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Originally posted by smiley21
yeah, this is realistic
one thing that i hate about made for tv disaster movies is the effects are so corny. i am watching it now and i feel like i am looking at a bad accident.. i cannot look away. i need help!
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Corny special effects? Then you haven't seen the disaster movies of the 1970s, such as
The Poseidon Adventure,
The Towering Inferno and
Earthquake 
The special effects of those movies thirty years ago was considered state-of-the-art back then, but comparing it to today's computer-generated special effects they look REALLY cheesy. Unlike George Lucas who did a complete revamping of special effects of the original
Star Wars trilogy twenty years after they were first filmed, these disaster film classics will never be remade. (Though there is talk of a re-made
Poseidon...)
BTW,
Earthquake in its original theatrical release had a little gimmick called 'Sensurround', in which massive speakers in the theatre pumped out low-frequency noise at high volume to simulate an earthquake. A few theaters, including Mann's Chinese in Hollywood suffered minor structural damage as a result of having the speakers too loud.
More info:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/belkna...2002/sense.htm
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