[crouton] Nathaniel Trost: Earthquakers would have made more sense...

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Posted by Nathaniel Trost:
Earthquakers would have made more sense...
http://crouton.powerblogs.com/archives/archive_2006_05_21-2006_05_27.shtml#1148523473


   I rarely watch âliveâ TV anymore. Sometimes, however, I need some
   brainless background noise while I do something repetitive and
   intellectually non-stimulating. There was nothing on this weekend,
   nothing. The only, and I mean only thing I could find to turn on was
   [1]a rerun of 10.5, a truly abysmal made-for-TV disaster movie.
   My theory is that it was an adapted script for a Lifetime for Women
   movie that got elevated to a bigger budget. Our heroine is plucky, and
   of course her grizzled gruff male boss doesnât listen to her
   recommendations. What amused me was her boss was basically the
   director of FEMA. Of course, this was filmed pre-Katrina, so him
   making a bad call that cost lots of lives results in the president
   (casting director: oh crap, we donât have a President cast yet, quick,
   pencil in Beau Bridges!) more or less telling him to shake it off.
   Yeah. Of course the gruff director has a handsome son, who is a
   doctor, in the danger zone. They are estranged. If you thought it
   would end up with our gruff director sacrificing himself 300 feet
   underground while being pinned down by a nuclear bomb while telling
   his son on the phone that he loves him and heâs sorry he loved their
   dead mother so much and the son reminded him of her too much and heâs
   sorry he loves you son. And later the son has to grab and carry a
   little girl out of the way of an oncoming and fissure and oh please
   make the pain stop Iâm ovulating right here.
   And the real disaster was it was a rebroadcast to lead up toâ¦the
   sequel: [2]10.5: The Apocalypse. Couldnât watch it. I have limits.

References

   1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364146/
   2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463850/