Given multiple reviews about 1974 ['movie'] ['Earthquake'], each offering insights, opinions, or criticisms on a single topic, merge them into a single, cohesive review. When reviews offer opposing viewpoints, ensure that both perspectives are represented in a balanced way. Structure the text to flow smoothly, weaving different points together to create a well-rounded summary. Ensure the text remains clear and easily understandable by removing any jokes, insider references, or quotes.Aim for a polished and engaging tone, creating a review that feels comprehensive and reflects the diversity of opinions. The text should be very long. Here the given reviews: ['Shaken but not stirred! Special Effects are good for its time and some of the action is gripping. There are plot lines which are interesting while the less exciting plot lines naturally drag. Some big stars shine such as the iconic Charlton Heston, George Kennedy and hilarious cameo of Walter Matthau as a bar room drunk. Some characters though you just wait and hope they get squished by falling masonry! A decent disaster drama with some thrills. ', 'Shaking\' L.A. away.... Warning: Spoilers The heat and fault-lines of Los Angeles have made the city jokingly referred to as "Shake and Bake", and with a 1971 quake in recent memory, this Irwin Allen disaster epic (right on the trail of "The Poseidon Adventure") was definite box office magic. An all-star cast was assembled to take what little drama was there and make it more interesting, sort of a "Grand Hotel" weighed on the Richter scale. A few laughs (both intentional and unintentional) have made this a cult favorite with definite elements of camp giving it an almost midnight movie status. A romantic triangle (between husband and wife Charleton Heston and Ava Gardner and his mistress, Genevieve Bujold) is the foundation on which the story is created. Fortunately, that foundation wasn\'t used for the buildings in downtown L.A., otherwise they might have collapsed a lot faster. There\'s also a very young Victoria Principal as a troubled young lady who is the victim of an obsessive neighbor (the creepy Marjoe Gortner) and motorcycle stunt artist Richard Roundtree, and of course, that bar room drunk (Walter Matthau) who is too tipsy to notice the reason he can\'t swallow his shot is because the ground around him is shaking more than his alcoholic hands. Laughs come frequent here, not only with the unbilled Matthau (given credit under his real name to create a surprise cameo) but with Principal\'s very big afro and daddy\'s girl Gardner spouting insults at estranged husband Heston while papa Lorne Greene makes business deals as the earth collapses around him. There\'s the famous shot of a truck full of cows flying off a freeway overpass (the audience actually mooed when I saw this in a revival house) and several L.A. landmarks collapsing. It is just too bad that there has to be the soap opera set-up long before the shaking starts and that makes the film a slight bore. At the West Hollywood video store that I worked at, this film was checked out for weeks after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, as were other films like "San Francisco", "The Rains Came" and "Green Dolphin Street". L.A. residents needed some fictional shaking going on after that scary event which woke us up at 4:30 in the morning. "It\'s really a little sick", one of our clerks told a local newspaper who called us up to find out if the real quake had an influence on our customers\' video habits. Sick or not, real life disasters sometimes call upon our adrenaline and desire to find enjoyment after those scary moments have passed. L.A. audiences too found it humorous to see the Beverly Center blown up after a volcano appeared at the La Brea tar-pits and exploded in the movie "Volcano". I had no idea that the theater I was going to where the movie was playing would end up being a part of the plot and joined in the audience by applauding when that sequence took place. "Earthquake" leaves the same sort of feeling, providing laughs of irony that still amuse us today. '] Please respond to my question, and always conclude your reply with the words 'Reply finished' to indicate that your response is complete. Ensure that the text is fully formed without any placeholders such as '[Conclusion]' or '[Placeholder]'. Make sure the reply is fully contained before these words and is not cut off prematurely. Thank you.