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totaly implausible stupid rubbish

posted 16 years ago by tHe_cRacKfOx
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why did they try and cast Robert Carlyle as er.... was it meant to be a londoner?
he's a jock, why couldn't he remain a jock instead of trying to woefully do a southern accent. touches of dick van dyke.

why did they jump into a raging torrent of water that would have been full of debris and would have been crushed to death

what the hell was that hole in the river that they mysteriously washed into with the raft but didn't fill?

come to that what was the deal with that boat they both managed to get to next to the o2/milleniunm dome, shown half submerged?
was the stern touching the bottom and if not why wasn't it washed away?

thin metal doors will not hold back tonnes of water, a cubic metre of water = 1 metric tonne. several hundred thousand cubic metres of water weigh.......

mobile phones do not work once immersed in water

why couldn't that bloke and his daughter pull that woman out of her car?
she wasn't under it and the water was about knee deep?

why did they go for this cliched bullsh!t family rift and the broken marriage
angle

this was bad , very very bad

"don't tell him pike!"

[–] mark-selby-1 15 years ago

To The Crack Fox....I'm sensing that you didn't really like this film. And why would you? It was, to be blunt, abysmal. I was surprised at Robert "cockerney geezer" Carlyle and Tom (what was I thinking...) Courtenay. They really should have known better. The script was awful, the acting wooden, the camera-work disasterous and the editing just dreadful. Thanks goodness I'm not from Finland. Their version was 185 minutes long! The CGI was, at best, passable - making it by far and away the best element of th film. To anyone else contemplating Flood - don't bother.

[–] Charlie Goose 15 years ago

I'm in the middle of watching this. It's not exactly riveting. I did get a good laugh when Jessalyn Gilsig was waiting for Carlyle to come up from underwater when they were on the half-submerged boat. She threw back her head and screamed, "ROOOOOBBBBBBBBBBB!" to the heavens. She was terrible, but she's never been any good. Carlyle was making faces like he was at the dentist, and I can't be sure, but I would wager that Courtenay was drunk througout his scenes. The freeze-frame/fade-out and quick cut editing was awful and distracting.

One good thing, we got a lot of nice aerial shots of London. It makes me more keen to visit there one day. And, I learned a lot about the Thames Barrier.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.