Megafault

Brittany Murphy, Eriq La Salle (2009) A seismologist and a miner work together to stop a massive earthquake from destroying the world.

Syfy Saturday movie from 10/10. Glad that we're done with that Horrorfest drivel, and we're back to our regularly scheduled programming of Syfy Saturday and Sunday stuff...

So, you wanna know what it looks like when you take a helicopter shot of some countryside, and impose some shoddy CG earthquake fault breaking and stuff? Then watch this movie

They just showed that we're in Washington DC now. And they showed an aerial shot of an airport. The runway pattern of which doesn't match any airport in the DC area.

Also, Senator Kelly as director of FEMA.

And some random woman seems to be the main character. And she sucks at public speaking. Brittany Murphy, I guess?

Got to watch a bunch of stuff to clear it off the DVR. In preparation for the new V series coming out, Syfy is showing all of the old V stuff, including the original Miniseries, the follow-on miniseries, and the TV series that followed. And in preparation, I guess I'm gonna have to watch 'em all, assuming they don't suck. That could probably take a while. We shall see...

And for some reason, a seismologist is flying in a Medevac helicopter to investigate the earthquake.

And apparently the C-130s are the sturdiest airplanes known to man. One just got run into by something, probably another plane. All that happened was that the C-130 lost an engine. And then had to crash land.

And Black Guy just blew up a porta-potty. In order to jack a guy's helicopter. Thankfully for the plot, he knows how to fly a helicopter.

I'm really curious what the stall speed of an F22 is. Because they're keeping pace with a helicopter. And they just fired a missile or two as a warning shot, to try to get the helicopter to land. Seems that using a couple of missiles is a ridiculously expensive warning shot, as opposed to a couple of bullets.

Oh, good! It seems that the military made an earthquake weapon using an "invisible phase beam" to freeze water under the earth's crust to create earthquakes. They're gonna try to create another earthquake to stop the propagation of the first massive one.

Also: Earthquake + Farm field = Explosion. Apparently. Apparently this movie takes place in mythical Micheal Bay Land.

And for some reason, a the terrain around a mine in Wyoming looks exactly the same as the terrain around the mine from the first scene of the movie.