Bad TV: Meteor: Path To Destruction

remember that Seinfeld episode where elaine gives "denim vest" guy her fake phone number. she writes it on her sub sandwich card by accident and then spends the rest of the episode trying to hunt him it down because she was one sandwich away from getting a free sub even though she doesn't even like the subs. she compares it to sitting through a bad movie because you have to see how it ends - well that is exactly how i felt last night between 9 and 11pm.

i sat there watching nbc's made for tv movie, Meteor: Path To Destruction marveling at how bad it was, but having already invested the two hours into it the  previous sunday, i had to see how it ended.

you might be asking why did i sit through the first two hours? and that is a very valid question. to be perfectly honest, i was busy doing things around my apartment and the tv happened to be on nbc when it started and i was tired and in the mood for a sunday night made for tv movie - and i actually didn't know it was a two-part/two-night thing - it wasn't until after the first hour and half that i realized they weren't going to be able to wrap it up in 30 minutes that i knew there was another night planned.

the movie felt almost like a parody of disaster movies. the writing was so bad, i think about every second or third line was a stereotypical utterance/catch-phrase sort of thing. the characters, the progression of the story lines - it was like they had gone through a check list of what should be in these types of movies and checked them off one at a time: the crazy scientist that no one believes, the general that thinks he knows best but learns to listen to the scientists, the tough and honorable small town sheriff, the person (in this case another scientist) who knows what is really happening but keeps getting caught up in things that stop her from getting that information to the people in charge, the small town citizen with a gun that wants to take law and order into his hands (but is brought around by the honorable sheriff who gets him to help out without the gun), the cop whose partner is out to kill his daughter because he was going to turn him in for being corrupt (which caused him to kill his own wife) - okay, maybe that isn't so typical - but it was ridiculous, uninteresting and predictable.

anyway, i did it, i watched it, i know how it ends and i am moving on with my life. but i can tell you one thing for sure... i am not watching The Storm next sunday.

so, did anyone else watch this thing?