All-Star Cast, but only 5.6.
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InherentlyYours — 9 years ago(August 29, 2016 12:20 AM)
I agree, I have no complaint about the special effects, special effects. I found the acting scenes static, and the relationships cold. Robson's VOTD was the 2nd highest grossing film of 67', but it was an awful film, and only watchable to see Patty Duke make you smile with her displaced intensity. It's not about the box-office.
Ava Gardner pretending to be asleep, then her big wide eyes open suddenly when the quake hits was embarrassing. Victoria Principal runs out of the theatre, then looks up with an instant "waaauuugh"-look. Gardner with
"you're seeing that slut again, aren't you!?"
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aussiebears — 9 years ago(August 30, 2016 11:07 PM)
One wonders what would have happened if Mario Puzo had completed a full working script for Earthquake before he was whisked off to do the Godfather sequel and Universal had had the money to do his script justice? instead we got a watered down paint by number style script by Mark Robson.
While I reckon Charlton Heston is pretty good in this overall especially after viewing the cringe worthy sexist slop he played in Airport 75 at the same time I just cant buy into his love affair with Genevive Bujold, he has just supposedly made love to this beautiful young lady and he holds her like a dead fish, the whole scene is just dull, flat and lifeless like Robson's direction throughout most of the movie. -
rascal67 — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 04:21 AM)
I can think of hundreds of films made around the same time, or years, or even decades prior to this that are vastly superior.
As an example, I'll choose Towering Inferno because it's from the same period, and it's the same genre. Can't compare the two films Inferno is so brilliant on every level, it puts this film so completely in a shadow.
I think Towering Inferno
which I didn't have an opportunity to see on it's initial theatrical release
was over-long and flatly directed in parts. It tried to outdo THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE-72', which I think is terrific and superior to both Earthquake and Inferno.
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