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"Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> > In article <8c-dnb9MJfWoPb3VnZ2dnUVZ_r-vnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >>> In article <rIadneOxubq_yL3VnZ2dnUVZ_o6knZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> Jack Bohn wrote:
> >>>>> Mac Breck wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Jack Bohn wrote:
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> >>>>> Well, besides giving the scientist a Space Shuttle full of nukes
> >>>>> to go to the Moon,
> >>>>
> >>>> Since when can a Space Shuttle make it to the moon? And if it
> >>>> could make it there, how would it land?
> >>>
> >>> You *have* seen Earthstorm?
> >>
> >> Not even one frame of it.
> >
> > You *have* read my review of Earthstorm?
>
> Your review? I have read several of your posts that mention Earthstorm.
> I’ve also read several reviews of it on Netflix, and none of those
> people thought it was any good. Like Dracula 3000, I wouldn't even
> waste a Netflix rental on it.
Ah, we have an EARTHSTORM REVIEW virgin. Gina, shall we?
http://www.amazon.com/Earthstorm-Stephen-Baldwin/dp/B000PFU85M
Earth VS the Giant Space Rice Krispies!, July 10, 2007
By anim8rfsk "anim8rfsk" (Scottsdale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
Disclaimer: They didn't actually call it NASA. It was the ASA or
something. But we know who they meant!!
EARTHSTORM is an Armageddon 'homage' starring one of the lesser
Baldwins. Not Billy I don't think. That doesn't narrow it down one darn
bit, does it?
Giant uncharted asteroid hits the far side of the moon. Apparently just
hours later debris starts whacking into us (you'd think it would be
headed AWAY from us. I'd also think it would take a while to get here.
I'd also think that if it did get here like a Domino's Pizza, in 30
minutes or less, the story would end right there. But go figure). NASA
covers up the fact that meteors are hitting us and wiping out cities and
that there's a crack in the moon and a huge halo of Giant Space Rice
Krispie debris you can see from Earth but many people figure it out by
hearing rumors.
Demolition guy Baldwin as Bruce Willis is blowing up a building. As
they're about to push the button, everybody wearing heavy clothes and
helmets and flack jackets except the extremely hot female assistant
who's in shorts, suddenly the 9th floor blows up. This causes the entire
system of explosives to become 'unbalanced' and wackiness ensues. Since
they can't stop the countdown, Bruce Baldwin runs up to the 9th floor
(with a pack of DYNAMITE!), finds pillar 8A which is what blew up (and
is totally unscathed), sticks a new pack of explosives on it (completely
fixing the problem, except the problem is in no way fixed), finds the
homeless guy who set off the explosives (and who is also completely
unscathed) and races out of the building with seconds to spare. They
head off to their next job in Baltimore, which is almost immediately hit
by Giant Space Rice Krispie meteorite debris.
Meanwhile some red headed scientist portrayed by a woman who's acting
training came from doing makeovers in the local mall, and who is
expending all of her 'talent' trying to hide her accent, realizes her
father predicted this exactly, but was driven out of the business and to
his death by evil government scientist Dirk Benedict. NASA calls her in
because nobody will listen to her.
I'm not really sure what happened to the moon. At various points in the
story it's shifted it's orbit, the crap is coming from the asteroid, the
crap is coming from the moon, there's a rift a 100 times the size of the
grand canyon in the moon and the crap is spewing out of THAT, and
anything that leaves the far size of the moon for whatever reason whacks
us about a half an hour later.
Part of this is explained when cute shorts demo girl finds a hunk of the
moon (after dodging into a canvas tent to avoid a major Giant Space Rice
Krispie meteorite impact about 50 feet away) just laying there in
Baltimore, a big hunk clearly made out of foam that nobody handles like
it weighs more than an empty coffee cup, and it turns out we were wrong
about what the moon was made of all along -- it's hitting us so hard
because it's composed of uranium. In the form of Giant Space Rice
Krispies.
NASA decides the only way to stop the moon from bombarding us (at this
point Mexico City is suddenly destroyed, but nobody mentions it again)
is to fly up to the moon and set off nukes and seal the fissure. Of
course, Baldwin must go with them, for only he can push the button.
Red decides that since the moon is all magnetic and everything, we
should use a special magnetic bomb that no one has ever built instead.
Of course, Baldwin must go with them, for only he can push the button.
Of a bomb he's never heard of the theory behind or seen, as it doesn't
exist.
Starbuck vetoes the plan. Through the entire movie he walks in whenever
they're planning something; nobody at NASA *ever* closes a door.
They take off in a space shuttle, which despite the nukes being the size
of a couple of suitcases, only holds 3 people; cute female pilot, random
astronaut, Bruce Baldwin. Random astronaut is immediately knocked out
for the duration of the flight. Shuttle has gravity, and a continuous
floor between the flight deck and the cargo bay, almost as though it was
a left over set from a high school stage play.
Shuttle lifts off, jettisons its SRBs and liquid fuel tanks together,
and, with main engines still roaring, flies to the moon, dodging and
weaving incoming Giant Space Rice Krispie rocks, accelerating the whole
way. Granted, they have auxiliary strap on nuclear engines that no one
had ever built or tried before as well.
They get to the moon, fly down to the surface (while this shuttle has
internal gravity, external gravity doesn't affect it at all) and sort of
hover.
Cute shorts demo chick shows up at NASA with the very light rock.
Analysis indicates it's uranium, which means Starbuck was wrong, and
they should have sent the magnetic bomb instead of the nukes. The Earth
is doomed.
NASA brainstorms and figures out how to take unused parts from the
shuttle's communication systems to turn the nukes into a magbomb. Bruce
Baldwin does this while cute pilot hovers.
Starbuck realizes red haired scientist did all the math wrong, and they
need 100 times more bomb. The Earth is doomed.
Starbuck saves the day by realizing they happen to have auxiliary nuke
engines strapped to the outside of the shuttle, that Bruce Baldwin can
get to, somehow.
Baldwin realizes the new charge needs to be set off in a new location.
The new location? THE CENTER OF THE MOON! Yes, they need to fly the
shuttle to . . . THE CORE!!!!!
Luckily, the fissure goes all the way to the center of the moon. They
fly down, dump the bomb, eject their engines, and, main engines still
blasting away, race for the surface as the mag bomb goes off, the
fissure sucks itself shut, the moon "heals itself" and returns to it's
proper orbit, and all the incoming Giant Space Rice Krispie stuff that
was about to destroy the Earth is just . . forgotten about. Cute pilot,
engines STILL GOING FULL THROTTLE, despite the fact that she left the
fuel tank back on Earth and the strap on engines in the moon, races back
as unhurt extra astronaut comes to. BTW, all this apparently happened in
about half an hour, as cute shorts girl hasn't even gone to the ladies'
room to wipe the soot off her pert little nose yet.
Back on Earth, everybody loves everybody, Starbuck is forgiven, Red's
dad is vindicated, Red goes back to work for NASA, Red and Bruce Baldwin
pair off, Red's assistant who didn't have enough of a part to matter and
was in love with her scores with cute shorts girl, mostly 'cause there
wasn't anybody else with enough lines to pair her with except Starbuck
who stoically rode back to Washington, and the weather is all fine, and
nobody cares that Mexico City is gone.
The End.
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Star Trek 09:
No Shat, No Show.
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