Has anyone seen this Disaster [of a] Movie?
I'm watching this right now ... barely watching it! I like bad movies, otherwise I wouldn't be here ... BUT stupid movies are a little harder to take. This is a stupid movie. It reminds me of a Tom and Jerry Cartoon were the law of physics do not exist.
Case in point ... a guy opens a door and which he doesn't know is holding back a wall of lava. Needless to say he opens the door and out comes the lava. A lot like the wall of water in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Anyway I'm thinking ... 1. Would the lava pressure push the door down? 2. Would it melt the door? 3. Wouldn't the door knob be just a tad warm to the touch? But NOOOOOOOO! Bone head grabs the heat proof knob and opens the door to a wall of lava. Screaming as he falls to ground and is engulfed in the river of lava.
Then later lava comes blasting up out of the manhole hole covers ... again would the asphalt melt or at least be a little soft? and wouldn;t the people walking on it sort of notice the road is a little warm.
It would seem lava can flow through tin drain pipes with melting them either... just saw that one.
That's just a couple, there are many if you've seen it tripe feel free to add to the goof list here. If you haven't seen it, don't waste your time unless you are really, really bored.
Anywho I'm no lava/volcano know-it-all, but a quick google turned up that lava is about 2140 degrees Fahrenheit and my thinking is if it can melt rock, then a safe bet that it will melt pretty much anything else. This movie defies the laws of thermal dynamics and basic physics ... most if the time I'm OK with that. But this movie is just stupid. Thank you Sci-Fi channel of another winner. :lookingup:
Watch it if you must but don't expect anything too hot here.
I saw the ads for it, but decided to watch something else...Hell of the Living Dead. :teddyr:
Quote from: Shadowfyre on January 28, 2007, 08:03:54 PM
I saw the ads for it, but decided to watch something else...Hell of the Living Dead. :teddyr:
Wise choice, you could have stared into a bare light bulb and found more entertainment than this thing.
I've actually seen this twice, haha :twirl:. The guy does burn his hand on the door knob, he has to put his t-shirt over his hand to open the door.
Quote from: BoltThrowerAD on January 28, 2007, 09:51:09 PM
I've actually seen this twice, haha :twirl:. The guy does burn his hand on the door knob, he has to put his t-shirt over his hand to open the door.
I musta missed that tidbit as I was barely watching it, but wouldn't the t-shirt have burst into flames upon touching it? Since the door was clearly made out of some super lava-proof stuff equipped with a super latch that can hold back massive lava flows.
I got a real kick out of that - a wood frame house able to contain a large bunch of molten lava, with no exterior evidence of the lava filling the house. Okay, there were flames in the upper floors visible through the windows. But still - it was just so silly that it was laughable. I mean, if the lava can't melt/burn the house, why did it instantly disintegrate the guy? Way at the end they're down in some tunnels and there's lava in one tunnel, but the tunnel the characters are in is safe. So somebody takes a pistol and fires it into the wall - the rock wall of an underground tunnel - causing the wall to shatter and lava to come pouring through. Apparently what looked like a .45 caliber pistol was actually a 20mm cannon with armor piercing shells.
Actually, for a bad movie, I got a little bit of a kick out of it. The characters were kind of good and the plot wasn't too bad. I haven't seen it in a year or so though, maybe I'm remembering it being better than it was.