ProfMarcus

In a list of Worst Misuse Of Talented British Directors in Ill-Advised Films, I'd rate Raise The Titanic a close second to Carol Reed's treatment over Mutiny On The Bounty.

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christoph404

Ronald Neame certainly directed some great films, "Tunes of Glory", "The Horse's Mouth", "Prime of Miss Jean Brody" are my favourites. Interesting that he is you favourite cinematographer, he swapped cimematography for directing in 1947. I believe he made a colossal amount of money on "The Possiedon Adventure" I suppose "Meteor" hoped to cash in on the trend and success of that film, the script was just awful though and full of idiotic scientific errors, it should have been called "Asteroid" because apparently that is the correct name for a rock flying through space over a certain size! I suppose "meteor" sound meatier as it were....

Redstar

I meant British disaster movies, not movies that were disasters! There are plenty of those. It is a genre that is probably confined to the US and Japan. I think "Towering Inferno" is propbably my favourite disaster movie (probably because Steve Mqueen, Paul newman and Fred Astaire are in it)
I would love to see more of John Wyndham's stories on the big screen, a remake of Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids and The Kraken Wakes would be terrific.

ProfMarcus

The Japanese tradition is represented by Gorgo and The Giant Behemoth, with London landmarks getting wrecked by radioactive monsters. Ditto Konga.

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Nita St. James

Thank you Professor I have been racking my brain trying to remember Gorgo. Another movie I loved as a kid. I can still see that monster's foot moving on the bottom of the sea at the end.

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Azanti

I thought the recent movie 'The Flood' was pretty good, which I made a point of going to see at the cinema, during its very limited release in London, obviously I had to suspend reality to enjoy it, as is the case with many films.

Raise the Titanic could hardly be considered a disaster movie, seeing as it not sinking in that one. I am probably one of the few people who actually liked it, even if it was a disaster financially. But then I am a huge fan of the late, great, Richard Jordan.

Windthrop

I'll go along with you on Gorgo with it's man in the monster suit (thought better done than the Japanese ones). I feel TGB belongs to the Willis O'Brian school of monster movies (it was just about his last film) - it is almost like companion piece to The Lost World twinned up with American radiactive monster genre.

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