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Movie Reviews of Earthstorm
Movie Review: Sounds hilarious, I'm going to get it!
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a new Dirk Benedict fan. I started watching old tv shows online, including Battlestar Galactica, and now the A-Team. Now I'm looking for Dirk Benedict movies. I laughed out loud all the way through anim8rfsk's review, it's hilarious! I'm going to get this movie because of your review! I sort of wished he got a girl too. I'm pre-rating this based on your review. Please suggest more Dirk Benedict movies for me! I like him best so far as Starbuck.Movie Review: A-Team
Summary: 3 Stars
Ok movie for the budget. I probably would not have rented it except for the fact that Dirk Benedict was acting in it. I was watching some A-team episodes from the early 80's and wondered what the actors had been up to. Amazingly they haven't done much acting except for Dwight Schultz who had a semi-regular role in the Star Trek episodes and his voice acting gigs. It was nice to see Faceman again.Movie Review: Did I miss something?
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this movie ( I like these types of movies ) except during the movie sayings kept popping up saying not for sale or resale? . I must have missed that class, what gives?Movie Review: Earth VS the Giant Space Rice Krispies!
Summary: 2 Stars
Disclaimer: They didn't actually call it NASA. It was the ASA or something. But we know who they meant!!
EARTHSTORM is an Armageddon 'homage' starring one of the lesser Baldwins. Not Billy I don't think. That doesn't narrow it down one darn bit, does it?
Giant uncharted asteroid hits the far side of the moon. Apparently just hours later debris starts whacking into us (you'd think it would be headed AWAY from us. I'd also think it would take a while to get here. I'd also think that if it did get here like a Domino's Pizza, in 30 minutes or less, the story would end right there. But go figure). NASA covers up the fact that meteors are hitting us and wiping out cities and that there's a crack in the moon and a huge halo of Giant Space Rice Krispie debris you can see from Earth but many people figure it out by hearing rumors.
Demolition guy Baldwin as Bruce Willis is blowing up a building. As they're about to push the button, everybody wearing heavy clothes and helmets and flack jackets except the extremely hot female assistant who's in shorts, suddenly the 9th floor blows up. This causes the entire system of explosives to become 'unbalanced' and wackiness ensues. Since they can't stop the countdown, Bruce Baldwin runs up to the 9th floor (with a pack of DYNAMITE!), finds pillar 8A which is what blew up (and is totally unscathed), sticks a new pack of explosives on it (completely fixing the problem, except the problem is in no way fixed), finds the homeless guy who set off the explosives (and who is also completely unscathed) and races out of the building with seconds to spare. They head off to their next job in Baltimore, which is almost immediately hit by Giant Space Rice Krispie meteorite debris.
Meanwhile some red headed scientist portrayed by a woman who's acting training came from doing makeovers in the local mall, and who is expending all of her 'talent' trying to hide her accent, realizes her father predicted this exactly, but was driven out of the business and to his death by evil government scientist Dirk Benedict. NASA calls her in because nobody will listen to her.
I'm not really sure what happened to the moon. At various points in the story it's shifted it's orbit, the crap is coming from the asteroid, the crap is coming from the moon, there's a rift a 100 times the size of the grand canyon in the moon and the crap is spewing out of THAT, and anything that leaves the far size of the moon for whatever reason whacks us about a half an hour later.
Part of this is explained when cute shorts demo girl finds a hunk of the moon (after dodging into a canvas tent to avoid a major Giant Space Rice Krispie meteorite impact about 50 feet away) just laying there in Baltimore, a big hunk clearly made out of foam that nobody handles like it weighs more than an empty coffee cup, and it turns out we were wrong about what the moon was made of all along -- it's hitting us so hard because it's composed of uranium. In the form of Giant Space Rice Krispies.
NASA decides the only way to stop the moon from bombarding us (at this point Mexico City is suddenly destroyed, but nobody mentions it again) is to fly up to the moon and set off nukes and seal the fissure. Of course, Baldwin must go with them, for only he can push the button.
Red decides that since the moon is all magnetic and everything, we should use a special magnetic bomb that no one has ever built instead. Of course, Baldwin must go with them, for only he can push the button. Of a bomb he's never heard of the theory behind or seen, as it doesn't exist.
Starbuck vetoes the plan. Through the entire movie he walks in whenever they're planning something; nobody at NASA *ever* closes a door.
They take off in a space shuttle, which despite the nukes being the size of a couple of suitcases, only holds 3 people; cute female pilot, random astronaut, Bruce Baldwin. Random astronaut is immediately knocked out for the duration of the flight. Shuttle has gravity, and a continuous floor between the flight deck and the cargo bay, almost as though it was a left over set from a high school stage play.
Shuttle lifts off, jettisons its SRBs and liquid fuel tanks together, and, with main engines still roaring, flies to the moon, dodging and weaving incoming Giant Space Rice Krispie rocks, accelerating the whole way. Granted, they have auxiliary strap on nuclear engines that no one had ever built or tried before as well.
They get to the moon, fly down to the surface (while this shuttle has internal gravity, external gravity doesn't affect it at all) and sort of hover.
Cute shorts demo chick shows up at NASA with the very light rock. Analysis indicates it's uranium, which means Starbuck was wrong, and they should have sent the magnetic bomb instead of the nukes. The Earth is doomed.
NASA brainstorms and figures out how to take unused parts from the shuttle's communication systems to turn the nukes into a magbomb. Bruce Baldwin does this while cute pilot hovers.
Starbuck realizes red haired scientist did all the math wrong, and they need 100 times more bomb. The Earth is doomed.
Starbuck saves the day by realizing they happen to have auxiliary nuke engines strapped to the outside of the shuttle, that Bruce Baldwin can get to, somehow.
Baldwin realizes the new charge needs to be set off in a new location. The new location? THE CENTER OF THE MOON! Yes, they need to fly the shuttle to . . . THE CORE!!!!!
Luckily, the fissure goes all the way to the center of the moon. They fly down, dump the bomb, eject their engines, and, main engines still blasting away, race for the surface as the mag bomb goes off, the fissure sucks itself shut, the moon "heals itself" and returns to it's proper orbit, and all the incoming Giant Space Rice Krispie stuff that was about to destroy the Earth is just . . forgotten about. Cute pilot, engines STILL GOING FULL THROTTLE, despite the fact that she left the fuel tank back on Earth and the strap on engines in the moon, races back as unhurt extra astronaut comes to. BTW, all this apparently happened in about half an hour, as cute shorts girl hasn't even gone to the ladies' room to wipe the soot off her pert little nose yet.
Back on Earth, everybody loves everybody, Starbuck is forgiven, Red's dad is vindicated, Red goes back to work for NASA, Red and Bruce Baldwin pair off, Red's assistant who didn't have enough of a part to matter and was in love with her scores with cute shorts girl, mostly 'cause there wasn't anybody else with enough lines to pair her with except Starbuck who stoically rode back to Washington, and the weather is all fine, and nobody cares that Mexico City is gone.
The End.
Movie Review: unlikely astronaut saves Earth . . .
Summary: 2 Stars
An original movie for the SyFy Channel, Earthstorm (2006) is passable entertainment for a cable TV movie, but with a story that has only faint roots in reality, it is hard to recommend as a DVD buy. The storyline is fairly routine as planetary disaster films go. An asteroid has struck the moon, causing massive structural damage, and altering its orbit. Fragments from the impact, crash on Earth, causing major damage. Scientist Lana Gale (Amy Price-Francis) is on the American Space Institute team in Washington, who are tracking the event. John Redding (Stephen Baldwin), a building demolition specialist, is brought in as a consultant.
While Redding's introduction into the crisis is a completely ridiculous development, the movie soon becomes a over the edge fairly tale, as Redding, who was absolutely no training in aeronautics or advanced physics, winds up on a space shuttle headed to the moon, on a mission to try and save the Earth. Reality continues to be stretched, as one of the crew of three is injured, forcing Redding to take an even more prominent role, jury rigging components to modify a nuclear bomb. This plan is abandoned, as the nuclear engines are detonated instead. Luckily for all mankind, the fault seals itself, and the moon miraculously returns to its original orbit. Thus our planet is spared, and everyone lives happily ever after.
Being kind, the story has a few problems. The space shuttle is designed for Earth orbital missions, not for lunar travel. No problem, as the shuttle uses "nuclear pulse engines" to get there. A physicist, not a demolitions expert might be a more appropriate consultant for a demolition job on the moon. It really does not matter much anyway, as the folks in mission control, are a pathetic group of goofballs, who just come up with one flawed plan after another.
If you turn your brain off, Earthstorm can be a mildly entertaining cartoonish distraction, as some of the special effects are not too bad. With a lack of realism, the film can't be taken very seriously, and might best be viewed on SyFy Channel, if you are really interested in viewing this lunar fantasy.