Category 6 (Day of Destruction) What is your opinion of it?

[GalvestonDuck]

Did that bit-part actor who works in the "NWA" say that a tornado touched down in "Braxton" and was headed for St. Louis? I rewound my DVR and sure enough that's what he said. Is there a Braxton near SL? Do ya think he meant Branson?

Also, the hurricane hunters' conversation:
Dude at the radar: "Winds 160, waves in excess of 15 meters, very heavy precipitation."
Pilot dude: "This storm is off the charts."

Um...dude. It's a hurricane in the Great Lakes. Of course it off the charts!! *smacks forehead*

[GalvestonDuck]

I just checked. There's a Braxton, MS and a Braxton, WV, but no Braxton, MO.

This movie is off the charts!

[chris_fit]

This movie is really terrible.

[GalvestonDuck]

LOL!

Obviously, it was filmed in Canada. The actor who plays Lindsay's little brother Garth must be Canadian. He said "black-ooot" and "I couldn't call ooot."

What happened to everyone else in the mall? When the power went out, the automatic security gates shut. Shouldn't there have been more people than just the ones in the bank when the power came back on temporarily?

We lose power during storms anyway. This should drive home the importance of preparedness

Amy the journalist was talking to Jeff the AF pilot and said that the hospitals had evacuated. Hello?? If the one and only hospital in small city like Galveston wouldn't evacuate, why would the dozens or so in a big city like Chi-town? Of course, UTMB in Galv is a Level One trauma center, so it shouldn't close. Surely, there would be at least a few big hospitals and med centers open in Chicago. And since the low pressure is known to induce labor -- DUH!!

[Thunder44]

Don't take this movie so seriously. I never thought this was going to be anything good. Just watch for the special effects.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone notice that when the plane landed in the eye of the hurricane, that the runway was nice and clean of debris and completely dry with shimmering heat waves rising?

WOW.


-Jeb

[chris_fit]

Don't take this movie so seriously. I never thought this was going to be anything good. Just watch for the special effects.

I can make better special effects with adobe premiere and after effects :-p

[GalvestonDuck]

I'm certainly not taking it seriously. I'm just wondering what the writer was on when he wrote it.

(While changing tire)
Dad -- "We're in the eye"
Garth --"We only have 14 minutes"

How'd the kid know how long the eye would last?

Thank goodness...only about 14 minutes left of the movie also.

[wxman57]

I'm certainly not taking it seriously. I'm just wondering what the writer was on when he wrote it.

(While changing tire)
Dad -- "We're in the eye"
Garth --"We only have 14 minutes"

How'd the kid know how long the eye would last?

Thank goodness...only about 14 minutes left of the movie also.

The kid was counting down the minutes until the plane landed, not the duration of the eye.

[GalvestonDuck]

LOL! Oh, okay...I thought that was a strange line.

I want those four hours of my life back!!!

[Anonymous]

What a terrible waste of my time. Oh well.....


-Jeb

[SouthernWx]

I didn't bother watching tonight....I was disgusted enough after wasting two hours of my life watching Sunday evening.

[TS Zack]

It was more of a Drama movie rather than a Action movie. I don't think the real main purpose was the weather but the story of the people.

[The Big Dog]

Ok, boys and girls, let's see how well I did...

-The guy gets back together with his wife. Duh, no brainer.

Like I said... duh.

-The girl's boyfriend dies when a wall/ceiling fan/garbage can falls on him.

Score! Ok, it was a beam from the glass ceiling, but the sentiment was there. Aww, and after he turned babyface, too. See ya, dirtbag.

-The news director sees that it's not about ratings after all.

Score! At the buzzer, on top of it.

The Bimbo Love Affair turns on the Smarmy Power Company Guy, who will get some kind of comeupance, probably from that Nice Energy Secretary Lady.

No need for this after Smarmy Guy got his. They invoked memories of at least two Bruce Willis movies in that scene.

A couple longshots:
-Bimbo Love Affair apologizes to Scorned Wife, wishes them the best.

Well, she wished them the best, but never met the wife. Do all extramarital affairs end this amicably?

-Whistleblower is offered a promotion, probably a position somewhere near the top of the company.

Now I completely missed the "Dan the Hacker" scenario. I had a hunch the hacker might be Smarmy Guy. Of course, after the Dan thing played out, they sorta had to kill him off.

BTW, 8pm is when the VCR starts. I don't plan on sitting through those 6-minute commerial breaks.

And let me reiterate this once again. If you have to suffer through this sap, why extend the pain?

A couple other notes:
- On at least one storm shot, I clearly saw palm trees in the background.
- Why did they show a waving hurricane warning flag? Why would Chicago own a hurricane warning flag?
- In one scene, a truck is thrown by a tornado into the side of a building. The truck explodes, pieces fly, fiery mess, yet the building sustained absolutely no damage.
- There also appeared to be a lot of sunshine during these storms. Is that normal for a Lake Michigan hurricane?

Alright... now I'm just being a smartass.

[Ixolib]

And let me reiterate this once again. If you have to suffer through this sap, why extend the pain?

A couple other notes:
- On at least one storm shot, I clearly saw palm trees in the background.
- Why did they show a waving hurricane warning flag? Why would Chicago own a hurricane warning flag?
- In one scene, a truck is thrown by a tornado into the side of a building. The truck explodes, pieces fly, fiery mess, yet the building sustained absolutely no damage.
- There also appeared to be a lot of sunshine during these storms. Is that normal for a Lake Michigan hurricane?

Yeah... Loved the palm trees in downtown Chicago!! And I believe the scene with the tattered gas station was the same shot taken during Charley in Punta Gorda!!

[Anonymous]

I thought Chicago was in the middle of a heat wave! So, why was the grass so verdantly green? Or does the grass not get dried out and brown during a Chicago heatwave?


-Jeb

[Anonymous]

Oh, I have another problem with this farce movie.

When the plane was flying through the "hurricane", I never saw one solitary cirrus cloud. Hurricanes have a central dense overcast. This was a hurricane, wasn't it? I think it was supposed to be a hurricane! So, WHERE WAS THE CENTRAL DENSE OVERCAST? Where was the cirrus/cirrostratus overcast?

Oh, okay. Great Lakes hurricanes don't have cirrus clouds. Great Lakes hurricanes don't have warm air exhaust and outflow channels. Hmm, these Midwestern hurricanes must be fueled by cold air LOL!!!!

Geesh, I really don't know what to make of this Midwestern hurricane. Or the crackhead movie director.

-Jeb

[mikey mike]

CBS missed a great opportunity to make a really good comedy.

[cycloneye]

The only thing that was good were the special effects but the rest I give it an F.

[boca]

When they showed Hurricane footage I saw a brief glimpse of palm trees. Where did they get the footage and theirs no palm trees in Chicago. Looked like footage of Florida or Caribbean Islands.