i'm watching "avalanche" from 1978

[sundog]

it's an all star disaster movie of the first order

so far, the avalanche hasn't started yet - well there was a "mini avalanche" that was kinda set up like the water skier attack in "jaws 2," but the skier jumped into the top of a tree & escaped (it was chasing him i think)

no, right now everyone is happy & ice skating & dancing in the lodge

some guy with feathered hair threw some milk on his girlfriend & she started screaming & ran outside with her teddy on

oh yeah, it said it was pg on the sleeve, but they just showed some woman's tits in a hot tub with rock hudson

mia farrow keeps popping up here & there with some old lady

roger corman produced this puppy

good stuff :popcorn:

[merh]

1. Is it on the tube or did you rent it?

And if you rented it, why?

Actually, I love those old disaster films, they are so campy.

[sundog]

3. netflix

yes, i rented it for the exact reason you mentioned

camp - it cracks me up

i appreciate the styrofoam snow chunks :D

roger corman also produced piranha - that was a hoot

[merh]

5. OMG, I love piranha

Still make that noise - can't spell it out, but you know the noise I mean. :freak:

I vaguely remember avalanche.

Enjoy the camp! :popcorn:

I could use that right now so I am disappointed its a rental and not a film I can turn on. :hi:

[CanuckAmok]

10. Did you ever see Piranha II?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082910/

They grow wings and the climax of the movie is a swarming at the town's annual Fish Fry.

It's an amazing piece of cinema.

Note: it's directed by none other than James Cameron!

[sundog]

18. putting it in my queue now

cameron should have been killed before he even got to the abyss

[flamingyouth]

2. I remember that!

I haven't seen it in a long time, but I love those old disaster films from the '70s. :D

[sundog]

4. some old lady got trapped under the snow with a guy

and a piano... and she started playing it :shrug:

don't worry, she lives

only a few people actually die in it

[FuzzySlippers]

6. Is the whole woman in the hot tub with Rock Hudson

or just her tits?:shrug:

[sundog]

7. both

it says "pg" on the dvd

:shrug:

i guess standards were different in the 70s

[FuzzySlippers]

8. You said some woman's tits were in the hottub.

I thought maybe you meant there were disembodied tits floating around.:shrug:

[sundog]

9. shhh

mia farrow is saying something important

[CanuckAmok]

11. Dear god, how is that possible?!

n/t

[fudge stripe cookays]

12. Well there was....

"Soon Yi, how COULD you?!!!"

[CanuckAmok]

13. Oh, sure, blame the victim!

;)

[jpgray]

14. So... you post around here much?

:shrug:

[sundog]

16. asshole n/t

[jpgray]

17. Yeah. Um, my wife is into assholes. Hmm.

[skygazer]

15. I loved the disaster flicks

They were so over the top. I was in high school when they were all coming out and I wrote a couple of parodies - one was called "Fire On Fairground Road" (Fairground Road was where the high school was) and another was entitled "Three Days In An Outhouse". They were peopled by all the kids I knew at school who died in many spectacular ways in them, leaving a small group of survivors (chief among them yours truly, of course). Wish I still had them....

[sundog]

19. the swarm is coming next

[flamingyouth]

21. OMG The Swarm!

We watched that for our 8th grade party! My mom tried to get My Bodyguard for us but our school's fundy principal objected to all the bad language. :eyes:

Apparently he had no problem with killer bees. :D

[sundog]

30. michael caine AND katharine ross AND henry fonda AND

richard chamberlain AND lee grant AND patty duke

:party:

[terrya]

32. Hopefully followed by "Earthquake"

God, those Irwin Allen movies were crap, but oh so watchable. :-)

[Thtwudbeme]

20. OK, when you see the girl in bed in one of the rooms in a bikini

that's it. That's when the snow hits the lodge.

When you get done with that, try to rent "Winter A Go-Go." It's only a disaster in getting a glimpse of what Americans thought was "cool" in the early sixties. Honestly, there is not a better movie to explain why normal people were hitting the acid.

[jpgray]

22. Just don't rent Monster A Go-Go

:o

Makes Roger Corman and Bert I Gordon look like brilliant auteurs, that one does.

[Richardo]

23. I got the wim-wams just looking at the poster

:scared:

[terrya]

29. Christ, I didn't think it was possible for anyone to make Bert I. Gordon..

look like an auteur. He created some of the most incredibly mindless crap ever filmed.

[sundog]

27. sounds great

:D

:hi:

[Crazy Dave]

24. Haven't seen it but I'll bet there's a guy.....

...going around warning everyone of an impending disaster but nobody cares and there's the typical, evil, rich lodge/resort owner that says, "we're not going to evacuate our lodge and cause and unnecessary panic". Usually that guy (the lodge owner) gets killed.

Am I close? It's the same script to almost every disaster movie ever made.

[Richardo]

25. Yes. Remade as "Jaws" by Speilberg.

Good eye, Dave :thumbsup:

[Crazy Dave]

26. Thanks but in JAWS...

...the "evil" mayor didn't get killed. Now in "Dante's Peak" it was Pierce Brosnan's boss who said "no" and he died in a bad way.

[fudge stripe cookays]

28. Yes, the "stupid boss lahar" swept him away!

I hate it when that happens! :P

[underpants]

31. How long have you been watching the same movie? All day?

:bounce::hi::rofl:

[sundog]

33. only twice last night

just piping the soundtrack through the 5.1 as i work today

for memories