Which movie is worse?

DoctorHurricane2003 · #1 Postby **DoctorHurricane2003** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:32 pm

I think it's pretty much a toss-up...one has a category 5 hurricane heading down Lake Michigan...the other has a 500 KT hurricane.

Hmmm....

Oh let's not forget that when they showed the hurricane in Category 6...it was a tornado...and that satellite pictures come from the ground...

The Big Dog · #2 Postby **The Big Dog** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:38 pm

I'll watch part 1 of Cat 6 tonight on tape, but I can't imagine it could possibly be worse than Maximum Velocity. That was just a bad movie, regardless of what it was about.

Scorpion · #3 Postby **Scorpion** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:06 pm

Ugh I really hope they rerun Cat 6 soon, I want to see how bad a movie it is. Im sorry CBS that I have enough things to do on Saturday night to not be sitting in front of a TV. I really want to see Maximum Velocity too. I think I probably would like that one better.

SouthernWx · #4 Postby **SouthernWx** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:58 pm

I haven't seen Maximum Velocity, but it has to really be bad to be worse than Category 6: Day of Destruction.....which is the worst weather related movie I've ever seen (and one of the worst movies I've ever witnessed about any subject :roll:

102° at 8:15 a.m. in Chicago?
Twin F5 tornadoes in Las Vegas? Showing a video of a snowplow and calling it "satellite photos" of a snowstorm? National Weather "administration"? I have better dreams about storms than these writers produced while awake...it wreaks! :eek:

cyclonaut · #5 Postby **cyclonaut** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 11:16 pm

Yeah 2 F5s in Las Vegas & the NWS guy says they didnt see it coming or something to the effect..& now whats the conclusion going to be??? A hurricane type storm in the Great Lakes going to Chicago??? SILLY STUFF!!

Scorpion · #6 Postby **Scorpion** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:02 pm

Why oh why did they have to name it Category 6? Last time I checked hurricanes don't form over land. Was the hurricane in the movie 300 mph or something? And 96 MB? Wouldn't that create a Day After Tomorrow Like event?

Anonymous · #7 Postby **Anonymous** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:06 pm

Day of Destruction was terrible. Whoever heard of a CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE moving down Lake Michigan from the North! :roll:

The producer of that farce needs to get off the crack pronto.

-Jeb

Anonymous · #8 Postby **Anonymous** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:10 pm

Scorpion wrote:Why oh why did they have to name it Category 6? Last time I checked hurricanes don't form over land. Was the hurricane in the movie 300 mph or something? And 96 MB? Wouldn't that create a Day After Tomorrow Like event?

I've been thinking about the 96mb. I'm no atmospheric scientist, but I thought about that......Isn't the normal atmospheric pressure something like 1010mb? Okay, so 1010mb is our baseline pressure. So 96mb would be a bit less than a tenth of 1010mb. Hmmmm......I think that would make for some mighty thin air, wouldn't it? Like people caught out at 96mb air pressure would be dead, not enough air pressure to sustain them?

Or am I dead wrong here and just as clueless as the producer of this farce movie?

-Jeb

GalvestonDuck · #9 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:35 pm

And to think, I used to rank "Kingpin" as the worst ever movie in my opinion.

SouthernWx · #10 Postby **SouthernWx** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:03 pm

I'm waiting for the next CBS weather disaster flick. I hear it's more realistic

Rumor is it's titled "Mush to Miami!!", and is the story of a horrific blizzard in south Florida.

"Two dedicated Canadian Mounties and hundreds of Alaskan sled dog teams rush southward in an desperate attempt to save lives when a freak shutdown of the Gulf Stream leaves suddenly frigid Miami Beach covered by 40" of snow...with drifts 15-20' high" :lol:

Reportedly the highlight of the movie is when the two Mounties (played by Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw) manage to save dozens of frostbitten beach babes....with assistance from former Miami Dolphins head coach Jimmy Johnson and a moody retired lifeguard (played by David Hasselhoff :lol:

Veteran Miami tv meteorologist Bryan Norcross and NHC Director Max Mayfield have supporting roles as stunned forecasters when the snow begins to fly. I've even sneaked a peek at the script

(phone rings at the National Hurricane Center)..

Mayfield: "Bryan, I've never seen anything like it. It may become a cat-5 noreaster off Andros Island".

Norcross: "OH MY GOD"!!..."OH MY GOD"!!!..."OH NO"!!

Mayfield: "Bryan"!..."get ahold of yourself man, this isn't the end of the world".

Norcross: "Maybe not for you Dr Mayfield, but I forecast 80° degrees and sunny skies on South Beach today....I'm toast"!

Mayfield: "Dear lord Bryan". I'm so sorry...I didn't know".

******just kidding folks...but I told you my dreams about storms were better than "Days of Destruction" :lol:

The Big Dog · #11 Postby **The Big Dog** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:09 am

Of course you know that you have most of the cast of Fox's NFL studio show, so it's obviously a Fox movie. It's their turn for weather drama during sweeps months, anyway. So it's either this or "Who Wants to Marry a Death Row Inmate" or something just as disturbing. Might have trouble getting CBS to release Norcross, however.

SouthernWx · #12 Postby **SouthernWx** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:49 am

In all honesty, I picked the FOX NFL crew because they are so full of hot air. If anyone could melt 40" of snow and save the day, it's definitely Terry Bradshaw and Jimmy Johnson (and speaking of hot air, where's Jimmy Kimmel?...he'd be perfect for this flick :lol:

cyclonaut · #13 Postby **cyclonaut** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:20 pm

SouthernWx wrote:I'm waiting for the next CBS weather disaster flick. I hear it's more realistic

Rumor is it's titled "Mush to Miami!!", and is the story of a horrific blizzard in south Florida.

"Two dedicated Canadian Mounties and hundreds of Alaskan sled dog teams rush southward in an desperate attempt to save lives when a freak shutdown of the Gulf Stream leaves suddenly frigid Miami Beach covered by 40" of snow...with drifts 15-20' high"

Reportedly the highlight of the movie is when the two Mounties (played by Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw) manage to save dozens of frostbitten beach babes....with assistance from former Miami Dolphins head coach Jimmy Johnson and a moody retired lifeguard (played by David Hasselhoff

Veteran Miami tv meteorologist Bryan Norcross and NHC Director Max Mayfield have supporting roles as stunned forecasters when the snow begins to fly. I've even sneaked a peek at the script

(phone rings at the National Hurricane Center)..

Mayfield: "Bryan, I've never seen anything like it. It may become a cat-5 noreaster off Andros Island".

Norcross: "OH MY GOD"!!..."OH MY GOD"!!!..."OH NO"!!

Mayfield: "Bryan"!..."get ahold of yourself man, this isn't the end of the world".

Norcross: "Maybe not for you Dr Mayfield, but I forecast 80° degrees and sunny skies on South Beach today....I'm toast"!

Mayfield: "Dear lord Bryan". I'm so sorry...I didn't know".

******just kidding folks...but I told you my dreams about storms were better than "Days of Destruction"

LOL!!! Funny stuff SouthernWx!! :lol:

#14 Postby **melhow** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:20 pm

DoctorHurricane2003 wrote:I think it's pretty much a toss-up...one has a category 5 hurricane heading down Lake Michigan...the other has a 500 KT hurricane.

Hmmm....

Oh let's not forget that when they showed the hurricane in Category 6...it was a tornado...and that satellite pictures come from the ground...

Where did this other (500kt) hurricane movie air??? and how did I miss it???

#15 Postby **Cookiely** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:41 pm

melhow wrote:
DoctorHurricane2003 wrote:I think it's pretty much a toss-up...one has a category 5 hurricane heading down Lake Michigan...the other has a 500 KT hurricane.

Hmmm....

Oh let's not forget that when they showed the hurricane in Category 6...it was a tornado...and that satellite pictures come from the ground...

Where did this other (500kt) hurricane movie air??? and how did I miss it???

It was at the tail end of hurricane season.

#16 Postby **melhow** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:48 pm

Cookiely wrote:
melhow wrote:
DoctorHurricane2003 wrote:I think it's pretty much a toss-up...one has a category 5 hurricane heading down Lake Michigan...the other has a 500 KT hurricane.

Hmmm....

Oh let's not forget that when they showed the hurricane in Category 6...it was a tornado...and that satellite pictures come from the ground...

Where did this other (500kt) hurricane movie air??? and how did I miss it???

It was at the tail end of hurricane season.

Oh Yeah...was it on the SciFi network?

#17 Postby **HURAKAN** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 3:19 pm

I think both movies are worth critizising from a scientific point, but not from a science fiction point, and that was their purpose. The creators of the movies probably didn't want the public to look at these movies from a scientific point but from a science fiction point. I would call these "MAGICAL REALISM," which means that even though its could be "magical" it's based on real events that happens, for example, even though a hurricane would not form over the Great Lakes area, it exist over other water bodies around the world. That's "MAGICAL REALISM."

Stormsfury · #18 Postby **Stormsfury** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 3:47 pm

There was another movie with unrealistic barometric pressures (The Philadelphia Experiment) where the time line portal created a monster low pressure that was in the negative numbers ... and was depicted to be pulling things into it (dust, etc, etc.), although the movie itself (and the real story line behind the concept was quite good) ...

29.92" (average sea level pressure or roughly 1013 mb) ... 96mb would equate to a low pressure storm system comparable or even greater than (although, uncomprehensable on Earth) the Day After Tomorrow depiction and create winds equal to or greater than found on Neptune (average equatorial winds on Neptune exceed 1,100 mph) ... so basically, I don't think you would have to worry about being able to breathe, b/c the winds would definitely do you in ...

Jeb wrote:
Scorpion wrote:Why oh why did they have to name it Category 6? Last time I checked hurricanes don't form over land. Was the hurricane in the movie 300 mph or something? And 96 MB? Wouldn't that create a Day After Tomorrow Like event?

I've been thinking about the 96mb. I'm no atmospheric scientist, but I thought about that......Isn't the normal atmospheric pressure something like 1010mb? Okay, so 1010mb is our baseline pressure. So 96mb would be a bit less than a tenth of 1010mb. Hmmmm......I think that would make for some mighty thin air, wouldn't it? Like people caught out at 96mb air pressure would be dead, not enough air pressure to sustain them?

Or am I dead wrong here and just as clueless as the producer of this farce movie?

-Jeb