Supernova

Ric · #1 06-02-2009, 08:32 PM

I see the movie on Prime tonight is called "Supernova" when scientists have to save the earth from a star gone supernova.

I wonder which star it will be and how much of this movie is going to be a load of @#$%.

I'm going to have to watch as I love to pick movies like this to pieces.

Cheers all and happy viewing.

JethroB76 (Jeff) · #2 06-02-2009, 09:04 PM

Well its got Luke Perry in it..thats gotta count for something, er doesn't it?

GeoffW1 (Geoff) · #3 06-02-2009, 10:31 PM

Hi,

I hope it is not Home and Away in an observatory

Cheers

rogerg (Roger) · #4 06-02-2009, 10:41 PM

Hmm, tempting to watch.. Let's see.... no TV in observatory. Clear Sky. I could either do astronmy, or watch someone's crazy idea of it on TV.

I think I'll give it a miss! Let us know just how bad it is

Hagar (Doug) · #5 06-02-2009, 11:10 PM

3 hours of the sacred cow. It's our sun and they are going to all fry together. Thank God I can image while this tripe is on and I didn't give up a night (moon and all) for this. Attack of the killer tomatoes would have been more realistic and probably better entertainment.

renormalised (Carl) · #6 06-02-2009, 11:54 PM

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3 hours of the sacred cow. It's our sun and they are going to all fry together.

A nice bit of "T-bone" would go down real well

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #7 07-02-2009, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Ric

I wonder ... how much of this movie is going to be a load of @#$%.

100% as it turned out

Enchilada · #8 07-02-2009, 06:27 AM

Loved the displays of solar plasma taking out Sydney, though there must have been a warp in the space-time continuum, because the Centrepoint tower hit the streets in an impossible location. As Maxwell Smart once said; "Missed it by that much!"
Simple knowledge of 3rd Grade Stellar Evolution 101 says it's an absolute crock...
Silliest movie since The Poseidon Adventure, if you ask me.

My lucky number is now 8.568 x 10^-11 !!

Comment : A bit confused. Are they really saying that a million supernova, caused the Sun also to go supernova? Pity it doesn't the sun doesn't have enough mass to go supernova or even nova. Bugger.

Quark (Trevor) · #9 07-02-2009, 09:28 AM

Well I did watch it, that was more a measure of just how hot it still was outside.

Just how poorly researched was it, though I dare say for many it was quite plausible, now thats a worry.

The highlight for me occurred in the Maldives, when the guy that predicted it all got T-boned by solar plasma. All around the world multi storey buildings were being obliterated and there sat our hero with female companion, on the veranda of a ramshackle looking timber hut.

The ball of plasma enters stage right, hurtles in at great velocity with a direct hit on where they are sitting. One assumes they were vaporized. However as the camera pulls back, although the shack is on fire, the structure is still standing. One can only gather from this that the building code in the Maldives must be especially stringent.

Have to retain your sense of humor. I am sure I must have seen a worst science fiction movie, but I can't remember when.

Regards
Trevor

renormalised (Carl) · #10 07-02-2009, 09:42 AM

Hollyweird at it again. Oh well...no accounting for reality or fact!!.

Gotta please the great unwashed, keep their minds numb and in reverse.

Spanrz (Brett) · #11 07-02-2009, 11:52 AM

I watched parts of it, OMG to say the least.
What a waste of my precious time.

Should ring up the Movie Makers and ask for my wasted time back (maybe compensation for wasting my time)...Hahaha

That was as bad as listening to a Telemarketer that has no idea what he is tallking about.

Barrykgerdes · #12 07-02-2009, 12:25 PM

Oh Dear I missed it what a calamity.

The most disturbing thought about these stupid Sci Fi films is that probably more than 50% of the population think it is true. These are the same people who vote for any politition who says "I will give you everything you want if only you will elect me. TRUST ME". No wonder we are fast going down the "toobs"

Baz

renormalised (Carl) · #13 07-02-2009, 12:35 PM

Hollyweird have got to make a piccie of it. Look at it this way....if the sun ever could go supernova (which it can't so that's a moot point), the whole piccie would go like this....Sun goes bang, 8.3 minutes later we see an enormously bright light, Earth vapourises, end of story!!!!. No kick ass suspenseful drama and compelling storyline in that!!!!. So, hollyweird uses some dramatic license, throws in as much furphies as it feels appropriate, hires a few middling actors to play the parts and then you have a piccie fit for using the DVD as a beer coaster!!!!!

JethroB76 (Jeff) · #14 07-02-2009, 12:59 PM

Luke Perry a "middling actor"? Well I never!

matt · #15 07-02-2009, 01:02 PM

It was sooooo bad.....for a brief while I mistakenly thought it was a comedy!

Didn't watch for long...but I had a few giggles...so in that regard it was a nice change from reading/hearing/watching about the 'global financial crisis'.

Ric · #16 07-02-2009, 02:06 PM

Great replies guys, I must admit that I started of with interest which then waned like the moon to disbelief at the accuracy of it. The loony serial killer added a bit of light relief with his tooth clenching expressions.

Overall they should have moved Conan the Barbarian forward and made Supernova the late movie.

Cheers

acropolite (Phil) · #17 07-02-2009, 02:38 PM

I have to agree with the others, absolute crap. I tried (very hard) to watch it for an hour then gave up. I particularly noticed the complete absence of either a Commodore or Falcon in any of the scenes supposedly in Australia.

MrB (Simon) · #18 07-02-2009, 08:33 PM

Haha! I was sitting there watching it last night thinking 'I bet someone starts a thread about this movie!'
LOL

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Originally Posted by JethroB76

Luke Perry a "middling actor"? Well I never!

Aww come-on he's not all that bad. He was okay(just okay) in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.
He also did some sci-fi TV series that wasn't too bad(welll.... I've seen worse anyway) where everyone on earth under 30(ish) years old had been killed off by a virus or something.

EDIT: okay, found that series on wikipedia, it was called Jeramiah...... apparently by the same guy as Babylon5..... huh.

Even more surprising, according to wiki, Luke (Coy Luther Perry III -- hahahaha) was in The Fifth Element... huh, seen it a million times and never noticed him!
MultiPass!

renormalised (Carl) · #19 07-02-2009, 08:38 PM

Should have called it "Stupidnova"!!!

JethroB76 (Jeff) · #20 07-02-2009, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MrB

Even more surprising, according to wiki, Luke (Coy Luther Perry III -- hahahaha) was in The Fifth Element... huh, seen it a million times and never noticed him!
MultiPass!

was he the freaky alien opera singer?