Quake 10.5
 

Anyone intrigued about the upcomming miniseries/movie?
Starting May 2 on NBC. It's about a massive earthquake that effects the whole west coast, from Seattle to San Diego. Something that's been predicted for thousands of years.
Starring: LINK
You have to check out the page for it at the link above- very.....creative!

ugh. Another site requiring Windows Media Player -> exit stage left.

pwned but true.

Does anyone remember another TV miniseries called "The Big One"? It was back in the mid nineties. Same crap. I love how American TV is made to scare the crap out of everyone. Like people aren't hysterical enough already.

I don't remember that minisearies, but I agree with your thoughts. I hate this crap.

But I'm sure it'll be entertaining if you enjoy seeing shit like that. To each their own.

I hate the title of this show or whatever. You would think that the smartest people in the world, television executives, would know the richter scale has a vertical asymptote at 10.

I think that's the point. It's like having an amp with a volume setting of 11.

I understand that that's the point, but still I think it's a stupid point.

wow- interesting to see the reactions of others on this.

I have always been fascinated with natural disasters, it kind of scares me, but it's always good to be really aware of anything that can happen.
10.5 can happen- it's been predicted since the days of Socrates.
It's not a matter of if, but when.
As far as the series, here, it looks rather intense with graphics and espeically since our Space Needle goes down. Not that that would make me happy, but the power of nature is amazing. Sad that it destroys and kills, but it's really the power of human creation. A collective consciousness of fear stirs events like this into our reality.

I find this hard to believe this since Socrates died hundreds of years before Richter was born.

Atomic Twister

I remembered this stinking pile of dung when I read this thread. :rolleyes:

I agree, nature is fascinating, but these shows really go overboard.

I just can't wait for the 11 o'clock news that night.

"What are the chances of an earthquake like this hitting the Baltimore-Washington region? We talk with important siesmologists to find the answer. Tonight, after the movie."

Looks dumb as shit. At least it's better than the 9-11 TV movie that was on last Sunday. Disaster movies are always bad, and TV disaster movies are the worst.

I wasn't saying the actual Richter mark, I am speaking of the predicted earthquake(s) that would effect the whole west coast.

I can't find the link, but there is a geological group that has been predicting massive earthquakes with (relative) extreme accuracy (about a 6 month window). The last one they predicted was the earthquake in Tokyo. Their latest prediction has been the "big one" sometime this spring or summer.

The movie is not factually based, that is for sure. But it is a movie and should be taken with a grain of salt. That being said:

First off, an earthquake from San Diego to Seattle is impossible. Sure the North American and Pacific plate boundary extends that length, but it is really not the same earthquake fault all the way though. The San Andreas goes from the Salton Sea to off the coast near Pt. Reyes, north of San Fran. On top of that, the San Andreas is a strike slip fault (lateral movement), while the plate boundary near the Washington area is a subduction zone (one plate going under the other). I don't see how they could coincide in a big quake. By the way the largest quake in recorded history is in the mid 9's in Chile.

An article which corroborates much of what has already been said in this thread:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...isure_quake_dc

woah! Already? Whatever happened to Quake 4,5,6,7,8 and 9?

I can smell the cheese from here. Is Ernest Borgnine in it?

Im going to try and tune in just to see what its all about. I really like mini series'. They have a larger budget then a tv show, and develop the story alot better than 2-3 hour movies. Regardless of how unrealistic this is, it will probably scare the hell out of so many people especially on the west coast.

I might watch this if it weren't on at the same time as The Sopranos.

Sounds...um......great.

Tuned in for the first 10 minutes. After the first scene with the guy riding his bike with the fake earthquake background, I just couldn't stand to watch it. The split screems, seemed so much like 24, and the acting was terrible. Anyone watch it, maybe it was better than I thought.

I turned back and forth to it from Malcolm In The Middle, until it showed the ground collapsing, seemingly chasing a speeding train down the tracks. It seemed like it went on for miles.
It just looked so stupid. :rolleyes:

I had one in the 80's with a volume setting of 30. It was actually advertised to be much louder BECAUSE it went to 30 instead of only 10. I'm surprised it didn't spark a dial-markings arms race.

Not really. It's a logarithmic scale, which means that it eventually approaches vertical but never actually is vertical. Theoretically, an r15 earthquake is possible, but of course it's never gonna happen - - only 3 or so earthquakes in recorded history were 9 or greater. 9 on the richter scale, btw, is a "total destruction" earthquake - -shit gets thrown in the air, nothing's left, it's like a nuclear bomb went off.

oh, and the movie? It's stupidity is only eclipsed by it's stupidity. The dialog sucks, the plot sucks, the effects suck. It's actually worse than Twister. At least in Twister you had the one realistic scene (cooking the ham and eggs ;)

i saw this movie(or listened to it) while i was drawing. you can not expect much from a tv movie. you can not expect much from a disaster movie. with that in mind, id say the movie was not horrable.

blah blah...
1) it seems to me to be a huge rip off of the upcomming "Day After Tomorrow" film heading to theaters...
2) the Space Needle can not fall down. it's built extremely well and would just shake ALOT during a quake. moreso, it's center of gravity is way below the middle, so if it *were* to ever be tipped over, it would just bounce back up (like those inflatable punching bags)

that's all

Whoever was the Director of Photography...needs to have his ass fired for the overuse of quick zooms, shaky cam effect, and needlessly jerky panning. Also the split screen...only works on 24. Any other show that uses it...it's an automatic copy and thus a cheap failure.

Too much attention put into sappy 'personal' crap. Don't get me wrong, not all emotional cinematic moments are sappy crap. But this was. Good thing 'Unbreakable' was on (The Village seems like something I HAVE to watch). Even the much touted effect wasn't much, cause if you've watch the trailer for this mini-series, you watched all the good effect scenes.

Maybe he just wanted to convey what it feels like to be in an earthquake. /sarcasm

damn... missed it. it got high neilsens... but i guess it wasn't all that good. i'm glad i didn't waste my time or tivo space.

The first part wasn't that bad I thought, it was entertaining enough to get me to watch the second part. Part 2 however was absolutely horrible. There was a 30 or so minute scene that was an almost exact replica of the end of the movie Armageddon.

I'd have to do some checking, but I'm pretty sure that most if not all cultures/religions have some sort of end of the world scenario.

Whether they made the story up yesterday or 5,000 years ago doesn't make it true.

I thought everything about this show was awful (I only watched the first part)

Link to what was wrong with the show.

It's pretty long, but here are the first few.

I watched both nights. It fell into the "It's so bad, it's good" category. I actually laughed out loud in a few places, and of course it wasn't _supposed_ to be a comedy. Beau Bridges was hilarious as president. So is the idea of setting off a nuclear weapon in Gilroy ("future home of glow-in-the-dark garlic!").

That sequence with the train being chased by the fault was especially hokey. Who was their special effects team -- Lionel?

I hated it, we had to rate the scientific value for Geo 100.... other than that it was ok