Comments on: NBC’s Meteor Misses the Mark

By: Wavepainter

Wavepainter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:21:00 +0000

Ok….Stop camera. Lights off.
Quiet everyone.
What just happened? Really?
I think you all have been duped. Punked, as Ashton would say. Tricked. Fooled.
This is not a bad movie. It’s a joke, and the joke’s on you if you thought they
were trying to make a serious, scary, disaster movie.
“drafted up with the intelligence of a three year old.” More like a 10 year old. Ha!
A. The girl forgets her cell phone.
B. The people send their kid to school after a meteor blows a hole in his field
and nearly burns down the house.
C. The guy hijacks her car then says, “Oh, going my way? OK, you drive.”
D. People run out of gas. The guy says, “You passed 3 stations.” and strangles her for that.
Like (and this is the theme of the movie) GI Joe and Barbie in the hands of 5th graders
in the back yard.
E. World in chaos. People in shelters. Hospital overwhelmed and the doc runs out of supplies. Her husband suggests the local pharmacy and she says, “Do you think they are open? as meteors crash around them.
C’mon. Sit back and count the nuttso moments. That’s where the fun is here.
The Mexican Police station stuff?
Drive backwards to avoid the burning truck?
Dig through the demolished hospital by hand?
This movie is a satire filled with very obvious “errors”.
A joke.
The producers are laughing at anyone taking it seriously.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:17:32 +0000

I watched the last two half’s of the series with my friend who watched the first two half’s. Thank god I was not subjected to the beginning of perhaps the worst of the worst TV series I have ever seen. I couldn’t tell what was worse, the series, or that it made me want to watch two and a half men instead.

First of all, ANYTHING coming from beyond mars, will take longer than two days to get to earth. If something were traveling that fast, it would take zero seconds to travel the distance from the moon to the earth. Not alone hang out skipping on the surface of the atmosphere while the rest of the world waits for some scientist to tell the American government to aim hundreds of nuclear bombs mysteriously reprogrammed within seconds through some binary code.

I won’t even go through the obvious bouncing a mountain away with nukes and then have no fallout what’s so ever. I can’t, I won’t. It would be a horrible insult to not only your, but my intelligence to even entertain trying to figure out who the hell could have written such an atrocity. Not only was this movie incredibly predictable within the acting and writing. I was shocked that big roller names could even come in contact with a production this bad.

Last but not least I want to include that I usually don’t give reviews bad or good. But this show I watched had a special kind of bad introduced into it. Not giving a damn about good writing. I couldn’t let this opportunity pass me by because I must bitch about someone out of this atrocity has gotten paid more money than I have ever made in my lifetime to pump out this crap. What a scam, NBC should draft up a law suit.

On the other hand this is clearly drafted up with the intelligence of a three year old, not choosing to go by science what’s so ever. They must be invested in selling it to uneducated white trash. Risky but profitable. Just not sellable to me.

By: Dirus

Dirus — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:50:31 +0000

Best part of the movie for me, aside from a few cool special effects, was when a group of extras, emerging from a shelter, were supposed to look stunned and weary — sort of like Scientologist zombies — one girl got a half smile on her face.

By: JT

JT — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:36:55 +0000

Wow this is lame. Been there, done that. Anyone remember Asteroid from 1997? Armageddon was great and should have put to bed all the lame meteor movies (since it was the only one that was actually compelling). Apparently if ten years go by, everyone will forget and we get another round of lame TV movies about the SAME THING.

Maybe if they aired something GOOD, I would be more understanding, but seriously… This is CRAP.

Since nothing else good is on, then I WANT MY CRUSOE BACK DAMMIT!

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:29:21 +0000

Oops sorry the link above was not complete

See a funny, historical chart of Meteor & Storm TV movies & Miniseries

http://www.tvtango.com/news/detail/id/47

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:09:27 +0000

I must say the show is really predictable and there were a lot of mistakes made, (and really two of them run out of gas in this crisis) But I loved Mimi as Jenny, giving up her spot so the mom with the kids can go to the shelter. I would like to see her again in something else!

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:21:05 +0000

Well if you if you missed METEOR, you can see almost the same movie when NBC airs THE STORM on July 26th. These type of disaster movies are all the same. Same old, same old. There is a funny, historical chart (with photos and clips) of the top Meteor & Storm made-for-TV movies & miniseries at

http://tvtango.com/news/detail/id/

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:27:11 +0000

Marginal made for TV movies are notorious for feeding the audience compelling (or not) personal human situations to overcome their shortcomings. I expect that, though if you have to heap this much into it and the film still sucks it comes off more like it’s the studio and production execs that are desperately fighting to survive rather than the characters.

But when a somewhat trusted broadcaster gives millions of people the absolutely false impression that a Stinger (or any other kind of) missile can make momentum and heat disappear…

Exploding a superheated bullet traveling between several and several tens of miles per second will just turn it into a superheated shotgun plume traveling the same speed.

Think 1908 Tunguska blast: roughly 60-200 foot object that naturally exploded when it heated up to 50,000 F degrees several miles above a Siberian forest. Result: the equivalent of a 10-20 megaton airburst knocked down more than 80 million trees across an area of over 800 square miles. A few miles nearer and that forest would have been smoke to boot.

NBC’s Meteor suggests survival is about people and not about overcoming the voting public’s ignorance of basic science.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:56:34 +0000

You get the “tell it like it is” award! I do wonder if any execs actually sit down and watch these things before they decide to air them.

By: Jac Beltois

Jac Beltois — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:31:23 +0000

Disaster-movie or movie disaster…

NBC should apologize to the handful of idiots (me included) who watched Meteor Sunday night.

Nothing makes sense in it. From the border patrol officer who ends up giving coffee to the pretty but over-acted Marla Sokoloff, to the “impacts” from the meteors in LA where you see you see a bunch of extras running in the middle of a shower of -no, not debris- just paper (?!)

One sad example of this so-called disaster-movie that end up being a real movie disaster for its lack of everything is the following scene:

The “bad” guy (bad actor too) kidnaps a blond woman (why it is always a blond?) Then they run out of gas while going at least 50 miles an hour. To prove that, the director decides to show the instrument cluster of the car. So far so good, until you rewind your DVR and noticed that the speedometer is in zero and the needle for the shifter shows the vehicle in P for park. ???

Who are these clowns kidding?

One thing it having a really cheep movie full of old and bad clichés (what else is new NBC?) and another one is the implicit message that, as long “the end of world is near” we can disrespect the audience giving them this crap.