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Problems I had with this movie.


As an Australian and a Diabetic I found so many errors with this film.

For a low budget disaster movie I actually quite enjoyed it but some things distracted me to an almost frustrating point.

Firstly, I realize this was an American made movie, for Americans but filmed in Australia. However, the fact that they kept on using miles, fahrenheit etc instead of the metric system was beyond annoying ESPECIALLY considering almost all scientific instutions in the world use the metric system because is it more accurate, this includes the USA.

Also I'm very impressed that Jack managed to predict a Hurricane in Queensland, especially since the Southern Hemisphere doesn't experience Hurricanes, but Cyclones.

Secondly, that chick was the worst diabetic ever. She ran out of insulin two days ago? EFFING HELL YOU StUPID $%^&*. Despite that, the blood glucose monitor showed that she was reading at 5.8 which is considered a normal reading (maybe a little bit on the low side) and assuming her level dropped rapidly enough to cause her to faint, why the heck would she want insulin? She'd want cordial, chocolate bars, sugar sugar sugar! Not the drug that reduces the level of sugar in your blood.

That to me was almost offensive as the writer couldn't even be bothered to do ANY research on a condition that effects MILLIONS of people. Seriously, he or she could've just wikipedia'd it and they wouldn've been informed enough to know that you take insulin to LOWER your blood glucose level. GAH.


Another diabetes related annoyance, the packets of insulin he took from the fridge were refill cartridges, not disposable pens (the packets weren't nearly big enough) and insulin is definately not sold with the needle already attached.

I know it was low budget and not intended for a very intellectual audience but I think the writer could have at least gotten a few things right.

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I just picked this movie randomly, and could tell this was an American production the moment they said "the ozon layer was damaged by all the Chinese"... bloody ignorant racism. This really upset me because all the world doesn't understand why they don't sign the Kyoto-protocoll and waste energy like there was no tomorrow. Why should the Chinese refrain from catching up with Western economy, when it is the very same that has killed off the ozon layer for nearly 150 years?

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If you look at the credits at the end, you'll see nothing that indicates that this is American in any way whatsoever. There are logos for Canada and Quebec and Australia. Nothing for the U.S. It may have been written with a U.S. audience in mind but it's probably not an American production in any way.

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Struth, cobber. These yanks are at it again: over paid, over sexed and over here!

Temperatures measured in F not C (72degrees F). 'Cell phones' not mobiles. 'Take out' not takeaway. Yep, written for the US me thinks. Then there were the types of Aussie accents last heard in about 1952.

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I guess "Tomorrow When The War Began" was a racist American movie too, was it?

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Uh...no because it's an Australian movie, made for Australian audiences, based on a book written by an Australian, and cast with all Australian actors.

I liked that movie. The main girl was really hot.

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I liked it too. I think you missed the sarcasm in my comment.

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It was a co-production with a Canadian company, written by a Canadian and starred a Canadian, a Brit and an American. But other than that it was ALLLLLLLL Australian.

It's too bad you couldn't find a web site that had all that information organized for you.

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That argument makes no logic. They had all the time to pollute just like the rest of the world, but now it all stops.

There's no fairness involved and no room to give treatment. If countries don't lower their emissions then global warming will get worse and possibly to a point of collapse.

If it was some big political motive to weaken the Chinese, then I would understand why the Chinese wouldn't agree to such reductions in pollution. But the fact is, a few generations ago, global warming was never a concern or an issue to countries, at least on a global scale. Nobody was telling China to not pollute.

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››That argument makes no logic. They had all the time to pollute just like the rest of the world, but now it all stops.

But the fact is, a few generations ago, global warming was never a concern or an issue to countries, at least on a global scale. Nobody was telling China to not pollute.‹‹

Nobody was _telling_ the Chinese not to pollute. That is right. The thing is, China wasn't given a _chance_ to pollute for decades of foreign imperialism, while Europe and the Western World was starting to pollute the environment during the age of industrialization. You make it sound like China was too much back in technological progress to be capable of polluting. It was more like, they were too busy being exploited by the rest of the world to start building factories, that's all. Our wealth is based on centuries of colonialization and exploitation of other countries, now considered as Third World. China is catching up now, and all we can think of is pointing our fingers at them for doing just what we did at a time where China didn't have a chance to build up riches. This is what gets to me and annoyed me in the movie. So it isn't American? Same same. All the worse for Australia and Canada for being as ignorant.

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"You make it sound like China was too much back in technological progress to be capable of polluting. It was more like, they were too busy being exploited by the rest of the world to start building factories, that's all."

lmao. China had about a 6,000 year head-start on the west, as far as technology is concerned. They failed to exploit it, and we caught up. After that they got their butts handed to them by the Brits, just like the rest of the world. Later they got themselves mixed up in a bunch of pointless wars with other Asian nations, and became mostly irrelevant up until the last few decades. Meanwhile, Japan - a nation which was decimated and actually occupied by western powers, and very recently at that - managed to surpass China in a couple decades and is now one of the most technologically advanced nations on the planet.

Do you actually read any history, or do you just make things up at random?

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Noticed the metric thing as well (especially being a Midnight Oil fan, where the temp became a known difference in one of their songs).

It made me think of English soccer games.....how the English announcers (for broadcasts to English crowds) use years instead of meters. Might just be tradition

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I think you mean 'yards' rather than 'years'.

Yards and feet are traditional English measurements so of course we use them for football (which is a traditional English game); the 12 yard line is the 12 yard line, not the 12 metre line!

Despite the PC efforts of schools we still use miles as well; all road signs give distances in miles (and yards).

The avaiation industry also uses imperial measurements; all flight levels are in feet (e.g. 20,000 feet).

The Americans adopted imperial measurements so there would be nothing strange in American characters speaking of Miles, yards and feet.

Km and metres convey nothing to me personally; e.g. if I hear someone say on TV say '10Km' I always think '10 Miles'.

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The metric thing. I found it odd that Fahrenheit temps were being used (the graph on the ship, Hobart radio announcer, etc.). But distances on the AUS side were given in kilometers (e.g. the weather-monitor girl). Yet, the US side gave the distances in miles (e.g. the distance of the missiles from the weather balloons). And yes, the in-frame title for that Sydney emergency building showed it as being a "center", rather than a "centre." I'm an American, but even I know of that being quite wrong! :)

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"considering almost all scientific instutions in the world use the metric system because is it more accurate"

Kiss your hopes of being a scientist good bye. Yes, the metric system is the most widely use, but not for reasons of accuracy.

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Also, assuming it was a liquid injection... wouldn't it be FROZEN SOLID?? They'd just established it was -50 degrees outside and it looked like he was holding them when he entered.

A lot of strange things happen in this world. Things you don't know about in Grand Rapids.

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I understand your displeasure; I take thyroid medication every day to stay alive. However, it looked to me as if the glucose monitor had three digit positions and was actually reading "580 something," not 5.8 or 58. something.
Secondly, I distinctly remember him attaching the needle; though, I must admit, I don't recall him actually picking any up from the pharmacy.

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Firstly, I realize this was an American made movie, for Americans but filmed in Australia. However, the fact that they kept on using miles, fahrenheit etc instead of the metric system was beyond annoying ESPECIALLY considering almost all scientific instutions in the world use the metric system because is it more accurate, this includes the USA.


Ok, no, no, no, this is an Aussie movie 100%. The production, actors, set, everything is 100% Aussie made for Aussies. It's funny how people can have access to the internet, where they can get accurate information yet still be 100% wrong.

My sig: why do almost all movies on imdb have a "worst movie ever!" thread?

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Also with her eating chocolate bars (asking for them earlier in the movie) that could have made her levels sky rocket without her taking her shot she very well could have fainted. One thing I will agree with you on is the needle full of insulin. Now way it looked like the pens or any needle I have seen except for the glucagon needle. In case you did not know, the glucagon needle is emergency Glucose dose in liquid form injected right into the body. It is only used in emergency settings (if person is close to fainting or has fainted from low blood sugar levels). Now If this was the case (in the movie) and it was a glucagon needle, it makes no sense (like you said) because if she had not taken her shot in two days then she would be high not low. Maybe she was low because she had not eaten, heck if I know, but they had referred to it as insulin. Oh well, just my input.


Glucagon is not glucose!! Glucagon is a hormone. Once injected it signals your liver to release a stored supply of glycogen. There is absolutely no glucose or any form of sugar in Glucagon.

Her monitor showed 5.8. Which is normal. The movie for some reason was trying to portray a lack of insulin to induce hypoglycemia (which most movies/shows get wrong anyways).

Without insulin, your glucose levels will rise. Regardless if you go 2 weeks without eating. That is why the need for basal insulin. The human body constantly releases glucose into the blood stream (there is a plethora of ways for this to happen)

Also, assuming it was a liquid injection... wouldn't it be FROZEN SOLID?? They'd just established it was -50 degrees outside and it looked like he was holding them when he entered.


Different liquids have different freezing points. Not everything is made of pure water and freezes at 0c.

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