# In Perverse Anticipation of Category 6: Day of Destruction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777 "2004-11-14T22:50:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/1 "2004-11-14T22:50:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/2 "2004-11-14T23:05:40Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/3 "2004-11-14T23:28:42Z")
After surviving three hurricanes in six weeks, I’m going to give this one a pass. Besides, _Desperate Housewives_ is on tonight! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/4 "2004-11-14T23:46:11Z")
How could I miss this after watching that earthquake mini a few months back? I fully expect to be appalled. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/5 "2004-11-15T01:02:18Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > After surviving three hurricanes in six weeks, I’m going to give this one a pass. > > Besides, _Desperate Housewives_ is on tonight! nope, music awards are on. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/6 "2004-11-15T02:13:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/7 "2004-11-15T02:35:44Z")
It’s like do-it-yourself MST3K. 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? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/8 "2004-11-15T02:38:02Z")
“You follow your dreams. You tell the stories people want to hear.” Jeez, this thing can’t decide whether it’s an homage to B-movies or a “Lifetime” special. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/9 "2004-11-15T02:41:08Z")
Ranky Quaid is really hamming it up here. Not to mention that he is seems to have spent quite a bit of time and the Sizzler all you can eat buffett. Those sound effects when he was explaining the tornado rating system were great. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/10 "2004-11-15T03:55:40Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/11 "2004-11-15T04:51:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Do all these movies have to have the obnoxious teenager who comes around to their parents when disaster looms? Of course. Note that it also has the obligatory Pregnant Woman Trapped in an Elevator scenario. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/12 "2004-11-15T04:54:47Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > Those sound effects when he was explaining the tornado rating system were great. Oh man, I loved that part. Best line in a movie ever: “If a dog farts in Duluth, I want everyone in this office to know about it!” I started [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=284068) thread a while back. Where were all you guys then, huh? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/13 "2004-11-15T04:59:49Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > Oh man, I loved that part. > > Best line in a movie ever: “If a dog farts in Duluth, I want everyone in this office to know about it!” > > I started [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=284068) thread a while back. Where were all you guys then, huh? 😛 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_. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/14 "2004-11-15T05:02:30Z")
:smack: 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. I can’t wait until Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/15 "2004-11-15T12:36:01Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > the “my husband’s cheating on me with a dirty ho who is, in turn, cheating on him with his arch enemy” plot… 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/16 "2004-11-15T12:39:54Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > :smack: > > 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. > > I can’t wait until Wednesday. 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. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/17 "2004-11-15T14:04:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/18 "2004-11-15T14:29:01Z")
Well I won’t see Wednesday’s ending because it’s being shown against _Lost_. Like they couldn’t show it on Monday night and let us miss _CSI:Caruso_. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/19 "2004-11-15T14:36:13Z")
What the heck is the “National Weather Administration” and does [NOAA](http://www.noaa.com) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/20 "2004-11-15T15:43:00Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777.md?page=2)