Category 6 11/14 & 11/17
11-14-04 | 06:57 PM
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Category 6 11/14 & 11/17
So is anybody going to watch this miniseries on CBS? It looks like a bad remake of The Day After Tomorrow and after the horror that was 10.5 I'm a bit weary of made-for-tv disaster flicks but for some reason I can't help myself.
Any other takers?
Any other takers?
11-15-04 | 12:38 AM
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From: Lounging on the beach in L.A., frappucino in hand...
OK I had PLANNED to watch it (with popcorn to throw at the TV 
) but missed the first hour, anyone care to recap (seriously or not) for me? 
) but missed the first hour, anyone care to recap (seriously or not) for me?
11-15-04 | 09:21 AM
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Originally posted by shoppingbear
OK I had PLANNED to watch it (with popcorn to throw at the TV ) but missed the first hour, anyone care to recap (seriously or not) for me?
OK I had PLANNED to watch it (with popcorn to throw at the TV
) but missed the first hour, anyone care to recap (seriously or not) for me?
11-15-04 | 10:15 AM
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Man, this one had almost as many lame cliches as 10.5.
* The grizzly vet days from retirement.
* The young hotshot who nobody takes seriously but who has vital information
* The news reporter who wants to do "real" news but is being kept down by the man.
* The adulterous couple that somehow must work together to solve a crisis.
* Tied to the poor suffering wife who just *knows* her husband is having an affair.
* Who has a slightly slutty, whiny teen daughter who is disconnected from her parents.
* The evil, greedy corporate guy who cares more about profits than people.
* The black sidekick.
* Oh, and let's not forget the all time classic "pregnant woman trapped in an elevator."
A steaming pile of crap.
And I can't wait for part 2.
* The grizzly vet days from retirement.
* The young hotshot who nobody takes seriously but who has vital information
* The news reporter who wants to do "real" news but is being kept down by the man.
* The adulterous couple that somehow must work together to solve a crisis.
* Tied to the poor suffering wife who just *knows* her husband is having an affair.
* Who has a slightly slutty, whiny teen daughter who is disconnected from her parents.
* The evil, greedy corporate guy who cares more about profits than people.
* The black sidekick.
* Oh, and let's not forget the all time classic "pregnant woman trapped in an elevator."
A steaming pile of crap.
And I can't wait for part 2.
11-15-04 | 06:34 PM
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From: Lounging on the beach in L.A., frappucino in hand...
Originally posted by dstrauss
Man, this one had almost as many lame cliches as 10.5.
* The grizzly vet days from retirement.
* The young hotshot who nobody takes seriously but who has vital information
* The news reporter who wants to do "real" news but is being kept down by the man.
* The adulterous couple that somehow must work together to solve a crisis.
* Tied to the poor suffering wife who just *knows* her husband is having an affair.
* Who has a slightly slutty, whiny teen daughter who is disconnected from her parents.
* The evil, greedy corporate guy who cares more about profits than people.
* The black sidekick.
* Oh, and let's not forget the all time classic "pregnant woman trapped in an elevator."
Man, this one had almost as many lame cliches as 10.5.
* The grizzly vet days from retirement.
* The young hotshot who nobody takes seriously but who has vital information
* The news reporter who wants to do "real" news but is being kept down by the man.
* The adulterous couple that somehow must work together to solve a crisis.
* Tied to the poor suffering wife who just *knows* her husband is having an affair.
* Who has a slightly slutty, whiny teen daughter who is disconnected from her parents.
* The evil, greedy corporate guy who cares more about profits than people.
* The black sidekick.
* Oh, and let's not forget the all time classic "pregnant woman trapped in an elevator."
Yeah, the minute I saw the pregnant woman, I thought "Oh oh, there's a stuck elevator waiting for HER..." You could almost make a drinking game out of the cliches! :
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11-15-04 | 08:44 PM
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Originally posted by Jeraden
C'mon man, it has Jo from the Facts of Life as the reporter. What more star power could you ask for??
C'mon man, it has Jo from the Facts of Life as the reporter. What more star power could you ask for??
At least 10.5 got some actors who have been employed by Hollywood in the last 15 years.
11-16-04 | 02:00 AM
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Yes, it is cheesy and cliche-ridden, but almost every disaster flick follows a similar format. At least it's not ridiculously stupid as 10.5 was.
Randy Quaid is fun as the eccentric stormchaser. "Tornadoes normally follow a northwesterly pattern.....except this one, get back in the truck!"
Randy Quaid is fun as the eccentric stormchaser. "Tornadoes normally follow a northwesterly pattern.....except this one, get back in the truck!"
11-16-04 | 10:49 AM
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At least 10.5 got some actors who have been employed by Hollywood in the last 15 years.
At least 10.5 got some actors who have been employed by Hollywood in the last 15 years.
And I'm with Charlie Goose- it is cheesy and cliche-ridden, but I am not rolling my eyes like I did during 10.5.
11-16-04 | 10:55 AM
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Originally posted by spoon81
?? Dianne Wiest, Randy Quaid and Brian Dennehy have all been employed by Hollywood (and Broadway, and TV studios) in the last 15 years.
And I'm with Charlie Goose- it is cheesy and cliche-ridden, but I am not rolling my eyes like I did during 10.5.
?? Dianne Wiest, Randy Quaid and Brian Dennehy have all been employed by Hollywood (and Broadway, and TV studios) in the last 15 years.
And I'm with Charlie Goose- it is cheesy and cliche-ridden, but I am not rolling my eyes like I did during 10.5.
The 15 year comment was in response to Nancy McKeon. My original statement was 5 years.
11-16-04 | 01:58 PM
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I like these disaster movies. Maybe silly at parts but nothing beats SFX destruction.
Only thing that sucks is that part 2 coincides with Lost and Smallville. I was taping Category 6 so that will just have to record with commercials, tape Lost on the other VCR and just watch Smallville.
Only thing that sucks is that part 2 coincides with Lost and Smallville. I was taping Category 6 so that will just have to record with commercials, tape Lost on the other VCR and just watch Smallville.
11-16-04 | 03:41 PM
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Originally posted by Red Dog
The 15 year comment was in response to Nancy McKeon. My original statement was 5 years.
The 15 year comment was in response to Nancy McKeon. My original statement was 5 years.
10.5: Beau Bridges, Kim Delany, John Schneider, Fred Ward
Cat6: Randy Quaid, Nancy McKeon, Thomas Gibson, Dianne Wiest
C'mon, who else can you get to say these cliche-ridden lines?
11-18-04 | 06:38 AM
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It was kind of a letdown for me. My biggest pet peeve was Nancy McKeon's character mispronoucing street names but what can you do. I was expecting more at the end but it just sort of stopped.
11-18-04 | 07:26 AM
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Well Wednesdays finish was a lot weaker than Sundays start. Oh well, it started off as a cheesy disaster flick, and got worse and worse. The effects also got a bit weaker too. Still I guess you can't expect much more from a network. A C effort overall
08-09-05 | 07:08 AM
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A sequel is coming...
Emmy Award nominee Randy Quaid ("Elvis"), Gina Gershon ("Bound"), Shannen Doherty ("Charmed"), Emmy Award winner Tom Skerritt ("Picket Fences"), Emmy Award winner Swoosie Kurtz ("Sisters") and Emmy Award nominee James Brolin ("The Reagans") are in production in Winnipeg, Canada on CATEGORY 7: THE END OF THE WORLD, a new four-hour event mini-series by the same team behind the successful "Category 6: Day of Destruction" mini-series. As previously announced, the movie will be broadcast as the "CBS Sunday Movie" on Sunday, Nov. 6 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) and Sunday, Nov. 13 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
CATEGORY 7: THE END OF THE WORLD (four hours) begins where "Category 6: Day of Destruction" ended, as the ultimate superstorm continues to build in size. As the disastrous storm gathers even more strength and begins to ravage the rest of the world, FEMA's newly appointed director, Judith Carr (Gershon), has her hands full preparing for a cataclysmic storm in the U.S. Aiding weather forecasters is storm chaser Tommy Tornado (Quaid), convalesced from his near-death experience in the Category 6 storms and ready for more, and Faith Clavell (Doherty), a beautiful, discredited scientist who teams up with Tommy on the ground to figure out what is making the storms so severe. Up in the sky, pilot Col. Mike Davis (Skerritt) flies high above the storm to try to find what in the atmosphere is causing the storms. Meanwhile, a television evangelist and his wife, Donny and Penny Hall (Brolin and Kurtz) preying on the fears of a storm battered nation, begin to broadcast alarming warnings of biblical plagues. As the predictions begin to come true, the deadly storm continues to wreak havoc worldwide, culminating in a record-setting Category 7 superstorm over Washington, D.C.
"Category 6: Day of Destruction" was the 2004-2005 season's most watched (18.01m) and highest rated mini-series in households (11.4/17), adults 18-49 (5.6/14) and adults 25-54 (7.4/16).
CATEGORY 7: THE END OF THE WORLD is being produced by von Zerneck/Sertner Films. Robert M. Sertner and Frank von Zerneck ("Scott Turow's Reversible Errors," "The Elizabeth Smart Story," "We Were the Mulvaneys") are the executive producers. Dick Lowry ("Category 6: Day of Destruction," "Attila") is directing from a script by Roger Soffer and Christian Ford ("Slow Burn"). Peter Sadowski, Lesley Oswald and Randy Sutter are the producers; Craig Weiss, CBS Digital ("Category 6: Day of Destruction," "Frank Herbert's Children of Dune," "From the Earth to the Moon") is the visual effects producer.
CATEGORY 7: THE END OF THE WORLD (four hours) begins where "Category 6: Day of Destruction" ended, as the ultimate superstorm continues to build in size. As the disastrous storm gathers even more strength and begins to ravage the rest of the world, FEMA's newly appointed director, Judith Carr (Gershon), has her hands full preparing for a cataclysmic storm in the U.S. Aiding weather forecasters is storm chaser Tommy Tornado (Quaid), convalesced from his near-death experience in the Category 6 storms and ready for more, and Faith Clavell (Doherty), a beautiful, discredited scientist who teams up with Tommy on the ground to figure out what is making the storms so severe. Up in the sky, pilot Col. Mike Davis (Skerritt) flies high above the storm to try to find what in the atmosphere is causing the storms. Meanwhile, a television evangelist and his wife, Donny and Penny Hall (Brolin and Kurtz) preying on the fears of a storm battered nation, begin to broadcast alarming warnings of biblical plagues. As the predictions begin to come true, the deadly storm continues to wreak havoc worldwide, culminating in a record-setting Category 7 superstorm over Washington, D.C.
"Category 6: Day of Destruction" was the 2004-2005 season's most watched (18.01m) and highest rated mini-series in households (11.4/17), adults 18-49 (5.6/14) and adults 25-54 (7.4/16).
CATEGORY 7: THE END OF THE WORLD is being produced by von Zerneck/Sertner Films. Robert M. Sertner and Frank von Zerneck ("Scott Turow's Reversible Errors," "The Elizabeth Smart Story," "We Were the Mulvaneys") are the executive producers. Dick Lowry ("Category 6: Day of Destruction," "Attila") is directing from a script by Roger Soffer and Christian Ford ("Slow Burn"). Peter Sadowski, Lesley Oswald and Randy Sutter are the producers; Craig Weiss, CBS Digital ("Category 6: Day of Destruction," "Frank Herbert's Children of Dune," "From the Earth to the Moon") is the visual effects producer.
