On 03/11/2011 04:42 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > Those of you still up this late compulsively posting to > FFL from the US West Coast (you know who you are) might > consider...uh...moving inland if you live near the coast. > > http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/map.japan.tsunami/index.html?hpt=T1 > > This is the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history. > True, few other countries on the planet are as prepared > for a major earthquake as Japan, but it's still pretty > devastating. I wish them the best. > > As for the resulting tsunamis, if you've never really > thought about what it would be like to be in one, I > recommend renting Clint Eastwood's recent (and WAY > overlooked) "Hereafter." Clint and his crew received > a Special Effects Oscar nomination for filming what > has been called the most realistic depiction of what > being in a tsunami looks like ever. Scary shit. > > I don't think the film itself has been discussed here, > or if it has I don't remember it. Pity. It's very good. > Clint managed to make a very "European" film, in which > three seemingly unrelated stories all come together > to show that they're not the least bit unrelated. It's > a surprisingly good film, one that I think many here > would enjoy immensely.
Yes I discussed it here because it was my "Halloween getaway" film last year. And I was trying to figure out what the bridge was at the plant that Matt Damon's character was working at. It didn't look like the Bay Bridge (since the film takes place in San Francisco). Duh, in the film Damon's character is working at the C&H plant in Crockett and a scant few miles from where I live and the bridge is the Carquinez linking Crockett and the bankrupt town of Vallejo. I think you also recommended "Doghouse" which I watched last night and laughed my head off. Good recommendation. As for the earthquake I think Sal was right about the Mayans being one year off.
