Anyone watching 'Flood' ?

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scary potential in the extreme.

Sidge you do have a way with words

prog would not take four bloody hours then would it!

Ok - I'm not watching this - but are the makers seriously trying to persuade us that in the event of a huge flood we wouldn't head for the stairs but instead stay at sea level waiting to be dramatically swept away? 'Cos if so - then they are even more stupid than they think we are iyswim!

er why did they just not bomb the gates in first place?

Gosh had no idea it was meant to be a film - assumed it was bad made for TV stuff!

And wtf is their mother doing in London??

I stopped watching when Robert Carlyle was swimming about cosily in supposedly tsunami strength water as if he was in the Tooting Bec Lido, gathering bits of boat to escape on!

Was also very depressed to see yet another example of hot man (RC) aging even better than when he was young, while previously stunning woman, Joanne Whalley, has aged v badly IMO. It's not fair!

crap ending. did that woman get washed down from scotland?!

oooh, I love a good disaster movie...
EARTHQUAKE 10.5
The Day After Tomorrow

There are tons of them
Bad acting, great special effects! Totally predictable (i like to play the "whos going to snuff it game too")

How did Nigel Planer's character get from London to Exeter and back to London again within a couple of hours on gridlocked roads eh?

And how come mum who lived in Arbroath and was last seen trapped in her attack, was suddenly in London wrapped in a blanket eh?

Tosh.

attic, not attack, obviously!

That was several hours of my life I'll never get back.

We watched this on DVD a while ago - although the TV version was about 2 hours longer.
Like many others I wondered why people weren't running up stairs to teh roofs of buildings
Also, if the main characters Robert carlyle and that annoying woman with her "Raaaabbb" accent had been in the water so long - water which incidentaly was North Sea water (so bloody cold) then they would be either dead after an hour or so, or have hypothermia, but no they managed to float around in it for hours, even going under several times, and yet when they go onto dry land were they shivering - no, did they make any effort to dry off or put dry clothes on - no, they broke into a shop instead. I would have broken into Next, or M7S and got some clothes I think!
I wondered about the woman from Wick as well. She must have floated down on the tidal wave!

We watched this. I am sure that there are better ways of spending four hours of my life - having my fingernails removed or perhaps having a small person poke me in the eyes repeatedly just for the fun of it.

Twas utterly dire.

on top of all the things that others have already said (why didn't they just go UP? Perhaps they were concerned that the wave would be so powerful it would knock the gherkin over , how did Wick woman get down to London? Why did some parts of London take three minutes to flood, yet others appeared to be still dry four hours after the barrier was overcome? How could Robert Carlyle survive freezing cold water for aaaages, and how could his missus survive the same, with perfectly intact make-up and hair-do? )

I would like to ask the makers of this utterly shite pile of nonsense:

1. What day was it? It was obviously a Sunday as Robert Carlyle's niece was getting christened. But how come everyone was working as normal?

2. What time of year was it? The high tide that combined with the surge to create such problems was the Spring tide (so round about April-ish) so how come it was night-time dark at 7pm?

3. Why on Earth did some of this country's best acting talent agree to appear in this shit?

4. Does the rest of the country not exist at all? It kind of mentioned in passing that the East coast would be completely overwhelmed, but then the tidal wave appeared to get from Wick to London without bothering the rest of us. Or is it just that only London matters... the fact that every town from Aberdeen to Ipswich is no more is completely irrelevant.

Twas crap - but worse than that, twas unbelievable crap.

grr

Have to agree with the majority of comments. I watched ther whole thing but is was obviously so forgettalbe that I can't even remember how it finished!

Dh and I did laugh abut the "authoritative" command to get all emergecny vehicles within a 50 mile (I heard 15, but dh says it was 50 - either way it makes not really difference) of Wick to provide support.

That'll be a lot of extra support!

It also seemed to have no awareness that we have a separate govrnemnt in Scotland, so the First Minister would have been the one to go and try to assess damage and help. At the very least, the tow woul dhave been working together in such an emergecny.

Dh also laughed at the fact that the suposed specialist meteorologist/climatologist had to look up when the last time a major storm surge hit the East Coast. Even undergraduate geographers know that it was in 1953.

I sky+'ed this.

And let me get the point here.

A disaster is not a disaster unless it affects London?

Like that new film out this summer, Doomsday, where Scotland is quarantined but action happens because the disease starts up in London, again.

God, Londoners must have a bit of a complex about us in Scotland and that we might signal their end. Of course, this ignores the fact that in Flood the rest of England is pretty much insignificant also. But London...now that is a different matter.