all around us as the tsunami was closing in and the ship capsized!!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      WOW I bet that was totally amazing experience! Thanks for sharing that memory with us!

  • @TommyLive62
    @TommyLive62 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Back then they were calling a double feature of Earthquake and The Towering Inferno, "Shake n Bake".... I don't know if anyone else remembers that.

  • @NatoBro
    @NatoBro 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I saw most of these when I was a kid, on the big screen. Towering Inferno was my favourite out of the bunch.

  • @burgundylust
    @burgundylust 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Earthquake was my favorite

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Earthquake is still a favorite of mine as well.

  • @toodlescae
    @toodlescae 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Airport ignited my decades long love of disaster movies. I think I've seen just about every one ever made since then.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Such a great time for movies!!!

    • @toodlescae
      @toodlescae 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was. Even our Made For Tv movies were great. Most don't remember that Steven Spielberg's first movie was a made for tv movie named Duel starring Dennis Weaver.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      EXACTLY!!!! Duel was scary! And a great made for tv movie. I remember so well, "The ABC Movie of the Week" with its great music intro, so many that I loved that scared me too! Like, The Night Stalker, Legend of Lizzie Borden, When Michael Calls, Scream Pretty Peggy" so many! Thanks for sharing your memories with us!

    • @toodlescae
      @toodlescae 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sprocketsintime you're welcome. 70's was mostly my teen years since I graduated in '79.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      class of 81 here!

  • @maurasumner8508
    @maurasumner8508 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember seeing practically all of them. I love horror and back in the seventies, disaster movies were the next best thing. Thanks for sharing these gems from my youth!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You are welcome! I love horror movies too! Such a great time for movies! Welcome to the channel!

  • @jmchez
    @jmchez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Poseidon Adventure was the first "grown up film" that my cousin and I were able to see by ourselves at age ten. We loved it and went on to watch all the other famous ones mentioned here, up to the "Cassandra Crossing ". Not surprisingly,we didn't see the latter money losers.

  • @stevenpulkowski9750
    @stevenpulkowski9750 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember my parents taking me to see The Poseidon Adventure in Feb '73, shortly after my 6th Birthday. They were hesitant at first, but after my constant pleading, they relented...lol. I remember standing in the long line to get our tickets and falling in love with the gorgeous artwork on the movie poster, which started my hobby of collecting original movie posters in my teens. I was mesmerized when the ship capsized and in awe throughout the entire movie. I saw it over half a dozen times with family and relatives well into the summer and again when it was re-released in '74. I also have fond memories of seeing The Towering Inferno, Earthquake (in sensurround), Airport 1975, Jaws, (although not technically a disaster film), Airport '77 and Airport '79. Growing up as a kid in the 70's and a teen in the 80's was a really special time. Great memories!!!

  • @OliveTheGreat2022
    @OliveTheGreat2022 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Was 7 years old when Earthquake came out and it scared me!! The sensoround felt so realistic!! Great memories!!

  • @marcosmadeiros9553
    @marcosmadeiros9553 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    What a well organized video. Thanks!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel!

  • @willhemmings
    @willhemmings 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I did enjoy this little jaunt down memory lane. I was in my teens and loved the genre. Earthquake was my favourite at the time. Now I find most of them disappointing. Disaster films have always been there. Here are a few others to put the 1970's bunch in context - The Rains Came, When Worlds Collide, The High and the Mighty, A Night to Remember, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Last Voyage, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Twister, Volcano, United 93, Melancholia. This list would not be complete without the best disaster movie of them all, Airplane!

  • @karenlbellmont6560
    @karenlbellmont6560 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Some of the best FX ever without CGI! I'm a big FX geek going waaaay back till today.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes! Practical FX over cgi any day!

  • @westies1962
    @westies1962 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I remember seeing The Poseidon Adventure in both the movie theatre and on TV back in the mid 70's.

    • @haveanicedave1551
      @haveanicedave1551 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      same here. Saw it at the drive-in, then watched it when it first aired on TV. I remember seeing it in the TV guide and being excited. But I fell asleep halfway through the movie. I woke up before it was over.

  • @LarryGonzalez00
    @LarryGonzalez00 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The Big Bus was directed by James Frawley, who directed the lion's share of The Monkees' tv show episodes. He also directed The Muppet Movie.

  • @julieabraham3566
    @julieabraham3566 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Kingdom of the Spiders aired on television when I was a child. I couldn't have been more than four. For years I wondered why on earth my parents allowed me to watch such a thing!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      oh no Julie.....no spiders!!! I would have been terrified!

  • @wend2239
    @wend2239 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh, I want to go back to the early 70s....I miss being a teenager and these times.... the actors...real actors

  • @robvegas9354
    @robvegas9354 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great video and lots of blasts from the past. they would always have these on TV during the 80's as the friday night movie or on a a sunday afternoon when the cricket was cancelled because of rain. good memories!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks so much for your comment Rob! Yeah I'm with you there! I remember how exciting it was when one of these would come to the Friday or Saturday night movie on TV. As there was no home video yet. And if you didn't have Channel 100 before the days of HBO...it was a waiting game!

  • @davidrofulowitz7538
    @davidrofulowitz7538 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I loved Earthquake - "in Sens-Surround!" and Airport 1975!

  • @firechieffrancis6437
    @firechieffrancis6437 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Throwback growing up My favorite tower inferno , the Poseidon Adventure Airport 75

  • @erikdraven1731
    @erikdraven1731 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I binged the entire Airport franchise in one night and you could really see the momentum swings as they wore on. IMHO, two films would've been enough.

  • @endtimeslastdays7777
    @endtimeslastdays7777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Growing up in the 1970's
    I Loved most of these disaster movies
    I still love disaster movies to this day

  • @JeffreyDeCristofaro
    @JeffreyDeCristofaro 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ah the 70's - not only the best decade in all cinema, but a time when disaster movies of the pre-CG age completely blew our minds in ways they still do today!!! Even the bad ones are guilty pleasures!!!

  • @VoiceofTruth4293
    @VoiceofTruth4293 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow the 70's movie experience! So great. Today going to a movie is a monthly pay check. So it's just not the same.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That certainly is the truth! I think I paid $0.75 to see Towering Inferno in 1974.

    • @VoiceofTruth4293
      @VoiceofTruth4293 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sprocketsintime I know! Growing up in Mississippi around 1958 or 1959 one summer I saw Hitari like 15 days straight for $.10 a show. I was 5 or 6. But then, it was the absolute time of my life! It must have been for me to still remember that!!!#@!#@!!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A friend of mine said that was like his Summer of 1967 and seeing "You Only Live Twice" over and over all summer. For me the most times I ever paid to see a movie was, "Phantom of the Paradise" 16 times. Thanks for sharing, great post!

    • @VoiceofTruth4293
      @VoiceofTruth4293 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @sprocketsintime I love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ these nostalgia back in times posts. Ahh... the days of our youth! It seems so different today. I wonder how kids now will see their history in say - 2070? Things change so quickly today.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thank you I love thinking back to all of it too!!! Nice to connect with others who love this too.

  • @Mr17051963
    @Mr17051963 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My favorite disaster movie is The Towering Inferno, too. And I like Airport’ 77 very much either!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too! Loved both those movies!

  • @tyrroo
    @tyrroo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great picks. I really appreciate you naming all the actors and showing their photos

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are welcome! That stuff is important to me too!

  • @kiwisun529
    @kiwisun529 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Irwin Allen movies were the best because of the All Star Casts. Love seeing some of the best!

  • @alessobizan9688
    @alessobizan9688 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Oh, childhood memories!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Right! How I miss those days.

  • @steelpaine9932
    @steelpaine9932 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Airport was my first disaster film, I was about 8-9 years old, it was thrilling. I'll never forget that title coming at you in the beginning (and that music!), you knew you were in for a wild ride, and boy was it ever. It had everything, drama, comedy, action, melodrama. I understood, even at that young age, the sorrow and despair of Van Helflin's character, and the desperation of his wife, the great Maureen Stapleton. Towering Inferno was my favorite of the disaster films, but Jaws, well, it's my favorite film of all time, period. Such a great time going to the movies in the 70's.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I feel exactly the same! I was about 7 I think when it came out and I just remember Maureen Stapelton running through the airport crying and apologizing to everyone...I felt so bad for her. I also remember the priest slapping the guy who kept causing all the problems! GREAT Movie! Thanks for your amazing memory, I love hearing these stories! Welcome to the channel!

  • @earlleary
    @earlleary 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I was born in 1971, I grew up watching these movies with my parents . I especially remember The Towering Info, The Poseiden Eventure , and , The Swarm.
    I havent seen The Swarm in a long time, but it was a movie I liked as a kid. I remember a slow-mo scene where the bees where attacking kids on a school playground, I thought it was so cool looking , lol.
    These movies made a huge impact on me. When me and my friends played cars and trucks outside , we would build an entire town on a dirt hill, add broken off tree pieces for the trees, and once we built this whole town over the dirt hill, and ran our cars around the roads a few times, the entire town HAD to be DESTROYED, LOL. Usually, took the water hose to the centrr of the dirt hill, and had a huge flood demolish everything, lol.
    Then, there was the day, I wanted to create a fire " special effect " in my parents back yard, lol. The yard was very dry from the summer heat. I took the gas tank used to fill our lawn mowers , and I started on one side of the bakc yard, from the ditch, and I started making a trail of gasoline across the full lenght of the backyard to the other ditch, lol. I had a box of matches , and as I struck the match , my mom looked out the kitchen window, saw me holding a match and the gas tank beside me, she yelled out " Earl Jr! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!? " , but it was to late, as she said it, the match was falling, lol. And we BOTH watched a fire ball shoot across our yard ! 😂 Yeah, I didnt get to do that again, lol.

    • @bkynbiker
      @bkynbiker 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I can relate. My cousin and I built a 6 story 'Towering Inferno" from card board, then set it on fire. A garden hose built into the center of the tower providing the 'dousing effect' like in the movie, except the tower toppled over before it could do its job as intended. Still have the pictures, it was a 'family event'! And my cousin became a fireman and eventually chief of his department

  • @EGSimon-ds1vf
    @EGSimon-ds1vf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Watching the Poseidon adventure in the theater was a great experience. Love the Towering Inferno and the first two Airplane movies.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So true! Those were movies that were best experienced in the theater!

  • @collenegandy3605
    @collenegandy3605 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I grew up watching them. I watched The Poseidon Adventure every New Years Eve when I was a kid.Nos that I own most of the disaster movies on DVD I can watch them any time I want.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same here! I watch them every chance I get.

  • @vicentecampos2893
    @vicentecampos2893 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Towering Inferno is my favourite. I watch it once a year or every couple of years and still have the same feeling as a kid.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I watch it too all the time. It just got added to TH-cam Movies for free with ads.

  • @marccurry251
    @marccurry251 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Loved Earthquake saw it opening night and when the sense O round effect started plaster fell off the theatre ceiling, Fantastic!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yikes! I'd thought uh-oh...is this real or Memorex.

  • @geowynleda4641
    @geowynleda4641 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Disaster movies, bring 'em on.

  • @juacho2
    @juacho2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I loved all those movies when I was kid. I counted the days to go to the movie theaters to see them. On those days I only depended on my parents or relatives to take me to the movies. You mentioned Tidal Wave. I saw that movie when I was only 8 years old. That movie shocked me. The special effects were amazing for the time of the film. I talked about that movie for weeks. Thank you for those amazing memories.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey thanks for sharing your memory with us! That's so how it was for me. Wanting to go to the movies but needing someone to take me. It was fun when you could get dropped off and see the movie on your own.

  • @Collin-c5u
    @Collin-c5u หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I seen a lot of them and most of all the actors are gone now so hats off to them for their talent.

  • @gieselats
    @gieselats 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Really good put together footage. As a kid I watched several of the presented movies on television. Disaster movies come in waves. The storm, Twister, Volcano, Titanic, the day after tomorrow, 2012, deep impact. The list goes on and on. Keep up the good work.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks so much!!! Glad you liked it! I am forever a disaster movie fan too!

  • @jeromelombardo6053
    @jeromelombardo6053 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I lOVE THEM ALL. AIRPORT 77 was my fav airplane movie.

  • @thomasszymczak4983
    @thomasszymczak4983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Memories are coming back. I was too young to see this movies in cinema. But at home it was an event for the whole family to watch it on TV together the first time, years later. We all were stouning and baffled and sometimes traumasiesed. Now with 60, i have some of them on Blu Ray. Holding memories. JAWS was although a catastophe movie like Poseidon for me in this time. Great Cinema.

  • @tammanyfields3583
    @tammanyfields3583 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is a great presentation. This was my great time to be a kid and I loved all these movies.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey there! Thank you so much for that! It was such a great time to be a kid and grow up in a time where movies and music was at their best! Welcome to the channel!

  • @pooryorick831
    @pooryorick831 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I loved the blockbuster disaster films of the 70s with their all star casts and big special effects. The Towering Inferno was the best. Why? Because OJ saved the cat. It did not matter how many people went up in smoke or met some other horrible end. When OJ saved the cat the theater erupted in applause. Those sure were the days...

  • @freemarketjoe9869
    @freemarketjoe9869 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    My favorite of the air disasters is the original Airport. Helen Hays steals the show, elevating the film to the next level. Jacqueline Bassett pretending to get angry and smack Helen Hays, Helen, playing along, starting to cry, was marvelous. I found myself laughing out loud, it was so outrageous. The character Helen plays capable of deceiving anyone, jumping right into the part of being roughed up, to get the bomb away from the crazy man. I remember her as the wonderful old lady in Herbie rides again, as the widow of a fire cheif in San Francisco, in wich she was simply great.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      YES!!! and I remember Herbie Rides Again too. My mom took me and some friends to see that, and it's one of the few movies I remember my mom laughing at a lot. She was not a big movie goer. But it's a fond memory.

  • @murraymclean9072
    @murraymclean9072 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fantastic review, a trip down memory lane..I can remember lining up outside the royal cinema to get in to see Poseiden adventure.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much! I am so glad that it brought back some fond memories for you. It's the same for me, thinking back to the movie theaters and friends I saw them in and with.

  • @edbarker8636
    @edbarker8636 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I've seen almost all of those and loved them

  • @billhosko7723
    @billhosko7723 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    EXCELLENT presentation and summary. Bravo Sir and Thank You. Agree with EVERY viewpoint you had!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      WOW Thanks so much!!!! I started this channel to share my love for movies and memories of a time when going to the movies was fun! Welcome to the channel.

  • @TheDapperMan
    @TheDapperMan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for your insightful and thorough video on disaster films.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you! Welcome to the channel!

  • @TheSmallTownExlorer
    @TheSmallTownExlorer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Never realized just how much I loved those sorts of films as a kid in the 70s. Seems the genre made a massive comeback in the 1990s - 2010s. Hate to see what they would do with this fun genre today.

  • @bear4pozcle
    @bear4pozcle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice video. Brought back lots of memories. Thanks!

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey thanks so much for watching! Good times when movies were still good and going to the theater was fun!

  • @tourbahamir6433
    @tourbahamir6433 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I also remember the 1979 City on Fire starring James Franciscus, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Leslie Nielsen and Shelley Winters. Very bad but so kitschy...

  • @gildacumos8238
    @gildacumos8238 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I loved all of these movies and hope this genre continues. My favorite is the first one mentioned that launched the genre, "Airport."

  • @TheRadical42
    @TheRadical42 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice video Sprockets! I really enjoyed it. I love disaster movies. From the 1970s greats to Roland Emmerich's films. Thanks for posting! 🙂🙃🙂🙃

  • @jmchez
    @jmchez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Giant subwoofers used in"Sensurround" were a hoot! When the low frequency super deep bass got going you could feel it in your gut. Back then, movies didnt have that kind of sound mix. It led the way for Dolby Surround, DTS, THX and Dolby Atmos.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Was cool to experience that back in 1974

  • @sig9girl
    @sig9girl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I loved all of them! The Towering Inverno! My #1

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too!!! For me this movie never gets old, and I just love John Williams music for this film. Back during a time when film scores themselves were as much a character in the film. Thanks for sharing your post! Welcome to the channel!

  • @vikker8274
    @vikker8274 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I’m a professional beekeeper, so the Swarm will always be my favorite, but I love all of these movies, especially Airport.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You are much braver than I!!!! :)

  • @IanSowers
    @IanSowers 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for the video! I also grew up in the '70s and have fond memories of most of these. I love 'Airport '77' and 'The Towering Inferno' - but my favorite has to be 'The Poseidon Adventure'. The situation was so unique and diabolical, it really captured my imagination.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hey Ian thanks for sharing your memory! I love hearing about fellow film lovers that grew up in a time where movies were really good and going to the theater was entertaining! Welcome to the channel!

  • @dennisclouser3458
    @dennisclouser3458 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Irwin Allen is the best!!.... so many movies and tv shows... like Towering Inferno and Lost In Space, to name a few.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed, I can’t imagine my childhood without Irwin Allen!

  • @karenlbellmont6560
    @karenlbellmont6560 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Had it pegged even as a kiddo after '74 we were close to the end of disaster movies. I did however like the the old greats (actors) teaming up. ❤

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too! No today to me comes close to the stars then

  • @travisazzopardi8024
    @travisazzopardi8024 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm 60 so I saw all the disaster movies in the 70s. My favorite was Earthquake cause of the "Sensurround sound" system. Big old subwoofers under the seats to make it feel like your seat was rumbling in an actual earthquake. Lol. I was 10 in 74 when it came out and I loved it. Now it's D-Box so Sensurround was actually way ahead of its time. The 70s was a great time to be alive and Hollywood made some classic movies back then.

    • @sprocketsintime
      @sprocketsintime  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Some of the best for sure! Great memory thank you for sharing and welcome to the channel.

  • @KULT_OF_SCIENTOLOGY
    @KULT_OF_SCIENTOLOGY 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh man, this is a great genre- Towering Inferno 1 of my top 10 GOAT list!
    Earthquake, Marooned, Damnation Alley!

  • @SHARKTIC5
    @SHARKTIC5 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    YES! The Towering Inferno.‼️🌟