Stupidest movie ever made. Criminally stupid.

[HalloweenGale]

GRACE was a CAT 2 hurricane

[HalloweenGale]

there was a special on the Discovery channel called "The Storm" i wonder if it will ever be on again?

[kevin]

I'm a sucker for poo tv....

Still no reponse to the "anyone know when this will air" post ???

This sounds like damn fine entertainment..and I'll have you know that aside from the glass elevator scene in "The Towering Inferno", the elderly mountain woman having her legs eaten away by the sulfuric acid produced by Dante's Peak while pushing Peirce Brosnon in a canoe was quite possibly one of the finest cinematic moments ever captured on film...

Naysayers....

Bravo!

[The Big Dog]

Oh man... I have to see this. I haven't seen really bad weather cinema since that POS tornado flick Dabney Coleman starred in a couple years back that showed up on Pax. What a turd...
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edit: not Coleman... it was Gerald McRaney. Eh, they kinda look the same.

[The Big Dog]

At least Twister is a little more....believable.

I love Earth Science, but the following movies really make me angry:

Maximum Velocity (Grrrrrrr)
10.5 (Grrrrrrrr)
The Core (wtf?...the core stopped spinning?? Ooh! And the Earth is a gigantic Geode!!!! )
Dante's Peak (Grrrrrr)
Generally any Sci-Fi channel movie that deals with weather/geology (ie....Ice, Deep Core, etc.) Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........

10.5 was the classic train wreck -- as bad as it was, you just couldn't turn away. Invested two hours of my life in it, so I might as well stick around for Part 2. BTW, I did successfully predict that the two scientists would kiss before the end.

Ice was bad, but not nearly as bad as Inferno.

[HalloweenGale]

the storm was part of that inside guide series. the reason they made GRACE a cat. 5 is because they wanted the element of surprise, but in reality it was a cat 2 storm.

[Cookiely]

I love Volcano. I've watched it so much I wore out one tape and started on another.

[Stormsfury]

the storm was part of that inside guide series. the reason they made GRACE a cat. 5 is because they wanted the element of surprise, but in reality it was a cat 2 storm.

Actually, you're right ... Grace was analyzed on best track plots to have reached 100 MPH winds before becoming extratropical 6 hours later (85 MPH) ...

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Storm GRACE       is number  7 of the year 1991
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Month    Day   Hour    Lat.   Long.     Dir.    ----Speed-----   -----Wind------  Pressure  ------------Type-----------
October   25  18 UTC   27.1N  64.9W    -- deg   -- mph  -- kph    30 mph  45 kph  1008 mb   Subtropical Storm             
October   26   0 UTC   27.1N  65.2W   270 deg    2 mph   3 kph    35 mph  55 kph  1007 mb   Subtropical Storm             
October   26   6 UTC   27.2N  65.5W   290 deg    2 mph   3 kph    40 mph  65 kph  1005 mb   Subtropical Storm             
October   26  12 UTC   27.3N  66.0W   285 deg    4 mph   7 kph    40 mph  65 kph  1002 mb   Subtropical Storm             
October   26  18 UTC   27.5N  66.5W   295 deg    4 mph   7 kph    45 mph  75 kph   997 mb   Subtropical Storm             
October   27   0 UTC   28.1N  67.1W   320 deg    9 mph  14 kph    50 mph  85 kph   993 mb   Subtropical Storm             
October   27   6 UTC   28.9N  66.9W    10 deg    9 mph  14 kph    60 mph  95 kph   990 mb   Subtropical Storm             
October   27  12 UTC   29.8N  66.4W    25 deg   10 mph  16 kph    65 mph 100 kph   988 mb   Subtropical Storm             
October   27  18 UTC   30.8N  67.2W   325 deg   13 mph  22 kph    70 mph 110 kph   987 mb   Tropical Storm               
October   28   0 UTC   31.6N  68.1W   315 deg   12 mph  20 kph    75 mph 120 kph   985 mb   Hurricane - Category 1       
October   28   6 UTC   32.2N  68.5W   330 deg    6 mph  11 kph    75 mph 120 kph   983 mb   Hurricane - Category 1       
October   28  12 UTC   32.3N  68.5W     0 deg    0 mph   0 kph    75 mph 120 kph   983 mb   Hurricane - Category 1       
October   28  18 UTC   32.4N  67.8W    80 deg    5 mph   9 kph    75 mph 120 kph   982 mb   Hurricane - Category 1       
October   29   0 UTC   31.8N  66.8W   125 deg   11 mph  18 kph    80 mph 130 kph   980 mb   Hurricane - Category 1       
October   29   6 UTC   31.6N  65.3W   100 deg   13 mph  22 kph    85 mph 140 kph   981 mb   Hurricane - Category 1       
October   29  12 UTC   31.5N  63.2W    95 deg   19 mph  31 kph   100 mph 160 kph   982 mb   Hurricane - Category 2       
October   29  18 UTC   32.5N  59.0W    75 deg   41 mph  66 kph    85 mph 140 kph    -- mb   Extratropical Storm           
 


[Guest]

Was ice the one where there was a sunspot and the world froze? if so, yes it was pretty dumb. Was Inferno the one where there was a solar flare and the country baked? if so, that was stupid too. 10.5 was sooooo dumb. Didnt see the 500mph cane one tho. I thought Dante's Peak was a good movie and I also liked Volcano. The Core blew as well.

[Ixolib]

Yeah... it was stupid - but it still begs the question, "What killed Earl?"

[The Big Dog]

Was ice the one where there was a sunspot and the world froze? if so, yes it was pretty dumb. Was Inferno the one where there was a solar flare and the country baked?

Right on both. Interesting how similar phenomena can have opposite effects. I must have skipped class that day.

Found a good review on Ice right here: http://www.reelcriticism.com/ziggyrealm ... s/ice.html

[iwanttoknowwhy]

Well if you watched the whole movie you would have known that you are incorrect in saying that the two people parachuted into antartic. Go check your facts on the movie again they pulled the hurricane north into cooler waters. They were in Greenland. To prove my point why would there be a Russian weather station be in antartica?

[Stormsfury]

Well if you watched the whole movie you would have known that you are incorrect in saying that the two people parachuted into antartic. Go check your facts on the movie again they pulled the hurricane north into cooler waters. They were in Greenland. To prove my point why would there be a Russian weather station be in antartica?

I can't debate you on the movie, BUT there are several Russian weather stations on Antarctica ... Vostok is probably the most well-known since it holds the world's lowest recorded temperature at -126.9ºF

[DoctorHurricane2003]

Greenland isn't Russian....it's Danish.

[HalloweenGale]

several hurricanes have ended up in Greenland, well as extratropical storms though.

[tailgater]

FYI Storm fury pamela anderson chest is real all real. But cows and pigs don't fly.

[KeyLargoDave]

Well if you watched the whole movie you would have known that you are incorrect in saying that the two people parachuted into antartic. Go check your facts on the movie again they pulled the hurricane north into cooler waters. They were in Greenland. To prove my point why would there be a Russian weather station be in antartica?

You're right. I....um...just couldn't be sorry.er.

Interesting discussion though!

[FritzPaul]

Another terrible movie I had the unfortunate displeasure of watching 10min. of was I think called "Atomic Twister" on USA network. I think Sheri Lawrence was in it. Out of all the HW weather movies that one took the cake for crappiness.

Acting was bad, story was bad, characters were bad!

[The Big Dog]

Another terrible movie I had the unfortunate displeasure of watching 10min. of was I think called "Atomic Twister" on USA network. I think Sheri Lawrence was in it. Out of all the HW weather movies that one took the cake for crappiness.

Acting was bad, story was bad, characters were bad!

Oh, good eye. Forgot about that one. She was also in Earthquake in New York, which wasn't bad for a made-for-TV network movie of the week. Don't blame the actors, though -- they have nothing to work with. You have to wonder what they are thinking as they stumble through these asinine scripts.

Speaking of which, that McRaney turkey I mentioned earlier was called Tornado Warning. Two hours of my life I'll never get back. I mean, there's decent cheesy sci-fi, and then there's the out-of-work-actor-shows-up-at-the-studio-with-nothing-better-to-do movie. Except for a couple of ball games, I think that might be the only thing I've ever watched on Pax.