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Unbelievable, really, truly unbelievable (possible spoilers)


At the end, people were encouraged to come back to Japan.... And do what? Judging from that aerial shot, there didn't seem much of Japan to come back to. Only the mountainous areas seemed to remain. What can people do to stay alive on mountain tops. No crops, no animals, no fresh water. The Japanese need rice. How could they group rice without paddies? Japan looked like it became a hundred islands instead of the normal nine or whatever.

How did they manage to squeeze romance into this movie? Man, if I had an island literally disappearing from under my feet, I'd have no interest in holding hands. I'd want off that rock as quickly as possible.

Making perforations along the earth's crust is incredulous. Using a sheet of paper with punctures wasn't a good example. Even that woman in charge had to give a serious yank to tear the paper in two. No way could a few explosions split the earth's crust like a piece of paper. How many perfs did they use? Like maybe 50 along the whole coast of Japan? The earth's crust is like, 18 miles thick (average).

Anyone have an idea of how many people got evacuated? After getting all of Japan's national treasures away, would they have time to rescue the commoners. I'd bet less than 10% of the population got evacuated.

It wasn't a terrible movie to watch, but they stretched the scientific part a little too much for my taste. Just like The Core. No way could anyone jumpstart the earth's core. I think there's gonna be a movie where they have to jumpstart the sun's magnetic field. Jeez. That's beyond any realm of rational thinking. They might as well try to stop the sun's nuclear fusion with a glass of water.

I honestly could have passed up on watching this movie. It seemed like it was made for TV. Some of the SFX were okay, but few and far between. The plot was just too unlikely. Subduction doesn't happen that fast, slippery bacteria or not. How could they get accurate pictures below the crust, anyway. I love Japan and the Japanese people, but I was really hoping to see Mt. Fuji blow it's top. It would have made for a nice, climactic finish.

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This movie sucks. The original version of the movie is great, so try to track it down... but not the butchered American version (called "Title Wave"). In the original story Japan ACTUALLY sinks, *SPOILERS* leaving our main characters (including the 2 lovers- that's right, the guy LIVES) at opposite ends of the world.

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The original? Which one is that? What is it called?

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The original is Nippon Chinbotsu or The Submersion of Japan. It was edited down and spliced with amercican footage and released as Tidal Wave in 1975.

It's ok, but most of the disaster footage is pretty bad.

THe remake is 100x better.

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