The Rest of the 'Category 7' Movie
It was on CBS (KOAM out of Joplin, MO for us, channel 7) on Sunday night, 8-10 PM central time. The more I watched it, the more bogus I think it became, for a few reasons:
Although the premise it started out with was reasonable (global warming causing some massive weather changes all around the earth and the USA basically refusing to cooperate with the rest of the world in correcting the problem [if correction is indeed possible at this late hour] and the various social/cultural forces in this country in effect trying to 'blame God' for the impending disaster) some of the 'solutions' proposed in the film in the second half of the showing which aired Sunday night seemed a bit far-fetched.
There were the usual political maneuvers; the president's press secretary getting fired when he tries to 'tell the truth', the assistant head of FEMA going on television only to have word given that his microphone and camera were to be turned off in the middle of his speech (thus far, sort of realistic, IMO) but the part where they decided to kill all the power in Washington DC to get the temperature 'lower than 79.2 degrees' was a little unbelievable as was the lady who convinced the technicians at the power plant to go along with turning off all the power. The side plot (kidnapping of the rental bus evacuating the children of government employees and the shoot out to rescue them was a little bogus as well. And the real blooper, IMO, even though power was cut off everywhere, many computers *and all the cell phones* continued to operate normally, even when the storm (alleged to be the worst in the history of Washington DC and even the United States) was at its worst. And wouldn't you know it, the kids escape from their kidnapper right about the time the heroine of the movie gets the temperature outside down to just the right tenth of a degree, and all live happily forever.
The movie was disappointing. I sincerely hoped we would see the end of the world rather than just piles of rubble everywhere as the government went about the business of rebuilding itself and the director of FEMA assuring us the goverment was now 'prepared more than ever to deal with these vicious category 7 storms.' And during the movie, when the 'secret formula' was discovered -- how to deal with these storms in the future was revealed, one of the senators was on the *telephone* talking to the other heads of state around the world telling them the procedure to follow in the future, although the United States president apparently took the hint from Mother Nature and agreed to change USA energy practices and other facets of our lives which caused this storm to happen in the first place. And, the Christian fundamentalists who were claiming the whole thing was "God's will' wound up dying also.
Although the premise it started out with was reasonable (global warming causing some massive weather changes all around the earth and the USA basically refusing to cooperate with the rest of the world in correcting the problem [if correction is indeed possible at this late hour] and the various social/cultural forces in this country in effect trying to 'blame God' for the impending disaster) some of the 'solutions' proposed in the film in the second half of the showing which aired Sunday night seemed a bit far-fetched.
There were the usual political maneuvers; the president's press secretary getting fired when he tries to 'tell the truth', the assistant head of FEMA going on television only to have word given that his microphone and camera were to be turned off in the middle of his speech (thus far, sort of realistic, IMO) but the part where they decided to kill all the power in Washington DC to get the temperature 'lower than 79.2 degrees' was a little unbelievable as was the lady who convinced the technicians at the power plant to go along with turning off all the power. The side plot (kidnapping of the rental bus evacuating the children of government employees and the shoot out to rescue them was a little bogus as well. And the real blooper, IMO, even though power was cut off everywhere, many computers *and all the cell phones* continued to operate normally, even when the storm (alleged to be the worst in the history of Washington DC and even the United States) was at its worst. And wouldn't you know it, the kids escape from their kidnapper right about the time the heroine of the movie gets the temperature outside down to just the right tenth of a degree, and all live happily forever.
The movie was disappointing. I sincerely hoped we would see the end of the world rather than just piles of rubble everywhere as the government went about the business of rebuilding itself and the director of FEMA assuring us the goverment was now 'prepared more than ever to deal with these vicious category 7 storms.' And during the movie, when the 'secret formula' was discovered -- how to deal with these storms in the future was revealed, one of the senators was on the *telephone* talking to the other heads of state around the world telling them the procedure to follow in the future, although the United States president apparently took the hint from Mother Nature and agreed to change USA energy practices and other facets of our lives which caused this storm to happen in the first place. And, the Christian fundamentalists who were claiming the whole thing was "God's will' wound up dying also.
posted by Patrick Townson at 10:54 PM
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