Impact Miniseries OAD 6/21/2009 Spoilers

[DeDondeEs]

Anyone else watch this? I was doing my best to suspend disbelief up until the part where people and things started floating. And man, Natasha Hentridge looks like she's had some "enhancement" done.

[MickeS]

I didn't know it was a miniseries. I recorded it and watched the first half hour, was good enough to suck me in to want to see the rest.

Is the next part next Sunday then (that's what I see when scheduling)?

[scsiguy72]

I figured it would be fairly lane. Then when people started to loat around, they lost me too.

One funny goof at the very beginning I noticed was they started with a long shot of a man and his son looking at the moon. then you could clearly see the moon was behind them and they had their backs to it. The shot inside the telescope showed the moon.

I could tell from there on that it was going to be low budget

[sieglinde]

I was going to ask one of the physists at work about this. I mean the tides do rise so there must be an influence on the mulitude of tons of water in the seas. But people or other objects floating? The moon would have to practically be at earth's surface, I would think and then its gravitational field would join with earth's.

I never took high school physics but this seems really unbelievable.

[Sparty99]

I love disaster movies, so I watched this and I'll watch the end. But what's the end game to this? Are they going to destroy the moon? I mean, it's better than letting it destroy the earth but I really hope they at least delve into the ramifications of that course of action.

[BrandonRe]

I bailed as soon as I read the description. Seriously. The Moon?

[Sparty99]

I bailed as soon as I read the description. Seriously. The Moon?
Is it really that much less feasible than a 10.5 earthquake that splits the U.S. in half?

[BrandonRe]

Is it really that much less feasible than a 10.5 earthquake that splits the U.S. in half?

No. But I guess I skipped that one too. I don't even remember that one.

[DeDondeEs]

I didn't know it was a miniseries. I recorded it and watched the first half hour, was good enough to suck me in to want to see the rest.

Is the next part next Sunday then (that's what I see when scheduling)?

Yeah the second part is next Sunday at the same time. I didn't know it was a miniseries either until there was only about 15 minutes left and they obviously weren't close to solving their problem, so I looked ahead in the guide data.

I thought it was funny how only certain things floated. If there was a lack of gravity, wouldn't all of the loose dirt and stones on the ground start levitating too?

[Sparty99]

No. But I guess I skipped that one too. I don't even remember that one.
I just look at these as completely mindless entertainment. If you're someone saying, "Oh my God, this could really happen!", I basically want you to be walking around with a helmet for the rest of your life just for your own safety.

[aaronwt]

I figured it would be fairly lane. Then when people started to loat around, they lost me too.

One funny goof at the very beginning I noticed was they started with a long shot of a man and his son looking at the moon. then you could clearly see the moon was behind them and they had their backs to it. The shot inside the telescope showed the moon.

I could tell from there on that it was going to be low budget

All the TV movies are low budget.

[RGM1138]

What got me was the shots of the moon from Earth. It looked like it was almost touching the surface.

Also, if you ever watched Stargate SG-1, etc. you can tell it was shot in Vancouver. Lots of recycled guest stars.

I'm not sure about the science. If brown dwarf remnants ever hit the moon, it may just explode.

Bob

[aaronwt]

I was going to ask one of the physists at work about this. I mean the tides do rise so there must be an influence on the mulitude of tons of water in the seas. But people or other objects floating? The moon would have to practically be at earth's surface, I would think and then its gravitational field would join with earth's.

I never took high school physics but this seems really unbelievable.

Did you watch the movie? They explained it. And it's a movie, like most movies it is fiction and is not real life. So real life rules do not apply. Just like the majority of TV shows and movies that have been made over the decades.

[aaronwt]

I love disaster movies, so I watched this and I'll watch the end. But what's the end game to this? Are they going to destroy the moon? I mean, it's better than letting it destroy the earth but I really hope they at least delve into the ramifications of that course of action.


I would guess their anti-gravity research they mentioned will come into play.

[aaronwt]

Yeah the second part is next Sunday at the same time. I didn't know it was a miniseries either until there was only about 15 minutes left and they obviously weren't close to solving their problem, so I looked ahead in the guide data.

I thought it was funny how only certain things floated. If there was a lack of gravity, wouldn't all of the loose dirt and stones on the ground start levitating too?

They explained that too. All of those things were explained.
And again it's fiction, it's about as realistic as 24, ER, Heroes etc. or any other fictional show on TV. They all take many liberties that bear no resemblance to real life.

[Rob Helmerichs]

I'm not sure about the science. If brown dwarf remnants ever hit the moon, it may just explode.
I don't know about that, but if the Moon suddenly weighed twice as much as the Earth, it wouldn't start orbiting the Earth tighter and tighter. It would stop orbiting the Earth altogether, and just orbit the Sun; the Earth would either get sucked into the Moon or start orbiting IT. Either way, it would be catastrophic in ways much more interesting than having people float off the surface because of, er, electro-magnetic, um, stuff.

Then again, any situation that involved the Moon weighing twice as much as the Earth would be catastrophic in ways that we could do nothing about, so the five-year-old in me is curious to see what idiotic plan they're going to come up with to save the planet...
They explained that too.
Well, no, not really. They didn't explain anything, they just strung together meaningless combinations of words.

[jlb]

I think the 6/21/09 date was not OAD. I think it aired some time in 2008, IIRC.

[Rob Helmerichs]

I think the 6/21/09 date was not OAD. I think it aired some time in 2008, IIRC.
Not in the US.

[jlb]

Weird. I guess the guide data picked it up that way. Oh well.

Just enough .....er......fun in it for me to enjoy it......as a summertime show.

But honestly, as much as I liked DJE in J.A.G., I find his performance in this sort of.......er.....Costnerian.

[WinBear]

I think I saw that it aired in Canada and the UK first which would affect OAD.

[mattack]

Not in the US.

I haven't watched it yet, but that's what I was wondering.. (about Merlin too)..

Are both of these essentially 'burn offs' of shows that the networks had EXPECTED to run during the 'main' season?

Again, while I haven't watched this yet (I did watch 1 ep of Merlin so far), at least by the commercial, it seems like a *relatively* high budget TV movie that they'd want to recoup investment by running during sweeps.

What's up?

[ElJay]

Way too slow and draggy. I felt like I was watching a bad 1970s disaster movie. The casting is horrible.

[Delta13]

This one is easy - they anti-grav some equipment up there, drill an 800-foot deep hole on a fault line, and drop in a 9-foot long ticking nuclear weapon. I mean, unless that's been done before ... :p

[Rob Helmerichs]

I haven't watched it yet, but that's what I was wondering.. (about Merlin too)..

Are both of these essentially 'burn offs' of shows that the networks had EXPECTED to run during the 'main' season?

Again, while I haven't watched this yet (I did watch 1 ep of Merlin so far), at least by the commercial, it seems like a *relatively* high budget TV movie that they'd want to recoup investment by running during sweeps.
Merlin is a British show that NBC picked up for rebroadcast. I don't know the history of Impact, but I suspect it was made for Canadian TV and picked up for rebroadcast by ABC. And I suspect the reason it's not running during sweeps is because, well, it's kinda crappy? It was probably just a cheap way to fill four hours of airtime in a season when they don't have a lot of stuff to fill the schedule.

[aaronwt]

They still run the other crappy ones during sweeps.

Accroding to the following article, IMPACT was a German production.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/arts/television/20impact.html?_r=2&ref=television

'Impact' (ABC)
Duck! A Runaway Moon Is Speeding Toward a TV Near You
By Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times

“Impact,” a two-part mini-series beginning on Sunday on ABC, is about averting the end of the world in less time — 39 days — than the warranties expire on most food processors. And like “24,” it might have arrived with the subtitle “We’re running out of time,” all bold type, no minimum on the exclamation points. Should you choose to drink every time you hear that phrase, or some similarly fervent expression of temporal anxiety, I can promise that you will be too hung over on Monday morning even to understand what goes on during the fourth hour of the “Today” show.

Recessions seem to breed the disaster impulse in filmmakers. In 1974 “The Towering Inferno” served as a lesson in the consequences of cost cutting. (Scrimp to come under budget on urban renewal, and you are going to need Steve McQueen to rescue you from a living hell.) “Impact,” though, is purely escapist, quaintly imagining the Moon on a collision course with Earth, something 99 percent of us have never worried about. And yet doing so now feels like a nice little respite from fretting over rising unemployment and the crazed restlessness of Kim Jong-il. I didn’t mind “Impact’s” well-paced goofiness, despite really wanting to mind it.

How — you must be wondering — does the Moon end up catapulting its way toward Earth, threatening to destroy humanity and all that it has produced? Well, as the entire world is observing a phenomenally cool meteor shower, a “brown dwarf” (you’ll hear that one a lot, so go ahead and have a swig), or failed star, crashes into the Moon, causing bits of it to hit Earth and igniting anomalies that become weirder and more frequent, until the Moon’s orbit goes haywire.

At first the disturbances are minor, taking the form of static charges and cellphone disturbances (“Impact” seems to be BlackBerry-centric, so you’re left to consider how the iPhone would hold up), but then people and submarines start to levitate, and the madness, induced by gravitational shifts, begins.

The greatest astrophysicists in the world, the ones who can stop it all, turn out to be a voluptuous blonde named Maddie (Natasha Henstridge) and a cute widower named Kittner (David James Elliot from “JAG”). They’ve got heat in their background, stints at NASA and the ear of a president who probably wouldn’t have won a primary against a post-scandal Larry Craig and who approaches oratory as if he were doing voice-over for a Burger King ad.

Much is made of the fact that Kittner is raising his two children with the marginal help of his grumpy father-in-law (played by James Cromwell, who is too good for this). “Impact” is the kind of television that seeks to exploit the tensions between the obligations of work and family, even if, in this instance, work isn’t trading kooky kinds of derivatives but trying to ensure the continued existence of civilization.

To this end, the camera lingers on the faces of Kittner’s son and daughter, whose expressions alternate from peeved to agonized, as their father leaves them behind for Washington, Germany, a spaceship. Initially Kittner doesn’t want to be away from his children for even a night, but Maddie gets him with an entreaty to his ambitions: “We are part of something here that’s going to be written about in the same context as Newton and Einstein. I know you don’t want to miss out on that.”

It should be noted that “Impact” is a German production with an international cast and a we-are-the-world sensibility. In the end it fantasizes that saving the globe from spattering into countless trillions of dust bits brings all of mankind together in one giant, cross-continental heart-hug. No more international rivalries; no more ethnic hostilities. “Impact” makes the Disney Channel seem dark

[MickeS]

As aaronwt mentions, they explained everything brought up in this thread. It might not have been real-world valid explanations, but I always give credit to writer who at least cover most angles in stuff like this, even if it's just in the form of "bring it up and discard it". :up: :)

[RGM1138]

I don't know about that, but if the Moon suddenly weighed twice as much as the Earth, it wouldn't start orbiting the Earth tighter and tighter. It would stop orbiting the Earth altogether, and just orbit the Sun; the Earth would either get sucked into the Moon or start orbiting IT. Either way, it would be catastrophic in ways much more interesting than having people float off the surface because of, er, electro-magnetic, um, stuff.

Then again, any situation that involved the Moon weighing twice as much as the Earth would be catastrophic in ways that we could do nothing about, so the five-year-old in me is curious to see what idiotic plan they're going to come up with to save the planet...


Well, it could depend on how fast the remnant was traveling. If it was chugging along at the velocity portrayed in the movie, with that mass, it might crack the moon like an egg. Since it's never before been observed, I think it's still open to debate.

In any case, I wouldn't want to be around to see it happen.

Bob

[Rob Helmerichs]

As aaronwt mentions, they explained everything brought up in this thread. It might not have been real-world valid explanations, but I always give credit to writer who at least cover most angles in stuff like this, even if it's just in the form of "bring it up and discard it". :up: :)
Uh, no, sorry, Those weren't explanations. They made only slightly more sense than "xjsiw mgsu wn tngv ks kamtnh oph jidh afgrkhl d uwntmg jsfh kdohe mhed fe rkuhne." Stringing random words together really isn't any more of an explanation than stringing random letters together.

[scsiguy72]

They explained that too. All of those things were explained.
And again it's fiction, it's about as realistic as 24, ER, Heroes etc. or any other fictional show on TV. They all take many liberties that bear no resemblance to real life.

Two Moons? I didn't hear them explain that :rolleyes:

[Sparty99]

Uh, no, sorry, Those weren't explanations. They made only slightly more sense than "xjsiw mgsu wn tngv ks kamtnh oph jidh afgrkhl d uwntmg jsfh kdohe mhed fe rkuhne." Stringing random words together really isn't any more of an explanation than stringing random letters together.
I'm not sure what's more annoying in threads of shows such as this. The people who think that this could really happen, or the people who come in and say, "My God, this is so utterly unfeasible." No kidding? :rolleyes:

[TIVO_GUY_HERE]

I almost didn't watch because of the OAD. But then I saw Natasha Hentridge in the cast, and even if I had seen it before I would watch again.

Be interesting on how they fix this, it's out of orbit, how do they put it back in the correct orbit? Tho it would be cool to fly around every 12 hours or so....

[MickeS]

Uh, no, sorry, Those weren't explanations. They made only slightly more sense than "xjsiw mgsu wn tngv ks kamtnh oph jidh afgrkhl d uwntmg jsfh kdohe mhed fe rkuhne." Stringing random words together really isn't any more of an explanation than stringing random letters together.

Well, they were explanations that made sense to the people in the show, and dealt with issues that I as a viewer might raise. I don't care if the explanations makes sense in the real world, but that they bring the issues up is a plus in my book.

[RGM1138]

I almost didn't watch because of the OAD. But then I saw Natasha Hentridge in the cast, and even if I had seen it before I would watch again.

Be interesting on how they fix this, it's out of orbit, how do they put it back in the correct orbit? Tho it would be cool to fly around every 12 hours or so....

Well, if they used the Enterprise they could create a static warp bubble around the moon and push it back into place with the tractor beam.


:D

Bob

[scsiguy72]

I think we all know that shows like this can't really happen (not like this anyways)
The thing that bugs me is they don't even try to make it believable. The whole floating around thing just seems like a cheap trick to make things interesting and instead it just makes a somewhat decent premise too cheesy to endure.

No one expects them to follow known science to the letter, but at least try and make it seem possible. I mean, the train flying through the air? Come on! That is just lazy writing.

[The Cannon]

It is called Science FICTION for a reason. Enjoy Natasha.

[classicsat]

The CG of the train crash was just cheesy. Not to mention they forgot the catentary, a staple of mid-speed European passenger trains.

[Rob Helmerichs]

It is called Science FICTION for a reason. Enjoy Natasha.
So, in order to qualify as "science fiction," you only need fiction? :D

[MickeS]

I'm not sure which was the better scene: the people floating mid-air in "Impact" or the train being chased by an earthquake in NBCs "10.5".

[aaronwt]

I almost didn't watch because of the OAD. But then I saw Natasha Hentridge in the cast, and even if I had seen it before I would watch again.

Be interesting on how they fix this, it's out of orbit, how do they put it back in the correct orbit? Tho it would be cool to fly around every 12 hours or so....

I knew she looked familiar. She was the lady in the Species movies..

[aaronwt]

I think we all know that shows like this can't really happen (not like this anyways)
The thing that bugs me is they don't even try to make it believable. The whole floating around thing just seems like a cheap trick to make things interesting and instead it just makes a somewhat decent premise too cheesy to endure.

No one expects them to follow known science to the letter, but at least try and make it seem possible. I mean, the train flying through the air? Come on! That is just lazy writing.

What show is possible? You take any show, and talk to people that deal with those things in real life, And they will usually laugh like crazy at it since it doesn't come close to what occurs in real life. TV and movies have always taken many liberties of things that do not or cannot occur in real life.

Just the other night they had a segment on Mythbusters about Indiana Jones and The LAst Crusade where in the movie, INdiana throws a wooden stick in the front spokes of a motorcycle and the motorcycle flips and the person flys off. Not even remotely possible in real life, even with a piece of steel. It's just as absurd as a train or person flying through the air.

Movies and TV shows are littered with things like this, some very obvious, many not very obvious. But whether obvious or not, they are not even close to what occurs in the real world.

[dowalker]

Take it for what it is worth and enjoy.
BUT They kept calling them Canadian Geese. There is no such thing. It is Canada Geese. Not sure if I can continue watching because of this..:D

[The Cannon]

Hey Rob, if you want Heinlein or Asimov I'm afraid you'll have to read a book.

Did you expect real Sci-Fi from TV?

[aaronwt]

I wonder how these next two mini-series on NBC, this Summer, will be?

Meteor (Mini-series) - Sunday, July 12 and July 19, 9pm
The Storm (Mini-series) - Sunday, July 26 and August 2, 9pm

[MickeS]

I wonder how these next two mini-series on NBC, this Summer, will be?

Meteor (Mini-series) - Sunday, July 12 and July 19, 9pm
The Storm (Mini-series) - Sunday, July 26 and August 2, 9pm

Awesome, obviously.

[rich]

Uh, no, sorry, Those weren't explanations. They made only slightly more sense than "xjsiw mgsu wn tngv ks kamtnh oph jidh afgrkhl d uwntmg jsfh kdohe mhed fe rkuhne." Stringing random words together really isn't any more of an explanation than stringing random letters together.
Give them some credit. Every time they started to explain things in logical, scientific terms, the President would shout out that he was NOT a scientist and things would have to be DUMBED DOWN for him! So that's why they had to speak in gibberish. :rolleyes:

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS."

[busyba]

Take it for what it is worth and enjoy.
BUT They kept calling them Canadian Geese. There is no such thing. It is Canada Geese. Not sure if I can continue watching because of this..:D

Since they were filming in Canada, wouldn't they just call them "geese"?

[Todd]

So who's rooting for the moon to impact the earth tonight?? :D

[jones07]

Me........I'm hoping for total annihilation :)

[aaronwt]

So who's rooting for the moon to impact the earth tonight?? :D

Thanks for the reminder!

[jones07]

You need a reminder :eek:

God man......you're a Tivo owner :p

[tlrowley]

You need a reminder :eek:

God man......you're a Tivo owner :p

Not just any Tivo owener - what's the story aaronwt, do you really have 9 HD Tivos? I have 8 HD tuners, and I thought I was overboard. With 18, I bow before you *I'm not worthy*

[Rob Helmerichs]

Well, with all those Now Playing lists to contend with, it would be easy for a show or ten to slip between the cracks... :D

[cwerdna]

It's airing now on the west coast. I wasn't planning on watching it but my TiVos was tuned to the channel. I caught the badly done CGI of the freighter and the cars. The freighter CGI looked so fake. At first when I saw it, I thought it was an animation for a show documentary and not supposed to be reality.

The President looked familiar and then I realized it's Steven Culp who played on Rex Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives and Major Hayes on Enterprise. Then I noticed James Cromwell, so there's yet another Star Trek connection. :)

I'm still probably not going to watch.

[aaronwt]

It's airing now on the west coast. I wasn't planning on watching it but my TiVos was tuned to the channel. I caught the badly done CGI of the freighter and the cars. The freighter CGI looked so fake. At first when I saw it, I thought it was an animation for a show documentary and not supposed to be reality.

The President looked familiar and then I realized it's Steven Culp who played on Rex Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives and Major Hayes on Enterprise. Then I noticed James Cromwell, so there's yet another Star Trek connection. :)

I'm still probably not going to watch.

It looked as fake and bad as all TV CGI. And HD always makes it stand out even more.

I'm not watching much on TV now, so usually when something is on, I'll watch it the night it airs. I just wait to watch until I have enough of a buffer built up so I can skip all of the commercials.
I forgot it was on tonight. Of course the show is really forgettable, but I already watched the first half so I figured I would watch the rest. If this had come on during the regular TV season I would not have watched it.

Not just any Tivo owener - what's the story aaronwt, do you really have 9 HD Tivos? I have 8 HD tuners, and I thought I was overboard. With 18, I bow before you *I'm not worthy*

Yes I have nine. I'm getting ready to replace my original Series 3 boxes with TiVoHD boxes. I don't want to, but I refuse to pay $32 a month for cable cards from FIOS. $24 was pushing it but when they raised it I decided to switch to all TiVoHD boxes and use multistream cards. And my service is up this year on several units so I picked up a couple of the Fathers Day TiVoHD boxes with Lifetime service.

[cwerdna]

It looked as fake and bad as all TV CGI. And HD always makes it stand out even more.

I don't have an HD feed, but I dunno, CGI on Enterprise and BSG is pretty decent. B5 CGI (although decent for TV for its time) looks terrible by today's standards.

[aaronwt]

Yes, the CGI has come a long ways, but that is one of the things that HD makes stand out. The makeup on peoples faces is also too easy to see in HD.

[astrohip]

I just watched both parts tonight, one long viewing. I can't believe I wasted 3 hours on this. One word comes to mind. Dreck.

[MickeS]

This was not better than I expected, and not worse either. Made for passable entertainment, but I'm a sucker for disaster movies. I give them a little credit for making me only be 99% sure that the daddy astronaut would survive, and not 100%. :D

Plus it introduced me to the lovely Florentine Lahme. Wouldn't mind seeing more shows with her. :)

[Peter000]

I liked this better when it starred Bruce Willis and his quirky band of drillers. They couldn't even afford a titanium space shuttle for this one!

[Big Deficit]

I'm confused. If James Cromwell's dead, how can he invent warp drive?

[Todd]

The President looked familiar and then I realized it's Steven Culp who played on Rex Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives and Major Hayes on Enterprise. Then I noticed James Cromwell, so there's yet another Star Trek connection. :)

I'm still probably not going to watch.
He also played in JAG alongside David James Elliott.

[ElJay]

Ugghh... Why did I watch another two hours of this? I liked the German TV feed that had Chyrons in German but English audio. The floating cargo ship was hilarious; it felt like a mix between Titanic and the USS Cygnus from the wonderful 1979 Disney movie, The Black Hole. I loved how members of mission control jumped up for a stroll outdoors and left the guys who were rocketing back to earth all alone.

[busyba]

I watched this in mostly FF and it was still a big bag of suck. I'm just glad I only wasted a little more than 1 hour of my life instead of 3. :)

Anybody else think launching a massive chunk of brown dwarf matter into our Sun is going to prove to be problematic down the line? Maybe that'll be the sequel.

Why would the moon stay in two pieces like that? Wouldn't the chunks be pulled together by their gravatational attraction? I can see there being a debris field forming rings around the moon, like Saturn, as an artifact of the event, but not two giant moon chunks that are that close together staying seperate.

[IJustLikeTivo]

So, someone who watched this also needs to Watch Meteor in two weeks and decide which is more idiotic. Honestly, who greenlights this crap?

[aaronwt]

So, someone who watched this also needs to Watch Meteor in two weeks and decide which is more idiotic. Honestly, who greenlights this crap?



Actually their timing is perfect for me. During the normal TV season I would not be watching these, but during the Summer I will.
These movies are no more idiotic than most of the other TV movies that are aired each year.

I'll be watching the "Meteor" and "The Storm" mini series.

[aaronwt]

I'm confused. If James Cromwell's dead, how can he invent warp drive?

James Cromwell didn't invent warp drive.

Zefram Cochrane did.:D

[aaronwt]

Ugghh... Why did I watch another two hours of this? I liked the German TV feed that had Chyrons in German but English audio. The floating cargo ship was hilarious; it felt like a mix between Titanic and the USS Cygnus from the wonderful 1979 Disney movie, The Black Hole. I loved how members of mission control jumped up for a stroll outdoors and left the guys who were rocketing back to earth all alone.

I would think they would be more concerned about if the earth was saved, screw the two astronaunts.

[Big Deficit]

James Cromwell didn't invent warp drive.

Zefram Cochrane did.:D
Yeah right, and Capt Kirk isn't the guy trying to sell me plane tickets!

[Rob Helmerichs]

These movies are no more idiotic than most of the other TV movies that are aired each year.
Well, I would take issue with that. Impact is a contestant for the most idiotic TV movie ever aired. It was bad even by Sci-Fi Original standards.

But even though I didn't even bother to watch the second part of Impact, I am an end-of-the-world junkie and will give the other ones a try.

[aaronwt]

Well, I would take issue with that. Impact is a contestant for the most idiotic TV movie ever aired. It was bad even by Sci-Fi Original standards.

But even though I didn't even bother to watch the second part of Impact, I am an end-of-the-world junkie and will give the other ones a try.

I guess you haven't seen those Scifi(or is it SyFy:rolleyes:) movies with Dean Cain. Those are several notches below the IMpact series. The acting is worse and the special effects are much, much worse on many of those SciFi(SyFy:rolleyes:) movies.

[MickeS]

Well, I would take issue with that. Impact is a contestant for the most idiotic TV movie ever aired.

I'm glad you qualified it not to include theatrical releases, because as dumb as "Impact" was, it was like a freaking peer-reviewed thesis compared to "Armageddon". :D

[MickeS]

So, someone who watched this also needs to Watch Meteor in two weeks and decide which is more idiotic. Honestly, who greenlights this crap?

I will watch it and decide. :)

[jlb]

i love how the kids are in the store with that guy, supposedly without power, and he's eating an ice cream cone that should have melted by then.

Of that they built that machine in so few hours/days

Or that a guy who has never been an astronaut knows everything about how to fly that lander thingy

Or that a lander, made of metal, can actually have enough thrust to get away from the surface of a moon with a brown dwarf stuck in it


etc






and of course I had tons of fun watching this!!!!!!

[aaronwt]

I know with the old style freezers, everything will stay frozen for several days. These are the ones that open from the top and ice forms on the sides. My girlfreinds mom has one and her food stayed frozen for several days until her power came on. So she never lost anything. But in the regular refrigerator/freezer, all that thawed out pretty quick.
Not sure how long those kids were at that store though.

[Alfer]

Wow I stumbled on this show a couple weeks ago and thought..."Why in the world are they playing one of those cheesy "world's about to end because of a meteor!" movies from the 90's....little did I know it's actually a NEW "mini series"....I tried watching it for about 30 minutes and it was just to goofy to continue watching.

[TiVo Steve]

No comments on Natasha's "Ally Kirstie Ice Cream Diet"? :rolleyes: