Is anyone else going to watch this tonight? These poorly produced disaster movies have been a staple of network television for as long as I can remember and I always relish their sheer awfulness. Recently we had the wonderfully bad earthquake movie, I forget the name, and I can’t possibly hope that this one will surpass the joyous awfulness of the intelligent train swallowing earthquake. I can, however, hope.
Am I the only one who likes these things? You have bad science, Z list actors, cheap special effects, and script writing that was apparently outsourced to China. My wife thinks I am nuts, but I am forcing her to watch it with me.
We’ll be watching it tonight. Hopefully it won’t have some philosophical message behind it like The Day After Tomorrow. I want mayhem and destruction in my disaster movies.
They really are not following the disaster movie formula here. The movie is supposed to start with dire warnings by a handsome and earnest scientist. No one believes him because his theory is too unorthodox. Then at the end of the first hour the storm comes.
It loses points at this early stage for jumping the gun. It gains points for having Nancy McKeon.
Although I am having trouble figuring out whether this movie is about a hacked electrical grid or TORNADOES IN LAS VEGAS (how many times can they say that in one scene?).
Was that Randy Quaid in the classroom with the Japanese students?
Wow, what a huge suckfest. The movie started preaching from the very start. The wasteful family watching the news yet leaving the water running and the daughter whining about needing to blowdry her hair.
I’m going to watch Wednesday just to see many of these characters die the death they deserve due to bad acting.
FB, agreed that the jarring music for the tornado damage was great. At that point I realized these people knew the movie sucked so decided to go all out with it.
Do all these movies have to have the obnoxious teenager who comes around to their parents when disaster looms?
Interesting, I never heard of this 10.5 movie. I’ll have to research it. A new disaster flick is always welcome, especially one which destroys SoCal like Volcano.
I forgot to mention that truck! The claymation truck! I loved that scene. And the awful green screen effects! “The Chicago skyline is dark and blahblahblah.” They could have at least tried. I loved the part where Brian Dennehy was talking to the plucky intern and they kept cutting to the video on the computer. HAHA! Was that footage from Francis I saw there?
And as soon as Really Pregnant Chick started walking down that hall, I was like, “Yeah, she’s getting stuck in an elevator tonight.”
I love this movie.
This is like 8,000 movies in one. We have the hacker plot, the Really Bad Storm plot, the psycho boyfriend plot, the “my husband’s cheating on me with a dirty ho who is, in turn, cheating on him with his arch enemy” plot… I so bet the station’s manager is behind it all. “He doesn’t sound credible!” He doesn’t sound credible? You’re Satan, dude. I got your number.
It’s amazing that this movie and 10.5 didn’t have the same writers.
How did she know that he was cheating on her? I saw her watching the TV interveiw and boom…she knew. I thought maybe he was a serial cheater, but he insisted it was the first time. I love disaster movies, so I watched this. It’s pretty bad, but I can’t tear myself away.
I’m thinking the guy who keeps warning about the hackers is really the hacker. He wants to be proven right or something. When the grid went down and they were asking for him and couldn’t find him, the plant manager or whatever says, “This is exactly what he has been warning us about”.
The movie has so far warned that the power grid is out of date and open to hacker attacks global warming need to be dealt with and Americans are wasteful.
I also like the Nancy McKeon interview with the power guy. She seemed shocked to discover that computers, of all things, where used to direct our energy supply. I felt like I was flashing back to War Games, or something from an era when computers were mysterious and kinda dangerous.
Well, it seems like they are saving the real death and destruction for Wednesday. Looking forward to it.
What the heck is the “National Weather Administration” and does NOAA know somebody is stepping on their turf?
Also, Dennahey told the intern to check some reports from Mackenzie River in Alaska; there is no Mackenzie river in Alaska, but there is a very large Mackenzie River in Canada.
I liked the bit about the Calgary bartender shocked that it’s snowing in August. Thanks to the mountains and our freaky micro-climates, it can snow in any month of the year. It’ll snow in August at some point probably every two or three years.
