Favorite disaster movie? (cinema, films, Charlton Heston, 70s)

[Six Foot Three]

I still love this scene after all these years where the SS Poseidon Capsizes.


YouTube - Poseidon's Capsizing

[CrouchTigerHiddenDog]

Shelley Winters was superb in that one 6/3!!!!!!!

[Six Foot Three]

Originally Posted by CrouchTigerHiddenDog

Shelley Winters was superb in that one 6/3!!!!!!!

Weren't those GREAT movies back then in the day as they just don't have the same feel anymore even with all the high tech today. I was watching ''Midway'' the other day with Charleton Heston and again just some great acting as you actually thought they were fighting the Japanese.

[CrouchTigerHiddenDog]

Right on 6/3!!!!!!

[LaoTzuMindFu]

Titanic is the greatest disaster film ever made. Just ask the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science.

I cant remember any other movie that comes close to Titanic.

[picklejuice]

I like this recent one: Contagion

[picklejuice]

Oh yeah, this one: Alive (1983)

[gardener34]

Poseidon adventure (original one)
Shelley winters and Ernest Borgnine...

[treasurekidd]

My top favorites are:

1. Armageddon (None of them want to pay taxes again. Ever.)

2. Poseidon Adventure (the original, not the new one)

3. Titanic (Just don't make me listen to Celine Dion sing that song anymore)

4. Tora! Tora! Tora! (I know, more a war movie than a disaster movie, but it WAS a disaster for the US)

5. The Day After (NOT The Day After Tomorrow, this is the 1983 Jason Robards nuclear war film)

6. The Towering Inferno (actually a pretty bad movie, but how can you beat Steve McQueen and Paul Newman together?)

7. The Hindenburg (with George C Scott)

8. A Night To Remember (a classic, and just about as good as Titanic)

[skippercollector]

I did a search for The Day After and found this thread. I have a question about the movie.
I saw the movie when it originally aired on ABC in 1983. I got a copy of the movie on VHS that was released by Embassy Home Entertainment in 1984.
Since the quarantine, I've been watching a bunch of my old VHS movies to check their condition and see if I want to keep them or get rid of them. I rewatched The Day After (I've watched the VHS tape several times over the decades) and I swear that one of the closing scenes is different.
When I watched it on TV in 1983, I remember (perhaps incorrectly) that the scene with Stephen/Steve Guttenberg talking to Denise/Lori Lethin one last time was more sad and gruesome than what was on the VHS. I remember that Denise was hemorrhaging badly and her lower torso was covered in blood, but Steve told her she was beautiful and that had he known her earlier, he would have given her fiance' some competition for her. Yet what is on the VHS is that he simply tells her that he is losing his hair, too, and there is very little blood. Was the VHS toned down for release?