Word: poseidons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running through the flaming conflagration of The Towering Inferno in his first appearance on the big screen, only to hand Fred Astaire Jennifer Jones' cat--and leave Jennifer Jones to roast in the skyscraper. Or the likes of shipmate Roddy McDowall, saving some singing blonde floozy when the cruiser Poseidon rolled over and played dead--only to end up a piece of fondue in the ship's smokestack...
...tragedy like the "Poseidon Adventure," although the 1978 debacle certainly ranks with the greatest shipwreck imitations ever seen, but tragedy as in Aristotle and the "Poetics" and "Antigone." Irresistible tragedy...
...film, also, the decade witnessed some notable contributions--foremost among them The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Annie Hall and The Deer Hunter--but they were overwhelmed by a procession of disaster films (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), occult films (The Exorcist, The Omen and sequel films (The French Connection, American Graffiti, Rocky, Jaws and most everything else, part II) that provided the standard fare for most of this country's theaters during much of the decade. We tended to stumble into the trap of praising a movie just because it made money when our critical instincts should...