TV Movie: Asteroid (part II)
After the main fragment hits:
1) It does appear to explode with the force of a nuke (good), BUT people on foot are able to outrun it (nit).
2) The doctor couple's house has been trashed, a fragment has exploded nearby. When they get up, there is a computer monitor sitting on the desk, perfectly clean and unbroken.
This had someof the worst special effects
I've ever seen. The astroid hits a dam (yawn),
the streets get flooded (and very cheaply too)
(yawn). and i forget what the ending was like :)
Most made-for-TV disaster flicks are pretty lame. I only saw a few bits of this one, and I remember that the lights on top of Reunion Tower (Dallas) were the wrong color.
I think this is the one where I saw clouds of breath coming from the actor's mouths -- only it was supposed to take place in Dallas. In July.
(additional) This one was also instrumental in my realization that just because I started watching something, I don't necessarily have to finish it.
Some of the worst special effects?
A thought most of them were great! The destruction of Dallas was spectacular. The dam burst and street flooding were well done too. The scenes of the pickup truck trying to outrun the oncoming wall of water was suspenseful and fun. The explosion of the asteriod was impressive (as was the resulting shock wave). The same with the exploding tanker in the beginning.
It was nice to see some traditional model work in this age of overuse of CGI.
Asteriod had the same fault of most miniseries: it could have been better told in two hours instead of four. The exta padding consisted of dreary survivors and talk, talk, talk...
And what's more is that there are so many stories out there that could benefit from the longer format and they waste it on so many movies of the week padded to 4 hours (actually 3 hours once you consider commercials.)
One could also ask; "With so many stories left unfilmed, should drivel such as Battlestar:Galactica be remade?"
Oh no, you had to slip that one in didn't you?
Is this the TV movie in which they presented as newscasts? Apparently, like with the 1938 radio broadcast of War Of The Worlds, some people thought this was real!
I remember Jay Leno poking fun as this in one of his monologues. He said that all people had to do was change the channel over to ABC. I think that, had a killer asteroid been heading for Earth, ABC would not have been showing America's Funniest Home Videos!
Tim, that happened with "Special Bulletin". Set in Charleston, SC. Apparently some locals thought it was real.
Thanks, Butch.
I never saw the movie in question, but I did see Jay Leno's aforementioned monologue.