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What Do You Do When Most Of Earth's Land Masses Are Submerged By Oceans?? Salvage It!! Here Come LOST CITY RAIDERS!!

I think that shark is from Deep Blue Sea by just pillow talk	May 5th, 2008 10:14:26 AM
Smart Sharks will rule the world.
amazing people find another Iron Man movie by just pillow talk	May 5th, 2008 10:15:14 AM
Capt America, and Avengers movies more interesting than THIS.
Lost Shitty Raiders by Corterville	May 5th, 2008 10:15:17 AM
Didn't Waterworld tank well enough? Must we reopen old wounds?
That's a pretty fucking bad tagline. by Fawst	May 5th, 2008 10:21:18 AM
Even if it is "promotional," you wouldn't sell me with a line like that.
My kind of flick by chrth	May 5th, 2008 10:27:10 AM

A billionaire character makes no sense. by FluffyUnbound	May 5th, 2008 10:58:24 AM
I hate to tell you this, but if half the US suddenly sank below the sea, the dollar wouldn't be worth squat and having a billion of them would just mean you were set pretty well for toilet paper for the rest of your life. OK, maybe this guy made ANOTHER billion quatloos or whatever the new currency became, by selling toilet paper made of his FIRST billion dollars.
Just Pillow Talk - Thats because they are more interesting by Yeti	May 5th, 2008 11:00:29 AM
A six million dollar budget? The Vatican? LAME.
Shatner's Oscar! by kdoc13	May 5th, 2008 11:11:40 AM
Damn skippy he deserves one! Totally robbed for Wrath of Kahn! KAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
I'm sure they'll find a way to screw this up by indyjonez100	May 5th, 2008 11:25:43 AM
Especially for the SciFi network.
Feh by snowpuff	May 5th, 2008 11:25:57 AM

FluffyUnbound: Nowhere does it say "suddenly" by chrth	May 5th, 2008 11:37:40 AM
If the coastal waters rose at a moderate pace, there's no reason to presume any first world's economy would collapse. Businesses would just move inland.
Are they anything like the Bay City Rollers? by tonagan	May 5th, 2008 11:43:22 AM
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y. Night! (Remember, you can't spell Saturday without TURD.)
Any news by Series7	May 5th, 2008 11:49:51 AM
On a Lost Room spin off? I was all down for these Sci-Fi mini series every year until Tin Man, huge let down. Hopefully this'll be better then Triangle, which was ok, but kind of lame in the end.
SciFi Shovelware? by XAOS	May 5th, 2008 11:57:23 AM
I'll stick with continuing to roll my eyes and wondering why why why in the world of all things sane and rational these things continue to get made.
They set out to salvage their careers... by Tal111	May 5th, 2008 12:22:16 PM
and ended up learning how to love. Love theme from Lost City Raiders Of The Lost Ark by Celine Dion.
Hold Up - Since WHEN Do You "Cover" Stuff Like This?! by cowboyone	May 5th, 2008 12:27:24 PM
This looks like complete Sci-Fi channel fodder. I smell a "professional favor."
Hold up -- no criticizing of this coverage by chrth	May 5th, 2008 12:32:21 PM
AICN should be covering more stuff like this, not less. There's a lot of great geek stuff out there that this site doesn't care about because there isn't a former Buffy writer on the staff. They should be spending more time on reports like this.
$6 Million budget and MASSIVE special effects. by fishface	May 5th, 2008 12:36:06 PM
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA A!
Springsteen flooded the world? by Fred	May 5th, 2008 12:38:53 PM

Did Al Gore produce this? by BLWiseass	May 5th, 2008 12:59:39 PM
just wonderin
Wait a minute.. by zebra	May 5th, 2008 01:05:35 PM
The statue of liberty (which is at sea level) is up to her waist in water, but the Christ statue in Rio (way up on a mountain) is party underwater also? Did the laws of physics also change with the sea level?
Shannyn Sossamon in Dexter season 3 by sherryk	May 5th, 2008 01:07:59 PM
per Veidt.com
Sounds like fun. by rotten666	May 5th, 2008 01:36:02 PM
Do any of you people actually enjoy movies?? cause you fuckers don't sound like you like anything. Quit yer bitchin'. Nobody likes fanboys.
Zebra by Harrow	May 5th, 2008 01:42:46 PM
If you took the time to use your eyes you'd see that "it's not actual/final "promotional" artwork." People mentioning the laws of physics piss me off.
Statue of Liberty versus Christ the Redeemer by chrth	May 5th, 2008 02:01:42 PM
I think you need to read the article closer; Merrick said "(where the Jesus statue is still sticking out of the water)". Which makes it sound like it's not submerged at all. Which makes sense, because it's on a cliff that is 2,296 feet above sea level. I don't think it's suggested that it's partially underwater by that statement.
Co-Starring by gotilk	May 5th, 2008 02:10:28 PM
The disembodied head of Malcolm McDowell. "He'll apologize, but the shades stay on."
HOLY FRAKING SHATNER! by Stereotypical Evil Archer	May 5th, 2008 02:25:34 PM
That's a good joke.
"Waterworld" Extended Cut by Leto III	May 5th, 2008 03:19:45 PM
Actually, the 40-minute-longer TV version of WATERWORLD is superior to the theatrical cut, and makes the film (paradoxically) a far better experience than the studio-shortened version. Sure wish they'd put this cut out on Blu-Ray someday...
I don't get the Shatner joke by Domi'sInnerChild	May 5th, 2008 03:45:35 PM
Seriously, I don't get it. I just don't see somebody coming up to me and saying, "man, Raiders of the Lost City sucked, but there's this one scene where they pull out an Oscar and they think it's all important and it's... wait for it.. William Shatner's Oscar! Get it!? HAHAHHAHAA!" Is it supposed to be funny like the Cubs winning the World Series ('cus that'll never happen) in Back to the Future? A scene that doesn't take itself to seriously in an otherwise crappy movie and is funny on its own would be like the parakeet getting shot in Crank.
It's comforting to know by IForgotAbout19	May 5th, 2008 04:04:12 PM
That in the post-global-warming-apocalypse people will still be able to have flawless hair and clothes. Onward.
Sci fi Channel twats by semisaj	May 5th, 2008 04:15:24 PM
Good god please somebody let me run that channel...do they actually ever try and make anything aimed at what the people who should be watching that channel want...we want more stuff like Battlestar, manga/anime, the old classic serials (Flash Gordan, good movies like both versions of Solaris, Forbidden Planet, 2001 and good documentaries like they make on the History and Discovery channels....shit even have Futurama on it...Its not that difficult to make that into the best Channel on the planet please let me have a go
Thorough genre coverage by Toonol	May 5th, 2008 04:25:46 PM
is what AICN should be doing. They should be covering all the $5 million dollar sf, fantasy, and horror movies. If they're cramped for room, they can stop covering stuff like "made of honor." That said, this movie sounds terrible.
I'm of at least two minds. by Valin Kenobi	May 5th, 2008 04:48:12 PM
The premise sounds like it could be a five-star with the right script, cast, and production. But considering SciFi's track record (Frankenfish, anyone??) I have little faith.
Also by Valin Kenobi	May 5th, 2008 04:51:15 PM
I concur with the general sentiment that we need MORE coverage of admittedly marginal stuff like this, rather than "Baby Mama" and crap of that ilk.
My friend was an extra in this! by brokentusk	May 5th, 2008 05:39:43 PM
They shot this bitch in Cape Town, South Africa. When he told me the name, I laughed in his face. Apparently Ian Somerhalder is a bit of a dick, you heard it here first.
Ian Somerhalder is a bit of a dick by finky089	May 5th, 2008 05:55:42 PM
well, thank god Boone died in season one. I could kinda tell, though.
Oh, he played a Columbian drug lord in a bar scene... by brokentusk	May 5th, 2008 06:26:32 PM
His role was to sit by the bar with two hot girls under each arm. Now, if I ever see this film (I plan not to) I'll probably go into cardiac arrest from laughing so hard at this scene. My friend's a great guy, don't get me wrong, but he's the furthest thing from a Columbian drug lord chick magnet (although he does have long hair and a beard... and we all know chicks are attracted to that shit). Also, to be fair, I asked him why he said Somerhalder was a dick and he couldn't really give me a real answer, something about hitting on all the girls on the set (and you can't really blame him for that). Having said that, Somerhalder does give off an air of dickness, so fuck him.
Bad title, but cool idea. by Mr Willi	May 5th, 2008 07:30:50 PM
Although I'm sure the Limbaugh pill poppers out there think that global warming is a hoax, along with evolution (and they have Ben Stein posters plastered on their bedroom walls). Too bad it is only a TV movie, given a big screen treatment of the same thing would be fun.
The VATICAN tries to save the world? by DrManhattansUnit	May 5th, 2008 07:37:05 PM
More altar-boys to abuse if they did I guess.
And about that "billionaire character" by Mr Willi	May 5th, 2008 07:42:38 PM
There was a story in the NY Times a while back about how certain rich people are buying up land in the arctic, realizing that with global warming, the melting of the ice would create new shipping lanes and new docks and harbors to service those ships. Also, unless I didn't make myself clear in the last post, for all you deny global warming types: Give it a fucking rest. I'm sorry you failed science class in seventh grade, but just because you masturbate nightly to that issue of National Review tucked under your pillow doesn't make you an authority on science.
EvilWizardGlick... by Mr Willi	May 5th, 2008 07:47:09 PM
Dude, did you even read the stories about why those scientists are predicting global cooling, or did you make it no further than the Fox News headline?
Here's what it comes down to by chrth	May 5th, 2008 08:18:43 PM
Every side is agendizing, so you can't trust anyone. Deep ocean data returns stable temperatures, and instead of accepting the data, the global warming proponents are trying to spin it as they don't know what the results really mean. Why? Because it doesn't conform to what they expected to see. That's what agendizing does: it causes intelligent people to be stupid. Ditto the polar bears: the evidence is that the population is GROWING, yet that has to be a mistake, right?
LMAO!!!!! You're KIDDING me, right???? by Big Dumb Ape	May 5th, 2008 08:41:16 PM
I can ALREADY tell that this thing will have the same logic and reason and sound science behind it that so many of Sci-Fi's utterly CRAPTACULAR films have. Quote from Merrick's article... Word is there’s an artifact somewhere that could reverse the rising and restore Earth’s land masses. Towards this end, a salvage team is recruited by the Vatican (now located in New Rome) to find said object. However, a billionaire real estate mogul has a different agenda. Ok, aside from the groan inducing notion that once again we'll be subjected to a storyline where the Big Corporate business guy is OLDER and thus BAD, while the hip, rag-tag team of YOUNG stars who came straight off the CW are GOOD -- what the hell kind of "artifact" could actually reverse GLOBAL flooding? I'm talking about flooding SO severe that it has reduced actual continental land mass AROUND THE WORLD? What, the search is on to find a giant RUBBER SHOWER PLUG that the hip, young stars can pull, so that all the water races to the center of the earth and we simply drain it all off? Give me a break! The idea behind this ALREADY sounds MANSQUITO-level laughable!
Hey, there's a martket for all films... by Teddy Artery	May 5th, 2008 09:32:51 PM
...and not every one of 'em needs to be Iron Man or Batman. Could be fun.
Where woud you stand? Mount Everest, obviously ... by Shan	May 5th, 2008 11:16:27 PM
Did no-one learn anything from Waterworld? More seriously though, apparently scientists did work out what would happen if all the ice melted and they think at least a third of the world's land would still be above sea level anyway.
I'm at least interested to see Corcavado (the Jesus statue) by Dogmatic	May 5th, 2008 11:37:15 PM
'cuz I just back from Rio and saw that and it was a pretty flippin' cool statue that looks like over the ENTIRE city...like something out of a cool fantasy movie....anyways...will be interesting to see that FX shot of the top of that mountain sticking out of the ocean since I got a connection with the place now....glad this on TV so I dont have to pay to watch this shite so I can see said shot.
So they find the crystal skull and it restores the ice caps by Mace Tofu	May 6th, 2008 01:20:04 AM
...you know your getting old when the WATERWORLD DTV rip-offs start beating a dead horse of an idea. If you can't top WATERWORLD why try?
Release date? by Dazzler69	May 6th, 2008 07:02:49 AM
Did not see one. Might watch it, but it needs bigger "b" list stars.
what do you do.. by ArcadianDS	May 7th, 2008 08:47:37 AM
...when your stupid agenda-driving global warming movie sucks more crack than a still cooling corpse of River Phoenix? Sell it to a network.
River Phoenix? by ThomasServo	May 7th, 2008 12:00:57 PM
Really? Got any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me, too, as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity?

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