ABC's Impact. No idea why I watched all 4 hours, but it was idiotic (and therefore, I am idiotic). A "brown dwarf" (seriously) crashes into the moon, so the moon is now going to crash into the Earth. Earth loses gravity, so cars and trains start floating around while people are still driving (imagine the scene in E.T. when the bicycle starts flying). Stupid plot, awful acting and special effects that were apparently done by the same folks that did the "Give me a phat beat" UT football video.
it was entertaining to me. maybe some bad science here and there, but i dunno ... i usually like these kinds of movies
The premise was the mass of the brown dwarf caused the moon to become twice as heavy as the earth. That's what caused the fluctuations in gravity not the decrease in distance. Brown dwarfs are real not something they created from dramatic license. It was sci-fi fluff and I've seen much worse mini-series in many genres.
You're correct that distance has a greater affect than mass.The moon has only 1/6 the earth's mass.To paraphrase the dialog from the movie the moon would have to be 'practically touching the earth' to have any reasonable affect. According to the story the moon had moved less than half it's normal distance so the only explanation was the increase in mass.
If everything on this thread is true then the effect of the moon's gravity on Earth (and objects on Earth) was 48 times greater than before the collision, right? It used to be 1/6 the Earth's mass, then it was twice as massive. And the distance was halved.
well, it got a low grade because of no topless scenes with the species chick. it had the production value of one of those sci-fi channel movies of the week...attack of the mayan stone god, etc...those are great bad movies. i didnt know it was on but caught the last 30 minutes. i did like the new moon though...split down the middle hanging in orbit...ha ha...
A chunk of a "brown dwarf," never mind how it lost a "chunk," with twice the mass of the Earth collides with the Moon and the Moon doesn't shatter? I put that one right up there with the freezicanes.
They are actually remaking "V" which was the worst miniseries ever. They had imaginitive costumes for the day, so some liked it, despite moronic plot elements. I turned it off when "the good guys" were able to bop a single guard armed with a sidearm to get into the primary nerve center of the alien armada. The aliens previously had shown force fields, cameras, all kinds of 23rd century gear. Yet they guard the most important room with a single guard with a side arm? Not even a locked door with retinal scans or something. No alarms, cameras, motion sensors? Yet these are supposed to be a miltaristic race that has conquered many others? Can't even give the guard fancy weapons like they showed in other scenes? High school theatre groups do better than that.
dont hate on the beastmaster or michael ironside as the hard *** freedom fighter. that mini-series was greatness with the space 1999 retreat ships and gear and all. dude, who didnt watch the birth of the alien baby...
Any list that does not include The Templars with Mira Sorvino is incomplete. I read it was voted worst mini-series ever. They were right.
