"Its out of control, and its coming your way"

[Tommy Tainant]

One of the great lines in movie history. Just been watching The Towering Inferno about 40 years after I first watched it in the pictures. It still stands up depite the awful 70s costumes. Everybody was in it but they are all dead now apart from OJ.

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ? You decide.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ?

How's the USSR doing? Cuba rocking it lately?

Still eating zoo animals in Venezuela?

 

[White 6]

One of the great lines in movie history. Just been watching The Towering Inferno about 40 years after I first watched it in the pictures. It still stands up depite the awful 70s costumes. Everybody was in it but they are all dead now apart from OJ.

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ? You decide.

"a psam against the greed of capitalism" Nice turn of phrase.

 

[Dekster]

One of the great lines in movie history. Just been watching The Towering Inferno about 40 years after I first watched it in the pictures. It still stands up depite the awful 70s costumes. Everybody was in it but they are all dead now apart from OJ.

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ? You decide.

Whew for a second I thought you were warning me that Meghan Markle had been spotted in my city.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

One of the great lines in movie history. Just been watching The Towering Inferno about 40 years after I first watched it in the pictures. It still stands up depite the awful 70s costumes. Everybody was in it but they are all dead now apart from OJ.

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ? You decide.

Whew for a second I thought you were warning me that Meghan Markle had been spotted in my city.

You are on your own mate.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

One of the great lines in movie history. Just been watching The Towering Inferno about 40 years after I first watched it in the pictures. It still stands up depite the awful 70s costumes. Everybody was in it but they are all dead now apart from OJ.

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ? You decide.

Do you think the actors were paid ?

Do you think the studio made this to make money or send a message ?

 

[bluzman61]

One of the great lines in movie history. Just been watching The Towering Inferno about 40 years after I first watched it in the pictures. It still stands up depite the awful 70s costumes. Everybody was in it but they are all dead now apart from OJ.

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ? You decide.

"a psam against the greed of capitalism" Nice turn of phrase.

The word is spelled PSALM, thank you.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

One of the great lines in movie history. Just been watching The Towering Inferno about 40 years after I first watched it in the pictures. It still stands up depite the awful 70s costumes. Everybody was in it but they are all dead now apart from OJ.

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ? You decide.

Do you think the actors were paid ?

Do you think the studio made this to make money or send a message ?

I would hope they were all paid very well. There were some terrifying scenes.
I dont understand the conflict between message and money. It is possible to do both and in fact necessary.

If you look at this film we see the baddie has cut corners to increase his profit margin and over 200 people have died. Everybody would see that as a bad thing. It also questions the regulatory standards of the time.

40 years on and we have the Grenfell disaster and all these issues come to the fore again. Greed is still a threat to the people and we should be able to rely on our government to protect us from that. Sadly it seems to be reactive.

 

[Correll]

One of the great lines in movie history. Just been watching The Towering Inferno about 40 years after I first watched it in the pictures. It still stands up depite the awful 70s costumes. Everybody was in it but they are all dead now apart from OJ.

A disaster movie or a psalm against the greed of capitalism ? You decide.

Both. Obviously.


Funny, though how you look at something from the 70s, and Hollywood is still doing the same shit.


A better example is, of course Rollerball.

 

[hjmick]

Those are not "'70s costumes" it's what was fashion in the '70s...

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Those are not "'70s costumes" it's what was fashion in the '70s...

Pretty gruesome. Some eras wear better than others.