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A Good Disaster Flick - Even by Today's Standards
Earthquake realistically shows us the devastating effects of such an event on a large modern day city. Since movie studios didn't have the resources in 1974 to add expensive computerized effects, miniatures, camera trickery and a few large-scale destructions were used to simulate the quake. However, even by today's standards, most (but not all) effects are very effective. Many of the buildings we see crumbling to the ground are actual locals in Los Angeles and anyone living is this area (myself included) would still find watching this film chilling to say the least. The sets are very impressive - they made one helluva mess of Universal Studios making this movie. The acting is so-so, and the ending is a little disappointing and leaves us with a lot of unanswered questions: what ever happened to Miles and Rosa's brother anyway? But as far as pure disaster entertainment goes, this film has it all.

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Not Quite the Movie I Remembered
Just didn't measure up to a 9 year old's recollection of this film. Still, it wasn't too bad. There is some good action, and while heston is loud and pretentious, it's an unusually subdued performance by his standards. Walter Matthau plays a drunk that seems to pop into scenes inexplicably. Victoria Principal is very cute as the sister who wears a T-Shirt of a daredevil because she has large enough measurements. Marjoe Gortner plays Jody, the oft-mistreated store clerk who wears giant blond afro hair that supposedly fits under a "regulation" length wig when called to duty by the reserves. of course, once in charge during the quake, Jody goes nuts, shoots his enemies, and tries to rape Victoria Principal, who looked at him once in the grocery store and obviously wanted it.The DVD is pretty short on extras. Picture quality is alright and sound also, nothing spectacular. Typical disaster script, with affairs and turmoil leading up to the big shake, then lots of overwrought acting from the various lovers in the cast. Some of the special effects really are well done.

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Goodtimes doesn't 'make' movies. Oh, and this one is awful
Goodtimes is a small VHS/DVD distributor, usually of long forgotten bad movies and that's why their sooooooooo cheap.
Of course you get what you pay for.
And what do you expect with Charlton Heston?
Eventually all 'Chuck's movies' will wind up in the Goodtimes bin!
Because Charlton Heston can't act his way out of the proverbial paer bag.
Chuck once had muscles (just like Popeye) and his biceps got him into the movies. But he always needed to be stuck in big budget epics like this brain fart. Why? Because if you pay attention to all the DTS Dolby stereo High definition yaddas then you won't notice the huy can't act!
Even most Hollywood reviewers who like the poor big dumb fella have written that this is one of his worst.
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