Cowles: "Y2K, The Movie"  Much Ado About Nothing?

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Posted on the Energyland website:

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First things first - dont expect the movie to be an icon of technical accuracy. The anal-retentive and humorless engineers of the world will (maybe justifiably) pick the movie apart. Heres a brief comment that I provided to the production team back in July of this year, prior to the start of shooting:
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You can read the whole thing at http://www.energyland.net/commentary/guest7.asp.

Critt

-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), November 18, 1999

Answers

1) No fiction movie is totally accurate.

2) This one may or may not have been well done from a technical standpoint. If I'm home, I'll watch it...from curiosity.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), November 18, 1999.


Im going to give people credit and there is very little probability that anything will come out of this movie. Its being panned by so many critics as just another crappy made for tv movie that I would be surprised to see it pull any conversation outside the doom world.

-- No 1939 (givencredit@people.com), November 18, 1999.

Here's hoping they they wrote massive blackouts into the script!

Patient Regards,
Andy Ray



-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), November 19, 1999.

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