Earthquake - reissue? (1 Viewer)

[Bob Cashill]

Indeed--turkeys like BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE and WHEN TIME RAN OUT (a great final title for an exhausted genre) fill considerably tinier holes. I wonder if Canada's contribution to late 70s disaster, CITY ON FIRE, will ever resurface?

 

[Qui-Gon John]

What other releases. Don't know if these are Universal or not but I'd love to see, "Twilight's Last Gleaming" and "By Dawn's Early Light".

 

[Bob Cashill]

BATTLE HYMN and TO HELL AND BACK. There's another thread about this elsewhere.

 

[Dick]

To offer an opposing view, I saw GRAY LADY DOWN in a theater when first released and was horribly disappointed - Heston at his Schtickiest, and downright boring to boot. I will never watch it again.

 

[Bob Cashill]

I was 12 years old, and found its terse approach to the subject captivating, as I did the no-nonsense (but slyly humorous) approach to ocean-going terrorism in JUGGERNAUT. Films like that seemed "grown up" to me, and JUGGERNAUT is still terrific; whether time will be as kind to GRAY LADY DOWN, now that I am grown up, remains to be seen.

 

[Stephen PI]

Anthony Neilson asks:
On the UK R2 of Earthquake, it actually says it's in Sensurround. I was presuming that was a joke. Do they really make any attempt to recreate it by pumping up the Sub or something ? And then getting you to sit on the speaker ?

If you don't mind the pal speed-up, the 4.1 audio on the "Earthquake" dvd is very impressive. There is a low frequency rumble track on the .1 and it works very well.