DC DOWN

I started watching this movie at predawn today, Saturday, April 20th, 2024, in bed 🛏️ via my cellphone's 🤳 TUBI Streaming App.

Scene Commentaries:

"Lubrication ...." 😉  Yes, I learned this in my Geology class. And there's nothing sexual about it! Just like when my professor lectured the class about "Cleavage," which is also a Geological feature!! Mother Nature has got quite a cleavage!!!  🤣 🤣 🤣

That car was going uphill and should have had gravity helped it to slow down.  Also, if you have plenty of time to honk your car horn, you have enough time to brake and swerve!

It sure took long for the Seismologist's doctorate assistants to give her a callback. 🙄

Why is there a loose cinder block that looks undamaged and not filled with cement and/or a rebar?

"'The Virginia Lookout Militia' ... helped the DCPD shutdown a near riot during the last elections." Are they referencing the INFILTRATED 2020 Protest?  🤔  rey epps, anyone ...? So, I checked. There's no such thing. There are other militias, though, classified into 3 kinds.

"H Beams for stairwells."  I learned something new today.  🤓

Evacuation Corridor, Blue Line and the Potomac River---Got it! 👌 I've got to add this to my list of tourist destinations.

Knowing that something suspicious was going on, the other guy should have stayed at the back of the search team.  😒

If those bombs had some adhesive backing, it would have been better to place them higher up the wall. For less load bear in the wall's structure during the blast! But it wouldn't give him enough time to get the hell out. So, never mind ....  😒

See, I told the bad guys in BADE MIYAN, CHOTE MIYAN that a single ziptie restraint doesn't work! I guess that they all got killed before they got a chance to send a memo to these bad guys.  😕

If the agent couldn't get a good reception, shouldn't he have sent a text message, waiting to upload, just in case something bad happened to him before he could alert the general?  🤷‍♂️  And why didn't he finish off the bad guy?  🤦‍♂️  Never do a half-ass job---Ever❗

It's an emergency! 🚨  'No time to stop and make kissy faces! 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

"Don't make me kill you." Yeah, but at least take away the threat. You know, cap his knees and shoulders and/or gouge his eyes 👀 out! Wait a minute, 🤔 he could turn around and $ue your A$$ in court ( since criminals have more rights than law-abiding citizens in this country 🙄 ) for excessive use of violence ( which the Left always gets away with )! In which case, cut off his tongue and his hands, too❗😆❗Yeah, good luck with presenting your case to the liberal biased, partial judge! And a war veteran surgeon will be assigned to order prosthetic hooks to replace your missing hands with so that your sore 🚽ass 🧻 will be really sorry because of what you did! Hanging for the Act of Treason will be a Final Anal relief for you then. But Not Before You Get To Regret The Error Of Your Ways❗

I knew what she was going to say at the end!  🤰🏻

Extreme Emergency Adrenaline washed down with Caffeine will make for one Hyperactive Baby coming right up❗👶🏻❗

Tidbits:

Sean Young, when she was a young rising star, ruined her A-List Whollyweird status by interrupting a big-wig meeting to jump on the table and do an impromptu, weird audition for the Catwoman role. She was Delisted after that crazy stunt❗ The role eventually went to Michelle Pfeiffer in BATMAN RETURNS.

She gambled and lost heavily.

Her weirdness made the 

 headlines. And was

talked about for 

quite awhile.

And Michelle P. still beat her out

in the Aging Gracefully 

Department!

The Bad Guy militia Head Honcho has a stereotype look about him. So, it was easy to know what his character was from the start. You know, "First Impression." 😏

I'm getting ready to do my evening walk. 🚶 

P.S.  My next post will be either on Monday, April 22nd, the start of Passover, or the following day.

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Now, for the winners in today's 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race.  Drumroll 🥁 please ....

Congratulations to Hong Kong for 

winning in 1st place!

🎉🎆🏆🎇🎊

🇭🇰🥇🇭🇰

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Congratulations to China for 

winning in 2nd place!

🇨🇳🥈🇨🇳

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Congratulations to the USA 

for winning in 3rd place!

🇺🇲🥉🇺🇸

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Congratulations to Israel for 

winning in 4th place!

🇮🇱🏅🇮🇱

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Congratulations to Germany for 

winning in 5th place!

🇩🇪🎖️🇩🇪

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And a participation award to 

both Singapore & Taiwan 

for tying in 6th place!

🇸🇬💐🇹🇼

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A special thanks goes to Taiwan 🇹🇼 for taking part in and completing today's 24-Hour endurance race.

Thanks to all of the countries which took part in today's 24-Hour Race to the Finish! 🏁   🛣️   🏎️

Note: Singapore actually had 3 successful runs instead of just 1. So, I don't know what happened to the other 2 ....  🤷‍♂️

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SAN ANDREAS, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 54 min )

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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.

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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!

I found this on the Internet.

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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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