10.5 Anyone watch it? TMTT Goes Ebert on this one

[ToolManTimTaylor]

First off I was going to puke from the HORRIBLE filming angles and constant uneeded zooming in / out on whatever "Important" character was speaking. God it was like watching a 6 year olds best handywork at a video camera. The plot is well just ehhhh but somehow had my attention the whole time. Probably because I devoted the first five minutes to it and was comfy on the couch and the cat was layin on my feet. I need to see the conclusion tomorrow but I really need to prepare for more pathettic acting and constant zooming commonly found in a right guard commercial. I dearly hope that the conclusion is better than the opener as tomorrow I WILL have the remote in hand.



http://www.nbc.com/nbc/10.5

 

[RKepler]

I watched the first 10 minutes and couldn't take anymore when the electricity was on and the phones were still working after the quake. Between that and Beau Bridges, I have to pass on this one.....

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

Ah, TMTT, just have a 6 pack or so bout a half our before it starts tonite. Might take the edge off... ... . :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

yesterday was a good couch potato day. watched matrix 1,2 & 3 back to back, then king of the hill x2 and simpsons x2 then alias and then undersiege2... too much tv



10. 5 didn't really interest me...

 

[Jumbo Jet]

I told my wife the movie "Airplane" was much better!



I kind of watched both episodes.



Dumb.



They stole some stuff from "Independence Day".



All the movie really needed was Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett and then it would have been the absolute worse movie in the world!



The only redeeming character was the black doctor that chose to buy the 911 Turbo instead of a larger house for his wife and two boys!



I never did see how Luke Duke got out of that sink hole. I was snoozing by then. He did have a cute 'daughter'.

 

[michigandon]

Thanks for reminding me why I seldom tune into the networks anymore.

 

[ndurbin]

The part with the train at the begining was really corny. To me it looked like they just shook the camera around instead of making the scene shake.



He got outta the sink hole by smashing out the rear window and digging his way out with that pack shovel.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

And the worst part is that he could have just gone thru the sunroof.

 

[mgonske]

I thought he did go through the sunroof (after breaking it out)?



The first night was an adequately distracting piece of entertainment, although marred by the nagging questions of how they'd deal with some of the implausible options sure to come in part II. By 15 minutes into Part II, I was in agony over the ridiculous absurdities, and in need of pencil and paper to keep track of them all (I didn't bother, although I watched it all the way through just out of morbid fascination).



The biggest most obvious absurdity is the thought that SoCal could be evacuated, period--never mind in one day. Surely everyone involveled with making this has tried to get out of the LA basin for a normal weekend, much less a holiday one. So sure, they blew the whistle, said go, and within hours people from LA arrived in Barstow (what happened to the several million people in between who jumped on the freeways and created instant gridlock?). Then, once the doc and his family arrived at "the" tent city (for what, 20 million people?) from different origins, he was able to just walk around amonst the masses and find his wife. Of course, they hadn't only come from SoCal--the Gov's ex, who had gone North from Sacramento to go camping, hitched a ride on a passing truck and ended up in Barstow in the same timeframe. The there's the director of FEMA who helicoptered around to personally supervise six different bomb sites stretched from Washington to San Diego all on the same day.



Like I said, morbid fascination (and foolish time-wasting) allowed me to sit through the two hours of all that nonsense.