10.5

[E-bo Obi]

I don't know who has seen this movie but it is pretty intense. Its a Sci-Fi Original. The casting is great.

I am not big on end of the world natural disaster flicks, but this one was well thought out and an interesting take on our disaster preparedness.

This particular natural disaster involves "the big one", an earthquake that would rupture the San Andreas fault and devastate California. If you like stories about people and or what if movies, watch this one.

[Jabe Adaks]

And I thought 10.5 on the screen meant that the show listed above it started at 10:30...

Jabe

[X'an Shin]

Not to rain on your parade, but I thought this was one of the most laughable pieces of dog-crap on TV to date.

A bike courier out-runs the 7.5 earthquake in Seattle, only when he stops to think he's finally safe, he is confronted with the Seattle Space Needle falling towards him, when he's standing at its base. Instead of just, oh, I don't know, getting out of the way he radically sessions all of downtown Seattle (no, seriously people, he was bunny hopping and shit) while trying to outrun the falling needle. Heaven forbid he head perpendicular to the falling skyscraper. Take an alley, or a sidestreet even, no, he somehow outruns gravity in one of the hilliest cities on earth on a Mountain Bike. What. Ever.

Oh, and the part where the earthquake chased the train and ate it, the fault-line running exactly underneath the tracks, only to eventually swallow the train? First off, hey, way to establish how vindictive and evil that earthquake was. It chases trains! Second, can someone explain to me how the linkages on the rail cars are strong enough to pull an entire train into the earth from the force of just one rail car falling in the hole? Did anyone on this staff bother to research coupling strengths? No, seriously, an entire train couldn't possibly pull the engine back into the earth. It would break apart first.

And those were the only two scenes I bothered watching. I can't imagine how awful the rest of the movie was.

[E-bo Obi]

Actually I agree with those. While watching the train scene I kinda said hmm... Course this was after watching But watching the golden gate bridge collapse... That was pretty neat.

Of course this was after watching Epoch, Epoch 2, and riverworld.

[Keer]

First off, hey, way to establish how vindictive and evil that earthquake was. It chases trains!

:lol:

Anybody dare to watch Mansquito on Sci-Fi a couple weeks back!

[X'an Shin]

Actually I agree with those. While watching the train scene I kinda said hmm... Course this was after watching But watching the golden gate bridge collapse... That was pretty neat.

Of course this was after watching Epoch, Epoch 2, and riverworld.

I never have enough time to watch all of Riverworld when it's on. The first time it aired (the original) I saw it up 'till they were in the prison camps and whoever the Roman Caesar guy was became the leader. It seemed really compelling.

Then I caught a bit more of it today, and uh, when Caesar got stabbed through the gut completely by a sword, and was pushed over the railing, shouldn't have there been some blood? Or maybe when the hero was slashed through the chest? I mean, it was like watching a sci-fi version of the A-Team. The only time people "died" was when they got pushed overboard that lousy looking paddle-boat and into the river. It suddenly lacked any seriousness it had attained earlier.

How'd it end? With them just tooling down the river? I saw Caesar-dood get re-incarnated (again) and that was about it.

[X'an Shin]

First off, hey, way to establish how vindictive and evil that earthquake was. It chases trains!

:lol:

Anybody dare to watch Mansquito on Sci-Fi a couple weeks back!

Dude, not for all the tea in China.

Although I DID manage to surf right past it when it "ended." I guess they needed to hit it with an M203 Grenade launcher (while it was standing around a lot of cannisters of Oxygen no less) to kill it.

I mean, the whole "MAN"squito thing aside (and shame on me for even attempting to rationalize the ass-fest that it was here), but it's a giant mosquito. You can kill a regular-sized one with a stiff breeze. Shouldn't harsh language and pointing fingers pretty much debilitate a giant one?

Or wouldn't it have been funny if it was sucking on a guy and two people ran up and squeezed the dude so the Mansquito was trapped and they force-fed it 'till it popped? I mean, poor dude gettin' Mansquito'd and all, but hey.

And why didn't anyone think to just cover themselves with some Deet tm.? Or at least light some citranella candels?

[Krusshyk]

Or just made a giant Mansquito-Delete-O.

You know...the big vaccum systems that put out Carbon Dioxide to attract mosquitos and then suck em up in a vaccum bag?

One of those things can keep a large amount of area mosquito free I hear.

[Keer]

There's a guy at my job who never has cash when we order out for lunch. Always borrowing claiming his wife takes it all (driving a new car and motorcycle though).

This thread has given me an idea for his new nickname.

Mansquito, due to his mooching ways. :lol:

Hell, I'll call him up now...

[Isleh]

Just 0.5 more and it could have gone to 11.