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The Hindenburg (1975)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
5/11
5/11:
The Crappenburg is literally a disaster picture of all sorts.
Just about everything about it fails except for the sight, whether it's the interior or the exterior, of the Hindenburg
which is nice to look at. There are no plot, dialogue of substance, quality acting, and interesting moments. Easily
the worst of them all is the climax. It's just awful, awful, awful.
Suffering through the torturous bunch of nothings including the crazy, phony mystery which never happened in real life, I had
been waiting for nearly two hours for the infamous moment to happen. It's exactly the point of watching the film. I wanted
to see the zepellin going down in flames all basked in the glory of deluxe color. But noooo...
What the filmmakers did is mix up footage from the 1937 video with lots of bad, bad made-for-TV shots of people trying to
get the fuck out of the way. To make it look cheesy is freeze-framing the scene for a minute before resuming
again. The reporter who's describing the disaster scene is hilariously corny.
The ending is a real barrel of laughs as the fate of the individual characters goes like this: dead, dead, survived,
dead, dead, dead, survived. Well, I hardly knew them. In the interim, the so-called all-star cast has been wasted. I
would gladly take either The Towering Inferno or The Poseidon Adventure over this piece of shit any time of
the day.
All in all, just say no to The Crappenburg.