I don't expect much from the humans in this story, sooooo....
Any word on the FX?
I saw a couple of TV ads for 10.5 and it actually looks like it's gonna be pretty good!
They showed the Space Needle in Seattle toppling over and crashing into the middle of the city and the effects do look very well done.
It appears that they had quite a large budget to make this.
Unless something comes up on Sunday, I'll be watching the first installment. (remember...it's a mini-series)
Hmm do you think 10.5 and the Day After are just the prequal and seqel of each other. Is there even any difference?
-Evan B.-
Well, there is a difference between catostrophic earthquakes and massive windstorms, you know.
The Golden Gate Bridge and Space Needle collapsing look uncomfortably real, as do the rails bending and Hollywood sign falling apart. Anyone know anything about the "all-star cast" I've been hearing about?
"BATEMAN!!!!"
It sucks. The acting is horrible and the plot over played and clichéd. I think the effects are okay but those scenes are few and far between. I also think the story is hateful to men. The female governor with an all female staff. The black doctor's wife making him sell his sports car. The woman geologist telling her male boss what to do, at one point hitting him in the face and then he says "thanks...I needed that." please....dumb movie, I mean s**t on film.
ALL STAR????? YOU BETCHA.....
Beau Bridges
Kim Delaney
John Schneider
About as all star as NBC gets....
Just like the Love Boat.
We watched the first installment as we were quite entertained by the badness of this movie. As a cheesy disaster flick, it fits the mold to a tee. To me, the effects reek of miniatures and models (when the Golden Gate collapses, the cars were 'above' the bridge...why?? If gravity were pulling the bridge down, that same gravity pulls the cars, too). (Note: the use of models and miniatures does not make the fx bad necessarily).
It's a fun movie, imo. Not great, not gut wrenching; totally predictable, and overproduced, written and acted. But hey, I also liked all those Irwin Allen shows and flicks from the 60's and 70's.
My wife said that in the film they are trying to "weld" the two plates along the faultline to stop the earthquake by using NUKES!!??!!
If that doesn't have B-Movie plot writen all over it then we need to take a serious reality check.
Yes, what's even funnier is that the fautline of interest is 'theoretical.' It cannot be seen (detected) with modern equipment because it is TOO DEEP.
Ya gotta love this stuff. They're going to fix the Real Problem(tm) by attempting global, planetary geological engineering (huh, weld tectonic plates together???) on a secondary, smaller fault?
Great stuff. I LOVE movies like this.
(Aside: all the nukes man has ever made put together and detonated simultaneously is smaller in energy output than most geological events like volcanic eruptions and major earthquakes. Also, recall that there has been well over 10,000 nuclear tests and NONE of them has causes plates to crack or weld or whatever... This whole premise rests on the massive miseducation and emotional hysteria about nukes that Hollywood loves to pervay. Still, it *IS* a bunch of fun in a movie like this).
Crap.....I totally forgot that this was on last night.
My friends & I have a LAN set up at his house.
We wanted to completely re-arrange the room which was a pit to begin with so we spent most of the night moving tons of p.c. stuff & furniture around and re-wiring the place so I missed it.
I won't forget to watch the 2nd installment though.
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Ash, brief synopsis of what you missed:
6.9 quake hits Seattle. Topples Space Needle.
Kim Delaney (geologist, outsider, socially inept) tries to convince boss, coworkers that the big one will come. No one listens.
8.4 quake hits northern California (swallowing train, and, we learn later, a town). Everyone thinks it is an aftershock of the one in Seattle...except Kim Delaney.
John Schneider (Bo Duke) and his annoying teen aged daughter meet with strange earthquake related happenings while en route to a camping spot in northern California (such as a bridge out, the small town gone, their car sinks in a sink hole). Schneider's ex-wife is the Governor of California (the one with the all female staff someone mentioned in an earlier post) whose sole job it is, apparently, to receive pieces of paper handed to her by underlings.
Kim Delaney tries to convince boss, coworkers that these quakes are related and the situation will get worse, with quakes getting larger as they move southward.
9.something quake hits San Francisco (which Kim Delaney predicted exactly). People start to wonder if they should listen to Kim Delaney, but they don't. Not yet. Her ideas are just too nutty.
Hope this helps get you caught up to speed!! ;) (Did anyone REALLY need this set-up for part 2???)
Cool thanks!
It definitely sounds like it has B-movie written all over it.
sometimes a movie is just so bad that it's just bad. this was one of them, i couldn't sit through the entire thing. Clearly these actors were trying to pay off their lamborgini's. Why do disaster flicks always have to star actors like beau bridges or eric estrada? Plus they're reverting back to camera shaking technique..here is a massage 8.5 hitting and one guy is just standing perfectly over a monitor talking while those arond him are shaking. I remember video from tokyo when huge quakes hit, you can't stand, the grond literally shakes from side to side like a carnival ride and crap goes flying everywhere
"The GROND literaly shakes?" Man...when a misspelled word still works, it tells ya somethin' about the movie. Hah! I just started imagining 10.5, as written by Tolkien.......Help me!.....
We were very disappointed in the second half (and ending). The first was a nice set-up of a wonderfully bad disaster flick, full of cliches, bad acting, bad dialog, etc. The second part was overdramatic drek. And the ending? Just dumb.
What a let down.
At least that one surgeon and his dear old FEMA dad 'made up' by radio right before the old man took it point blank by a nuclear blast. Don't we all live for these heart-felt, poignant moments?
>At least that one surgeon and his dear old FEMA dad 'made up' by radio right
>before the old man took it point blank by a nuclear blast.
Gee, the old "The bomb has been damaged so someone will have to detonate it manually" cliche. That's only been used in about 1000 movies...
I liked how when the people were looking across the water-filled gap, it looked like it was about a mile across, but the satelite images showed a gap of about 50 miles or more.
I'm by no means a physics expert, but I think the support disapearing under the cars made them fall at a different rate. If you throw something up in the air, you'll notice it hangs there for a moment before falling to Earth. Same principal with the cars, I imagine.
"BATEMAN!!!!!!"
I don't know if I'm what anyone would call a Physics Expert, but I have did take graduate courses in Physics, and my specialty in Chemistry is kind of a cross between Physics and Chemistry. I've also taught Physics at the college level, a few years back.
As far as the beam falling out from under the bridge causing the cars to 'float' abov e the bridge...?
Nah. Not at all. The only force pulling down on the bridge or the cars is gravity, and everything falls with the same acceleration (ignoring air resistance, which in this case would not matter ....the cars would not have higher air resistance than the bridge itself, the cars are behind the bridge).
What you are talking about seeing things 'hang' in the air when you throw 'em up is due to the acceleration due to gravity slowing it down, until it stops, then starts to fall. The acceleration is downward, the initial velocity is upward. The final velocity is downward.