I though the movie was ok as long as you ignored the bad science.
Its not the best movie out there but its definitely not the worst. For a Sunday evening flick to pass the time it does pretty well.
Yeah I agree.
This movie was both good and lame.
If you like sci-fi type films then you should like this movie, even with its cheesy special effects.
Ok movie, if one ignores the bad science?
Surely, you jest!
It's not just bad science, it's bad writing, and bad acting.
I could go on and on... in fact, it was so bad, I couldn't watch it all.
Where do I start? How about a few things no one else mentioned.
For instance:
- The telescope scene.
1. I would not break like that.
2. The mirror in such a Newtonian scope would be thicker. In fact,
what was shown isn't even a mirror.
3. It's back would not fly off with a simple fall.
4. No way on earth this cheap Tasco (or similar brand) 4.5" (or 6")
non-motorized German Eq mount is worth any more than $400.00. In the movie
it is valued at 10x that amount... are you kidding me?
5. The views of the comet are not of a comet... I think it was cotton balls
from a 10 year's old school project.
- Alaska scene
1. The laptop's LCD screen is acting as if it were a CRT monitor. Just plain
ridiculous!
2. If the comet fragment was a large as claimed and the two characters were
that close to the impact zone... they would have been killed instantly
by intense heat (not to mention shock wave) as it passed over them!
- Sun tracking
1. 10 deg. change in the Earth's tilt is only noticed by a few?
More nonsense!
And I am not including most of the other bad science, bad writing, and bad acting in the first 1/2 hour. Is it really that difficult to get, at least, some science correctly?
It's clear to me that Paul Ziller is just another hack director (with poor ratings overall), who really should be doing something else... like...perhaps something harmless like a film critic.
Well I watched this last night on Syfy HD and think it was OK.
I gave it a six.
Also did any one else think the start was a bit like THE Core?
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"1. 10 deg. change in the Earth's tilt is only noticed by a few?
More nonsense! "
Wow are you serious? LOL
I haven't seen the film yet, but now I HAVE to.
I think some people don't realize that a 1 (yes ONE) degree shift in the axial pole would send about half the pacific or atlantic across most of the continental US, nevermind a TEN degree shift LOL.
Picture this folks....A glass filled with water, standing steady and only spinning...THEN tilt the glass 1 degree back and forth....uh-oh, a water mess LOL
I think the problem I find in movies like these (especially these days where information flows fast and education flows INCREDIBLY slow) is that the premise no matter how poorly anchored in any type of reasonable science, can be grasped upon by the ignorant (and that's to say for sure uninformed, as many people still apply a state of ignorance to being stupid) and they will believe it to be fact instead and get worried and blow it all out of proportion. You think this can't happen? Hell, just look at Al Gore for a prime example of the end results.
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I have to agree.
I didn't realize (until I just looked it up here) that this was a "Sci-Fi Channel VERY Original Movie". That explains a great deal.
I knew we were in for a "treat" when the "scientists" began referring to the comet's "orbital fulcrum" instead of to its perigee.
Then there's the issue of comets with magnetic fields. They have none. Comets are basically rocks and water — and frozen gasses. They are made up of a small rocky (not metallic) core covered in layers and layers of dirty ice. (The dirty ice is the source of the comets tail — as it's melted by the warmth of the sun and pushed away by the solar wind.)
How about that tiny fragment of comet hitting Earth hard enough to knock it off kilter? Right! (Anybody buying that? — or even renting it for a while?)
And then here's the guy in the opening sequence who'd been burned up by his cell phone. Unless he'd been standing in the middle of a busy gas station (on a calm day) there's no way a cell phone could do that.
I must be really ignorant: For half a century I'd been reading that electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light. This movie set me right, though; they travel at only 40 miles per hour. REALLY!!!
The amount of real science in these Sci-Fi Channel [Extremely] Original Movies isn't enough to make you blink if it were to fly in your eye.
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All I can say to the writers, director(s) and producer(s) is:
I admire your ability to get paid for this.
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I thought it was a complete waste of time to see this movie.
If the earth cracks open during an earthquake, why is it always excactly in the middle of the asfalt road?
+++ ies it safe? +++
so you can see it. there not so many people in the woods to show you there the earth cracks open during an earthquake, are they ?
the movie was ok