Storm Chasing Movie on Lifetime tonight

[Susan Strom]

Ah, Lifetime network....the women as victims network. For a network that's suppose to be for women, seems like they don't portray them very well.

Oh man, I laughed when I read this. Jason gets the Right On the Mark award of the year.

Women's television, after all these years, has yet to appeal to actual women. It cures our insomnia with endless baby, wedding and fashion stories. No Lunesta needed. Even if some women do get married and have babies in their "Lifetimes" (and certainly not all of us), this would be just one chapter in a woman's long life. What about the other 80%...

Victim portrayals of women are worse. Female wild animals do not engage in self pity. Why should humans. This is about as valuable to us as celebrity news.

Even though women have been crabbing about this kind of content for so many years, the networks keep missing the mark so badly. (Speaking of crabbing...that's one of the only shows I do watch, Deadliest Catch. And I'm kind of a regular girl...I wear makeup, do my hair...but I don't need a TV show about that stuff. I'd rather watch the Time Bandit navigate an ice pack).

What women really want is regular content. What we pay attention to are politics, science, business. Iraq. Mountain rescues. International travel.

Perhaps there's a market there for women's TV, if such shows had a feminine touch...like for instance, the history of the Amazon warrior. A day with Linda Greenlaw. I was at Phoenix Art Museum today to see Monets. There was also a display about Jewelry of India. That's girlish, and it was extremely interesting. That could be a show.

For now, there's Discovery and PBS, at least for me. We are though, on any channel, still waiting for a good chasing movie. Actually, there was one as I recall back a few years ago. It was called "Tornado". It was actually not bad.

 

[Adam Lucio]

Im kinda sad I missed this, It would have been good for a laugh. Im sure Ill catch a re-run at some point.

My favorite thing about tornado movies is how they always seem to just go *poof* and dissapear. I guess the rope out stage isnt dramatic enough for television.

There was an episode of desperate housewives featuring a tornado...its the only episode I ever watched....and boy did I laugh...so I cant totaly hate something that has entertainment value.

 

[Jason Foster]

Your right.

I'm still wondering why you guys even bother. We all know right now that you're all going to hate every possible show/movie about tornadoes. No point in doing this thread ever again...let's just say it right now: You all hate them all.

Shane, your absolutely right, I hate them all, because they are not real, and are not even good entertainment.

The only weather related movie I like for the entertainment factor was "The Day after Tomorrow". OK, the facts were way off. But I like the adventure factor.

Oh, and why bother? Cause we love to kick a person(show) when their down.