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Did anybody else watch the second half of "10.5: Apocalypse" last night?
There are two reasons why I thought that it wasn't a great movie. First, if it was possible for a sinkhole to form that was large enough to swallow the entire city of Las Vegas, wouldn't it just be sand and rubble on the floor of a massive hole rather than having a quicksand effect where the buildings remained erect but were submerged in a sea of sand (also, are there really more than 30 stories of sand between ground level and bedrock)? Second, did it seem to anybody else that the characters were more disturbed by the flooding of water into the chasm at the end than they were with the complete destruction of Houston and the presumed deaths of countless people? They already knew that the rift was going to hit the Gulf of Mexico, and yet going by their expressions it was like they were watching the whole western half of North America collapse into the Pacific Ocean. The President didn't even shed a tear when he saw the destruction in Houston, and yet when he saw the water coming in to the already cleared rift he started sobbing as did pretty much everyone else in the room with him. I mean, having North America as one solid continent is nice and all but it's not like cutting it in half is the end of the world or anything and any people who were killed by the rift were long dead by that point.
Perhaps I'm just not the kind of guy who should be watching cheesy disaster movies.
There are two reasons why I thought that it wasn't a great movie. First, if it was possible for a sinkhole to form that was large enough to swallow the entire city of Las Vegas, wouldn't it just be sand and rubble on the floor of a massive hole rather than having a quicksand effect where the buildings remained erect but were submerged in a sea of sand (also, are there really more than 30 stories of sand between ground level and bedrock)? Second, did it seem to anybody else that the characters were more disturbed by the flooding of water into the chasm at the end than they were with the complete destruction of Houston and the presumed deaths of countless people? They already knew that the rift was going to hit the Gulf of Mexico, and yet going by their expressions it was like they were watching the whole western half of North America collapse into the Pacific Ocean. The President didn't even shed a tear when he saw the destruction in Houston, and yet when he saw the water coming in to the already cleared rift he started sobbing as did pretty much everyone else in the room with him. I mean, having North America as one solid continent is nice and all but it's not like cutting it in half is the end of the world or anything and any people who were killed by the rift were long dead by that point.
Perhaps I'm just not the kind of guy who should be watching cheesy disaster movies.