Superstorm

2007

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Released: 15 April 2007 Ended
Producted By: BBC Worldwide
Country: United Kingdom
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Superstorm is a three-part British docudrama miniseries written and directed by Julian Simpson, about a group of scientists that try to divert and weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding. Superstorm originally aired on BBC One for a period of three weeks, totaling three 59 minute episodes, from 15 April 2007 to 29 April 2007. Each episode was followed by a half-hour documentary on BBC Two on extreme weather monitoring and forecasting, called The Science of Superstorms. The series was also aired on the Discovery Channel in the U.S. and Canada during the summer of 2007. Superstorm is a co-production of BBC Worldwide, Discovery Channel and ProSieben, in association with M6 and NHK. Ailsa Orr and Michael Mosley, who made also Supervolcano, are the executive producers for BBC, while Jack E. Smith is the executive producer for Discovery Channel. The miniseries was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2007.

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FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
wmhogg I saw this show on the Discovery Science channel. For those familiar with the extremely low-budget graphics, animation, and photography of the Science Channel, this was quite an exceptionally well-done show.They have real actors, high-quality graphics, and a very interesting story-line. I thought it was very entertaining and suspenseful.Tom Sizemore played the government bureaucrat very believably. For those of you familiar with Stargate SG-1, "Martouf" is one of the main characters, "Lance". The tension between the scientists was very compelling as each had their own research and points of view, but their own opinions required constant re-evaluation as the situation changed hourly.Well done science program.
mandyprotakov I stumbled onto this movie by accident. What a mess!! Its only artistic value was that of a train wreck. It was difficult not to watch for a while to see how many ways they could do a bad job.First the photography. I'm sure the filmmakers will wax poetic over using video and bad camera-work to give an impression of "reality". All they did was give an impression of lack of aptitude.Then the acting... Except for Tom Sizemore (and even he wasn't doing such a great job) it was Afternoon at the Amateur Hour (and that's being mean to Amateur Hour!) As for the direction, it consisted at attempts at shaking the camera in lieu of direction.Oh, and the sound was ludicrously bad, as if they had used a Mic from a video-cam (which they probably did).I'm asking you, what's the point of doing a movie like this if you're not going to even try to do it well?
akajohncastle SuperStorm came to our screens in the Uk over the last three weeks and despite reservations with the plot and the fact that this has been done before in Hollywood Blockbusters, I was kind of looking forward to seeing it. I wasn't disappointed. taken off the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the mini series, takes us into the world of weather manipulation. Something that a few years ago would have been unheard of, is now a reality and becoming less like science fiction every day. The storyline has some interesting ideas and dilemmas. If only we could change the course of a storm we could save the lives of thousands of people every year. However Mother nature has proved many times before that she isn't one to be tampered with or tamed and with discovery, comes great risk and even possible failure and tragedy.I won't tell you the plot, as you will have to see it yourself to understand, but to sum up, SuperStorm poses us questions and offers answers. With fantastic special effects and a strong cast and funding from both sides of the Atlantic under the banner of the BBC, SuperStorm is a must see in my book.Watch it as a piece of fiction, but ask yourself the question.....what if.Enjoy.
MrTAToad Having seen the last episode, I can say that overall it was a pretty interesting docudrama on weather modification, possible subversion and the moral dilemma's that go with it.It had a companion series that looked into the science behind weather modification and the previous attempts at it, both military and non-military.The main real problem with this mini-series, is the camera work : Quick inserts of actual storms interjected with black and white frames at weird angles, whilst giving a picture of menace, just didn't feel right. Its as though the director wanted to be arty for arts sake. Unfortunately, this sort of thing seems to be catching (eg Hot Fuzz).It can also be slightly slow in a few places - possibly an attempt to pad the episode.The characters all chance over the 3 episodes, from the very unlike-able programmer of software for predicting hurricanes, to one that started to crack up, each one was interesting.There wasn't a particularly happy ending to the series - most of the people in Stormshield die. You also only get to slightly seem the ramifications of an unauthorised modification and the attempt to modify that.

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