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What Make The Critics Of NBC’s Disaster Miniseries METEOR??
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A disaster miniseries from writer Alex Greenfield (“WWE Smackdown”), “Meteor” stars Christopher Lloyd, Jason Alexander, Billy Campbell, Marla Sokoloff and Stacy Keach as earthlings who learn a mountain-size chunk of rock is about to destroy Earth.
NBC’s “Meteor” is not to be confused with ABC’s very similar miniseries “Impact,” which aired last month. Nor is it to be confused with very similar big-screen fare like 1998’s “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” or the 1979 “Meteor” that starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood.
I’ve found very few reviews of NBC’s “Meteor,” suggesting the network may have neglected to send screeners to many outlets (Ain’t It Cool was among those not receiving a copy).
Here’s what a few who saw “Meteor” said:
USA Today gives it one star (out of four) and says:
… What we expect in exchange are a few thrills, a few jolts and some convincing destruction, none of which this cheap, embarrassing film delivers. …
The New York Daily News says:
Let's hope that when the world does end, we can come up with more compelling drama than you'll see on "Meteor" … The viewers' problem is that even the most casual TV watcher has seen almost everything that's about to happen, from the false euphoria when the military thinks it has solved the Kassandra problem to the elementary necessity of making sure bad guys are as dead as they look. The formulaic story also limits what the actors can do, though Sokoloff slides nicely into the plucky reluctant heroine role. …
Variety says:
… so bad, so unbelievably campy, it almost demands to be seen. … There's much to be said for the major networks spicing their lineups with something more than just reality shows during the summer, but if "Meteor" represents the best they have to offer, Armageddon, come on down!
9 p.m. Sunday. NBC.
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I think this sounds sooo bad it could be great!
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... is how this will be different from "Asteroid" in 1997, which was also on NBC, also had lame special effects, but ruled because it destroyed Dallas (and so I could use it in a school project).
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It's almost like Hollywood is just dicking with us. Another comet, meteor, whatever hitting Earth? The Armageddon/Deep Impact oversaturation of this concept was just only 10 or 11 years ago. Then we have two tv movies re-using the concept within a couple of months of each other? Really?
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hasn't this movie been made 30 times? looks retarded! perfect for half of America!
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NBC seems to be really late jumping onto that bandwagon, what's next, a volcano movie?
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Kassandra was the name of that Meteor too. We'll see if the characters all get covered with mud, then we'll know for sure. When Meteor played at my first job, there was a dude who would come to the Theatre and see it around 5 times a week. This went on for the several months that the film played. The employees all called him "Meteor Man". Eventually we just let him enter without paying.
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I'm thinking a movie about an unpopular guy, or girl, getting the chance to hang out with the popular kids in high school with the aid of a duplicitous scheme. Or something with a talking animal, infant, household appliance, or igneous rock formation. There you go, a talking volcano in a high school rom-com. It has NBC written all over it!
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ARMAGEDDON OUTTA HERE!!!
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Regardless, Armageddon still rules.
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We try to warn them that their crappy remakes of boring disaster movies will suck, but no one believes us
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Jul 12, 2009 1:04:05 PM CDT
Probably better than all the hack summer blockbusters
by kwisatzhaderach
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...Transformers 2. That movie will end up going down as the worst movie to ever cross the $300 million mark. I could film myself taking a crap, loop the footage for 2 hours and it would be 10 times better than Transformers 2.
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That's like telling us about a really bad place you had dinner the other night.
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Summer TV shows are such a tragic waste.
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I thought after we got the likes of Battlestar Galactica that good, intelligent sci-fi was back. Now there are so many shows exploring the genre this coming year that I have to wonder how many of these can be half-way decent. I'm really looking forward to the reboot of "V", but if ABC fucks that one up, they deserve the same trouble NBC is in.
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Which also SUCKED, but probably got salvaged for every piece of FX, character and plot for Meteor.
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don't they know the DISASTER movie's day has been and gone??
it's all about the POST-APOCALYPSE again, now - they should'a done the three or four people still standing thirty/forty years AFTER the meteor - in America, or course...
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Might be worth a look!
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it's also got Michael Rooker and the Ernie Hudson (the black ghostbuster.)
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A 10 pointer always delivers, meteors, however are hit or miss.
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Halmi is the Dino Di Laurentiis of television. Endlessly turning out miscast, misproduced crap that nobody actually watches, yet he still keeps working. Must be a really good salesmen or something...!
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So, hit a huge ton of hurtling rock with every nuke in the arsenal, but save the Patriot missiles? WTF? Since when does a sub-ballistic interceptor count for much of anything? Let radioactive space death litter the planet now. Thanks, George Costanza.
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Not seeing the logic in this one.
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HE WORKS FROM 9 TIL 5 AND THEN....
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It was obvious that a lot of actors still need to pay their mortgages. Doc has a thing for big houses in Santa Barbara, so I can understand why he'd show up, even just to get run over in the first half hour. But I thought George Costanza would have invested his Seinfeld loot more wisely.Since this had some former A- and B-list stars, I guess it got the NBC treatment instead of being relegated to SyFy. It was funny how the chick "scientist" with the rack managed to get ogled by a trucker, accosted by prisoners, blow a couple of them away, and end up in a rollover in the better part of day.
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Seriously what a load of shit. If this dosen't kill the careers of Hudson, Lloyd, Campbell and Alexander, nothing will.
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Another meteor is going to destroy the earth movie? Will it be radioactive and The Blob will come oozing out while a nearby Iguana turns into Godzilla? Pure fucking crap.
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When the hell does V start ?
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How could something get such bad reviews when it's written by a writer from WWE Smackdown???!!!
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Rule #1 - Christopher Lloyd is used to keep hope alive for interesting plot. No CL, no movie!
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but to figure out trajectory don't you take readings of an object's position in space over a period of time then do some math? If you know where it is, and you know it will hit earth (where it will end up), isn't figuring out its path kind of elementary?Let's assume Christopher Lloyd is the only guy who can possibly provide the proper data. Let's also assume the only way to convince anyone he is not crazy is to show others that data. Time is of the essence, so what does he do? He hops into a truck so he can drive from somewhere in Mexico to LA to present the data in person. Dude, there's this new invention called "The Internet" on which they have this thing called "Electronic Mail" which you can use to send information to anyone anywhere in the world. Hell, even faxing the information would get there before you even made it to your car.The Michael Rooker/Billy Campbell bad cop subplot feels like filler. What is it doing here? Was this some story the writer could never develop much past the premise and decided to shoe-horn what he had of it in here?Scientist girl is kind of cute.As part of NBC's "Survival Sundays" in two weeks' time the peacock brings us The Storm, with Treat Williams, James Van Der Beek, Teri Polo, Marisol Nichols, John Larroquette and Luke Perry. Not to be confused with Final Storm, also starring Luke Perry, and directed by Uwe Boll.
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Somewhat fun for fans of bad movies, it was still incredibly awful. Plays out like a particularly inept season of "24" with the characters being blocked by increasingly logic defying deus ex machina. My favorite part was when the pluck astronomer goes to the Mexican police station. I told me wife and joked "This is going to be awesome if everyone is dead and she gets in a "Kim in the cougar trap" situation." What happens? All the cops are dead, and she gets captured by some psychos who don't seem to care that everyone is going to die in 12 hours if she doesn't make a phone call because they need to GET SOME.
Special effects were terrible, acting was atrocious, and Michael Rooker(?!) was overacting his little heart out to no avail. I guess if a giant meteor were hurtling toward Earth you could have a worse dream team than Winston Zedemore, George Constanza, and Doc Brown, but you would have to try DAMN hard.
Worse, we have to wait until NEXT Sunday to see how it all ends. That's just cruel. -
I love that our missiles are able to fly into outer space. I love that we can shoot down meteors with RPGs after they enter the atmosphere. I love that everything disintigrates if we throw an explosive at it. Especially nukes.
I love the sceondary bad cop story that has nothing to do with the main plot. The tacked on action and adventure- inmates are running the mexican police station? of course they are...
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But I'm pretty sure ICBM's are multi stage missiles. Oh and ya, most ICBM's are MIRVS. So they would have jettisoned there warheads before they ever left orbit. But considering they can't leave orbit...who am I to nit pick.
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Damn, is it too much to ask for a fucking edit button around here?
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sounds like a gggrrreeeaaaattttt movie. Great job NBC..great job.
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Jesus, they're not even trying anymore! This was like sock puppet theatre with lit matches. Christopher Lloyd and some woman have the correct coordinates to save the planet. But they're in Mexico. They don’t think to fax or email the coordinates. Instead, with the world ready to end in 24 hours, they decide to DRIVE from Mexico to California to hand-deliver the coordinates. But then their cell phone during the drive won’t work. But then their car breaks down. But then Christopher Lloyd gets run over. But then the woman gets kidnapped by some Mexican terrorists. But then she escapes, but gets detained by the border patrol. But then she manages to send the coordinates, but then it turns out they're wrong! But then she figures the right coordinates but then she's hit by a car before she can send them! Jesus, there's more false jeopardy here than in a road runner cartoon! What the fuck is wrong with NBC? What the fuck is wrong with Alex Greenfield, the hack who wrote this shit? Next time we hear about the fucking hack Alex Greenfield, who before this "wrote" wrestling and reality shows, it's gonna be that he's appearing in a supermarket parking lot in Lincoln, Nebraska, biting the heads off chickens, wiping his bloody fingers on a plastic apron around his chest that advertises the low loan rates at a local bank. Jesus, Greenfield! Whatever happened to self-pride?
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... is where the "fail" is. I almost wonder if NBC executives are afraid to greenlight miniseries/movie productions that are new and fresh for fear that people would be convinced the idea was stolen from someone who doesn't work with their studios. I like the fact that they went with an ensemble (not sure why they went with that particular cast, but go figure). I even like the idea of a disaster movie. I just don't understand why they'd go with something that's been done so many times before. Heck, the meteor/asteroid scenario is one of the few that was actually done *twice* at one time ("Deep Impact" and "Armageddon"). I can understand the rationale of going with something familiar, but whenever something has been done so frequently, it significantly raises the bar of expectations. Like anyone else on AICN, I could come up with at least 3 fresher ideas in 15 minutes... and at least one would have just as much resonance as a meteor/asteroid crashing into the Earth.
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It only took me three minutes to think of a plausible natural disaster that would cause the extinction of all life on Earth, as never been made into a movie, would require almost no special effects (and therefore could be filmed for cheap), and would scare the shit out of people...
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Jul 14, 2009 8:20:10 AM CDT
Sean Connery: "I crap on this remake! Mine was bloody better!"
by mrmysteryguest
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I was so excited when I saw Christopher Lloyd, but by the time he got pancaked, I was happy for him. He escaped this awful show. Having him butt heads with Jason Alexander for the whole show would have made it worthwhile and I thought that was where they were headed. Some Doc Brown histrionics leaving Ernie Hudson bemused would be worth the price of admission. But, alas, no one asked me. I laughed out loud when Lloyd got rolled up. It was the only surprise of the first night. Why can't the writers of these shows have the people do what real people would do? There's drama in that. Send a helicopter to pick up the woman who has all the answers, for example. Also, if the earth is rotating and the debris is coming from the same origin point, why does it keep hitting the same area? The audience is too smart for this lazy movie-making.
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