msthoth
05-04-2004, 12:06 PM
My Very Dear Fellow Listers and Lurkers:
A truly dreadful disaster movie was on Sunday night and last night,
about a series of earthquake that devastate first Seattle (7.8
magnitude), then Redding CA (8.4) and then San Francisco (9.2). The
next is to strike Southern California and be (you guessed it) 10.5.
10.5, by the way, is not strictly possible, as a magnitude of 10 is
total destruction. The extra .5, I guess, is supposed to mean that
we lose land to ocean. The super big one is supposed to take off
the entire Western States coastal areas.
Now, that movie was *bad*, really, really, really *bad.* Bad, bad
script, horrible direction, awful acting, ghastly camera work.
Everything about it was bad, except the special effects, which were
pretty good, and the concept, which is what made it the highest-
watched miniseries in NBC history. Pretty much everybody that lives
in California, Oregon and Washington watched that wretched movie,
including Your Very Obedient Servant here. That was about two hours
of my life that I'm not going to get back again [four really, with
the commercials in blocks of 7-9 each, every 10 minutes.]
That being said, considering the appeal of this movie that has
absolutely nothing to recommend it at all, except what it's about,
says something to me anyway about the unconscious knowledge of the
people here in the West that something AWFUL is about to happen.
But never mind; we are all ONE, and nothing is lost. If the West
Coast goes into the sea, with the physical existence of yours truly,
I shall always be with you.
Blessings,
~lesley
A truly dreadful disaster movie was on Sunday night and last night,
about a series of earthquake that devastate first Seattle (7.8
magnitude), then Redding CA (8.4) and then San Francisco (9.2). The
next is to strike Southern California and be (you guessed it) 10.5.
10.5, by the way, is not strictly possible, as a magnitude of 10 is
total destruction. The extra .5, I guess, is supposed to mean that
we lose land to ocean. The super big one is supposed to take off
the entire Western States coastal areas.
Now, that movie was *bad*, really, really, really *bad.* Bad, bad
script, horrible direction, awful acting, ghastly camera work.
Everything about it was bad, except the special effects, which were
pretty good, and the concept, which is what made it the highest-
watched miniseries in NBC history. Pretty much everybody that lives
in California, Oregon and Washington watched that wretched movie,
including Your Very Obedient Servant here. That was about two hours
of my life that I'm not going to get back again [four really, with
the commercials in blocks of 7-9 each, every 10 minutes.]
That being said, considering the appeal of this movie that has
absolutely nothing to recommend it at all, except what it's about,
says something to me anyway about the unconscious knowledge of the
people here in the West that something AWFUL is about to happen.
But never mind; we are all ONE, and nothing is lost. If the West
Coast goes into the sea, with the physical existence of yours truly,
I shall always be with you.
Blessings,
~lesley