After class, I asked my parents if they had ever seen the movie Earthquake. Typically, neither one of them could remember if they had, and couldn't even recall it being in the movie theater. Since they were useless, I started looking up movie reviews and found one from the New York Times, written by Nora Sayre and published on November 16, 1974. She had mostly good things to say about it. We talked in class about how intense of a movie it was and how the sound would shake the theater. Sayre described it saying, "The dam breaking, floods rising, bodies falling, towers crashing or burning, the earth heaving, pavements parting and the random explosions are all enhanced by Sensur-round: special vibrations on the soundtrack cause your spine and your throat to tingle." She also continues by saying how she wishes it was in 3-D, which is interesting because it seems like all movies nowadays come out in 3-D. I wonder what people who saw it in 1974 would think if they re-made it like that.
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