I had to spell check annihilation. I am deeply ashamed. If one Sci-Fi blogger out in the endless wastes of the Internet should be able to spell that word, it’s me. This has been an behind the scenes view of the moment to moment action in the life of a Sci-Fi blogger on an especially slow news day.
So the SYFY (I’m getting used to it) Network has produced another disaster movie where mother Earth gets repeatedly whipped by giant space rocks and dramatic tectonic schisms. It stars some people and also Marina freaking Sirtis! Yes, it’s your favorite Counselor, Deanna Troi, still looking hot and doing an apparent busty scientist bit for our considerable enjoyment. Now, all we need is a little Gates McFadden and our (my) fantasies will be complete. Here’s the trailer. Annihilation Earth airs Dec 12th.
I think you should watch it before calling it mindless. It’s actually not, which makes you’re comment mindless.
Actually the premis of the movie is quite credible. It is based on two very real and current problems: man’s endless struggle for power and the predictable side effect of high energy particle collision, a black hole. Granted the visuals got out of control at the end (the effect of a black hole is implosion not explosion) but the sociological trend of self dectruction seems to be mankind’s legacy. Viva the Large Hadron Collider!
Your title sums it up. You know it’s a ‘B’ movie when there are hot chicks running around in tank tops being stupid. I was, however, pleasantly surprised that the doom was in no way tied to global warming or the “green” movement. That was a nice little bonus, one fewer time I had to roll my eyes.
Annihilation Earth is a B movie in the vein of the old ’50s atom-bomb-test-creates-giant-ants shlock. First, super-colliders are RESEARCH instruments. I know, it’s hard to believe that super-expensive miles-wide circles of superconducting magnets couldn’t somehow create energy but that’s not what they do. They smash together bits of atoms to recreate extreme physical conditions that might someday lead the way to practical fusion reactors. Second, the notion that super-collider experiments might someday create miniature black holes plays off of ignorance of physics. Sub-stellar sized blackholes are theorectically possible, yes, but the same theory indicates that they’d be short-lived, not stable and not capable of absorbing the planet. It takes a certain kind of willful ignorance to glom onto half the physics then try to pretend away the other half.
It was awful, even for a B-movie. Marina, Marina, Marina….what type of Southern/Midwest/where the hell accent was that? I, too, had problems with visuals. The implosion might have made things way cooler given that you have some ex-basketball player turned scientist screaming about black holes, black holes, BLACK HOLES. The director of the project let one of her lead scientists run wild while suspected of terrorism leaving him free to be caught by the real terrorist — a terrorist who had absolutely zero leverage to get what he wanted. Truly not worth missing Wanda Sykes for.
I think you should watch it before calling it mindless. It's actually not, which makes you're comment mindless.