Author Topic: Russian Meteorite event (Read 4186 times)

Alvis 3.1 · « **on:** February 16, 2013, 12:16:31 AM »

We really need to get this program up and running! One day, we WILL get hit!

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal4/3101-3200/Gal3115_Space-Atari_Petrie/00.shtm
:)
Alvis 3.1

Kerick · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2013, 12:46:01 AM »

This will give the UFO theorist more to work with, just like the Siberian event of 1908.
Is there a meteor disaster movie coming out soon? Maybe its just a publicity stunt.

Spey Phantom · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2013, 01:33:16 AM »

this reminds me of that movie "Armageddon", somebody call Bruce Willis

elmayerle · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2013, 01:55:06 AM »

Anyone else here remember 1975's Meteor with Sean Connery and Natalie Wood?

Alvis 3.1 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 16, 2013, 02:03:48 AM »

I wish I had been able to forget that film!

Alvis 3.1

elmayerle · « **Reply #5 on:** February 16, 2013, 02:50:44 AM »

Quote from: Alvis 3.1 on February 16, 2013, 02:03:48 AM

I wish I had been able to forget that film!

Alvis 3.1

Well, yeah, the actors and actresses struggled to do the best they could with the material they had. A shame in some ways because there were some interesting ideas there.

Doom! · « **Reply #6 on:** February 16, 2013, 03:04:47 AM »

Alvis, This is one of my favorite builds of yours, of course I say that every time I see your work! :)

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:00:10 AM »

Some good photos and video here...along with some amusing reporting.

Alvis 3.1 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 16, 2013, 01:31:51 PM »

Quote from: elmayerle on February 16, 2013, 02:50:44 AM

Quote from: Alvis 3.1 on February 16, 2013, 02:03:48 AM
I wish I had been able to forget that film!

Alvis 3.1
Well, yeah, the actors and actresses struggled to do the best they could with the material they had. A shame in some ways because there were some interesting ideas there.

It was a great idea, later done much better by "Deep Impact" and much less intelligently, but more excitingly by "Armageddon". Goes to show you can have a stellar cast but a poor script and lackluster directing drag it all down. The SFX were sub par as well. It does fit in well with the spate of disaster films from the era however. My personal fave of all of them is "Disaster '76" the film within a film seen in "Drive-In (1976)". :) Drive-in is a funny little film about a drive-in movie theatre in a small Texas town, but the movie they show is an amalgam of every disaster film up to that point.

philp · « **Reply #9 on:** February 16, 2013, 01:57:23 PM »

Asteroids was one of my favorite games in college (yes, I am that old) and when I first saw you build in Silly Week, I laughed out loud.

As to the Disaster films, may all be coming true. Was another meteor today over SF.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/02/15/bay-area-viewers-attempt-glimpse-of-passing-asteroid/

Tophe · « **Reply #10 on:** February 16, 2013, 11:04:56 PM »

Nice model, Alvis. You are our saver...

Frank3k · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2013, 12:04:54 AM »

Quote from: philp on February 16, 2013, 01:57:23 PM

As to the Disaster films, may all be coming true. Was another meteor today over SF.

There are bright meteors every day, over just about every spot in the world. The difference is people were primed to look up at the sky, based on the small passing asteroid and that Act of American Aggression over Russia.

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