TV Guide online has a critique on the movie, on their daily column The Watercooler. The reviewer brings up a good point: if power is out, just how are residents watching the wacked out news reporter's segments? A handful of people with battery operated TV's and in my case, I'd have my trusty Sony TV/Radio/WxBand radio on (ah, but I wouldn't get to see her, just hear her, which might be worse, OMG I couldn't see what's coming, we're DOOMED I tell ya)....okay I'll get a grip....read on. LOL
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http://www.tvguide.com/tv/watercooler/
Category 6: Day of Destruction
So. Much. To. Say.
First Vegas gets taken out by tornadoes, and then nobody seems to mention it much after that. I mean, it was only the 30th most populous city in the U.S., not even a top 10 or anything, right? (Yes, I looked that up.) Who cares? We've got Dharma's Greg, The Facts of Life's Jo, plus Brian Dennehy and Randy Quaid? And there's a good chance any one of them — or, dare I hope, all of them — could get blown to hell? This is gonna be better than sex.
Not even 10 minutes in, Dennehy says he's retiring from his Emergency Weather Guy job, so his chances of surviving are looking mighty bleak. (Later, he complains about the office coffee, which doesn't change his odds at all, but it's still a beauty of a moment, cliché-wise.) Meanwhile, Electricity Guy Greg makes his teenage daughter go back upstairs to put on something decent before he heads to work and unloads this doozy: "I'd say good morning, but that has yet to be determined. Give me a status report, Bob." And that's after Journalist Jo yells that she wants to report the stories that matter, and before Quaid shows up as the crazy storm chaser. The writers are setting a triteness pace that'll be hard to maintain, but I believe in them.
"If there is at least a suspicion that a hacker is sabotaging our power system, don't you think the public has a right to know?" asks Journalist Jo. (So this is a hacker movie and a deadly-weather flick? Thank you, TV gods!)
Doesn't the co-pilot of that endangered airliner look just like Barry Diller? And hey, Weather Guy Dennehy just mentioned the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald! Y'know, the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. (I know all the words, but will spare you the rest. My wife, however, will now have to weather my best Gordon Lightfoot for the next 10 minutes.)
Say, if no one in town's got power, who's gonna watch Journalist Jo's story on TV?
"This could be a category five... or worse," Dennehy says. (Anyone want to bet me how much worse? No looking at the title!) Then he and Quaid agree their guts are telling them the same thing about the storm. (Well, they've gotta be telling them really loud — just look at those guts!)
How prescient are their tummies? Only Part Two can tell us for sure.
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Now wasn't that a funny review? Made my day. Glad I watched this silly movie now. Sometimes you just need to watch a movie like this. A mini-break from reality! LOL
I laughed at how he kept referring to the reporter as Journalist Jo!!!! Shawn - did you laugh at that too? Perfect nic for her.
Mary
