# Earthquake (1974). Man, does this movie suck. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877 "2017-08-27T21:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877/41 "2017-08-30T01:52:39Z")
Last time I caught a part of Earthquake on TV I was distracted by the fact that the sound of the jackhammer used in one scene is the same as the Pulse Rifles used in Aliens. I know Aliens cAme out much later but…dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877/42 "2017-08-30T02:01:12Z")
What was the obsession in killing Charlton Heston unexpectedly in his 70’s movies??? Hell, the bad guy even gets away in Omega Man! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877/43 "2017-08-30T02:23:19Z")
wasnt meteor/asteroid with Sean Connery (which flopped hard ) the last of the big budget one of these for years (until the 90s/00s anyways) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877/44 "2017-08-30T02:38:32Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Oh good grief, seeing O J Simspon in the role of a hero, that takes one back. Oh, that’s nothing; OJ saves a cat\* from the apartment of a teacher of the deaf (Jennifer Jones) and gives the cat to Fred Astaire at the end when JJ falls out of the scenic elevator and go splat! She and FA were starting a romance. - In the Cracked magazine send-up, OJ tosses the cat out the window (Cats always land on their feet. But not from 92 floors up.); Cat go splat! ETA: Didn’t watch the second clip before posting. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877/45 "2017-08-30T02:39:26Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > wasnt meteor/asteroid with Sean Connery (which flopped hard ) the last of the big budget one of these for years (until the 90s/00s anyways) Maybe…seems a volcano one didn’t do well and the airplane one that sank in the ocean didn’t do well. And how did people not ever realize that George Kennedy was a 70’s Mr. Glass??? He had to be sabotaging those planes. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877/46 "2017-08-30T02:40:39Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Oh, that’s nothing; OJ saves a cat\* from the apartment of a teacher of the deaf (Jennifer Jones) and gives the cat to Fred Astaire at the end when JJ falls out of the scenic elevator and go splat! She and FA were starting a romance. > > - In the Cracked magazine send-up, OJ tosses the cat out the window (Cats always land on their feet. But not from 92 floors up.); Cat go splat! There’s also OJ in Capricorn One. Frigging great, tight film in which OJ does ok with what he’s given. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877/47 "2017-08-30T02:44:59Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > There’s also OJ in Capricorn One. Frigging great, tight film in which OJ does ok with what he’s given. Preaching to the choir. Plus, he was married to Denise Nicholas in that one! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-1974-man-does-this-movie-suck/794877.md?page=2)