channel 7 tonight 8.30 pm: Meteor: Path to Destruction

starlooker (Duc) · #1 01-08-2009, 08:50 PM

Just saw this in the Perth TV guide, so it's already started in the Eastern states. 4 hour movie, so plenty left to watch.

I love Deep Impact and Armageddon, so hopefully this will be just as good!

leon · #2 01-08-2009, 09:03 PM

Just seen the first half hour to get a story line, and will probably get back to it when I'm finished here.

Leon

acropolite (Phil) · #3 01-08-2009, 09:57 PM

bugger..... missed that....

renormalised (Carl) · #4 02-08-2009, 12:20 AM

They took some liberties with science in this one!!!!. Passing entertainment, but you had to laugh.

matt · #5 02-08-2009, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by renormalised

They took some liberties with science in this one!!!!. Passing entertainment, but you had to laugh.

Sure did.

Did you see the aurora that appeared quite early in the show? I think they attributed its appearance to comet/asteroid dust in the atmosphere

renormalised (Carl) · #6 02-08-2009, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by matt

Sure did.

Did you see the aurora that appeared quite early in the show? I think they attributed its appearance to comet/asteroid dust in the atmosphere

Methinks it's more like "fairy dust"

Of the white powder kind....and they've been snorting it

Waxing_Gibbous (Peter) · #7 02-08-2009, 01:02 AM

Woeful. It was just Woeful. But so was "Knowing" that I just watched. D*mn these clouds!

bobson (Bob) · #8 02-08-2009, 01:09 AM

Forget about the movie, Jupiter looked GREAT tonight, couldn't get enough of it. I went over 500x, and it was still good viewing!

I can rent a movie, but good weather like this doesn't come that easy

cheers

bob

starlooker (Duc) · #9 02-08-2009, 01:20 AM

I ended up only watching the first hour. The completely irrelevant violent story arc turned me off.

I want to watch an asteroid movie, not freaking people getting their brains blown out.

No wonder it's a 4 hour movie. It's actually 2 movies in one.

Enchilada · #10 02-08-2009, 04:01 AM

I thought is was poor too. Why is it that the meteor / asteroid always crashes into the US or Mexico?

At least it is vastly better than the even more abysmal "Meteor" of 1979 - and it has Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden and Natalie Wood! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(film)

If you didn't see this 2009 version last night, you can read about the dismal plot at; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(TV_miniseries)

IMO, the only one or thing that should have been murdered should have been the producer, director or even the writer Alex Greenfield.

Another point. When did they ever use "algorithms" to do orbits in the solar system? Surely this should have been from the calculated orbital elements made by several actual observations? (The error they seek would be in the accuracy of 'dem elements or in the perturbations!

A crashing bore!

Note : They call the asteroid 114 Kassandra (not a meteor, actually) Statistics on this appear at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/114_Kassandra

renormalised (Carl) · #11 02-08-2009, 08:58 AM

You know, any large bit of space debris has to hit either the US or Mexico. That's because the one and only brave country, where all the heroes live (according to Hollyweird) is the US. The US always saves the day. Plus, they have to hit Mexico as an alternative because that's where the asteroid hit that wiped out the dinosaurs, and the powers that be in Hollyweird deem that Mexico...being just oil fields, old buidlings and people taking siestas...is just the modern equivalent of a dinosaur, anyway

h0ughy (David) · #12 02-08-2009, 09:16 AM

lucky i didnt watch it

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #13 02-08-2009, 09:39 AM

My kids stayed up to watch it so I got to watch little bits of it. Stayed for the finale.
It was so weak that even my kids were laughing at it.
I had more fun watching the occasional bright meteor outside.

leon · #14 02-08-2009, 09:42 AM

For those who missed it you saved your self many hours of misery, I turned it off half way through, it was just crap.

I was nothing more than a spree of violence, shooting, and road crashes where everyone survived each drama.

And the same scenes were repeated over and over again in relation to the Meteors coming in, not very good at all.

Leon

Wavytone · #15 02-08-2009, 10:47 AM

Dreadful piece of dross. Tired of the usual gratuitous violence directed at blonde bimbos and switched off after a goonsquad let off a SAM to hit an incoming meteor flying slower than a pigeon.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #16 02-08-2009, 10:55 AM

That meteor had amazing antigravitational properties.

Paul K · #17 02-08-2009, 11:02 AM

It's was the worst movie I have ever seen...sorta went downhill after the opening credits....

renormalised (Carl) · #18 02-08-2009, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

That meteor had amazing antigravitational properties.

Didn't you know...it was an ark built by a long gone civilisation whose survivors just wanted to find a nice quite place to live...they just happened to pick the most backward planet in this corner of the Orion Spur to turn up at. And, what do you know, the cowboy jarheads did their usual routine...shoot first and ask (bad) questions later!!!.

frank farrell · #19 02-08-2009, 01:08 PM

now I've worked it out......the problem i had uploading my first Moon shot.
I got mesmerised by the fascinating sky show on the box and forgot wot I woz dong.....HEHEHEH

Robh (Rob) · #20 02-08-2009, 01:36 PM

Somewhat entertaining but forgettable.
They couldn't even get the title right! Should have been Asteroid not Meteor.
Mistakenly, they figured the general public wouldn't find the asteroid interesting enough so they threw in the kids-in-hospital rescue story and, just to play it safe, a murderer on the loose and kidnapping story as well.
And why is it, in this time of potential mass destruction, is there only one astronomer who can save the world? Let's just ignore all the other brilliant minds out there!

Rob