Sci Fi Movie: Earthstorm

Post by **TPRJones** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:42 pm

These sci-fi special movies have been getting worse with each one they make. This one is just completely absurd. It makes <i>The Core</i> look like a scientifically sound academic study.

How hard is it to check some facts, anyway? How many people here think the shuttle launches from Houston? I'm betting everyone here has heard of Cape Canaviral and knows it's in Florida. I find it hard to believe everyone involved in the making of this movie could be ignorant of that fact.

Then again, since it would take ALL DAY to list the junk science in this one, maybe they are that ignorant. It's fucking depressing when the main popular representative of the Science Fiction genre of entertainment is making movies this full of blatant stupidity. It's shameful.

-8 out of 10 stars: 0 for the quality of the movie, 1 point each for Steven Baldwin and Face from the A-Team, and minus 10 for the ongoing attempts to destroy the genre

EDIT: Oh, and to top it all off, the main good-guy scientist's father died as an outcast derided by his peers for the crackpot theory that turns out to be completely accurate, and the good-guy scientist spends the whole movie trying to convince everyone else of that. I'm pretty sure that's been a major plot element in nearly every one of these things the sci-fi channel has made.

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DoctorChaos · Post by **DoctorChaos** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:07 am

I was just talking to a friend of mine about the declining quality of Sci-Fi channel movies. I've gotten to the point where I just check my brain at the door and enjoy the mindlessness ala Creature Feature growing up.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:45 am

Saw that was on over the weekend.
I didn't like the show I was watching so I popped in, thinking "A show about damaged mood causing havoc on Earth. I liked that idea in The Time Machine. Let's see what that the show's like...."
<15 seconds pass>
"Well, maybe that show I was watching isn't so bad after all, even though I forgot what it was already. Thank goodness for the recall button on the remote."

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