Information
| Year: | 2009 |
| Rating: | 2.3(1364) |
| Listed in: | Action, Sci-Fi |
| Directed by: | Anthony Fankhauser |
| Actors: | Brian Krause Alan Poe Londale Theus Heather McComb Najarra Townsend Allura Lee |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Anthony Fankhauser | |
| Actors | |
| Brian Krause | as Kelvin |
| Alan Poe | as Dzerzhinsky |
| Londale Theus | as Captain Henreaux |
| Stephen Schneider | as Captain James Moto |
| Rob Ullett | as NASA Official |
| Rick L. Dean | as NASA Technician |
| Pete Angelikus | as NASA Technician |
| William Joseph Hutchins | as NASA Technician |
| Doug Newman | as NASA Technician |
| Jeff Crabtree | as NASA Technician |
| Maus Jackson | as NASA Technician |
| J. Dedman | as USAF Agent |
| Henrik Ej Hermiz | as USAF Agent |
| Malcom Scott | as President |
| Brittian D. Soderberg | as NASA Soldier |
| Andrew Fetty | as NASA Soldier |
| Bryan Dodds | as NASA Soldier |
| Stafford Mills | as Farmer Brown |
| Kevin Ashworth | as Carter |
| Stephen Blackehart | as Agent Greene |
| Matthew Farhat | as Lt. Shalah |
| Nick Shakoour | as Background armed guard |
| William Kennedy | as Background person |
| Christopher Leduc | as Background person |
| Daniel Murray | as Background person |
| Sam Garcia | as Background person |
| Sergio Alvarado | as Background person |
| Werner A. Gonzales | as Background person |
| Fredy Escobeda | as Background person |
| Jacob Baeza | as Extra |
| Actresses | |
| Heather McComb | as Laura |
| Najarra Townsend | as Tina |
| Allura Lee | as Dr. Kwang Ye |
| Dana Tomasko | as NASA Technician |
| Dorothy Drury | as Agent Dunne |
| Melissa Osborne | as Eden |
| Burchenal Benton | as Medic |
| Tree O'Toole | as Ninja |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | July 2009 - |
View Online
Goofs
|
Fact errors: Near the start of the film, a decision is made to speed up the countdown of a space shuttle, apparently to get it off the pad before it might be hit by meteoric debris. There are thousands of actions that have to be performed during a shuttle countdown, and most of them simply can't be skipped. It is certainly impossible to simply jump to the final 5 seconds of the count. CHAR: The Public Affairs Officer announcing the countdown calls out; "5-4-3-2-1-Zero. Go." No countdown ever ends this way. "Liftoff" would be more appropriate than "Go". Fact errors: The countdown reaches zero, the shuttle's main engines start up, reach full thrust a few seconds later, and then the Solid Rocket Boosters ignite and the vehicle takes off. In reality, the shuttle's main engines are started up a few seconds before lift-off, so that the shuttle launches at the zero point in the countdown. PLOT: The people chasing Kelvin appear to be trying to kill him, shooting at his moving vehicle with automatic weapons. Yet when they catch up with him they start asking him questions about his activities. He could not have possibly given them any information if they had managed to kill him. Fact errors: It is reported that the Spitzer Space telescope had detected bursts of gamma radiation. In fact, Spitzer is an infra-red telescope, measuring electromagnetic radiation which has a longer wavelength than that of visible light. By contrast, the wavelength of gamma radiation is shorter than that of visible light and is about 1,000,000 times shorter than that detectable by the instruments on Spitzer. Fact errors: It is reported that the bursts of gamma radiation are a prelude to a supernova. Although the gamma rays produced by a nearby supernova could have catastrophic results for Earth, gamma radiation is not a product of the build-up to a supernova explosion. Continuity: When the second shuttle launch is shown, one piece of footage shows the main engines building up thrust and the the shuttle starts to take off. The next shot shows the engines firing whilst the shuttle is still on the pad. Continuity: During the second shuttle launch sequence, the Solid Rocket Boosters are seen being jettisoned, but the next shot shows them still attached. Fact errors: A burst of gamma rays would not cause a spacecraft to explode. CHAR: Despite Kelvin's daughter advising her mother to stay away from the trees when they are trying to escape the lightning, they both run very close to trees several times. Fact errors: The view inside the shuttle during the launch shows the two windows that look into the cargo bay. In other words, we are looking from the front of the cockpit to the rear, yet the seats are facing to the left of the screen. This would mean that the astronauts' seats are sideways to the direction of travel. Fact errors: Kelvin says that he wants whoever killed his colleague found, and orders security sweeps, taps on his phone, etc. Astronauts simply don't have this kind of authority. PLOT: Four people go out to the shuttle launch pad to inspect it, They drive in golf carts, which means the 7-mile round trip would take a minimum of 30 minutes for one of the top-speed vehicles. Driving a normal car at 70mph (bearing in mind this is an emergency) they would be able to cover the same distance in 6 minutes. PLOT: We are told that Kelvin made 4 spaceflights in the past year to take nuclear weapons up to the space platform. This is supposedly in preparation for saving the Earth from the effects of a supernova, but it isn't possible to have that much warning of such an event. We actually learn of a supernova by observing it after its initial explosion has taken place - we don't find out about it in advance. Fact errors: It is decided to detonate the weapons above the Earth's magnetosphere. The highest altitude normally reached by the shuttle is when servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, at a height of 350 miles, but the lowest point of the magnetosphere is on a line between the Earth and the Sun, where it reaches out about 43,500 miles, some 125 times higher. Miscellaneous: Despite the title, this movie has no connection whatsoever with 2012. |
Comments
No comments yet.
