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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 03/14/2006 : 05:36:58 AM
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CBS is at it again this weekend with a new movie. No nature going amok this time. No, the plot sounds like something from an episode of 24 combined with that Van Damme film SUDDEN DEATH. Here's the synopsis of this weekend's TIME BOMB:
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Michael Bookman is planning to meet his wife Lynn and son Sean at a football game. He's been working overtime in his new position as an agent for the Department of Homeland Security and hopes to spend some quality time with his family at the game. Michael's plans are quickly sidelined when he is called to a local sports bar where a bomb has been set to explode with the patrons handcuffed inside. Racing against the clock with his old friend Douglas Campbell, a Washington D.C. bomb squad diffuser, the men manage to save the hostages but cannot diffuse the bomb in time. Before they can recover from the explosion, they are contacted by their boss, the Undersecretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, who tells them that this bomb is only a warning. An Al Qaeda terrorist faction has contacted the DHS, stating that the football stadium where Michael's wife and son are awaiting his arrival is wired with explosives set to detonate at the end of the game. Play must continue and no one can leave the stadium or the bombs will immediately explode, killing thousands of unsuspecting spectators.
Michael rushes to the stadium to find his wife and son, only to discover that they have been kidnapped by the perpetrators. While DHS agents join Campbell and his team to diffuse the bombs, Michael sets out on a frantic search for his family. As the game clock counts down, new clues emerge that are critical to solving the case.
I have a hard time imagining this movie will be anything short of schlocky considering CBS' recent track record when it comes to this sort of thing and the fact that the lead character, the dashing Homeland Security hero, the only person that can save his family, thousands of innocent lives, and democracy as we know it is - WAIT FOR IT - David Arquette.
Yes, David Arquette! Star of such cinematic classics as READY TO RUMBLE and SEE SPOT RUN and former WCW world heavyweight wrestling champion David Arquette! That David Arquette!
Jack Bauer, he is not.
TIME BOMB airs Sunday night on CBS at 9/8 Central.
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ELOrocks17
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2006 : 09:24:24 AM
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Wow--CBS is actually using Al Queda as the bad guys? How politically incorrect. I am shocked they didnt use Neo-Nazis or some other "White hate group". I'm sure Muslims will be outraged that they are (gasp!) bieng potrayed as terrorists. (bout time!)
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tam1MI
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
558 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2006 : 10:53:02 AM
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Play must continue and no one can leave the stadium or the bombs will immediately explode, killing thousands of unsuspecting spectators.
If this were a baseball game, it would be no problem... ;)
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UnknownSubject
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Australia
212 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2006 : 11:52:01 PM
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Now that I know the position exists, I want to be Undersecretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection when I grow up!
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Gristle McThornbody
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Germany
186 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2006 : 01:47:28 AM
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Originally posted by UnknownSubject
Now that I know the position exists, I want to be Undersecretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection when I grow up!
I had similar aspirations, but was only able to rise to the position of Executive Deputy Assistant to the Traveling Secretary of the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection.
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2006 : 01:48:04 AM
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Okay guys place your bets:
Chances the wife is a independant type who wanted to put career above family. 2 to 1.
Chances that the son is a slight rebellious type who has issues with his father that need to be resolved. 3 to 1.
Chances that the corporate organizers of the football game knew about the terrorist threat but ignored it because of blind greed. 5 to 1.
Chances that one of the Al Queida members will be wearing a expensive suit thus making him look like he well off financially. 4 to 1.
Chances that the hero will ignore advise from the female authority figure causing a minor disaster but will soon learn from it and know better next time. 10 to 1.
Chances that the the phrase "orders come from the White House" will used at least once. 50 to 1.
Chances that the the phrase "orders come from the White House" will mean something intelligent and smart will about to be announced. 100 to 1.
Chances that the terrorists will not have some sort of back story that serves the purpose of humanizing them a little. 100 to 1.
Chances that this movie will not have some snarky reference to the Iraq war. 500 to 1.
Chances that the terrorists will scream "Alla Akbar" just once. 1,000,000,000 to 1.
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 03/15/2006 : 09:22:10 AM
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Hmm. good handicapping, Captain.
I'll add:
Chances of son pulling off some situation-saving manoeuver due to either his computer or skateboarding skills: 20-1.
Chances that the "new clues" are completely arbitrary plot devices, with no logic or likelihood of occurrence in real life: 3-1.
Chances of the husband and wife arguing about all the extra overtime he's doing: 1.1-1 |
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ELOrocks17
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2006 : 09:23:59 AM
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Please post the odds on the following:
What are the odds that the hero smokes or drinks?
What are the odds that CBS will potray the terrorists in a positive light?
What are the odds they will show Americans as hatefull, self absorbed jerks who deserve to die?
What are the odds the American flag will be intentionally shown in this movie?
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2006 : 10:13:23 AM
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Originally posted by ELOrocks17
Please post the odds on the following:
What are the odds that the hero smokes or drinks?
What are the odds that CBS will potray the terrorists in a positive light?
What are the odds they will show Americans as hatefull, self absorbed jerks who deserve to die?
What are the odds the American flag will be intentionally shown in this movie?
What are the odds that the hero smokes or drinks?
If the hero is pure: 10 to 1
If the hero has a tragic past: 1.5 to 1
The chances his buddy doesn't(in either case): 100 to 1
What are the odds that CBS will potray the terrorists in a positive light?
Let me break that down:
The chances the terrorists will look Arab: 5 to 1
The chances the terroists will outsource to white mercenaries at least once: 6 to 5
The chances the phrase "My wife and child were killed" will be used by the terrorists during an explaination of why they terroize people: 2 to 1
The chances we will see the terrorists bow towards Mecca: 1000 to 1
What are the odds they will show Americans as hatefull, self absorbed jerks who deserve to die?
Let me rephrase it.
Chances that there will be one American who is a halfull, self-absorbed jerk and will get his(yes, his as in male) in the end: 10 to 9
Chances that the jerk and will learn a lesson in multi-culturial diversity just before he dies: 7 to 1
What are the odds the American flag will be intentionally shown in this movie?
I give: 100,000,000,000 to 1
Chances that the son will wave it in a fit of patriotic pride: You know what a googleplex is: 1 googleplex to 1
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Carrieattheprom
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/20/2006 : 6:25:31 PM
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movie was delayed due to a basketball game, didn't air until 9:44 where I live.
Wouldn't the hero have last his job for shooting the bad guy through the hands? And wouldn't the guy who was shot have passed out?
Did I miss something? What happend to that prisoner they relased, did they send him back to jail?
They did indeed end with the American Flag, and a fade out over Washington.
What was up at the begining? They verbally introduce the characters and have the characters' names appear in the bottom corner of the screen.
Repeating "We have your wife and son" what was it, three times? Does not make it sound more sinster, it makes it sound annoying.
Twice I heard a reference made to racial profiling. First from one of the guys controling the cameras, then again from that one bomb guy/accomplice. If this had been a better movie, I actually would have applauded that dialouge.
How many people saw the "big twist" at the end?
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 7:10:56 PM
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Here's my review of TIME BOMB. Prepare to scoff mightily when you read it, especially considering how off so many of the predictions were.
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Carrieattheprom
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/21/2006 : 7:20:41 PM
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Good review. I think we at least got the flag right.
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 11:42:32 PM
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I claim foul.
I took them at their word that this was a jab a Al Qaeda. Granted the exact wording was "An Al Qaeda terrorist faction" which should have tipped me.
Deep down I knew CBS didn't have the guts to pull off a real terrorist caper. But when I saw were it was going, it hit me, "same old, same old" No way its Al Qaeda. |
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
1530 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 1:57:17 PM
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I only saw five minutes of this, but even that had me seriously rolling my eyes.
Arquette is interrogating a Middle Eastern guy who just protests he is at the game because he's a football fan. Arquette clears him by confirming that he knows the stats of some of the respective players. (!!) Good grief, that was old hat back in period WWII flicks when a Hun deep cover agent would be uncovered by tricking into showing that he didn't know when Brooklyn last won the World Series.
From this scene alone I assumed, as Scott's excellent review confirmed, that sure enough CBS would not only chicken out and not have Islamic terrorists be behind the thing, but would in fact be a movie about the 'dangers' of ethnic profiling.
Scott notes that characters in the film "protest" the fact that they are told to only computer scan Middle Eastern-looking men in the crowd of 60,000-plus people, when the idea up to then is that a Middle Eastern Islamic group has claimed to be behind the threat. Would it be 'racist' if they 'racial profiled' only black men when dealing with a bomb threat from the Black Panthers? Only white guys for a neo-nazi group? I mean, cripes, tens of thousands of lives at stake, and a very limited time frame, and the movie is lecturing us on the evils of using the most obvious logic to somewhat increase the chance of averting a mass catastrophy.
The other thing I yelled when watching what I saw as an appalled, "Is that ANGELA BASSETT?!" Foy confirmed this. What a disgusting waste. I notice that this 'credit' doesn't appear on her IMDB listing (and her one for Vampire in Brooklyn does), making me suspect that she went as far as to have her name stripped off the film's credits.
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 3:13:36 PM
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Scott notes that characters in the film "protest" the fact that they are told to only computer scan Middle Eastern-looking men in the crowd of 60,000-plus people, when the idea up to then is that a Middle Eastern Islamic group has claimed to be behind the threat. Would it be 'racist' if they 'racial profiled' only black men when dealing with a bomb threat from the Black Panthers? Only white guys for a neo-nazi group? I mean, cripes, tens of thousands of lives at stake, and a very limited time frame, and the movie is lecturing us on the evils of using the most obvious logic to somewhat increase the chance of averting a mass catastrophy.
I will give the filmmakers some credit because at least when that guy in the control booth guffaws about this being racial profiling Arquette's character essentially blows him off and tells the others to keep going. It's just hard to imagine anyone in real life unless perhaps they actually were Muslim working in a control booth in that situation and essentially, "Hey, this is racial profiling!" If you're at the Super Bowl, you've been told there's a threat even if the nature of it hasn't been specified, and a guy from Homeland Security is telling you to do something along these lines, you'd think everyone in the production booth would have some idea just what the hell might be going on and not too busy worrying about political correctness.
So far I think 24 is the only show that's really been willing to feature actual Islamic terrorists and even they were forced to make Kiefer Sutherland shoot a PSA telling viewers that not all Muslims are terrorists, something so ridiculous that even many hardline liberals could only shake their head in disbelief.
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theFatMan
Archdeacon of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 03/23/2006 : 12:27:43 PM
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This would have been cool if instead of Michael Bookman it had been NY Public Library cop Lt. Bookman fighting the terrorists.
'Maybe in your world it's okay to burn books, Mister, but not in my AMERICA!'
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