Konterr Brilliant and touching

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

chribren "Meteor" is a mini-series which contains two episodes, around 90 minutes per episode. It has been released on Scandinavian DVD, rated 15 in Norway.Basic plot: A giant meteor is on the way to Earth. Dr. Lehman (played by Christopher Lloyd) is the only one who can prevent the destruction to happen, but gets killed by a car. So it's up to his younger assistant Imogene O'Neill (played by the unconvincing Marla Sokoloff) to prevent this to happen. The event with several small meteors which hit some of the Earth's cities is just nothing compared to what awaits the world's humanity.This is my story about this film. It might drags on, but I honestly wanted to share this story to you readers anyway:I was asked by my big sister (who owns a DVD-copy) if I wanted to watch this with my family, and I simply said "no thanks". I didn't tell her why, but even the DVD-box didn't made me interested in this film at all. So my mom came to me minutes afterward to ask me why I didn't want to watch this. OK, OK, I just had to watch it then...My instinct of this film was right; this was one God awful mini-series. I just so forgot nearly all of the content in this. To be honest, I didn't pay attention to this at once. I only know of the special effects so hilarious bad, that I just wanted to laugh to it. And please don't get me into the stupid clichés crammed into this long crap. I mean, if I really watched this, I would guaranteed have gotten traumas of such bad film. This literally was a disaster film. Actually, I didn't said one single word about this.Thank you, my family, for wasting my three hours by making me to watch this.So here's my conclusion: Watch "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" instead. This one is an INSTANT AVOID!!! End of story. Period.

chuckhustmyre My wife and I watched this two-part miniseries on DVD while recovering from post-Mardi Gras parade hangovers. Headaches notwithstanding, "Meteor" is the worst movie I've seen ever -- bar none. The only thing separating this movie from farce was that it wasn't written as a comedy. It was intended as a straight action/adventure flick.There is really no good starting point for the criticism of this movie. It was so bad I laughed out loud at several of the high-drama points. It was as if writer Alex Greenfield intentionally packed the story with every cliché, stock character, and stereotype he could find. It was clear he did no research and had no working knowledge of law enforcement, the military, or science, the three main subjects integral to the plot.The characters' decisions are the dumbest possible. The use of coincidence was ridiculous. And the near-miraculous tying together of the disparate subplots was idiotic.Although not by design, this movie truly was the theater of the absurd.I can't stress enough how bad it was. The writing made an episode of Seinfeld seem like MacBeth.Unless you are a writer and like to study the mistakes of other writers in hopes of learning from them, as I am, then your time would be better spent watching the grass grow than watching this movie.I thought I had seen bad movies before, but "Meteor" set a new standard.Chuck Hustmyre

vanwicz A cast of (good) actors know to most of us I would guess who inexplicably participated in this major flop.Don't waste your time on this one it is simply worth missing all together as there are not memorable moments or significant scenes to impress anyone.There is too much focus on various people trying their best to push out various emotions, dragging out the movie to a completely unnecessary length. Unrealistic brick walls are constantly being hit at a frequency that defies belief and ends up ruining the entire plot.Very sad production for this producer/director!

Vic_max I'm usually not this rough on a show, but boy, this seemed like a lot of money given over to amateur movie makers. This so bad, it should actually be studied by film making classes - almost everything that can go wrong has gone wrong in this movie.I'm not even sure how to relay how bad this was ... but maybe some examples may help: 1) The old "oops - we ran out of gas" routine was used "twice" to advance two different story lines - can you imagine how bad that looked? 2) The fate of the world hinges on info about to be relayed over a cell phone, but just then, the car enters a mountainous area and loses cell reception (I guess backing up is more annoying than saving life on the planet) ... and then eventually runs out of gas. Of course, they're really out of luck now, but ... miraculously, the cell phone starts ringing.3) A big bad guy named Dwight, who's ready shoot people AND police with terrorist grade weaponry, turns into a puppy dog after the sheriff tells him to "think about it" (which takes him all of 8 seconds).4) Life on earth hinges on the calculations of a 20-something year old girl running around with a laptop. Her qualifications? She's an "assistant" to a scientist. If they told us that she at least had some sort of credentials, that would have helped - but they didn't.5) The "bad guy's never really dead" routine is taken to the extreme. One of the main characters of this story is beyond stupid: instead of killing a guy who has been on a murderous rampage (which almost included his daughter), he puts him in the back seat of his car in mickey-mouse handcuffs ... go figure. It doesn't end there either - there's so much more brainless decision-making involving the bad guy, you eventually want the bad guy to rid the world of "good-guy" morons.6) There's so much incredible dialog ... check this out - the girl wants to use the phone after the wireless lines go down: Man: $50 for the phone.Girl: That's ridiculous. I'm a scientist.She's a scientist??? Oh, OK - I guess that means she's either a superior being or that she's looking for the super-saver rate for scientists. Geeze.I could go on, but it's so nuts it's almost epic. If you're aching for a disaster movie and have absolutely nothing else available, see it only if you have fast-forward capability. It'll save you some of the torture.