'Day After Tomorrow': A lot of hot air

USAToday ^ | 05/24/04 | Patrick J. Michaels

[GrandmaPatriot]

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."

[GrandmaPatriot]

Good to see this coming out of the Cato Institute since they tend toward liberal ideas.

[formercalifornian]

Good review. I hope the movie is as bad as it sounds. I didn't realize Art Bell was a co-author of the book it's based on.

"Oh, if only we'd listened to Art Bell while we still had the chance!"

[inflation]

It is a movie.
It's from the people that made ID4.
That's all anyone needs to know to know it's all made up ;-> Remember the laptop?

[Roberts]

Al Gore is touting a movie based on a story by Art Bell?!? LOL! My favorite part of the article was this: "In Strieber's previous work, Communion, he explained that he was told of the Earth's upcoming apocalypse by aliens. And how this knowledge was communicated is much more the purview of an adult Web site than a family newspaper." LOL!

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

I'm sure Mark Gordon made "Speed" to raise consciousness about the dangers of driving busses too slow in Los Angeles.

[randog]

didn't realize Art Bell was a co-author of the book it's based on.

LOL!! I was just comparing Michael Moore to Art Bell the other day (called him the 'Art Bell of the Left).

[King Prout]

it's a cheezy popcorn B-movie dressed up in whiz-bang CGI.
get buzzed first and bring a date and laugh yourselves silly - at least, that's what I thought this movie was for.

[Brimack34]

The funniest thing is these lefties hate Fox News. Yet they are promoting a film by the owner of Fox. Do these people know what they are doing.

[Always Right]

Right when I am about to market my ocean-front Indiana property, they tell me all this stuff is not true. ...

[Woahhs]

That's all anyone needs to know to know it's all made up ;-> Remember the laptop?

IIRC they saved the world with a Mac ;0)

[null and void]

Of course! (Windoze would have crashed...)

[flashbunny]

What is the proper way to connect a mac to an alien ship? Cat 5 network? USB? Firewire???

[GrandmaPatriot]

I just want FNC to tell the whole story about where this book came from and relate how algore is behind this nonsense that was relayed from outerspace to Strieber.

LOL This is just too good to be true.

[Woahhs]

What is the proper way to connect a mac to an alien ship? Cat 5 network? USB? Firewire???

Duh! Airport Extreme! (running virtual pc, of course) Didn't you know all alien motherships are required to be 802.11g compliant?

[Texasforever]

If they can't even come up with an original title how can it be anything other than a live action cartoon? They took the "Day After" and added "tomorrow" Geeze.

[Rastus]

On the official website, they have this stupid fluff section where they ask the cast and crew, "If you had a billboard and could put any message you wanted, what would it be." Director Roland Emmerich's was "No more Bush." Pretty stupid to go out of your way to alienate a large segment of your audience. I mean, I'm not naive and I know this is Hollywood, but they are usually savvy enough to at least make those statements separate from the movie.

Funny how his last movie, "The Patriot," was trashed by liberals and largely embraced by conservatives. I even remember Algore mildly knocking the film in that stupid Spike Jonze convention movie.

[King Prout]

yep.
B-movie.
get ripped, bring a date, howl in mirth, and hurl jujubees at the screen.

[Woahhs]

I think they run alienux though :0)

[fat city]

Just as seeing Independence Day gave me a greater appreciation for the high writing, acting, effects and production standards of Earth VS.The Flying Saucers, I'm sure this movie will give me a greater appreciation for the science of Armageddon.

[Old Professer]

A conspiracy theorist worth a grain of salt would be screaming at the top of his lungs about the stupidity of people willimg to both torture prisoners and publish pictures of themselves doing so while blaming someone 10,000 miles away, yet we accept this as a scandalous discovery by an alert and ever-vigilant press; go figure!