Meteorites! (1998)

Overrated and overhyped

Excellent, a Must See

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

"I will never view the sky the same way again" "Riveting" "A Classic" A 'B' movie that really deserves a B rating for bad, which means good in my book.Normally a bad B Movie needs girls in bikinis screaming to keep your attention. This one is so bad/good, that you will wait for the commercial, not wanting to miss a bad moment to go to the bathroom. Its that good/bad.Each bad line will keep you "riveted" to the screen laughing aloud. Its as if it was written up the night before, or better yet, made up as they were filming, in true B movie fashion.It has my coveted "Classic" status because of the ridiculous concept of meteorites scaring the town, Jaws-like fear of the town Elders afraid of the UFO festival being called off, and equally bad reactions to every situation.They spent way too much section: UFO-ologists costumes were more interesting than the meteorites special effects. A obvious Mis-Direction of films $275 budget for special effects.Favorite scene: Miss UFO being raised above the stage in a "Flying Saucer" while the stage catches fire from a direct meteor hit. (What would be the odds of that happening?!) First cheered by the audience and now being slow roasted by the fire. Doesn't get any better than that.Favorite line: Bad guy to the corrupt mayor. "If I go down,(say it with me) you're going down with me" I hope I didn't build the expectations to high for you. Just sit back to enjoy each scene as it unfolds. There is real genius in the simplicity of this wonderfully made B Movie.You have my guarantee,"Chicken Littles" of the movie goers. You will never view the sky the same way again after seeing "Meteorites!"

Hokey, and if ever there was a B - movie this one would not make the grade.Why Tom Wopat would make this thing is hard to understand unless he needed to make a car payment because I doubt if they paid him enough to make two payments. The special effects look like they came out of a used car garage instead of a graphics production company. And the writing, if there was ever some pretense that a kindergardener could write a movie script this would be it. How this movie could make it onto any broadcast pay movie channels is hard to believe unless it was in a package distribution deal otherwise it should only be available from a 99 cent backwoods general store video rack.

Nothing outstanding or out of the ordinary about this TV movie. A small Arizona town is celebrating its annual UFO Festival, when Mother Nature provides a fiery display. Comets collide in space shooting meteorites toward earth. My favorite line in the whole movie is, "I treated that truck better than my ex-wife". The effects are pretty low tech. And the acting is predictable and flat. Cast members include:Tom Wopat, Roxanne Hart, Abby Meares and Mark Murphy.

I cannot get over how incredibly voluptuous and bodacious of a female Amiel Daemion is... I mean... WOW!!! It is worth watching this movie just to see HER alone!As for the rest of this movie, well... it seemed like your typical sci-fi B-movie... complete with semi-realistic explosions (like the van), and a fairly predictable plot.I could go on to talk about the whole illogical premise of having a stream of meteorites hitting only ONE small area of the world... constantly... despite the earth's rotation, all the meteorites hit only ONE place!!! How much more do you need to have a B-movie? How about having Tom Wopat (from Dukes of Hazard TV series) as your main character? Yeah, that will upgrade things to A-movie rank... NOT!!!However, I do have something good to point out about the movie... The musical score is really good... at least, it seems to fit very well with the movie. Though, not good enough to save it from going in my B-movie archive.But when all is said and done, the mere appearance of the bodacious Amiel Daemion in the movie entirely makes up for the rest of the movie (at least, to me it does:) to make it... well... maybe a "B+ movie".