NBC mini series "10.5"

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
I'm just curious...how many of us here have actually experienced natural disasters? Realistically speaking, of course -- you know, you, your family or your possesions damaged because of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or what not.

Nisqually Quake a few years ago.........was on the phone with my mortgage lender. I think it was 6.5 but I could be wrong. Get under your desk until the swaying stops and then get out of the building. We actually had a statewide earthquake drill a couple of weeks ago.

The show was in the news around here a bit for it's unrealistic tendencies. Our seismic guys were wanting some disclaimers about what would really happen around here and what people should do in a earthquake.

And of course, there was a bit of an uproar about the Space Needle coming down since it's built a little better than that......

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by smiley21
me too. i also want my 'Las Vegas'


AlphaSigOU- dude, chill. there are plenty of natural disaster tv movies that are corny....

'night of the twisters'
'tornado'

there is more, but i dont feel like listing them

<--chillin'

[Sistermadly]

Originally posted by 33girl
Holy crap, I didn't even realize that WAS John Schneider. I keep thinking he still has the platinum blond fluffy hair and skintight Bo Duke jeans.

All I could think was "Hey, Mr. Superman's-My-Adopted-Son, why don't you call up junior and have him swoop down and pluck you out of the quicksand, and then have him fly around the earth in reverse so that Haley Cuoco is the one who suffocates inside the truck?"

[Sistermadly]

Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
I'm just curious...how many of us here have actually experienced natural disasters? Realistically speaking, of course -- you know, you, your family or your possesions damaged because of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or what not.

The '72 major ice storm in the Southeastern US (we didn't have power for five days) April '74 tornado outbreak (I was in kindergarten), and most recently, the February '01 earthquake in Washington State. It was my first, and it freaked me the FARK out!

[Sistermadly]

Originally posted by smiley21
there is more, but i dont feel like listing them

Don't ask me how many of these I've seen. I might come off looking like a geek!

(Cinema Releases)
Towering Inferno
Poseidon Adventure
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
The Triangle
Twister
Volcano
Dante's Peak
Titanic
Swarm (about killer bees)
Deep Impact
The Other One That Was Like Deep Impact But Didn't Star Morgan Freeman
Armageddon
Avalanche
Congo
The Perfect Storm
Meteor

(Non-natural disaster movies)
Airport
Airport '75
Airport '77
Airport '79 - The Concorde
The Hindenburg
Turbulence
Fail Safe (one of the creepiest - and best - Cold War movies ever made)
On the Beach (ditto)
The China Syndrome
Godzilla
Independence Day


(TV Movies of the Week)
Night of The Tornado (or whatever it was called - the TBS one with John Schneider)
The Big One (another earthquake movie, also on NBC)
The Day After/Threads (technically an unnatural disaster - nuclear war - but hands down the best/CREEPIEST tv disaster films!)
The Killer Bees

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
They keep talking about "Hearing from Denver." They really mean the USGS National Earthquake Center at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden -- a Western suburb of Denver. When I was with the local NBC, we had a permanent camera and microwave path there, and a repeater (boy, I have no idea how to spell this --- so maybe I won't try), one of the machines that makes the squiggly lines and measures earthquake intensity.

seismometer

So long as it ain't a sphygmomanometer (the technical name for a blood pressure cuff)!

[smiley21]

ok i am coming around. the last half an hour is looking to be better than the other parts of the movie. that whirlpool was looking sweet despite the fact that it was causing trouble.

the last scene with part california being an island was cool looking too. the last part was pretty emotional. the whole series wasnt that bad. it started out a little strange but it turned out okay

[smiley21]

Originally posted by Sistermadly

(TV Movies of the Week)
Night of The Tornado (or whatever it was called - the TBS one with John Schneider)
The Killer Bees

the tornado movie is 'night of the twisters'

the bee movie is 'deadly invasion: the killer bee nightmare' that movie is CHEESY!!!!!

[33girl]

OH MY GOD WHAT A CHEESY ASS ENDING!!!

I was really hoping it would be like The Day After and the disclaimer would come on the screen telling us the actual thing would be much, much, much worse.

Either that or Charlton Heston should have been there to close that river back up, LOL.

[Sistermadly]

Originally posted by ariesrising
Sismadly, Jill, if you watch Global news, one of the newscasters was playing (ta da) a newscaster in 10.5 (Jill Krop).

OMG, this movie solved the great Jill Krop hair weave mystery! My husband and I were trying to figure out why all of a sudden the weave fairy visited Krop last summer, and now we know. Marke Driesschen from City TV is also in it - as is Kim Hawthorne from DaVinci's Inquest.

ETA: That movie was ass. Who can I write to so I can get those 4 hours of my life back?

[AlphaSigOU]

Anyone notice the glaring spelling error in the 'simulated' newscasts from WNB?

'MARSHAL LAW DECLARED'

It's MARTIAL LAW not MARSHAL!

[ShaedyKD]

Originally posted by DeltAlum

ETA -- earthquake safety procedure. A lot like tornado. Find a strong thing like a desk or door frame to get under. Sit down, put your head between your legs --- and kiss your a$$ goodbye.

That's what my dad always said! It's like the duck and cover position he said they used to do for nuclear bomb drills when he was a kid.

I lived in San Jose, CA for 4 years, and lived through the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. This 7.1 quake shook the San Fransisco bay area, collapsing part of the Bay Bridge, and disrupting a game of the World Series (SF Giants and the A's if I remember correctly). I had major problems after this quake when I was a kid, and these commercials about "10.5" have given me nightmares. I think I would have a psychological breakdown if I watched this movie...I can't even go on "Earthquake" the ride at Universal Studios!

[Lady Pi Phi]

How come no one has listed "Atomic Twister" the greatest distarer movie of all time!!!!

It was a TBS special presentation movie. Staring Mark Paul Gosselaar...Zack of Saved By The Bell fame!!!

[chideltjen]

Originally posted by ShaedyKD
I lived in San Jose, CA for 4 years, and lived through the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. This 7.1 quake shook the San Fransisco bay area, collapsing part of the Bay Bridge, and disrupting a game of the World Series (SF Giants and the A's if I remember correctly). I had major problems after this quake when I was a kid, and these commercials about "10.5" have given me nightmares. I think I would have a psychological breakdown if I watched this movie...I can't even go on "Earthquake" the ride at Universal Studios!

Yeah... that's why I kind of avoided this movie. Despite the cheesy factor, I still find that stuff too close for comfort.

[bcdphie]

It was weird seeing Jill Krop in the movie. It was the only thing that made it slightly realistic. Actually it was kind of creepy to hear her broadcasting the news about a giant quake in Seattle - it was like hearing her on BCTV Global evening news...

Other than that, it was super cheesy and totally unrealistic. The one fun thing about the movie was seeing how many places I could pick out (I've been doing that with Taken as well, yet another mini series shot in Vancouver).