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Disaster epics increasingly use weird science _ or none at all.
Byline: Gary Robbins
Lemmesee if I've got this straight.
An earthquake erupts outside of Redding, Calif. It sets off a fault that breaks precisely along the path of a rail line. The quake chases a commuter train, following it around a curve. Then the earth opens up, swallowing the choo-choo and all 160 souls aboard.
Yeah, that actually happens in "10.5," a new NBC miniseries that's cheesier than a wedge of Brie. It begins tonight and concludes on Monday. By the time it's over, cities have been destroyed, dialogue has been mangled, and part of the Southern California coast has fallen into the sea, creating a beach head in the garden spot that is Barstow.
Not to worry. Orange County is shaken but not swamped. "My parents live in Mission Viejo," the movie's executive producer, Gary Pearl, said the other day, explaining why he spared us.
Pearl was chuckling when he said this, which you'd expect. "10.5" is the latest in a series of silly man-versus-nature disaster movies that are meant to titillate rather than illuminate. It comes from the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Disaster epics increasingly use weird science _ or none at all.