Doomsday Meteor
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Cephus
Master Member
It's an Asylum movie. It's not going to have a budget.
The main engines on the shuttle did not burn for launch? And appeared to be blocked off. Oh and we still fly shuttles on weird launch stacks that stay with the shuttle into deep space?
Can they at least pretend to try? LOL
Can they at least pretend to try? LOL
I'm laughing but also trying to figure out if this production takes itself seriously or if it's a parody of the genre. The trailer is all archetype, archetype, catch-phrase, hyperbole, archetype, hyperbole. Rinse and repeat.
Maybe it's just schlock and not afraid to admit it. We've got VFX worse than Netflix streaming shows. Cheese by the wheel. All shlock. But any good? Who knows.
Maybe it's just schlock and not afraid to admit it. We've got VFX worse than Netflix streaming shows. Cheese by the wheel. All shlock. But any good? Who knows.
I smell “Oscar Bait” regarding this excellent drama that must have been “based upon a true story”, with all the accurate retelling that Hollywood is capable of producing.
I mean, technically, there have been space shuttles and space shuttle launches so it wouldn’t be incorrect to call it “based upon a true story”…
I mean, technically, there have been space shuttles and space shuttle launches so it wouldn’t be incorrect to call it “based upon a true story”…
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PLEASE tell me THIS time they actually destroy the planet???!!!
I mean really... can't they get ANYTHING right?
CB2001
Master Member
I have a question: How is the Poseidon Adventure the same as Airport? I ask because they are both disaster movies, but both are drastically different from one another.
joberg
Legendary Member
The formula goes like this:
Take any transport or structure (plane, trains, automobile, ship, space ship, drilling sea-platform, etc...).
Provoke accident (mechanical failure, fire, flood, typhoon, nasty infecting bug, meteor, etc...).
Put several actors together playing different kind of human behaviors (hero, coward, scientist, ex-pilot/special force, fierce woman, psycho, etc...).
Get the budget for extra CGI.
And voilà! A disaster...movie
CB2001
Master Member
So, Earthquake (1974) is the exception then, as it involves a city and not just a structure or transport, and doesn't involve any CGI. XDThe formula goes like this:
Take any transport or structure (plane, trains, automobile, ship, space ship, drilling sea-platform, etc...).
Provoke accident (mechanical failure, fire, flood, typhoon, nasty infecting bug, meteor, etc...).
Put several actors together playing different kind of human behaviors (hero, coward, scientist, ex-pilot/special force, fierce woman, psycho, etc...).
Get the budget for extra CGI.
And voilà! A disaster...movie
Cue rousing speech about the resilience of the human spirit and dying with dignity in the face of utter devestation.... that's how most of these types ends. Swap the disaster and setting. Rinse, repeat, snort as I wake up from my 2 hour nap as the credits roll.
