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Best disaster movie.

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Best disaster movie.

Unread postby stu » Sat 05 Feb 2005, 12:16:49

What does everyone think is their favourite disaster movie?

Mine: The Poseidon Adventure. Great concept.
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Unread postby KiddieKorral » Sat 05 Feb 2005, 14:06:14

The Day After Tomorrow. Admittedly it's too outlandish, but the special effects are incredible.
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Unread postby Ayoob_Reloaded » Sat 05 Feb 2005, 14:23:27

Best one I ever saw was on TV a couple nights ago. I think it was called "The State of the Union Address."

To summarize:

"My fellow Republicans. Everything good with you? I'm feeling pretty good. Had that war (APPLAUSE)... had a great vote there (APPLAUSE). i got a woman up there who voted. she's pretty happy, so i don't know why some of you are so grumpy bout this whole war thingie. I'll exploit her for personal gain later.

let me explain to you how Social Security works. You put money in, you get it when you retire. Problem is, if you're under 55, you won't get it... that's my guarantee. It's going bankrupt. (APPLAUSE) Let me explain to you my plan to take your money and put it in a private account and then watch how my friends get rich from the money you invest in them... money you won't get back. or maybe you'll get 10-20% so i don't look that evil. Let me say a quick shout out to the folks on the other side of the aisle, cause i think they're saying hello. Everythings on the table democrats. Okay, that should shut them up. (APPLAUSE) Ownership Society.

Syria is probably coming up with ways to destroy 'Merica now, so's Iran. We got democracy everywhere else, why not there? Afghanistan is looking pretty good to me, Iraq's coming along just nicely. Freedom is never looking so good. (APPLAUSE)

Marriage must be protected from activist judges that are so active one day one of them will outlaw marriage. then where would we be? with the queers. I don't want that, do you? (APPLAUSE) So we must ban lawyers from receiving money and gays from receiving marriage! (BIG APPLAUSE)

'Merica is a place where we do not discriminate against other people like me, good folks as we in Texas would call me. Everyone should be included. Did i talk about gays yet? How they're not included? Yeah? Good. Criminals are included, we're gonna help them, so long as they're not.. you know.

I made some jobs and I planted some seeds of democracy. Unfortunately, when you plant seeds, you got to tear up the earth. You can't plant a seed on top. Sometimes I use people as my shovel. Let me tell you about one of my shovels. He died protecting our freedoms. Let's bring out his parents! You've just won a new car! (APPLAUSE)

Okay, that just about does it from here. love those purple fingers!

hmm, I was going to say something about the environment, energy conservation, veteran & death benefits, tsunami relief, genocide in africa, and a whole list of other things... maybe next term. I shoulda said some more about education, and maybe actually talked details with you folks, but that's what the closed door meetings are for, right? right? (APPLAUSE)

okay then, good night blah blah, may god continue to bless this mess.
(APPLAUSE)"


(shamelessly stolen from DU)
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Unread postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Sat 05 Feb 2005, 14:43:44

thats a riot, long live DU! Insteresting to compare it with Castros 5 HOUR speech eh?
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Unread postby Barbara » Sat 05 Feb 2005, 14:46:54

Dubya is capable of saying more BS in twenty minutes than Castro in 5 hours.
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Unread postby Ayoob_Reloaded » Sat 05 Feb 2005, 14:48:30

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hijack this. I just couldn't help myself.

My real favorite disaster movie is Lord of the Flies (1989?)
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Unread postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Sat 05 Feb 2005, 15:11:49

(Shudder) really? I didn't see the new one, the old one was enough for me. I like the FX of day after tomorrow too. I really liked the one with Duston Hoffman with the pandemic. That was good.
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Unread postby 0mar » Sat 05 Feb 2005, 15:50:31

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but it was an Outer Limits episode.

It was the one where they had 4 or 5 people in a super-secret bunker that held the controls to every nuclear, chemical, and biological weapon to be used when the aliens invaded. It was really fucking cool.
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Unread postby TrueKaiser » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 03:14:09

i forget the name of it but it took place after a nulcear war and austrailia is the only habitable place left for the moment.
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 03:31:15

'On the Beach' based on the novel by Nevil Shute. It seems to me that nucular war might happen but who knows?
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 03:37:56

By the way, I am one of the old guys in this forum. Sometimes its cool to be old because you just know so much more that all the pugin kids! :twisted: There isn't a kid posting here who knows half of what I know simply because they haven't been around long enough! :lol:
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Unread postby Specop_007 » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 04:21:49

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(shamelessly stolen from DU)


You can actually go there without your head exploding?! 8O
Man, every time I go there I come back here and think this place is conservative central! I've never seen people so far out of touch with reality as DU!! (No offense to any DU regulars of course)
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Unread postby BabyPeanut » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 07:34:01

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Unread postby BabyPeanut » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 07:38:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'B')y the way, I am one of the old guys in this forum. Sometimes its cool to be old because you just know so much more that all the pugin kids! :twisted: There isn't a kid posting here who knows half of what I know simply because they haven't been around long enough! :lol:

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/
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On the Beach (1959)

In 1964, nuclear war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?

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Someone, somewhere, pressed the button and started World War III. Australia has survived - temporarily. The radiation is on it's way, the end inevitable. This is the story of the way in which people faced the coming end, focusing mainly on a young Australian couple and their friends, including the captain of an American submarine that was on patrol in the Pacific when the bombs were falling. And then the Australians detect a morse signal coming from somewhere around San Diego...
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Unread postby k_semler » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 09:21:06

I would have to say the movie "The Day After", which was released in 1983. To this day, I am horrified by it.
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Unread postby mgibbons19 » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 11:17:41

I loved King's The Stand, but only in novel form. The TV movie kind of sucked.
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Unread postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 15:55:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')forget the name of it but it took place after a nulcear war and austrailia is the only habitable place left for the moment.


Kaiser do you mean the Chrysalids?
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Unread postby TrueKaiser » Sun 06 Feb 2005, 17:24:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')forget the name of it but it took place after a nulcear war and austrailia is the only habitable place left for the moment.


Kaiser do you mean the Chrysalids?


nah i don't think that was the movie.
other scenes i remember(i also read the book of it)
the music player playing a haunting song at the end when everyone comited suicide rather then die of radiation poisoning.
them describing how they will perserve a record of the human race in some sort of container, i think this was in the book only.
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