Who else laughed their @$$es off watching 10.5?

[poseidon]

Was that just not the worst editing job that you've seen in a Made-For-TV "blockbuster" movie? NBC ran teasers for this movie for over a month -- and it got incredible ratings.

I loved the part where the president declared martial law.

What did the TV screens say?

President declares Marshal Law

I just started laughing on that one -- took my wife a minute to figure out why I was laughing.

Or, the part near the end where the nuke fell down the hole, the guy went down the hole to fix it, and it winds up falling on him. Blood is pouring out of his mouth at one point, and, a frame later, his face is perfectly clean?

Is John Schneider regulated to only doing really poor Made-For-TV movies now?

Did anyone else think that they just rewrote the script for Armageddon? I'm glad to see that scriptwriters are able to see all the alternative uses of nuclear weapons.

Did anyone -- ANYONE -- like the camera angles and contortions?

[eplovejoy]

If I'd known it was going to be funny, maybe I'd have watched.

[theeye]

poseidon said

Is John Schneider regulated to only doing really poor Made-For-TV movies now?

Well, I hear there are all sorts of regulations under marshall law.

[drmomentum[$]]

That's plain silly.

Everyone knows it's marital law that the president has his sights on.

Those lazy made-for-TV-movie people!

poseidon said

Was that just not the worst editing job that you've seen in a Made-For-TV "blockbuster" movie? NBC ran teasers for this movie for over a month -- and it got incredible ratings.

I loved the part where the president declared martial law.

What did the TV screens say?

President declares Marshal Law

I just started laughing on that one -- took my wife a minute to figure out why I was laughing.

Or, the part near the end where the nuke fell down the hole, the guy went down the hole to fix it, and it winds up falling on him. Blood is pouring out of his mouth at one point, and, a frame later, his face is perfectly clean?

Is John Schneider regulated to only doing really poor Made-For-TV movies now?

Did anyone else think that they just rewrote the script for Armageddon? I'm glad to see that scriptwriters are able to see all the alternative uses of nuclear weapons.

Did anyone -- ANYONE -- like the camera angles and contortions?

[erik_kosberg]

And why isn’t Martial Law out on DVD? There ought to be a regulation that all cop show producers must watch the pilot episode with Sammo and the blackboard eraser.

[erik_kosberg]

A page about the bad science of the movie:
http://www.earthquakecountry.info/10...isconceptions/

And, as everyone knows, if there’s a problem with a nuclear device, you don’t send a fully-trained military officer to fix it, you send the bureaucrat standing next to him and tell that guy what to do via his headset so that he can learn on the fly.

[poseidon]

FICTION: An earthquake rupture will follow train tracks

FACT: Train tracks are located on the earth's surface. Faults are located within the earth and are caused by processes deep in the earth. The two features are completely unrelated. The faults do not know where the train tracks are, nor do they care when they are rupturing.

Yeah that was another source of laughter in my house. Michelle and I got a kick out of how convenient it was that the fault was appearing out of nowhere, right down the exact same line as the train tracks, and another great convenience was that the fault line was just a smidgen wider (uniformly no less) than the tracks themselves.

FICTION: Staying on a bicycle during a M7.9 earthquake, or walking during a M9.2 earthquake, while buildings are collapsing all around

FACT: If there is a M7.9 earthquake there is no way a person could stay upright on a bicycle. In a region of intensity VII (explanation of Modified Mercalli Scale of Intensity) people have difficulty standing, and at VII drivers have trouble steering. The Northridge earthquake, which was a M6.7, had intensities above VII, so a M7.9 certainly would have shaking strong enough to knock someone off of their bicycle - especially when buildings right next to the bicyclist are collapsing. The same applies for a person trying to walk during a M9.2 earthquake - it can't be done.

Well yeah, but he was on a mountain bike! Anyhow, maybe it was John Kerry, because, you know, he doesn't fall and stuff unless the Secret Service gets in his way.