sunshine0221's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Have a Shameful Secret I Have a Shameful Secret I love disaster movies. The bigger the disaster the better. I mean what could be better than a bunch of famous and not-so-famous actors trying to survive an earthquake, big fire, runaway-train-with-nuclear-bomb-on-board, or a swarm-of-insects-that-are-normally-non-threatening-but-some-moron-genetically-engineered-them-and-now-they-eat-people? The Sci-Fi network has Miniseries Week back in April, and I TiVo�d 10.5 and Aftershock. Both were about big honkin earthquakes. I don�t remember much about 10.5, other than that Beau Bridges and Kim Delaney were in it, and they tried to use nuclear weapons to stop the earthquakes, but it didn�t work, and California split in two. Aftershock starred Jennifer Garner, back before she had a TV series or an Affleck, and also Renee from Ally McBeal, who again played a lawyer. JGarn was a ballet dancer who needed to borrow money from her dad to fund her ballerina dream, and Renee was the mayor�s daughter, and a public defender who had just gotten a client acquitted for killing his disabled wife. Now Jennifer, being the lucky person that she is, gets rescued a whole bunch of times by her very nice, very handsome Russian cabdriver, whom she ends up marrying after they both survive the big quake. Renee was not so lucky. Her �innocent� client turned out to be a psychopathic killer, who had so killed his wife, but met his end when a building fell on him during one of the 3,000 aftershocks. I just finished watching Atomic Train. This one starred Rob Lowe and Charlotte from Sex and the City. They were a blended family, with Rob�s teenage daughter (played by Mena Suvari) and Charlotte�s cute young son. Her ex-husband was Esai Morales, who was a cop. Rob worked for the NTSB, and when he got a call that there was a runaway train heading towards Denver, had a helicopter drop him off onto a train that was behind the running away one. Because, apparently that�s what all NTSB people would do. The first plan was to have the second train catch the runaway and attach to it, and make it stop. This did not work, but during the attempt, Rob bravely jumped onto the train-about to-crash-into-Denver. The next plan was to have Rob, looking dashingly disheveled, hang off the side of the train and mess around with the electrical system. He gets shocked, and almost thrown off the train, but the jiggling made the brakes work again. All was fine, until the train behind the runaway train DOESN�T NOTICE THAT IT HAS SLOWED DOWN AND REAR ENDS IT. Which blows out the newly restored brakes, and the train again, running away. This totally reminds me of a work excursion to Des Moines, where one of my employees was driving, and almost crashed into a stopped car. Her excuse was that the stopped car did not have their turn signal on, and my response was, �Didn�t you notice that the car was GETTING BIGGER???!!!� Anyway same thing here, and to make matters worst, it turns out that an employee of the waste disposal company that has stuff loaded all over the train had decided to save some bucks and sneak a Russian nuke onto the train. So now we have train about to crash into Denver with an unstable Russian nuclear bomb on it!! Some thoughts I had while watching this cinematic classic: �Hey no fair! Charlotte has a current and an ex husband who have access to helicopters and come rescue her. Share the love there Charlotte.� �I hope the stupid guy who put the nuke on the train never knows the touch of a woman ever again. And I hope he balds prematurely and gets those unattractive Richard Nixon jowly things, and oh yeah that his man parts stop working.� �Esai!! If you are going to try to rescue the kids on a motorcycle, you might want to pay attention to where you are going! Are you listening to me!! Oh great, now you�re dead. Next time be a little more careful okay?� �I can�t BELIEVE that there are how many million people in Denver, and all of the characters keep bumping into each other. Does Denver have just one big road or something?� �The President is Richard Gilmore ! And I can�t take him seriously! He�s Richard Gilmore !� And the nuke did go boom, and Denver kinda got blown up, but everyone except Esai Morales, and whole bunch of extras lived, and Rob and Charlotte�s kids now love their respective step-parents, and really doesn�t that make it all worth it? I just love a happy ending. Except I prefer mine to not have nuclear explosions. 12:09 a.m. - May 20, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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