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Bulls-eye

posted 17 years ago by jimadam
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I picked up this movie for $1 and that's about what it is worth. To watch this movie with commercials and an on-screen logo would be brutal.

At any rate, I couldn't believe the deadly accuracy of the asteroids. They hit perfect targets for the maximum impact. There must have been 20 perfect bulls-eye strikes. Then, we are asked to believe that Kansas City would flood to a dept of over 40-50 feet when the dam (that they don't have) is struck. It is so flat there, who selected Kansas City?

I believe this movie aired on NBC, a network who believed that the public was ready for letterbox dramas, several years ago. Is there any intelligent life at NBC?

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[–] akingofcomedy 10 years ago

I'm onboard with this, the bull's eye targeting was bizarre. The dam was bad enough-, but when Reunion Tower ( pretty much a crown jewel of the Dallas skyline ) is pinpointed - it seemed like preposterous precision.

But what I found most odd about the dam strike was how this mega-event only pierced part of the structure, rather than blasting away its entire foundation. The blowback from the impact was kinda negligible in terms of the daylight visibility I thought.

I'm not normally a hawk on stuff like this, but there seemed to be a serious lack of consequence to some of this, and a pinpoint accuracy to the 'attacks' kind of sealed the silliness.

Didn't even think of how difficult it would be to flood metro KC - but it sure makes sense. Sounds like someone forgot to think it through..