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100 things I learned from 'Impact'


1. When you're on a team trying to save the world from destruction, it's best to duck into a bar across the street and not tell anyone where you're going

2. When one of your team members trying to save the world from destruction goes missing, check the bar across the street

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3. For a 70yo Grandpa (and his stick)a 35-40yo fit and well builded badass is no match

4. Metrosexual macho which offer You money for a sex, will bacame Your friend and will offer You a help after train disaster (You must be pregnant as well)

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He didn't offer her money for sex, he offered her money for the use of her phone. Possibly this cold be construed to be an offer for sex, but that doesn't mean the guy wouldn't help people after a train disaster.

I can't believe I'm defending this thing.


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4. "The first rule of the military is you don't put all your eggs in one basket."

I did not know this!




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Just rented this tonight from redbox. Figured is was worth a buck to have a good laugh.

5. That a full moon is visible in the same area of the night sky from everywhere on earth.

6. It's night everywhere at the same time. (ref, it's night in NY and Korea at the same time.)

7. Canadian Geese really do exist! (they are actually Canada Geese)

8. Meteor showers are best viewed during a full moon and with a telescope, as someone has already pointed out.

9. If a meteorite lands in a forest, the surrounding trees will not be affected.

10. A small piece of brown dwarf the size of a baseball can be picked up by a really strong actor, although it weighs several hundred tons.

11. The moon can get hit by an object that is equivalent to the mass of the earth and not be completely destroyed, and it's orbit will only be slightly changed.

12. The moon has a dipolar magnetic field.

13. People can be lifted by a magnetic field.

14. If you are on a train that levitates off the track, you'll be floating as its going up and fall back into your seat as the train falls. (Actually the exact opposite would happen).

- My brain is starting to hurt as I watch more and more of this complete craphole of a movie. Was there anyone with even a 5th grade education consulting on this movie?

15. At end of part 1, they repeated #5 above, in case your brain missed this gross error.

- This movie should come with a SC-21 rating. "WARNING: Children under 21 should not view this movie as they might think the science in this movie is real".

16. Cars can fly, and so can hay bales, oh my!

- that's all I can take for now. I should have used my dollar to buy something more rewarding at Micky-D's. Also would have left a better taste in my mouth.

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17. (Most incredibly ridiculous aspect of the whole show which left me staring blankly at the television for far longer than any other show I had ever seen in my lifetime.) The moon can be completely split in half and somehow its orbit will go back to normal and life will go on as before.

18. So, if your goal is to "save" the moon and you accidentally destroy it, everything is still happy happy happy, even though THEN, the world will end for CERTAIN. (Tidal waves, earthquakes, more debris, etc.)

Argh. My stomach hurts. I feel like I've watched a really bad remake of "The Wizard of Oz". It was mildly amusing, but I don't think I could handle something like this again.

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19. When you are a scientist with a pregnant girlfriend who you propose to and marry before going on a high risk 'save the world' mission to the moon, your chances of survival reduce dramatically.

20. When you are a scientist with young kids who have no mother (or grandfather)going on a high risk 'save the world' mission to the moon, your chances of survival increase dramatically.

Hurting, also.

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21 An electric train still manages to explode in flames on impact and spark and have one headlight working long after it has left the tracks and overhead line that power it.

22 Staying in your house somehow negates the effect of 'reverse gravity' . Only folks outdoors 'float'

23 When the moon is this close, it only takes minutes to get there, rather than the 4 days it usually takes

24 The later one has to stay up at night to watch this drivel, the worse the movie becomes

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i thought there were also gravity anomalies which caused the non magnetic things to rise up

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10. A small piece of brown dwarf the size of a baseball can be picked up by a really strong actor, although it weighs several hundred tons.

he actually failed to pic it up and needed a tractor to do it. not that tractor woudl lift several hundred tons but still.

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They learned that from Wall Street, diversification!

Actually, the first rule of the military is "When in doubt, kill them all and let God sort it out!"

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25. As a team of Hollywood accountants approved this, perhaps Hollywood accountants need to have elementary school physics included in their accounting degree courses.

26. Thank goodness for PVRs. I was able to flick through this fairly quickly and saved myself at least 90 minutes of adverts and inane plot.

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27. While I could end up naming one THOUSAND things that are illogical in this movie (and note how the OP only managed to name two), I however won't, mainly for the fact that threads like this are older than James *beep* Cromwell!

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28. Lights insight the astronauts helmet makes them see better.

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Yeah, well it's a COMMUNITY EFFORT and there's no rule I needed to name just two things...and it's not just "illogical" things but life lessons, etc. taught by this masterpiece.....

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29. Although the Soviet Union dissolved in the 1990s, it will return by the time this happens.

30. It is possible to magnetize something by attaching one end of a wire to it and the other end to a battery.
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31. "Gravity is a very weak force" yet can lift a fully-laden container ship right out of the ocean (and -as someone has already pointed out- the water stays put).

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32. video signals transmitted from the interior of deep moon canyons will still relay to Earth crystal-clear with minimal interference

33. in the "Impact" canon there is like one black dude and he is in like 2 frames as a mission controller.

34. Natasha Henridge is beautiful.

35. disaster movies like this are easy to make *you see sooo many of them on tv and in teh dvd bargain bin) cuz the dialogue only needs to consist of techno-speak ("the moon's gravity is increasing!" "Orbit-1, this is mission control.."), drama speak ("I love you! We have to stay together!"), fake news reports, and lots of archival footage of aircraft and storms. It makes it easy for the director!

Still, I was mildly entertained by Impact.

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36. Moon's gravity is strong enough to lift items on the earth while still thousends of miles from the earth, yet is not strong enough to pull in several spacecrafts floating and landing several hundred miles from the moon's surface.
Stable, maybe ?

I think point 34 makes this a slightly watchable flick. Natasha is very beautiful.

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37. The flying Moon "jeep" only requires one single small rocket engine on the bottom, since it has been designed for the Moon -- everybody knows that. Never mind the gravity on the Moon is about *twice* that of Earth, due to the mass of the 'brown dwarf'.

38. All of the experiments you've ever heard of -- huge rockets, nanowire, the Space Elevator in its entirety -- were *not* shrugged off as futuristic fantasies, but have actually been built and are in NASA's storage rooms, awaiting the proper moment of use.

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87. Skilled astrophysicists do not learn the definition of a "brown dwarf" during their education.


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The water did not stay put. That would be silly. It fell DOWN from the ship as it should, being attracted by the "other" gravity.

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"The water did not stay put. That would be silly. It fell DOWN from the ship as it should, being attracted by the "other" gravity."
Was this happening whilst the ship was falling UP to the moon?

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39. Also on the point of high gravity: If you fall off of your conveniently floating Moon Jeep, you won't fall at *twice* the acceleration of Earth. You are on the MOON so you will *slowly* disappear in the dark depths.

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40. The Moon orbits the Earth; even with a mass *twice* that of Earth.

(In reality, the Earth orbits the Moon *as well*. Suddenly increasing the Moon's mass would lead to the *Earth* swinging around wildly, not the Moon.)

41. Planetary-sized masses -- the visible chunks of the Moon -- move a considerable way away from each other, then stop. They are not pulled together by the net gravity of the two parts anymore.

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42. Every space movie needs a Russian.

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43. If you are the assistant of the head of an international team of experts, which studies an event concerning astronomy, it is OK if you don't know what a "brown dwarf" is...

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Awww, I so wanted to do this one, lol. It was so funny. Alex Kittner is an astrophysicist, and is teaching, and Ella Barlow is his student. I presume she's a graduate student? When Maddie Rhodes and Kittner are talkking about a brown dwarf, she says, "What's a brown dwarf?"

That was so funny.

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47 There is a man in the moon.

48 The Moons not made of cheese.

49 A ship starts going into the air but not the water.



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44. When a man is more or less responsible for the death of your grandfather, you hug him in the end anyway.

45. When you are stranded in an abandoned place with no electricity for a few days, you still can have a perfect ice-cream.

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50) If the earth is going to be destroyed by the moon crashing into it, the best solution (the first one they tried) is to send all of our nuclear weapons at the moon & destroy it, thus destroying us anyways, since how can we survive the destruction of our moon ?

51) If at first you don't succeed, try some MORE nuclear weapons, only get closer this time, fella's, sheesh !!

52) It takes 18 hours to make it through the line at the DMV, but they can build a special rocket laucher, find a specially equipped rocket to blast the surface of the moon, train 2 CIVILIANS to function like astronauts, get everything loaded up & ready, and send them all to the moon in SIXTEEN HOURS ??

53) That all those people could still look so clean & pretty after going through all that in a continuously grueling stressful time frame of days ?

ok, otherwise, it was popcorn entertainment....
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54) Nukes are your friend (actually a common theme for the movies).

55) If a brown dwarf-laden moon gets too close, its gravitational acceleration will lift you up a ways, then moderate itself so you hover.

56) If a brown dwarf-laden moon gets too close, its gravitational acceleration will start to lift things into the air, but as it moves away there is a point where that force shuts off instantly.

57) All heroes have a love interest, even those with recently deceased wives.

58) It's hard to get acting work when you're 70. You have to take what you can get.


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