Posted on Monday, May 03, 2004 12:04 PM
Did anyone happen to catch the tv movie "10.5" last night? Well, if you did, I think you are entitled to the facts. The T.V. movie "10.5" was pretty talked about and it was labeled a "must see" for anyone living in California due to all of the earthquake talk that goes on here. So what did I do? I gave in to the morons who live in California. I watched it. It was about a 9.8 on the scale of big mistakes. Not only did the movie have horrible casting, bad acting, and plots that one laughs at, it made no sense was completely based on fiction. I was listening to my favorite morning talk show this morning, Kevin and Bean in the morning on the world famous KROQ. The had a real earthquake lady on the air and she basically ripped apart the entire movie. In the first part of the movie which aired last night, there were three earthquakes. The first one started in Seattle and knocked down the Space Needle which fell on this amazing BMX rider who decided to take the long route to safety, riding over parked cars, broken road and countless stairs. He took the direct route of the Space needle and much to his demise, did not beat it's fall. I thought he could have just made a right or left and saved himself his life, but that doesn't get ratings. So that one was a 7.4 I think. The next hit Redding, CA. This was a 7.9 followed by a 8.4 in the heart of San Fransisco to end the evening. Kim Deleany is the star of the movie and she is the Earthquake specialist that the president calls in even though she has some pretty crazy theories on earthquakes. Her theory, which is the basis of the movie, is that there are these super duper faults that we can't see because they run too deep into the earth. These faults, connect all the major, less deep faults, and is causing all of them to quake at the same time, which is leading to "the big one" that will change the geology of the entire California coast as we know it. Pretty crazy huh? Well, she is trying to get evidence of this to the President so he can evacuate California, and she does it by sticking some device into about one foot into the surface. Ha. First of all, she is saying that we can measure that far down to see this fault and she is going 12 inches down to find evidence. Good thing there were some dead wolves to give her evidence. Second of all, there are no faults deeper than we can see. That's how we know that there is a CORE! We can measure down super duper far so there are no super duper faults. Ok, so everyone knows that I was upset hearing Kevin and Bean this morning. Mostly because I am from Chicago and know nothing about earthquakes and was buying into the idea that half of california could just dissappear. It could happen! I just wanted all of you in Chicago to know the truth too. There were also a bunch of other facts that made that movie seem like one big joke, but I am too upset to repeat them all.
Always Chicagoan,
Dan