Airport (1970) introduced many tropes so closely associated with the 70s disaster genre: the reverence for—and subsequent destabilization of—then-new technologies, in this case the Boeing 707; a miasma of soap-operaish subplots; and huge all-star casts slumming for easy paychecks.
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Independence Day: Resurgence isn’t as good as the original—but how good was the original?
Space aliens invade again 20 years later, and we’re still not ready.
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Reach out, touch somebody, and die
In Contagion, your next kiss (or cocktail peanut) could be fatal