Supernova

• USA / South Africa • 2005 • 172m •

• Directed by: John Harrison. • Starring: Luke Perry, Tia Carrere, Peter Fonda, Clemency Burton-Hill, Emma Samms, Jessica Brooks, Eliza Bennett, Marcus Jean Pirae, Philip Lenkowsky, Ronald Pickup, Lance Henriksen, Patrick John Walton, Nkuli Kgositsile. • Music by: Irwin Fisch.

A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr.Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears Dr.Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to keep the information from the public. While a full-blown supernova does not occur, explosions on the sun cause massive damage in Australia.

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I swear to god, this is the worst mini-series ever made. it was so bad I had a great time slagging it of with my friends the next day. there is simply nothing good with it, so, where to begin, the bad acting? the science that makes you want to break down and cry (you would've thought that the world nowadays would be intelligent enough not to make this, it's like a step back in humanity that isn't really a step back, more just like being retarded)? the lack of geography research? accents? The appalling sub-plot? The terrible effects? Luke Perry? Okay, firstly, the bad science. I will over-look the fact that the sun is not large enough for a supernova event, let alone if it was it would not be happening for another 3-6 billion years time. what in the name of crap is with the meteorite things!????? the only things that the sun would emit would be solar wind, ionized particles, which in itself would be around 100000 miles in diameter and do little more than be deflected by the earths magnetic field, so why do they clump together in the form of meteorites and have vapour trails etc. (These 'fireballs' also seem to amazingly target people, large famous monuments and do not put holes in the ground when they directly hit a person. ooo I laughed so hard at this, it's painfully embarrassing to watch).

There is more to the ridiculous plot, which is the worlds leading scientists planning to live underground in Australia until the supernova event blows-over with; it would have to be one hell of a shelter (possibly made of odubtainium or some other made up material from a bad science movie like 'the core') which could withstand around 2000000kelvin. This would leave the scientists to live through the event and re-emerge just in time to drift of into space and possibly re-construct a new sun by making up a new ridiculous plot.

When the supernova event begins, the government decides not to tell anyone, keep all of it quiet, hoping no-one would notice how the sun was expanding, or the sea boiling, or the death-destruction and how the conjured fireballs are aiming to destroy landmarks like the Eiffel tower.

Australia does not have a death penalty, they abolished it years ago. I really can't be arsed to go through the sub-plot, but I would like to point out that despite being set in Australia, no one seems to have an Australian accent. Australia is probably worst for the making of this series, as no aspect of Australia is correct whatsoever.

To end this toilet of a toilet of a toilet of a mini-series, the amazing Luke Perry discovers in his equations he puts a '+' sign instead of a '-' sign. And magically, all of the craziness ceases and the supernova stops for no reason according to Luke's realization , if that works, then in all fairness the beginning of the supernova was his fault, the basterd, with his equations predicting stuff. Then he decides to relax, and not to bother telling the world that the sun will not explode, let all the people in the riots kill themselves......etc...... just BAD believe me, why would sky one waste 4 hours playing this total crap!!! I would have taken the writers all of an hour do some valuable research on the internet and make something slightly decent; they must have been high school drop outs or something, you can learn all of this stuff at basic G.C.S.E level. To give the writers some credit, I would like to add that after 4 hours of my life disappeared in watching this, I felt a whole lot more intelligent knowing that some people like the writers can be so dumb.

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