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Thank God...

posted 18 years ago by thaggas12
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Thank God they have more money! I thought 10.5 was going to be the end of it.

Who is funding this crap?

Ha! Watching about three minutes of it, I knew exactly who the director had to be. Well, I didn't know the name, but I knew it had to be the schmuck who directed the "10.5" movies.

I don't know if I can take another three minutes.

[–] Jeanniebru 18 years ago

After 3 minutes I knew this was going to be a sensationalized, wildly inaccurate portrayal of wildland firefighting and the park service. Starting with the female 'ranger' running around with her uniform shirt unbuttoned down to her camisole to fire fighters in situations that responsible command would never allow them to get into. My firefighter boyfriend & I watched just for the laughs and counted the ridiculous inaccuracies til we ran out of fingers & toes between us probably less than half way in.
I hope no one comes away from seeing this film believing that any of it was REAL.

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[–] rossasdf 18 years ago

Just got done watching this. Thought it would be bad but that doesn't even begin to describe it, it was completely lame in every imaginable way. From the very start of the movie when the two guys are a relatively safe distance away and then it is right on them 20 seconds later, then continues after them like you would expect in a horror movie about some posessed fire or something. From that moment you could tell it was going to be a horrible movie but I continued to watch it so that I could bask in the crappiness of it and get some laughs.

P.S. I just wanted to add that the comment on the front page is from some guy that gave this movie 10/10 and believes it to be a masterpiece so everyone should vote underneath his statement that it wasn't a useful comment.

"Wipe them out, all of them."

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[–] ahance-1 18 years ago

Does anyone ever just watch movies for the pure enjoyment of them rather than trying to analyze everything about it

[–] Dehghanpir 18 years ago

Sometimes it starts out that way (watching for enjoyment)and things go terribly wrong...beyond comprehension - and it's just pointless to fight it.

[–] ulht1 18 years ago

No, when a film purportedly is dramatising real life things (note the channel running it) you expect the overall to be overblown and can accept it. But the details of how operations work need to be shown with reasonable accuracy or you lose the believability factor. Nothing I saw in the first 40 minutes has told me this is Yellowstone (I've been there three times) except nameplates; the fire work is abyssmal, the preocedures are not Park Service. And to top it off, girl tells father a tree is burning and he grabs a mini-extinguisher and runs toward it - not if he is sane enough to be let out among the breathing.

[–] ulht1 18 years ago

And, I notice nobody has mentioned all the blocked out language - silly me, but this was made for A&E so why was the language originally shot in the first place. I have no problem with cursing - don't even care if it's on the regular networks. I also don't care if there is no cursing. I do care when it is there and blanked out. Really annoys me - jus like blurring out things (don't have them in if you are going to blur them out).

[–] KAnnD86 18 years ago

The language wasn't blocked out for me. I watched this on A&E and Scott Foley said sh!t and bullsh!t a few times I believe. I was sort of surprised, then I remembered cable networks can do whatever they want.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

[–] awesomeangel 18 years ago

I loved this movie and it had me on the edge of my seat and people trash all they want but it was a great movie and Scott was outstanding in it ..

Pam

[–] AaronMilusFan1240 16 years ago

I really do watch movies purely for entertainment. So many people nowadays do not, but I really do. I mean, it does help to be slightly innebriated at times, but I do like to do that. I have no comment on this film, I have not seen it, I just happen to know Scott Foley personally, so I wanted to read these comments. But I felt I needed to stand by ahance-1 here and say I do enjoy just watching a movie strictly for entertainment, even if it sucks.