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04-10-2005, 03:30 PM
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Super Volcano...Anybody planning to...
watch? I saw it. It's really good and it's really scary too. Especially when you consider we're over-due for Yellowstone to pop. Discovery enters the movie fray with a winner, and "no" pain in the ass subplots about kids hating their parents and boring love triangles. Great!
J. Smith
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04-10-2005, 03:47 PM
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I dunno, am getting pretty sick of the over-dramatized doomsday scenario pseudo-science schtick that Discovery et al seem to be pushing lately. All hype, minimal science, all about ratings.
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04-10-2005, 04:46 PM
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For me this is just another sign that the niche cable stations are dumbing down. Don't get me wrong, I like good doomsday flick. Heck, I even saw both volcano movies that came out some years ago, but this kind of stuff belongs on SCI FI or Spike, not Discover.
History Channel showing how to break casinos, TLC is the home decorating channel, and now Discover is becoming the disaster channel. Cable's promise was choice and variety; programming to appeal to various audiences. Guess it was just bait and switch. I'll just switch off.
Oh, to answer the question: No.
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04-10-2005, 09:54 PM
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I went to my Sister in laws this weekend and they were all agog about taping this I had no Idea it was an actual movie I thought it was another science show. Of course they also watch Fox News 12 hours a day, so the answer is no I'll pass.
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04-10-2005, 10:40 PM
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Isn't this produced by the BBC and follows the same sort of factoid structure used in the Walking With... series? At least that's better than those cheesy A&E docos.
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04-10-2005, 11:24 PM
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It is a BBC production and actually follows rather similarly to "Smallpox" from a couple months ago. Same fake documentary complete with shaky cam filming mixed with a bit of real news footage told in flashbacks from the after the disaster perspective. Very similar scientist/politician/newsmedia presentation showing how things unfolded, how the disaster progressed, and then the aftereffects.
Actually didn't think it was too bad and was told from a somewhat plausible sequence. The real documentary done afterwards with real geologists/news people was rather humorous in that several of the exchanges were almost identical to some the movie dialog I think it shortchanged and underplayed the after-disaster effects on the environment and likely social fallout.
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04-11-2005, 07:54 AM
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Not to shabby, it kept my interest upto the point where I realized that sitting up at 2:00 in the morning with an alarm schedule to go off at 5:00am for my commute was not in my best interest. But I stayed up till about 1:15 when the ash was begining to subside. Typical as to the newsmedia and the politician involved that end up eating crow, but definetly entertaining. I'm not a t.v. movie purchaser unless it really moves to get it like Day After, I think I would add this along with the Dragons documentary.
Michael Harris, unfortunately it's not surprising to see channels that are meant for documentaries do this type of thing once in a while. I guess Discover Channel decided to use it's status as a channel that posts science facts and create a movie based on those possible facts. It comes across better I guess.
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04-11-2005, 11:18 AM
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I saw it. It's really good and it's really scary too. Especially when you consider we're over-due for Yellowstone to pop.
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I watched it and it was pretty good. The science was not wonky or unreal, even though it was an extreme "worst case scenario". The acting was pretty decent for a largely no-name cast.
You had to watch the Tom Brokaw special afterward to learn that the "Yellowstone is overdue" angle might be bogus. Scientists believe that there is no sign that the magma pool under the park is building for another super-eruption.
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04-11-2005, 11:43 AM
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You had to watch the Tom Brokaw special afterward to learn that the "Yellowstone is overdue" angle might be bogus.
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Actually all you had to do is watch the dramatic film itself to see someone explain what rot the "way overdue" notion is, and how useless the fact that a given event happens at a certain interval "on average" is as a basis for future planning. Granted in the film the event does happen, but this doesn't mean the scientist who debunks the "we're overdue" argument is wrong - even the other scientist who said the words in the TV interview admits the statement is scientifically meaningless.
An event - scale unknown - will almost certainly happen at some point. But whether that's tomorrow or 100,000 years from now the "average" of past events really can't tell us. And yet someone who had just watched the film still came away with the impression "we're overdue" because the visuals speak louder than words.
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