Posted on 05/24/2004 11:27:01 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
The press was banned from the after-party for Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" last night — a bad sign, and a sure sign that the movie was no good. Even this reporter, who gets his paycheck from the same company which made the film, 20th Century Fox, was unceremoniously booted from the Museum of Natural History as everyone else who'd endured the two-hour-plus ordeal filed by for the free food and cocktails. A publicist for Fox — who bragged about my expulsion later to paparazzi — actually said to me, "It sounds like you're going to blackmail us. If you don't get into the party, you'll say the movie was bad."
Ah, well: No amount of edible swag could save "The Day After Tomorrow," a $200 million disaster film that is quite the disaster, indeed.
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You cant argue with a mod....they rarely get "it"
The public will not flip for this flop.
This summer is one high-priced stinker after another. There isn't a single movie I'm interested in seeing.
Spiderman 2. Aliens Vs. Predator. Harry Potter. That's about it for 2004.
There's a reason why popcorn movies haven't gotten political like this before -- the viewers of those type of movies are searching for escapism, not liberal politics.
I must be the only one in the world that hated the first spider-man. I thought it was the most brainless, shallow, and cliche-ridden movie of all time.
the most brainless, shallow, and cliche-ridden movie of all time.
Hmmm! You must of slept through Batman.
Heck, no... and here I thought I was the only one! :) I'm a longtime fan of the character, and I was hugely disappointed with that (IMHO) scriptless, under-acted thing.
Me: I'm waiting anxiously for Alien Vs. Predator; Man-Thing; and Shaymalman's The Village.
Well I'm a youngin'. When did the first batman come out? 1989? I was only 10 years old, and too dumb to know what a good movie was made of.
Ah I forgot about that one. That'll be the only one I see this summer.
"Man on Fire" is fantastic.
BUMP!
Oh and let's not forget the money Moveon.org forked over for the advertising ... hehehehe
Skip the overpriced theater and go rent Musa. Probably the most awesome movie I have ever seen.
Not $helling out buck$ for a lou$y movie, is taking this "choice" thing a litle too far, Ethel.
'Day After Tomorrow': A lot of hot air
By Patrick J. Michaels
As a scientist, I bristle when lies dressed up as "science" are used to influence political discourse. The latest example is the global-warming disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow.
This film is propaganda designed to shift the policy of this nation on climate change. At least that's what I take from producer Mark Gordon's comment that "part of the reason we made this movie" was to "raise consciousness about the environment."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-05-24-michaels_x.htm
The Day After Tomorrow is only one more day than The Day After, and it deserves the same fate. Lies cloaked as science should never determine how we live our lives.
Patrick J. Michaels is senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute and author of the upcoming book, Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians and the Media.
What's that, the Richard Pryor story?
Looks like another Hollyweird disaster to me....I'll wait for the video...
bttt
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