I went to see this in 2-D on Thursday May 28th, 2015, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO for the 7:00 p.m. advance screening in auditorium 8ht, 4th row ( counting from the front ), 8ht column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $11.25. And I bought a Lil' Bites Pack w/ Powerade Mountain Berry Blast ( $7.60 ) at the concessions counter.
And I also saw this movie in I-Max 3-D on Monday, June 8ht, 2015, in Fairfield, CA, at the EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX. The price of admission was $18.00. I bought a small Pink Lemonade ( $5.25 ) at the concessions counter. I also smuggled-in a 2.0 oz pack of barbecue flavored roasted Almonds ( $1.00 ).
Quickie Review: When the long-delayed earthquake, dubbed "The Big One," finally hits Southern California, a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot and his estranged wife fly to San Francisco to rescue their daughter.
The audience seemed to enjoy it.
I, on the other hand, didn't enjoy it as much because I studied Geology in college and was disappointed at seeing all of the mistakes made in this movie, mostly from a scientific point-of-view.
Here Are The Things That I Found Wrong In This Movie: Why didn't the girl, trapped in her SUV, get her eyes sandblasted with sand even though she was directly under the rescue chopper's downdraft? Forget "magnetic pulse rate" machines, animal behavior is the best predictor of temblors! I don't know why the seismology department didn't have lab animals handy for cross-reference study. Yes, according to what I learned in my Geology class, Southern California is long overdue for a massive quake. And if such a quake is as massive as the one shown in this movie it will destroy power lines BEFORE any chance of an electrical fire can happen! The cell phone towers would have also been destroyed so that cellphones would be out of service; and landline 'phones would have been shut down by the overwhelmingly sheer number of calls trying to get through. The San Andreas Fault runs along the left side of the State of California. On the left side of the fault is the Pacific Plate, on the right side of the fault is the North American Plate. Where the two plates meet is a "Strike-Slip" Fault. Also, it is a Subduction Zone where the Pacific Plate goes under the North American Plate as they slowly slide past each other, the Pacific Plate in a Northwesterly direction and the North American Plate in a Southeasterly direction. The Pacific Plate goes under the North American Plate because it is "thinner." So, for this movie to suggest that a new fault line inland from the San Andreas Fault can easily carve out a semi-circular chunk of real estate in the thicker crust of the North American Plate is nonsense!
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Even if they could have traveled all the way to San Francisco via helicopter from Bakersfield, 90 minutes is not enough time.
Why was the trunk of the limousine left unlock? An earthquake doesn't move from one city block to the next. It covers a whole expanse of land when it occurs. In a San Francisco street scene, the ground opened up and showed a BART Train car fall down; and it didn't look like a lead car or a caboose. So, what happened to the rest of the train? Also, I think that this train scene was oriented in the wrong direction ( but I'm not so sure unless I can watch it again in a frame-by-frame mode ). That shard of glass shouldn't have penetrated so deeply into his thigh because it was a free-falling object, not a blast projectile. The water in the San Francisco Bay by the AT&T Ballpark didn't look too agitated even though the area was experiencing a massive quake.
Considering that the climactic scenes were in San Francisco, the tsunami was shot from the wrong direction, from the Marin County side instead of from the San Francisco side of the bay. The boats and ships should have gone the opposite way and made a left towards Sausalito Bay where they would still be beached but would relatively fair better than if they were to head out to sea because the tsumani was funneling into the San Francisco Bay. But ... speaking of the tsunami, it was all wrong. A tsunami always originates out at sea when a fissure is created almost instantly in a plate in the Pacific Ring Of Fire and, almost as fast, is "slapped" back together again! The undersea fissure is usually hundreds of miles long and is created in just about a minute's time! Now, if you refer back to the San Andreas Fault map, you will notice that the San Francisco Bay is very tiny and, hence, cannot possibly generate the tsunami shown in this movie. To recap, the San Andreas Fault is a "Strike-Slip" where tectonic activity forces the Pacific Plate to subduct under the North American Plate which cannot, therefore, allow the plates to split apart and slap back together again. Such a plate tectonic activity only occurs far offshore in the ring of fire where pieces of the Pacific Plate are more dynamic. The water in the drowning scene was too clear and it had the wrong tint: It should have had a bluish tint to it since it was supposedly seawater. There were no dead bodies floating around. Only one animal was rescued, a dog! ( I'm a cat-person, if you don't already know. ) And there was only one fish--during the ending credits--which was shown twice swimming diagonally from the lower left of the screen.
I waited 'til the end of the Ending Credits to see which "expert" Seismologist or Geologist they used as the consultant for this film. I didn't see any names. Maybe, I blinked at the wrong time!
You know what would really make for great Sci-Fi movies? If Hollywood would just swallow its pride and finally use my services as Cine-Man, technical adviser! Ahem.
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