“Somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat.”
And come they did.
We’re goin' for broke!'')
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William Holden wears a scarlet dinner jacket… and lives to tell about it!
Tops is security guardO.J.
Simpsonputting his mark on the genre’s obligatory animal rescue by saving a cat from a scorching skyscraper.
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(‘‘Say, kitty,’’ he coos, ‘‘I almost missed ya.'')
There’s so much going on in every frame ofAirplane!
orAirport(a disaster’s about to occur and we’ve gotta prevent it!).
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(And without its monumental love story,Titanicmight as well beThe Hindenburg.)
(Okay, maybe that’s just us.
It also provides a compelling on-the-ground perspective, withTea LeoniandElijah Woodas ordinary people grappling with the impending disaster.
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AndArmageddonmay have Aerosmith, butDeep Impacthas Morgan Freeman as the president.
It sounds crazy until the volcano erupts and starts flowing in the city streets and destroying everything its path.
Clearly they weren’t ready forTom Cruiseand CGI.
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After all the destruction and chaos, the visitors are felled by common Earth germs.
The Statue of Liberty begs to disagree with you.
Vesuvius blows its top.
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Are you not entertained?
(Where doesGame of Thrones’ final season rank, we wonder?)
The film even throws in a massive San Francisco tsunami for good measure.
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AIRPORT, Patty Poulsen (left), 1970.Everett Collection
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MELANCHOLIA, Kirsten Dunst, 2011. ph: Christian Geisnaes. ©Magnolia Films/Courtesy Everett Collection.Everett Collection
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