A made-for-TV movie called "Supernova" will be on the Hallmark Channel tonight at 8 and 11. It stars Tia Carrere, so you know it must be good.Here's a link.
The Sun goes supernova. Barf.
Order of Kilopi
A made-for-TV movie called "Supernova" will be on the Hallmark Channel tonight at 8 and 11. It stars Tia Carrere, so you know it must be good.
The Sun goes supernova. Barf.
Order of Kilopi
Oh thank God! I thought you were talking about that James Spader/Angela Basset movie called Supernova, in which a supernova supposedly "elevates mankind to the next level of existence."
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HUH???A scientific possibility becomes a terrifying reality when the most powerful force in the universe threatens to hurtle home...
I'm surprised that it's not from the producers that "brought" us The Core and The Day after Tomorrow...sheesh...
...and it's 3 hours long!
...and it stars Luke Perry!
I guess the title Killer Solar Flare was already taken.
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I imagine that this is a special kind of supernova that clever Earth-based scientists can prevent.
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First: Hallmark has a channel? Why??
Second: I could watch it muted and enjoy the eye candy (Tia rocks!)
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Awww, I won't be able to see it! I wonder, does everything work out in the end?
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According to the review in this morning's paper, a large portion of the film focuses on a loose serial killer after Luke Perry and his family. Huh?, indeed.
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and that, boys and girls, is why the only thing I watch on the Hallmark Channel is M*A*S*H reruns.
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Gillian
"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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Don't forget the Gilligan's Island episodes!Originally Posted by Gillianren
--hipster
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When did Sol triple it's weight without anybody noticing?
No more tasty cakes for Sol then! He needs to learn to control his weight better, Unless he wants to end up like the Pistol Star or Eta Carina.
Hi! I'm Liz!
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Will we get it in the UK?
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I try to, actually. I loathe Gilligan's Island.
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Gillian
"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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We can only hope ....
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Maybe the Sun goes nova because its sick of all the bad electromagnetic emissions coming from the third planet.
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Well this movie has started. it starts off with a sun going kaboom and a bunch of planetoids blowing up as some firey bad animation passes it. They blow up like someopne put a big firecracker inside them too. Out of the three or foru. only one seems to of been stripped away as if something big did hit it from the side. All the rest. boom!
Also when the sun goes supernova instead of sending stuff in all directions, its a single, narrow wave that magiaclly hits all of the planets in that solar system.
Then we cut to a astronomer whos (in bright saylight) looking throiugt a eye peice at the sun and says a bunch of mumbu jumbo baout magnetics, a planetoid, and the sun going supernova like the begining animation. There is also a week left for the planet.
Later on for some reason some place called the National Intelegence organizatrion goes after luke perry's character saying that its a national security. You see the begining scientists is giving away super top secret sun probe data to his collegues. And they wan't luke perry's character to ask them what he e-mail to them. No they for some unknown reason cannot ask the scientists themselves. they have to make a complicated and convoluted plot to make perry a spy on the scientists and hope they reveal what the e-mail says. I mean they are supposed to be some super secret intelegence angency and the best guy they can get to gather info is to force a scientist to spy on people who he is going to a convention with?
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at a physics synpisium, which taken from the fact that the intelegence people cant plant people of their own, can only be gotten into by scientists, talks is in such general terms that a high schooler would feel bored. I mean this guy talks about (paraphrasing) "In 200x and 200x solar storms were the largest on record, flinging out billions of tons of energetic gas at 5 million (or was it billion?) miles per hour. Fortunately none of them were pointed directly at earth..." And ypou see abunch of scientist types nodding and smiling like this guy is a advanced scientists and not some moron whos reading off a telepropter and knows about as much about the sun as your local news anchor.
Oh and did i forget to mention that something about the magnetic field of the earth fluctuating is causing water mammals to beach themselves?
Some crud about luke perry's wife and a serial killer....Nuthing to do with the overall stoy and its taken in such a jarring manner from the overall story that the flow just jarrs youfrom the overall story.
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Aha! something has breached the corona of the sun and is causing it to go supernova. Yup. Something has breached the crona of the sun like its a solid object that cannot repair itself and thus the sun will go kablooey.
then the NIO lady again steps in at the physics conference and tells them as a matter of worldwide security they must go with them.
Wait the "National intelegence organization" has priority to tkae people in europe , america, Austalia...? huh?
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I stopped watching about ten minutes ago. Not only is there loads of bad science, it's just plain boring. Tia Carrere cannot save this movie. Peter Fonda cannot save this movie. I'd rather go outside and watch the sunset.
Last edited by Seeker of Knowledge; 2005-Sep-06 at 01:26 AM. Reason: Capitalization
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Maybe Luke Perry dying in it can save the movie??
I'm loving the running commentary.
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yah sorry about that. from now on this post will be eddited and updated. :-)
50 min in:
Oh no! a huuuuggggee solar flar shoots out of the sun in the direction of earth.
Sydney, Paris, NYC all go dark from power loss. A electrical storm appears over Paris and causes big fake looking lightning to hit the Eifel Tower. Hey at least they did not pack it full of explosive TNT like they did for the colluseum in rome. I mean a single lightning strike in the core caused that thing to explode. gues the french were better architects. :-P
Of course Perry and the NIO lady (from now on "NIOl") are in a military chooper in mid flight and the flare causes all electronics to go bye bye. the chopper immediately crashes. they even mention autogyroing. but for some reason the plane still srops nose first at a 50-60 degree angle for a bit before leveling out and crashing. Their cameras and monitors still work and show images. yet somehow they complain how they have no electronics. Damn shoddy intelegence choppers.
1:04 in:
[shot pans along a goodwill sign to a big gate]
Reporter:"We are live at a federal penitentary..."
That just cracke dme up. This federal penitentary was obviously pooorly edited if they still ahd the damn store signs up for where they shot it. Not to mention the woman reporting is not even movign her lips when she is speaking.
Oh yah i forgot. The atmosphere Will burn! MMMuuuahahahahhahaha...[cough]....hahahahaha!
1:10: The govt's of the world for 50 years have been building self sustaining underground stuctures for 10,000 people for 15 years. Each has a dna library of plants and animals and people to help sustain the planet and repopulate it.
Why the heck they tellPerry this i have no clue, but ill give them credit. It does look cool.
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ohhhh... somone has been watching national geographic!. the sun erupts two spherical eruptions that look alot like this: [apod image]
Oh yah. another eruption causes a bunch of birds to go wonky and cuase the prison van carrying the serial killer to crash, releasing him.
Did i mention that all of the expulsions from the sun are very flat waves?
1:23 in
Another wave hits and somwhow causes meteor like objects to fall through the atmosphere (at least i think it was a astreoid. it might of been a satelite. missed a short segment pof the movie talking to my wife, ). One hits st louis and destroys it entirely.
1:45 in:
NOIl fleed the super secret high security compound with perry by showing a peice of paer toa guard. This is supposedto be one of the mospt secret and highly guarded places on the p;lanet. and she escapes with a highly valuableprisoner by shoing a peice of paper to a single guard?
They then start top work thir way to a nearby city to get to their respective families since the evil govt' agency that runs the place (they are obviously american, yet its not in America, kind of starnge.) wont let them....EEEEVVVIIILLL i tell you. They are trying to save the entire planet from utter elimination and they wont take a old, past birthing age mother and a sister who to our knoledge have absolutely no redeamable skills to society.
CORRECTION: i misunderstood. the EEEVVIIILLL govt' agency asked the families to come, but the families will not leave their home. So they will not let the NOIl to go and make them leave. Thus they are even more EEEVVVIIILL because they do not want to interfere with free will.
1:55 in.
The sun is ejecting plasma at a million miles a hour. thousands of them. Same stuff that destroyed St. Lois they say. So i assume that somehow now the sun is making asteroids? Ohh.. dman this sun is cool. i want one!
2:00 in
The head of the solar observatory has bbeen selling information about the sun to the NIO.
Ok thats it, ive had enough of this. WHY THE HECK WOULD THIS SUPER SECRET INTELEGENCE ORGANIZATION PAY A SCIENTIFIC OBERVATORY IN SECRET MONEY AND STEAL ITS INFO, AND GO AFTER ITS SCIENTISTS? WHY?
its about the freaking sun. This is not some secret object that nobody can look at. there is NUTHING that theyc an gain from this observatory that would benefit the security or harm the security of the nation.
I can see how it happened now:
Super secret officer Jane (sso Jane):Hey sso Bob whats that big yellow thing in the sky? lets pay someone to look at it and find out what it is!
Sso Bob: Ok, but lts keep it a secret. we don't want people around the planet knowing we have been looking into what this big yellow sky thingy is!
And you know what? im betting i just put more though into the background of this movie than the writers did.
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.Calm down Dan...its only a movie....but a dman dumb one...
2:30 in
they recalculate the equations for the suns going kablooey and find a plus sign where a minus should be in one pary. they recalculate and some new number, which they njever, ever explain what the number signifies, goes higher. They are all happy, and i asusme everybody will not die. They never say if the sun will go nova or not. the never say why the sun is ejecting asteroids , but hey the numbewr went up! so we should be happy!
Imagine someone writing the number 7 on a white board and showing it to a room. the entire room frowns and looks sad. Now they recalculate ans how a number 8. the entire room cheears and is happy. that has the same meaning as the calulation scene here. And about as much explanation about the numbers and their meaning.
2:31 aha! the equations are about the age of the sun.
Ok im confused. So did the breaching of the corona cause all this, or is it because the sun is far older than they thought? If it was the breach, the cauculations dont mean crud. If it was the age, then what was the point of all that breach stuff and the constantly showing these gigantic solar flares coming off of the sun from a single spot? If it was a combination of both, why in the heck is the sun continuing to send this stuff out?
Also finally if the number sygnifies the age of the sun, they they have a bigger problem. the number recaluated went UP! not down. So the sun is older if the number represents age. So how is that good?
My brain is going all numb. Is it bad for my health to be thinking about this?
2:56
Its raining!!!...all over the world... yay!!...?..um so how will this stop the sun going kablooe? Or the sun sending out asteroids? Why has the sun stopped doing that?
Last edited by Humphrey; 2005-Sep-06 at 02:58 AM.
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Jeez, Louise. Sure it's no ANDROMEDA STRAIN straight-faced sci-fi brain engager...but it was a nice semi-antidote to a weekend filled with nauseating marathons* from the poorly-lit world of CSI and the chronically benevolent soul Michael Landon, superlative exhausting media coverage of Hurricane Katrina(sorry, can't really feel sorry for victims of a disaster when every third report is on the plight of the New Orleans sports team!) and "Stargate-till-you-cry" Monday on SciFi(which continues to appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season!)
*I'm a huge "M-A-S-H" fan, but I found it funny that Hallmark chose to run a marathon for it over the weekend, when they already show it at least 8 times a day!?!
Does anyone else remember a world where syndication DIDN'T mean the same show on 12 different channels in synchronized broadcast patterns? (Hello CSI and LAW & ORDER)
Bring back the "Age of the Test Pattern" KLA-TV is signing off the air! Oh say can you see....BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
Order of Kilopi
Ahh come on. Part of the fun of watching movies like this is to tear them apart. :-) Itds really enjoyavble to laugh and make fun of movies like these.
edit: you know only recently have i started to watch MASH. The movie got me into it. The marathon was a good way for me to start watching a few of the episodes. :-)
But i agree. Having a marathon fore a show thats on many, man times a day makes little sense. Its like Spike TV announcing a Star Trek TNG marathon, even if it is on for three hours every day.
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Duh Humphrey!
The sun is made of fire ... if it's raining then the sun can't do anything to hurt the earth because rain is made of water. and fire is afraid of water. get with the program!
Order of Kilopi
Ahh i get it! So instead of the earth buning to a molten mass of goo that you find on your car dashboard after a sunny day, it becomes waterworld.
Hmm...i wonder if Kevin Kostner will show up for the sequil....
"Supernova 2: icarus's revenge.
The fantastic thriller of a movie.
The action intensifies as the rising oceans of the planet earth from global warming battle the firey heat from above as a giant moon made of crystal moves between the earth and the sun, focusing its rays like a giant magnifying glass.
See the amazing graphical specticle as beams of intense solar radiation destroy famous landmarks around the world.
Watch as the hero of the story defiantly announces his love for the girl he wants to marrry and disobeys her dad, the commanding general of the U.S. army.
See the dramatic action as a ragtag group of space jockeies fly to the moon, only to realize it was just a smudge on the lense of the telescope."
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Or James Bond movies. It was probably around the 187th or so rotation of "Moonraker" that Spike said to hell with this and sold all the Bond rights to AMC. Which is better for AMC to show than, say, "Narc", which is already considered a "classic" even though it came out in 2002 and no one except maybe Ray Liotta remembers it, from going through his old pay stubs.
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Amen to that for AMC....the world deserves a break from MRS DOUBTFIRE which has been shown more times this year than WIZARD OF OZ AND GONE WITH THE WIND over the last twenty years combined!?!
p.s. "Classic", "Hero", "Holocaust", "Catastrophic", "Historic" and "Heartfelt" are some of the most misused and overemployed words in American english today.
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I am just waiting for somebody to explain to me how the heck recalculating a throy will stop the sun from destroying the earth? I do not remember a single incident form the sun after they recalculate.
Not to mention if they did get the calculations wrong, What the heck was the sun doing then? Just coughing up hairballs?
It just makes absolutely no sense!
Imagine NOAA doing a prediction on a Hurricane. They predict that the hurricane will hit Florida tomorrow. All their calucations say so. It has already destroyed the bahamas and Even Miami is being taken apart by its leading winds.
But ahha! one scientist forgot to put a exponent on one of the calcumations they do. So because of they the storm entirely dissapears mear moments before it destroys Miami.
TO put it anopther way. You remeber the scene in The Abyss where the giant tsunami is approacing all those coastal cities? imagine that that was predicted by a scientists. A giant asteroid has hit the ocean causing the tital wave. The Tsumnami has destroyed aboput 5 cities already and is about to approach another one, the one where the scientist is at. But the scientist makes a mistake in the prediction of how the tsunami formed in the first place. So he recalculates, and the recalculated results say thaqt it should not of formed. So as a result the Tsumani does not destoy the city and goes back to being a normal ocean.
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You know...I completely forgot to record that last night. (to watch later) Or perhaps it wasn't forgetfulness...
Perhaps my brain, realizing that watching that movie would cause it damage, went into "self-protecive" mode...
Yeah, that sounds about right.
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I saw it and trust me, you saved yourself some brain-damage R.A.F.
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What's a throy?
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