THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) | AGM Classic Movie Reaction
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- A Gay Millenial watches classic disaster movie The Towering Inferno (1974). Tons of stars! Broken safety measures! EXPLOSIONS! Idiot executives! MORE EXPLOSIONS!
00:00 - Intro
01:08 - Reaction
29:29 - Review
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I love The Towering Inferno was my number 1 favorite disaster movie of all-time that I got Special Edition 📀 for my 22nd Birthday Gift and Especially I love watching in widescreen and is my number 1 best movie year of 1974.
The kid playing Phillip Albright is Mike Lookinland, aka Bobby Brady!
And the firefighter who's scared to rappel down the elevator shaft is Paul Newman's son, Scott. You can see them cross paths at the end of the movie on the stairs.
@@sdhartley74 I never realised that it was Paul Newmans son but he was probably scared to rappel down after seeing the fire fighter going head first down the lift shaft and on fire @17:15 I would of screamed my head off if I was him.
@georgie1246
That was one creepy scene.
Seeing a body fly past them (it came from out of nowhere, on fire, and hurtling at about 96 mph), and speculating 'was that one of ours?'
I've been begging movie reactors all over CZcams. To do this movie, the Poseidon Adventure (original from around 1973 of course) the Taking of the Pelham 123 and Death Wish. The originals of course, all coming out around the same time frame. Somewhere around 72'-74'. Think you're the first one I have seen react to this on CZcams. And you have a new subscriber because of it. Take care stay safe and be well !
Thanks! I did The Poseidon Adventure too, if you haven't already checked it out!
"Pelham" is an excellent film; it deserves to be remembered -
- and, oh, that great musical score!
50th Anniversary in 2024. Timeless movie 🎥
"The side story seemed a bit unnecessary, they never met anyone of the main cast..."
A bit true, yes. This can be blames on the source material and the storytelling of the time: The Towering Inferno (as it might have been mentioned already) is based in two novels about the same topic. Back in the day, those stories had side stories that never intersected the main characters in any way, as some sort of "world building" (because, in any disaster, you'd have stories of random people that never intersect with some "hero" or "main character"); the films didn't depart from that, and they were not afraid of making three hour long films (I mean... Ben Hur exists XD).
"Wouldn't the blades of a helicopter hit the building flying that close?"
In a regular unstable weather, yes; that would be a risk (fire tends to create turbulent updrafts of hot air the worse they get). Still... pilots have risked some similar maneouvers for different reasons, like in 1986, during the DuPont Plaza fire, in Puerto Rico: czcams.com/video/gcbe0BgPKzE/video.html
"Why is every floor exploding?"
While the short answer could be "dramatic licence", that is a real posibility that doesn't have anything to do with every floor being packed with dangerous flammable materials. The thing is this: fire needs air to live; when there is no air, fire may die a bit but the gases and the air don't cool down immediately (you can easily see this effect: light a candle, put it out; then light a match *and put the flame in the smoke of the candle*; you will light the candle again without thouching it). Gases and heated air travel, following air currents in search of fresh air (with oxygen); once they find it, the mixture and everything that's been heated by it (paper, furniture, paint, cloth...) will ignite instantly and the fire will rush to that source of fresh air with explosive force (we see a couple of times this effect in the film: when the uneventful girl breaks the window, when the lift opens in the floor in flames and when OJ Simpson opens the door of the closet; and partially that's what happend in the Dupont Plaza too: a set of angry workers started a fire in a hall deep inside the building; the fire burned for hours, unnoticed, until it consumed everything in the room and wasted all the oxygen, but the heated gasses floated down the aisles and the stairs to the biggest hall nearby: the casino; once the heated thick smoke found the fresh air of the bigger room, fire rushed with explosive force from the aisles into the casino incinerating everything, exploding the windows and trapping people in the upper floors).
The same actress that plays the mayors wife in this film also plays the nurse aboard the Poseidon. She is the wife of the producer Irwin Allen.
I agree no glass outside elevators for me
I got grossed out when the lady in white hit the corner when she fell
This movie was a classic the week it came out.
The number 1 rule for this disaster, never ever change the wire specs, any flawed wiring, can cause the entire building to go up in flames
South Korea films have made an OMAGE remake. It is called the TOWER.
Best comment that had me wetting myself was : Crispy party guests 😂
🤷😂 Thanks haha
Interesting that no fireman or architect mentioned getting out of the building before it collapsed into its own footprint. They even detonated the water tanks on top of the structure without worrying if it would lead to the whole building coming down.....
I guess when they blew up the water tanks, it was pretty much a moot point.
(If you read the books, I think one of them mentions that the structural integrity was pretty high and was able to cope with the water damage).
Lorrie and Dan do interact with some other cast members - briefly but in some editions those clips are edited out.
Great movie
The posideon was a great movie
13:05 It always makes me cringe seeing her diving out of the window with her pantyhose /tights on fire as she fell and she was holding her nose lol and it was a good reaction
I ALWAYS like it when Robert Wagner dies in a movie, by the way the woman was Stephanie Flannery from Bold and the Beautiful
She was on Days of our Lives in the 60s
Son in law is a horrible person and scary how he died
It did make us cheer as he began to fall and his scream did make us laugh but i definitely wouldn't like to fall that far.
I was so angry when Liselotte fell out of the elevator. I would have rather that had been any of the other women.
You should also checkout abalanche. Best disaster scenes to chuckle at.
How does she do it in a full dress
13:27 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your OJ comment tho😮😢😅
You are right about the helicopter's blades hitting the side of the building during the scenic elevator rescue attempt. But you are overthinking...just as there's no reason why the safety bar around the elevator would break after the window popped out, allowing the Jennifer Jones character to tumble out.
There was a clash of egos between Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. At McQueen's insistence his and Paul Newman characters have the same number of lines. Since McQueen's character doesn't appear until 43 minutes into the film, Newman had used almost half his lines before McQueen enters.
I understand that they had offered the character of Newman, the architect to McQueen, but when he read the script, Steve found the role of the fire chief more interesting and more entertaining and he asked for that character, so Newman ends up being offered the role. of the architect.
Good reaction! I recommend if you didn't see it, Backdraft directed by Ron Howard, probably the movie that has the best fire scenes, since real fire was used during filming and stunt doubles, the scenes are really impressive.
I have seen it but not since the 90s I think, I could watch it for the channel.
I love this classic movie. Watch an other classic disaster movie: Meteor (1979) with Sean Connery.
I don't think I've ever even heard of that one. I'll have to check it out!
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How come The Towering Inferno movie is not on Televison anymore maybe it should on TCM
One of the best disaster movies, it is strange that a remake has not been made, I think it would be necessary for new audiences and because the effects already look quite old to today's eyes, it is very noticeable that they are miniatures, they lack more details to be completely realistic.
They kinda did a remake with Dwayne Johnson - Skyscraper but yeah not really the same. The worst miniature is when the lady falls out of the elevator and hits the building and spins like 10 times. It's hilarious when it's supposed to be sad. Still love it though
I am really glad they didn't make a remake of this film.
"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (with Walther Matthau, the great Robert Shaw) for example had a remake. A pretty bad one, that is.
@AGM Reacts
There is also a South Korean Movie called "The Tower" wich is inspired by this film and shares some similarities with the scenario in "The Towering Inferno".
Mr jonothan Hart
Ever since I was a kid that stairwell scene felt too long. Should've been trimmed a little.
Yeah it's a lot lol
There's an irritating know it all kid in every 70s movie
Your commentary is just snark snark snark - watch it back. All cheap shots.