And speaking of which, why the heck are they evacuating people in cruise ships? I don’t think Doc, Gopher and Captain Steubing are going to be all too thrilled about raising anchor right before a 400ft tidal wave hits the Pacific Princess.
Assuming they thought of this (not likely…not having thought of much of anything), it would’ve been too close to real world disaster to be palatable. The majority of those killed in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake died when I-880 in Oakland pancaked.
Wow. That was almost “Plan 9 from Outer Space” bad. All it needed was a couple of plastic fake monsters with zippers showing on the back of the costumes and a frightened woman swooning instead of running.
I laughed out loud when the earthquake struck as they were putting the last warhead into place. “Oh no! Earthquake! We are highly trained military workers! We must run around aimlessly and scream!” The kicker of that scene was showing people falling off the back of the trucks (that weren’t even moving at the time) and then rolling around on the ground as if in great pain. And showing the same stunt guy falling off a truck twice doesn’t make the scene any more believable either.
No, no, he/she should be shot. See, if he/she is simply unemployed, few people will learn from this example, and the suit might find another job at a different network, and thus force more schlock onto the airwaves. If the suit that’s responsible for this (along with the director and the writers) is shot, then the message gets sent home to those folks in Hollywierd that there’s only so much shit the American public can stand, and once you cross that line, that’s it for you.
I’m just watching the second part now on TiVo. Good Lord.
Obviously they can’t call the female governor of California anything other than “Governor,” or she’ll forget she is the governor. Have they never heard the courtesy title “Ma’am” in California?
But it’s good the doctor clarified for Governor that she has “a concussion to your head”!
i’m bummed i forgot this was on sunday night. i did catch monday’s disaster.
my fav.s were:
using nucs to stop the big quake (taken right out of a book called 8.4)
having a camp set up just a tad down the road from where “the big one” is gonna hit. they will never feel it there! i guess the midwest had no vacancy.
the river going the wrong way. hhhmmm someone must have remembered something from the new madrid earthquake. an actual scientific poss. nah, must be magnets.
kids running around with stuffed animals that are nearly as big as they are.
the really wierd “aaaahhhh, aaaahhhhh,” woman’s singing.
looking over the edge of the new coast line.
what a show! it makes ed woods look like a cinematic genius.
Very true. And SF proper had a double-decker freeway running along the Embarcadero that was damaged beyond repair by Loma Prieta. (I think it was closed at that point, however.)
I also liked how rock dropped in perfect little cubes along the edges of the fault-chasm dealy. And did anyone else notice that there are apparently no Hispanic people in Southern California?
Ok, we just finished watching…let’s all start making fun of what a massive piece of…
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Awww, crap! You started without me! 
Well, I’m still gonna give a recap of my top five favorite ridiculous moments:
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“As a respected scientist, I hereby declare water to be magnetic”.
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The body and debris-free wave.
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Someone poured concrete over the Space Needle?
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When teh Prezident declairs Marshal Law.
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The Zombie Fault Line (“Traaaaaains! Muuuust eeeeeat traaaaains!!”)
Check out the 10.5 play by play on this site: www.duffergeek.com
Pretty funny.
I saw the first part–taped the entire thing–and it really blows so far and I don’t expect it to get any better. But I must see it from beginning to end. I like my crap whole. 
Haven’t seen the site yet, but just want to say the username here is purely coincidental. No connection. (Unless it’s really,really good!)
Even then, still not me
God, that was awful! It started out bad and went downhill from there. There was so much wrong with this travesty that it would require far to much time to type it all up. But glad I taped it and missed all the commercials. I hope they hang the guy that authorized this thing.
I saw a few minutes of the 2nd half. What REALLY pisses me off about this “movie” is the filming. Why couldn’t they have filmed it regular instead of shakey/zoomy so I could watch it and make jokes?
I just can’t watch shakey/zoomy. It makes my head hurt.
It’s okay to an extent, when it’s appropriate. Like in Saving Private Ryan during the landing at Normandy. But this film postively abused such photography techniques for the whole four hours to the point of pretentiousness.
Guy 1: How are you?
Guy 2: I’m fine. […zoom in…] Thanks.
Well, despite the Poseiden Adventure, a tidal wave at sea can be ridden out quite nicely.
The tsunami waveform has a very small amplitude and a VERY long wavelength. In the middle of the deep ocean, it would pass unnoticed.
It is only when it gets into shallow water (there is some relationship between the wavelength and the depth that excapes me at the moment) that the wave piles up and becomes the classic disaster in the making.
Just saw the last hour last night, so one more kick to this dead horse:
In defense of the “science” on the show, “magnetic water” was just their first guess as to why the Kern River was flowing backwards. The real explanation turned out to be that it was getting sucked into the San Andreas Fault. There – that makes much more sense.
So let me see if I’ve got the plot straight: big quakes in the northwest and N. Calif. Scientists predict huge killer quake in So Cal. Plan to stop quake by nuking the fault line. Execute plan. Huge killer quake happens anyway. When the shaking stops, scientists declare the fault “stable” :rolleyes: . LA County has turned into an island; millions are dead, hundreds of billions in property damage – but it’s a happy ending because some of the refugees in Barstow didn’t fall into the water.
There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world for this…
I think this one can be summed up by quoting Joel Hodgson, in his post-mortem of “Attack of the the Eye Creatures” on MST3K:
“They just didn’t care.”
The science would’ve been improved if any of the writers had stayed awake in high school science class. But They Just Didn’t Care.
BREAKING NEWS!
As a fan of crappy disaster movies, I give a hearty Woohoo! A 10.5 sequel is in the works!
What are they thinking??! Don’t name your movie after the Apocalypse if your movie is a sign of the Apocalypse!!!
I couldn’t get that link to work, but found that this one did.