Topic: NOTES IN SENSURROUND (Read 5235 times)

bk · « **on:** June 23, 2016, 12:38:58 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you've experienced the notes in Sensurround, and now it is time for you to post until the Sensurround cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2016, 12:42:27 AM »

And the word of the day is: TOHUBOHU!

TCB · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2016, 12:51:08 AM »

The first post after BK!

George · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2016, 12:58:30 AM »

Good night, Tom.

Michael · « **Reply #4 on:** June 23, 2016, 03:25:48 AM »

Good morning to all

Michael · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2016, 03:33:48 AM »

I loved all disaster movie no matter how good or bad their were for their special/visual effects. I loved the minatures, matte paintings, in camera effects. Once CGI took over they were never as fun.

I love the Japanes monster movies with actors in costumes stomping through toy towns were a favorite of mine. I was never fooled even when I saw my first when I was about 6 years old.

Michael · « **Reply #6 on:** June 23, 2016, 03:40:35 AM »

I remember going to see the movie TIDAL WAVE starring Lorne Green. What this film was an Americanization of a Japanes disaster film ala Raymon Burr and the first Godzilla film. Green filmed new American films.
I was in Montreal at the time and walked by a theater. I saw the the poster and on the spur of the moment went in to see the French dubbed.

BUT

Instead of seeing the 82 minute American version I ended up seeing the origianl The Submurgance of Japan at 2 hours plus in French. Boring!!! The poster lied!!

Ginny · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2016, 04:08:01 AM »

Thursday morning greetings! What was supposed to be a sleep-in for us was rudely interrupted at 6:15 by the bedside alarm clock that sounds like church bells. So, Richard's in the shower and I'm finishing my first cup of coffee.

TCB · « **Reply #8 on:** June 23, 2016, 04:20:28 AM »

Why am I awake at 4:30 AM?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:29:25 AM »

Good morning, all!

Druxy · « **Reply #10 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:30:36 AM »

TOD:

THE TOWERING INFERNO
TITANIC (both the 1950s and the 1990s versions)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:31:00 AM »

This morning, I will finish the "Runyonland" sequence that opens Guys & Dolls, and then proceed to "Fugue for Tin Horns."

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:32:32 AM »

Around noon, Mr Anthony Morelli is coming by to visit. I haven't seen him in some time, so that will be fun.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:34:03 AM »

I decided to see how sleep would go without the Tylenol PM help. It took a long time to get to sleep, but I did it. This is good.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:34:17 AM »

I need coffee!

Druxy · « **Reply #15 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:35:09 AM »

I remember seeing ROLLERCOASTER.

It was okay, but the third act was a total disappointment.

Since the were filming in real amusement parks, the filmmakers were limited in what they could do. Made today, with CGI, the film would probably be much more spectacular.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #16 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:48:39 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #17 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:49:34 AM »

A good sleep, but a bizarre dream that just didn't want to give up. No sir. It went down fighting.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #18 on:** June 23, 2016, 06:00:58 AM »

It's funny, I don't remember actually going to Rollercoaster, but I surely must have. But it didn't stick with me through the years like most other disaster films usually did, whether I liked them or not. It was a different kind of film somehow, though I couldn't tell you what made me think that.

But I want to see it now for the locations used. I do recall they made a deal out of using the Revolution (?) at Magic Mountain, itself a big deal for being the first with a 360-degree loop. What a hilariously simple claim in comparison with the insane coaster rides nowadays. In an odd moment of daring, I went on the Revolution in 1979, and that loop wasn't anything horrible, really. But I wouldn't do it again, or go near anything more wild than that. For the occasional thrill ride I do love older traditional coasters, as well as the general Disney variety.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #19 on:** June 23, 2016, 06:16:32 AM »

Hard to say about absolutely favorite disaster movies. I usually enjoy any one I'm watching, even if I literally never look back on it.

POSEIDON and TOWERING, certainly. EARTHQUAKE. The various TITANIC ones. VOLCANO and DANTE'S PEAK. The AIRPORT ones. A disaster film doesn't have to be particularly good to be enjoyed and returned to as a kind of comfort food. With their stars and their groundings in the period in which they were made, they can press some pleasure buttons.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 23, 2016, 06:41:15 AM »

Thursday.

"Don't act...." If only they would listen.....

Ah well.....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #21 on:** June 23, 2016, 06:41:47 AM »

I just couldn't do the part myself.....that would have been unseemly......

Jrand73 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 23, 2016, 06:43:41 AM »

TOD:

Airport and its sequels, although they were less enjoyable as they went along....

The Poseidon Adventure

Titanic - 1953 for the story...1999 for everything EXCEPT the story

Earthquake - although it was fairly mild and so very LONG

Jane · « **Reply #23 on:** June 23, 2016, 07:41:06 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on June 23, 2016, 05:32:32 AM

Around noon, Mr Anthony Morelli is coming by to visit. I haven't seen him in some time, so that will be fun.

Please tell him I miss him.

Jane · « **Reply #24 on:** June 23, 2016, 07:41:24 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on June 23, 2016, 05:34:03 AM

I decided to see how sleep would go without the Tylenol PM help. It took a long time to get to sleep, but I did it. This is good.

Amy · « **Reply #25 on:** June 23, 2016, 07:42:12 AM »

TOD:
Poseidon Adventure
Twister
Volcano

I saw Rollercoaster too, but I don't remember a thing about it except being pretty disappointed. I never saw Earthquake or Towering Inferno. And this may sound crazy, but I never saw Titanic either. I did see a made-for-TV movie based on the true story of high-rise building fire in downtown LA that happened about 25 years ago. It starred Lee Majors as the fire captain and it was actually pretty good for a TV-movie-based-on-a-true-story movie.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #26 on:** June 23, 2016, 07:43:03 AM »

Please give a big howdy to Mr. Morelli!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #27 on:** June 23, 2016, 07:45:33 AM »

While I didn't try very hard to think of all the disaster films from various periods that I enjoy, I'm surprised I forgot about TWISTER.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #28 on:** June 23, 2016, 07:46:33 AM »

And INDEPENDENCE DAY.

I like 'em good and I like 'em ridiculous. Hey, I included VOLCANO, right?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #29 on:** June 23, 2016, 08:36:50 AM »

We had a welter of sirens and loud honking out on 82nd Street so I went down to see the commotion. A firetruck was parked in front of my building, unable to move because some can driver and the jerk driver of a plumbing van had double parked and the firetruck could not pass. Traffic was blocked up between Broadway and Amsterdam. I detest the double parking on this street.

I have taken advantage of it in the past, but it's usually for a delivery and.we can easily move if a problem arises. These two jerks were an entirely different situation. The firemen had called the plumbing van's number posted on the side of the truck and no one was answering the phone. When I came back inside, they were writing tickets for the vehicles.

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