Just logged Airport (1970) on Letterboxd.
Helen Hayes is a queen. The rest is made-for-TV chaos in a fur coat.
Some decent nighttime snow shots, but otherwise this movie feels like someone tried to stretch a soap opera across a runway and accidentally invented the disaster genre.
Review here: https://boxd.it/aTIefn
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Helen Hayes is a delight — effortlessly stealing every scene she’s in with perfect timing and a wry smile that knows exactly what movie this should have been. Outside of her? You’re left with a two-and-a-half-hour made-for-TV melodrama that accidentally birthed the disaster movie genre. Yes, the nighttime snowstorm sequences are technically impressive — especially for 1970 — and the lighting does solid work. But all of that sits on top of a script full of tonal whiplash, missed jokes, deadpan absurdity, and a cast that seems to think they’re performing Death of a Salesman at 30,000 feet. This is
3 things about James Goldstone’s WHEN TIME RAN OUT… [1980]
1. Manual cable wench.
2. Lava bomb mirror smash.
3. Burgess Meredith as superhero!
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#Twisters (2024) 🌪
Kate Carter, a retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist, is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team and new technologies.