"That said, the movies need first and foremost to work as entertainment for our Saturday audience. "These serious issues obviously provide a lot of material for movies, and in turn, the movies can raise awareness of these issues," said Syfy's Vitale. (Or is that an unknown unknown?) But it's still an excellent holiday time-waster. Ice Quake's ability to stimulate conversation along the lines of An Inconvenient Truth, or even the sci-fi documentary The Age of Stupid, remains a known unknown. "We know we will not get everything done, but we must get something done," said European Union climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard, according to Reuters. But in reality, the Cancun talks are struggling to make waves. Heroes still manage to save the day in cli-fi films like apocalypse kingpin Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow and Syfy's Ice Quake – often by implementing usually impossible scientific solutions. ![]() And sometimes that is okay.Bid adieu to snowy holidays, and perhaps even the human race, in Ice Quake. You do not have to pay close attention to grasp the plot. This is the kind of film you can enjoy with a friend, a beer and a pizza. It is not award-winning, it is not the best film of the year (or even the month). So you have to give a little bit of credit to Fehr and co-stars for picking up the characters quickly, knowing the lines, working against events that are not really there. As far as preparation, Brendan Fehr explains, "We have about two weeks max and usually about a week before the whole thing gets rolling." So it is a very quick process from landing a role to filming. Methane apparently does not dissipate after causing cracks to the surface and can be directed by explosions. You have Alaska, on Christmas Eve, with bright green grass. You have methane gas causing people to die just by touching it. You have a father far too young to be the parent of a teenager. That being said, it has some questionable aspects. I see too many films that take themselves seriously and just end up being boring (most recent example - "Don't Let Him In"). I appreciate that they seem to know the film will be cheesy and try not to make it more than it is. But I want to say that despite all the bad things, it was still enjoyable and used far less CGI than typically seen in a SyFy film. I could make lots of complaints about this film (and will shortly). Frost quakes, also known as ice quakes or cryoseisms, are seismic events caused by a sudden fracturing or cracking action in frozen ground, soil or rock that is saturated with water or ice. They seem to be moving, and if not stopped could cause great peril for the families on Christmas. Geysers of ice are erupting in Alaska near the city of Fairbanks. Reviewed by gavin6942 4 / 10 Entertaining, Even If It Ignores Plenty of Common Sense ![]() After a massive ice shelf has collapsed in the Russian Arctic, intensive shockwaves are rocking. Even fans of these low rent disaster flicks should avoid it. On Christmas Eve in a sleepy town in Alaska, trouble is brewing. The CGI effects are horrendous beyond belief and there's something mind-numbingly repetitive in the way the same incidents befall the same characters over and over again. Our charity has changed the lives of over 1 billion children in the U.S. This SyFy Original premiered in early April, with a future showing in May and this production follows a research team into the jungles of Central America. The entire narrative consists of repetitive scenes of people trying to flee when the ground splits and cracks open to emit clouds of boiling methane. Save the Children is a leading humanitarian organization for children. From the creators of the upcoming Ice Quake and Mega Cyclone comes the human-eating Mandrake. ![]() The characters are underwritten to the point of non-existence and there's way too much crying and screaming going on. There's not one distinguished cast member here, just a bunch of no-name actors giving boring performances. So far so ordinary for the SyFy Channel, but this one is exceptionally poor compared to most of their movies in this sub-genre. Inevitably, a scientist and his family happen to be caught up in the natural disaster and must fight to survive nature's onslaught. ICE QUAKE is an extraordinarily poor SyFy Channel disaster movie that sees a river of liquid methane causing the very landscape to split and shift in Alaska. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 2 / 10 Barrel scraping nonsense
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