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TOP 10 DISASTER MOVIES OF ALL TIME!!!

September 10, 2004

With the Kerry campaign entering what, in Mr.. Hewitt's view, may be a long, steep dive into oblivion, what could be better than the Top 10 Disaster Movies of All Time!

	10.	When Worlds Collide (1951):  What to do when another planet looks certain to crash into earth?  Well, if you're millionaire Sydney Stanton (John Hoyt), you build a rocket ship to travel to another planet.  And you hold a lottery to see which of the worker bees get to go!  Maybe the latter thought isn't one of your best.
	9.	The Last Days of Pompeii (1935):  Volcanoes, lava, what more can you want?
	8	The Poseidon Adventure (1972):  A gigantic presence turned upside down by a huge wave.  And in addition to Shelly Winters, there's a big boat, too!
	7	In Old Chicago (1937):  Tyrone Power and Don Ameche play brothers -- brothers? -- in this epic about the 1871 Chicago fire.  One of the most expensive movies ever made in its day.  It cost a whole $1.8 million!
	6	San Francisco (1936):  Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy try to survive the great San Francisco earthquake.
	5	28 Days Later (2002):  I don't care what any one says, this is still a disaster movie, even if the disaster seems to only happen in Great Britain.  One of the best of the evils-of-science movies, as the genetically engineered rage virus wipes out most of England..
	4	A Night to Remember (1958): The best of the Titanic movies.
	3	Lifeboat (1944):  An absolutely wonderful Alfred Hitchcock movie about a group of passengers trying to survive on a lifeboat (get it?) after their ship is torpedoed by the Nazis.
	2	Airplane! (1980): Okay, nobody dies, but this is, by far, the best parody of disaster movies ever.
	1	Deep Impact (1998):  I know there are some who prefer Armageddon, but for my money there's no better "Ohmigosh, we're on a collision course" than this one -- and I'd trade Robert Duvall and Morgan Freeman for Bruce Willis any day.  A great movie about self-sacrifice in the face of adversity.

Not quite a disaster, but a serious inconvenience: