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Worst Made for TV Movie Contestant
I've always had a special love of science fiction movies. Day the Earth Stood Still, Contact, and many others have given us reason to step back from our daily lives and look at our world differently.
And then there's the made for TV movie I viewed this weekend, Earthstorm. Starring Stephen Baldwin (of the Baldwin family acting conglomerate), this clunker, if the Academy categories existed, would be a clear nominee for:
Worst Special Effects
Most Derivative Plotline
Numbest Acting
and the big kahuna...
Worst Movie Ever
The, ahem, plot - Earth's moon gets struck by a wicked big, undetected meteor ("It's a big sky, we missed it") which cracks the planetoid, raining moonchunks all over our dear old innocent planet Earth. The fault threatens to split off a hunk of the Moon which would then fall onto the Earth, destroying mankind. Sound like Armageddon? Deep Impact? I thought so too.
Baldwin plays the world's best demolition expert who gets pressed into service because he's good at blowing up things (see Bruce Willis's shameful role in Armageddon). Add in an unknown actress who's acting ability ends with her lovely strawberry blond hair (and who's name I didn't bother to learn) as a brilliant outcast woman scientist . Of course, her recently deceased scientist father (see Jodie Foster in Contact) just happens to have proposed a theory which just happens to be identical to this scenario but was laughed at by the scientific community led by Dirk Benedict's (see A Team) scientist who just happens to be the President's scientific adviser sent to oversee the save-the-dear-old-innocent-planet-Earth effort. Space shuttle, nuclear devices, quasi-scientific jargon, you get the idea.
Oh yes, the special effects... In one scene, moonchunks fall on Mexico City. Why Mexico City? Because few are familiar with the skyline and won't notice that it's not Mexico's biggest city in the backdrop. How do we know the chunks hit? Because a corner of the screen turns yellowish-red and there are lots of sparklies!
I kept hoping for some redeeming value and so watched Earthstorm to itsdemise end. Turned out that it was a perfect movie to divert you from the boredom that is folding laundry and doing housework.
Would it have won the coveted Worst Movie Ever Academy Award? Only if it didn't compete against 10.5.
And then there's the made for TV movie I viewed this weekend, Earthstorm. Starring Stephen Baldwin (of the Baldwin family acting conglomerate), this clunker, if the Academy categories existed, would be a clear nominee for:
Worst Special Effects
Most Derivative Plotline
Numbest Acting
and the big kahuna...
Worst Movie Ever
The, ahem, plot - Earth's moon gets struck by a wicked big, undetected meteor ("It's a big sky, we missed it") which cracks the planetoid, raining moonchunks all over our dear old innocent planet Earth. The fault threatens to split off a hunk of the Moon which would then fall onto the Earth, destroying mankind. Sound like Armageddon? Deep Impact? I thought so too.
Baldwin plays the world's best demolition expert who gets pressed into service because he's good at blowing up things (see Bruce Willis's shameful role in Armageddon). Add in an unknown actress who's acting ability ends with her lovely strawberry blond hair (and who's name I didn't bother to learn) as a brilliant outcast woman scientist . Of course, her recently deceased scientist father (see Jodie Foster in Contact) just happens to have proposed a theory which just happens to be identical to this scenario but was laughed at by the scientific community led by Dirk Benedict's (see A Team) scientist who just happens to be the President's scientific adviser sent to oversee the save-the-dear-old-innocent-planet-Earth effort. Space shuttle, nuclear devices, quasi-scientific jargon, you get the idea.
Oh yes, the special effects... In one scene, moonchunks fall on Mexico City. Why Mexico City? Because few are familiar with the skyline and won't notice that it's not Mexico's biggest city in the backdrop. How do we know the chunks hit? Because a corner of the screen turns yellowish-red and there are lots of sparklies!
I kept hoping for some redeeming value and so watched Earthstorm to its
Would it have won the coveted Worst Movie Ever Academy Award? Only if it didn't compete against 10.5.
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