By Rona in the "Category 6:Day of Destruction" topic on Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 08:27 am:
...sounds like a possibility for a sequel; "Category 7: The Wrath of the Tornado Rider's Ghost".

Congratulations to Rona for your prescience. I see tonight is the premiere of "Category 7: The End of the World", a sequel to "Category 6". From the little I read on it, Randy Quaid makes a return appearance!

Oh, I just can't wait to see how bad this one is going to be. Without knowing anything else but the above and the fact that it is heading for Washington DC, can I make some predictions about this one?

The President will be very concerned and won't want to leave Washington until the very last possible moment.

There will be some politico that will naysay the possible damage, and will ultimately be proven wrong, and most likely die an extreme death.

An old couple will die together.

If it's going from Chicago to Washington, whatever major landmark between those points will be destroyed.

I really hope the network doesn't do what they usually do. That is, spoil the next segment by showing a preview for it right before the commercial.

OH it will be much worse than that. According to the promos I've seen on tv a lot of major landmarks get destroyed. I mean George Washington's face fell off Mt Rushmore and was seen rolling down the hill. The Statue of Liberty had the torch fly off and I think the Eiffel Tower was blown up by lightning.

Oh man this one is so far over the top it is beyond funny. I think they have out done themselves in including just about every cliche and sterotype available. I am not sure if there is any point in nitpicking this movie as the whole thing is so outlandish its almost like nitpicking monty python.

I mean bad science:
george's head freezing off so fast like that.
Bubba surviving the supernado and subsequent fall into lake michigan is rather stretching it. (Not that I mind as he certainly helps this movie)
The killer frogs that just touching them kills you. That happened to be held in an easily escapable habitat around high officials.
The storm surge that washed over the Statue of Liberty. What is it with storms that they always have to be able to wash over the top of the statue.

Then the characters:
The suspicious wife, the old flame the over the top televangelist and his hypocritical mercinarial wife (Who I was rooting for her to go run to her husband when he became nearer to his god.) the underfunded plucky scientist, the grizzeled air force veteran. The list just goes on and on. Not to mention all the rather mindless redshirt extras who have the panic easily ability. (also what about pot dude who steals their truck then comes back. That guy should have been halfway to mexico before the next commercial break.)

Things I do like are seeing the SR-71 in a movie again. (even if they are stretching the abilities of the plane, a bit)
The F-150 of Bubba's (Tornado Tommy but he just fits the genius bubba description so well) looks cool. But an extra 1500 pounds of ballast? Wow! I sure don't want to have to pay their fuel bill, not to mention able to drive from detroit to new york that fast. Must be using the big engine. (any one notice who sponsored the show wink wink)

And what is it with the MTV/CSI Miami style fancy shots of people and storms and thigns and just I dunno how to explain it but you should be able to know what I am talking about. If anyone else watched it.

Mty wife and I are watchign it for the laughs as this is just so funny it should be listed as a comedy (of course we like a lot of low budget movies as well as big budget ones) The only thing I gotta ask is wher eis Lucy Lawless. She should be in this.

This is not only bad, but worse than I thought it could be. I wish I'd laid out my predicted plot more thoroughly but I'll save that for "11.5 - The Bigger One". No, I don't know if they are really making that one.

Bubba (Tornado Tommy) surviving the supernado and subsequent fall into lake michigan is rather stretching it. (Not that I mind as he certainly helps this movie)

Yes, I think Randy Quaid is the only remotely interesting character in this whole thing. Now, they are talking about the Chicago storm moving to the east coast, so I assume that this occurs in the space of days within the first movie. Yet TT begins in the hospital bed wired up to all sorts of contraptions, with a head brace on, no less, yet gets to leave wearing only a neck brace. He then takes that off because it itches and is none the worse for wear.

I don't care one whit for any of the other characters.

And what is it with the MTV/CSI Miami style fancy shots of people and storms and thigns and just I dunno how to explain it but you should be able to know what I am talking about. If anyone else watched it.

I had the impression they were going for a CSI-style of filming, even though I don't watch that show. The jump-cuts, swish-pans, and slow-motion just randomly inserted was unsettling and weird at best, and annoying at worst.

For this being the End of The World, everything seems to be very US-centric (except for the set-pieces in Paris and Egypt).

My concern above came true. But now, they are not only showing previews before the commercial break, but after, right before the show comes back on!

I'm so glad I got some cleaning done during this movie. Now if only I could clean it from my brain.

You'll want to know that "10.5: Apocalypse" is going to be on NBC after Thanksgiving, complete with a wall of water going down The Strip in Las Vegas and Hoover Dam being breached.

You'll want to know that "10.5: Apocalypse" is going to be on NBC after Thanksgiving.

I thought your post above was a joke. But it's not!

Yes! The low budget movie. The gift that keeps on giving.

Yeash Randy Quaid's character is one of the best in the movie and that is not a good sign. And apparently he is related to wolverine or something with his regeneration.

Although shannon dougherty can still launch a rocket for me. Her character is a bit like the others one tracked, one sideded and one dimensional personality.

I should have said CSI miami as they have a tendency to do the slow mo and wierd colors. CSI will do the follow the bullet through the wound and all. I keep forgetting with all the different csi's goign on to differentiate. But yeah whatever they where trying for it just seemed like a bad LSD trip at times at best and totally jarring at others.

And as for all the destruction being US centric you should know by now that the US is the center of the world. At least to hollywood. (maybe DC too. ;-) )

Which brings me to a nit I guess. Or at least a really big hunh? The pyramids hav ebeen around for quite some time, the sphinx is carved out of a single hill of stone. Even a cat 6 supernado shouldnt really be able to blow chunks of the pyramids apart. At least with George at Mt Rushmore they had his head freeze off (in a matter of so short a time that the park rangers standing on his head should have been ice carvings before hand but oh well)

Maybe they are showing the previews before and after the commercials because they are afraid of blowing too many brain cells up with this. :-)

You know what would be a scary idea for them to combine the hurricane/tornado cat 6-7 with the earthquake 10.5 movie and maybe throw in a few man eating locusts with vampire bats as well. Just so they can have lucy lawless come in and save the world!

I missed the first half, but from what I read, Quaid survived the tornado by falling into Lake Michigan!

The sequel is even more lightweight than its predecessor. The excessive quick-cuts and editing make "Armageddon" look restrained in comparison. The part with the speeded-up Churchgoers looked like it belonged in a Benny Hill skit. I also thought the preacher character was presented as a rather mean-spirited put down of Red State values. Was this post-election resentment put on screen?

The effects were unimpressive. Speeded-up clouds in the skies. And that tidal wave hitting New York. Come on, we just saw the same thing done a million times better in "The Day After Tomorrow". Did we really need to see that again.

Questions:
When is part 2? It's not my tv schedule for Teusday or Wednesday. Is it on next Sunday?

What is Category 8? ... A Nuclear War?
And What's Category 9? ...An asteroid hitting?
And what about Category 10? Is that a planet colliding with Earth as in "When Worlds Collide".

Part 2 is scheduled for the same time slot next sunday. Same bat channel, same bat time.

What is Category 8? ... A Nuclear War?
And What's Category 9? ...An asteroid hitting?
And what about Category 10? Is that a planet colliding with Earth as in "When Worlds Collide".

Don't even ask, or they'll make the movie.

At least with "10.5" we got to see someplace different than the usual New York or LA destruction scenarios; Seattle's Space Needle was destroyed. That film basically repeated what had already been done in The Core; the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge. In Category 7, we again witness New York being hit by a tidal wave. We'd already seen that in "Day After Tomorrow". I wish someone would get the message to the Networks, "Can we have a little more originality once in a while".

And What's Category 9? ...An asteroid hitting?

I forgot, we had that film twice in 1998. See Deep Impact and Armageddon

In Category 7, we again witness New York being hit by a tidal wave. We'd already seen that in Day After Tomorrow.

Also in the aforementioned Deep Impact.

Don't even ask about the upcoming TV remake of The Poseidon Adventure

I just had a thought watching the commercials. Tommy's truck is a ford. The sponsor is ford. The last we saw NY was goign under at least 10' of water. Anyone wanna take bets on tommy's truck not even having the floormats be soaked? Much less be wrapped around a light pole with goldfish in the cab?

Used car dealers would still sell the flooded-out truck. Just look what they did with all those cars in New Orleans.

Rona I work for a used car dealership as a detailer/head lot tech/apprentice mechanic (that is now my official job title/description) and not all dealership are like that. Some are. Mine is somewhere in between. As-is though does mean as is. And that is what a carfax report is for.

I've found this site, an overview of a lot of disaster flicks. The outlines are a bit simplistic, but it did jar my memory about some pics I had forgotten about (maybe on purpose.)

Nice site with some great pics!

Very interesting. Shows how some themes keep coming back to haunt you and how osmetimes there is an original and great thought. Which is then promptly beaten to chunky salsa and driven into the ground.

Part II. Not just bad. Unspeakably bad. Horrible.

I have never, ever hated a TV presentation so much, or felt more violated than having wasted four hours watching this POS. (Why didn't I turn it off? A little endurance is good for you...)

While not all my predictions from last week came true, I nailed this one:There will be some politico that will naysay the possible damage, and will ultimately be proven wrong, and most likely die an extreme death.


The whole "captured teenagers" thing was painful to watch, with the two guys arguing about every decision about how to escape. By the fifth time I yelled "Stop arguing and get the **** out of there!" And how nice that they found a huge air vent hidden behind some barrels, even though they had been stuck in that room for hours.

The other characters were extremely vapid, with Randy Quaid again the only one showing some semblance of life. But getting Shannon Dougherty in the end? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

There was no magical solution except for turning the power off all over the city. The storm has been building and building, but when they hit that magical temperature, it dissipated in literally five seconds.

Note to creators -- if you are going to call your program "The End of the World", you better **** well show the end of the ******* world!!!!

"Not just bad. Unspeakably bad."

Couldn't have said it better myself. This disaster 'epic' is the worst disaster film I've ever seen. This makes Irwin Allen's "When Time Ran Out" look like a classic.

I hope this film isn't a warning of things to come in the future. The film's quick-cut editing style and 'action-every-two-minutes' plot really seemed to be aimed for what teens want. That is , those teens with attention-deficit disorder. Constant running and blowing wind (with paper and leaves) for two hours are enough to put anyone in a trance.

Cat 7 is so devoid of characterization, or depth or any kind to the characters, that's it's impossible to care about the characters. How can any film not take advantage of having the wonderful Gina Gershon in its cast! And talk of needless and uninteresting plots. Who found the kidnapping by the religious fanatics interesting?

The film is also loaded with more lame one-liners than "Batman and Robin". "I've been touched" exclaims Mr. Quaid. So have viewers, they've been clobbered over the head with the film's awfulness. Ms. Dougherty responds that she's "not immortal". Daddy then proceeds to her. Lovely. Gina's admirer also can't resist telling her that she's "a hot mom".

Not to complain about the same thing again, but what do we get to see this time...the White House being destroyed. I guess for the two people who haven't seen "Independence Day", that might seem fresh.

...and the whole bit about the FEMA director being relieved of his duties seemed eerily familiar. Where have I heard that before?

Can people really ber locked inside tour busses like in this movie? Where's the emergency exits?

Catagory 11: Earthquakes, sink holes, tornadoes, dinosaurs made of fire, and asteroids. They may even have hurricanes