Who knew that water could be so exciting? :o

 

Anyone watch this? I thought it was gripping drama, far better then what ITV have put out before.

Hmm it lost me yesterday.

 

Here they are with London in Whitehall about to flood, no tubes, roads gridlocked, and the government including Deputy PM, manage to get out of there to COBRA 2 in like 5 minutes :rofl:

 

The water was obviously fake, and meh, a bit overdone for me.

I was flicking on and off yesterday, wish I taped it I useually like programmes about flooding and natural disasters for some reason lol.

I thought it was a pile of rubbish! First half was better than the second but what a wash-out! Robert Carlyle was awful (as ever - the only good thing I've seen him in was playing Albie in Cracker). Tom Courtenay looked as though he was sleepwalking through the whole thing - probably thinking 'what the hell is a bloody good actor like me doing in this?'

 

Norma

I only saw bits of it (but I recorded it all), and the special effects looked like the only good thing. The acting in the parts I saw was shockingly bad. Apperently it cost £15m to make. It was only released a while back yet it on tv already :lol:

I only saw bits of it (but I recorded it all), and the special effects looked like the only good thing. The acting in the parts I saw was shockingly bad. Apperently it cost £15m to make. It was only released a while back yet it on tv already :lol:

 

It was one of those 'straight to dvd' things. There are loads of viewer comments and reviews on IMDb (all of them bad) I wished I'd taken notice of them. Spot on about the acting ... I mean you expect bad acting from Joanna Whalley but when Tom Courtenay enters the frame - you expect so much better. Still ... I suppose even good actors have to have an off-day.

 

Also - when they knew they'd run out of air in that half-way tank thing where the manual over-ride was - why didn't whoever went in (in this case Tom) take two air- canisters? Its not as if they were massive!

 

Norma

it was the biggest pile of c**p to grace the tv screens in years... i only saw the first half, i couldnt dumb down my intellect enough to watch the second... (and no im not being stuck up... it had so many glaring faults i just couldnt accept them).

 

written by morons.... enjoyed by people who accept nonsense. it was simply WRONG on so many levels, fault after fault after fault....

Wick to London to Wick to Arbroath and back to London by 3pm

 

:lol:

 

Concorde? Possibly. Anything other commercial/private craft? No way. so the time line was a bit fukked

... i think robert carlisle must enter the olympics as a swimmer... anyone who can swim in THAT torrent and survive (both on the surface and underwater) must be some sort of human fish...

as I didn't see all of it, did someone drop a mobile under the water then use it with it still magically working :lol: Never knew they did water resistant mobiles :lol:

 

And as for the swimming in the river, no way you'd be able to swim in a river with a torrent that strong :rofl:

 

And the maintenance staff in the tube :lol: They would have known 2 men were missing :rolleyes:

 

 

A disaster TV movie that was just that - a disaster

Just out of curiosity - is this the same Flood that came out on DVD a few months back? If so, how did they make an 1:47 film last four hours (save commercials)?

A disaster TV movie that was just that - a disaster

Though not ratings-wise... winning its slot both nights with 7.2m and 6.2m.

There were MANY problems with this show (to be fair, I didn't think Joanna Whalley was one of them).

 

The bloke who played the professor pretty much slept through the whole thing and Robert Carlyle just isn't as charismatic as the programme makers want him to be.

 

What I dislike most (and this is not just Flood but pretty much EVERY disaster movie going) is the way the films always have an attitude of "oh well 200,000 people died, a whole city has been destroyed, and all of the survivors have lost their homes, but it's all OK because Robert Carlyle and his bird survived. f*** the others :)".

i cant belive they shown this last night i got it on dvd ages ago really good tho!

There were MANY problems with this show (to be fair, I didn't think Joanna Whalley was one of them).

 

Well I will admit - her performance was not the worst by a long chalk. Still an insufferable waste of four hours of one's life though.

 

Norma

 

A disaster TV movie that was just that - a disaster

 

:lol: sums it up perfectly!

i think it was really guhd :P