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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I've heard the digital effects are pretty good. What'd you think?
Cubs don't need any more tips. They have quite a history of blown games.
The tornados destroying LA were quite cool. No, the dialog wasn't as bad, though the plot was sooo predictable. (What? Wolves have escaped the zoo? Hmm... now the heroic bunch has finally set foot outside, and what will happen?)
The science was horrible. Not sure you can outrun a super freeze, either. Loved the discussion of which books to burn. What a dilemna! Freeze to death, or burn books?
Guess maybe they shoulda' gone to WETA for those... :-)
Oh... I thought this was supposed to be about a bunch of *bad* things happening. So... there's an upside to global warming after all, huh?
Yes, and a lot of people who more or less deserved it died horribly. Plus New York got flooded, then frozen. Oh, and the US invaded Mexico.
Evening!
Just came in from weed-wacking fenceline.... discovered that we really need to re-work the fence between the pasture and the road. needs new wire, new tape. Really, that stretch of fence should be the best run of fence I have, not the worst, since it is the barrier between them and cars.
We will have to work on it next week.
If you wanna cook, well, have at it!!! We don't mind being served! Just tell us what we need to stock up on. On Friday, I'll be busting out to work...and I don't usually have time to eat much. Our lives here are City hectic...and my job is pretty much demanding on a 24-hour a day basis, so during the week I eat some balance bars in my car on the way in to work (usually on the phone at the same time). But on the weekends, I'd have time to sit down to the real thing.
What on earth did we want Mexico for?
That's for sure! Some of the scenes I found particularly laughable:
1. As the tornadoes hit L.A., a guy in a news helicopter commenting on it states: "There are people just standing down there, taking pictures!" That's right buddy, taking pictures... just like you are in your news helicopter.
2. Ian Holm as the British scientist, talking to Dennis Quaid on the phone: "We have mountains of data to go through!" I leaned over to Rose and whispered, "Mountains, Gandalf!"
3. When the librarian is diagnosing the sick girl by using a medical text, and says, "You can do more things with books than just burn them!" You know, as if they wanted to burn the books, and weren't just doing it to survive.
4. Oh, and speaking of burning the books... After they've been burning books apparently for days, one of the teen heroes breaks up a chair to use the woven chairback as a snow shoe. Good thing they burned all those books and saved the wooden furniture for snow shoes!
You know, I could go on and on...
Hah, hah...see my earlier response to 2J! Hey, if she cooks, we can accomodate that!
They'll learn about northwest casual!
It was warm.
Oh, and like we would leave the existing Mexican government in charge once we moved in, and not just take the whole place over...
They were OK once they closed the door! The freeze apparently didn't notice the great big windows all around the room, or the chimney leading down to the fireplace...
Reading your comments, now I wish I had seen it just so I could make fun of it! :) Hmmm, let's see if I was going to write a weather disaster movie, of course my first thought would be to have the wolves escape from the zoo. . .Jen, movies like this are proof positive that there is a demand for your SF writing :)
Woo-hoo! About time :)
The windows and chimney had been coated with anti-freeze. (Trying to earn a No-Prize here :)
And I'm glad to know that the contents of one vending machine can feed six or seven people for over a week!
I'm so glad we made a matinee. It's a fine five dollar movie, but full price would have been a rip off.
It'll be "The United States of North America" within six months, I'll bet. After all the devious evil obviously Republican VP was in charge... I'll bet the envirowackos mostly froze to death, so nuclear power will be a go.
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