This one is on tonight - the sequel to 10.5: The Big One. I can't imagine why they didn't just bump it up to 10.6 or even 11.0, but maybe that was too ridiculous even for them.

Naaaaaahh...

Considering how preposterous the first one was (National Geographic TV even featured it in its "Movie Physics" program, as an example of what was really bad) I don't expect any better from this one. I do plan to be getting other stuff done so it's not a total waste of time.

Still, once in a while I do like to watch a really bad movie...

Oh yeah. This is sooo bad it makes The Day after tomorrow seem like a discovery channel documentary.

There is more cheese in this movie than in a box of velveeta.

Well maybe they left it 10.5 so they could name it Apocalypse! Add that word into a title and of course it means that the movie will be featuring death, destructioon chaos and end of the world. Not just a bunch of boring people sitting around being talking head angst filled cliches interspersed with technobabble and some shots of disasters.

But right now the hero lady is talking about the reversal of the movement of the plates. Oh my gods I think I just heard the mice burp.

One thing though I want them to mention is the New Madrid fault. A real world fault that has the potential to do some seriously major apcalyptic style damage to the middle of the country.

I kept myself busy doing other stuff during this, and only really paid attention during the big action sequences. I did stop and (try to) watch it for about five minutes, then had to stop because it was making me seasick. On one shot of Kim Delaney the camera swooped back & forth at least four times. It was worse than any John Woo movie.

Kim Delaney must have the same plastic surgeon that Joan Rivers had -- she looked absolutely awful. And apparently that procedure leaves her unable to close her mouth completely.

They did the same thing as last time. Just before the commercial break, they immediately cut to a preview of a scene that's going to happen in the very next segment. See my comments on the first 10.5 for my feelings on that.

So, a major earthquake has occurred, half of California has split off, and people just continue on about their regular lives, mountain biking and such? I'd think that a catastrophe of global implication (not to mention the economic consequences) would have everyone glued to the TV.

The writing is so good in this... when the chair lift girl was hanging off the chair, her boyfriend shouted "Hang on!" at least 10 times. And did Frank Langella really have to tell everyone to "Get down!" when stuff is falling on their heads?

It really ticks me off when my intelligence is sorely insulted in the first five minutes of a movie (at least twice!) Don't the writers know that by now most people know what a "tsunami" is? I saw no need to refer to it as a "tidal wave". And the whole Poseidon scene...

I'm glad I have more stuff to do during this when the conclusion airs tomorrow night.

Just noticed the topic title. Of course it should have been "10.5".

Having been there several times, it was kind of cool to see Waikiki get trashed. It was just another case of the "only famous landmarks get hit" theory of disaster movies.

"rule" of disaster movies.

There is more cheese in this movie than in a box of velveeta.

I thought there was absolutely no cheese in Velveeta. :-D

Yeah I got up and did the dishes during this. Almost dropped a plate wehn i started laughing at the Hoover Dam collapse. Not that I thought the collapse itself was funny just goofball expendable scientist and his idiot pilot. I mean cmon water is already going over the top of the dam and the pilot takes his helo and hovers just under the edge of the dam at close range? Where did this guy get his liscence a cracker jack box? Also what was with the chopper itself. It sounded like there where all sorts of warning alerts goign off before the dam part hit them.

Yeah Kim Delany does look rather bad in this is the only word I can think of. I think she's running aorund with her mouth open all the time in this though to show how deeply in shock she is....

The guy on the chair lift only had the one line so he wanted to make sure he got his money's worth from it. What gets me is that the pyroclastic flow looked like it had already taken out the rest of the chair lift system so AFAIK that would have taken the tension off the cable and they would have taken a short drop with a sudden stop before the flow got them anyhow.

As for Frank well he was in a Casino maybe people where still paying attention to getting that last cherry to come up?

Wow talk about bad science. Not only has plate techtonics reversed but when it does it will speed up? Ooookkkkaaaayy. And I didn't catch the name of the fault (if any) they said would be the one that would split the NA continent in half (Wow NA came with a zipper) but in the video they showed it starting sort of like in the New Madrid area. Of course since the San Andreas caused LA to become an island why not the New Madrid split the ENTIRE continent from the gulf to the arctic.

Actually about the economic and social impact of this I would think that just about everything west of say oklahoma would be involved in recovery or rescue operations (Not playing in a casino) and everythign west of the rockies would be toasted back to the middle ages. I mean its hard enough to get a cell signal in normal conditions but as usual in the movies cell phones will work no matter what.

What you mean Velveeta isn't real cheese? OH NO!

My bad feelings were enhanced in the first sequence where, to show the water going out to add to the tsunami, they simply reversed the film. Last time I saw that was in that classic of American Cinema, Batman and Robin. Of course, in the first one they use clips from 1974's Earthquake.

That said, most of the special effects are done pretty well (and is about the only reason for watching this thing.) I'll have it on tonight. Notice I didn't say I'd be "watching" it.

Only 1/2 hour into the second part, and my jaw is on the floor with how craptacular this is... I can not believe the totally blatant ripoff that is going on right now.

I know what you mean. Poseiden adventure in a Casino anyone? (You can only get out by going up!)

At least the helo pilot at Mt Rushmore had enough sense to back off before things started falling.

But Mount Rushmore already fell apart in Category 7: The End of the World!

Seriously though, I am really angry at how insultingly bad this was. I can't go into everything I hated about this movie, but it has earned the right to be my #1 worst movie ever. TV movie, anyway.

Just like my complaint for Category 7: The End of the World -- if you are going to call your movie "10.5: Apocalypse", you better **** well have an apocalypse in it!!!

Wow. This movie was sooo, sooo. Words just fail me. I mean that ending moved me, my heart soared my spirits where lifted and the patriotism just swelled within me....... Oh wait that was indigestion.

Did that nuclear powerplant seem a little clean to anyone else? I mean the coal plants on the river here have huge fences and ditches and equipment and all sorts of stuff going on all the time.

Aside from that this movie was on autopilot.

I went to buy a new (cheap) TV today, and in the store every single one had a "preview" of this piece of junk, ostensibly to show off the high-def. I was tempted to tell the salespeople that to sell expensive TV's they shouldn't show really bad stuff on them.

I actually walked out (really, waiting for the sale the next day -- saved 10 bucks!)