REMINDER: 10.5 Apocalypse is on again tonight

[uppityperson]

NBC (I believe), don't miss it!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5181589

[Mr_Spock]

1. Thanks! I wanted to see the next one as the last one got me hooked

It seemed camp and stupid at first, but I thought it was interesting just the same.

[MissB]

2. At first?

Whew. When did it not seem campy and stupid? :rofl:

I watched it just the same.

[uppityperson]

3. Yup. Cliche-ridden, bad special effects, remarkable coincidences...

tiny tear in president's eye and a FEMA director who sacrificed himself.

Glad to find out how the dad got out of the car. On to the rest of the continent. I guess this means that fusing the plates together with nukes didn't work.

[MissB]

4. I know how they get the continents to stay apart.

Everyone is assigned a place to stand and they all blow really hard at the same time.

At least, that'd be my solution if I wrote this movie.

edited to change plates to continents.

[trof]

5. "Call Central Casting. Send us blowhards."

<snicker>

[Mr_Spock]

7. lol - true - I was trying to be fair as I hadn't realized most others..

thought that just about everything about it was stupid.

I will watch it just the same :rofl:

[uppityperson]

11. I thought it fit well into the turkey category and am looking forward to 2

part 2 tonight, the earthquakes continue!!!

[redqueen]

6. woo!

A reason to forget about the craptastic finale of American Idol talentless hacks!

:P

[NewJeffCT]

8. Am I a bad person...

When they mentioned something about a bunch of Midwest & South Midwest states being taken out by this killer 10.5 quake, I was thinking, "hey, they're all Red states..."

[Debi]

9. Hold on now - Iowa is barely a red state

and was a blue state for a loooooong time before it became a slight shade of red (which will be rectified in '08) so, can we survive? Iowa can feel the remaining 20 states of America after the show!

[NewJeffCT]

10. I don't remember Iowa on that list

I thought it was like Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma & Texas...

[Mr_Spock]

12. Hehehe - I will have to admit to thinking the same thing

:rofl:

I'm a bad person!

[xmas74]

14. That would be me getting taken out , you assmunch!

:P

New Madrid's gonna get me good someday.

[NewJeffCT]

27. Wasn't it Mr. Spock that said...

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

(sorry, couldn't resist with his post above!)

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. Michigan is not a red state at all...

:(

[NewJeffCT]

29. As I said above...

I don't recall them originally saying Michigan - I had thought it was Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas...?

I could be wrong, however.

[uppityperson]

33. and into the Gulf of Mexico, sniff, into the gulf, tiny tear

OK, it went through Houston. So why tiny tears that it goes into the Gulf of Mexico? Besides "split the country in 2, sniff", why be sad about that?

[Yollam]

13. No. No. No.

The acting is not bad in a good way. It's unbelievably boring. They managed to stretch a 70 minute movie into a 4 hour (or was it six?) miniseries with more commercials than I have ever seen. Literally interrupted every five minutes. The first one was pure torture. Never again. I love bad campy movies, like Showgirls or The Poseidon Adventure. This was not one of those. I'd rather watch paint dry. Never has there been a disaster film with less excitement.

[uppityperson]

15. I timed it. 7 minutes movie, 3 1/2 minutes ads, 7 movie, 3 1/2 ads...

Although I am not sure if they did this from the beginning because I didn't notice right at first. The disaster was that everything was so boring in #1. I was rooting for the sand to suck that guy down, for the crack to open up THROUGH the refugee camp, not just next to it and extending miles AWAY from the camp but through it. I also like "mini-series" as opposed to bad movie and its sequel. Oooooooo, mini-series sounds so much better. Mini-series, mini-series, mini-series. I drink little but am getting popcorn and a beer.

[Mr_Spock]

19. Fortunately, I just bought some some new music to listen to!

I am getting to listen to & watch all sorts of stuff here - so much time!

Dixie Chicks
Pink
Green Day

& old time favorites Chicago & Earth wind & Fire DVD :D

[bertha katzenengel]

16. I wanted so badly to enjoy these movies.

The first one - I just rolled my eyes and laughed through it. Sorry.

This one - I watched, hoping, until the scene where the woman in the pink bra stood before the mirror, stood, stood, stood, in the mirror, in her pink bra, just displaying herself, for about fifteen seconds, before I decided: They had a chance to produce real entertainment, and they went for this cheap, tawdry shit again.

TV movies. Grr.

But, uppityperson, don't let me rain on your parade. This is just MHO. :hi:

[uppityperson]

18. I know it will be bad. I am not sure if it will be bad enough.

or just medicore bad. I'll watch for the pink bra scene.

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Oh, honey, that was Sunday night -- or:

Are they re-running it?

Anyway, pink bra scene was early, about 10-20 minutes in.

I LOVE earthquake movies, but I tend to be critical because I grew up in So. Cal. The Sylmar Quake, Feb. 9, 1971, was on my mother's 30th birthday. Next one I rememeber well was Whittier Narrows. Then Landers/Big Bear. Then Northridge. Then Hector Mine. And LOTS of others in-between.

Hector Mine was my last. It was in 2000 (I think) and that was the year I moved to MD.

Anyway I hope you really enjoy the movie! :hi:

[uppityperson]

31. you are right, I misread, thought it was a rerun, not part 3

I am slow, I know, I admit it. At the end I realized I'd missed the pink bra, the helicopter/waterfall scene, the tsunami/boat in bathtub scene, the explanation of why this was happening and why the father scientist was important and what happened to Las Vegas. I then deduced that there were 3 parts to this mini-series, making it into a mini-series, not just part 1, Part 2, repeat part 2. Dang, I was looking forward to those scenes.

Part 3 was mediocre, not as bad as part 1 to be bad enough to watch, not good enough to watch. blech. Those camera movements were ANNOYING! in out in out right left in out. I know they were trying for dramatic effect, and it worked during the earthquakey parts but the rest of the time it made me nauseous. Cliche ridden, predictable, poor effects, blech. Though the climbing through the building made me really really sad, reminders of people trying to survive the WTC bombings.

I was ready for all of them to die 1/2 way through. All I have to say is good thing we live on a hill so our 200 ft well doesn't tap into that hot lava 30 ft down.

[Mr_Spock]

17. This "flick" is inexplicably bad!!

I can't believe they piled up the fake styrofoam directly in front of the escape door, but almost nowhere else. That's not only impossible, it's so stupid as to be stupidly funny.

[peekaloo]

21. Beau Bridges proves once and for all

that brother Jeff is a damn fine actor.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

22. the US is splitting in two and a major sub-plot is

some people in a vegas hotel.

[Neshanic]

23. Thank God! I missed it the first time. Amazing special effects I heard.

[MissB]

24. Amazing(ly) (bad) special effects.

[Neshanic]

25. I thought Godzilla was going to stomp that train!

[Mr_Spock]

26. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes has competition!

That was simply awful - even the fake crying at the end was angeringly stupid.

[ChickMagic]

30. I haven't laughed so hard at a movie

since South Park. I only minored in Geology
in college, but I would have swept the floor
with those scene munchers!

[uppityperson]

34. "Is it over?" "I don't know honey" "crack" "I don't like the sound of that

squeeze those oil wells like they've never been squeezed before!

[ChickMagic]

37. Bwaahaahaha!

They were gas well heads and they would shoot out
steam to bind the gas. They didn't even bother
with the Balcones or New Madrid faults.
"We're still one people". Yeah, with a big ass
crack. I was pissed that they didn't show
Dallas getting ripped. I live here!

[LSK]

32. damn, thats TWICE that I missed it

How will I live without seeing it? :cry:

[uppityperson]

35. Bet it will be out on DVD soon

OK, I'll admit it. Part 1 was turkey material, good enough to watch again. Part 3, just drop the building and get it over with. Part 2-I didn't see so would rent the dvd.

[sasquatch]

36. I heard it was shit from my Geology professor