Posted on 05/26/2004 7:44:54 PM PDT by Rebelbase
The Day after Tomorrow. One word: Save your money. Go out for a cheese steak and beer instead.
I saw the movie with my son at a sneak preview tonight. We were given a free ticket so, what the heck.
The flick is a disaster movie with a global warming prelude and epilogue enough to leave a bad taste in your mouth if you know anything at all about the liberal agenda related to global warming..
One of the main characters is Dennis Quaid (sp?), a climatologist whose career got in the way of his family life straining his relationship with his college age son. Quaid has a theory that global warming is going to cause the ice caps to melt, resulting in lower ocean temps in the North Atlantic which disrupt the flow of warm water from the south and altering the climate over the next 100 to 1000 years. He is passed off as a loon by the government officials.
Coincidentally, there happens to be a 13 degree surface water temperature drop in several North Atlantic weather buoys. Strange storms suddenly appear, in a matter of one day. Yes one day. Multiple F5 type tornados in L.A., the place is leveled. Softball size hail in Tokyo. Air turbulence nationwide that crashes a couple of passenger jets.
Quaid is finally listened to and gives his prediction of the super storms that are growing. There will be three, continental wide storms in the northern hemisphere., equally spaced across the globe. The entire northern hemisphere is going to be under polar ice.
The president issues an evacuation order for the southern states to go to Mexico. The scenes of reverse invasion with Americans running across the Rio Grande into Mexico was too funny and I burst out laughing. I laughed even harder when Mexico closed its border; only to reopen it after the US had forgiven all of Latin America’s monetary debt.
Now on to the next day…..NYC. A super Hurricane blows into town with a storm surge as tall as the Statue of Liberty. The special effects were cool, watching cars and busses get tossed around like kiddy toys.
Dennis Quaid’s kid is trapped in the library burning books to stay warm and Quaid mounts a rescue to save him—After all he’s been gone most of the kid’s life.
The outlandish moments come when the storm temp. Drops to 150 below zero in a matter of seconds…freezing everything and anyone caught outside.
Remember, all this happened in a matter of a couple of days.
That said the disaster stuff pretty much over. The storm lasts a few days, Quaid rescues his kid, the choppers rescue them and everyone is happy. That is until the President speaks to the nation (what’s left of it) in exile in Mexico.
This is where the politics came back into the movie. The President thanked “our third world neighbors who have taken us in” and then said something to the effect of “we caused global warming by using all our natural resources too fast.”…something to that effect. I burst out laughing again.
And that’s it, the end of the movie.
Like I said earlier, it’s a disaster flick sandwiched between a global warming propaganda beginning and ending, which reminded me of some Steven Segal movies I’ve seen. He sometimes has an agenda in his flicks.
No one clapped at the end. My son said that he overheard the people behind me say that because I laughed out loud when the President said “we caused it” that I must think Global Warming is a liberal conspiracy.
They got that right.
Don’t waste your money on this one in the big screen Wait till it hits DVD. You’ll be glad you did.
If there is any global warming it is caused by Al Gore's big mouth spewing hot air.
I love how these third-rate Hollywood films now resemble Lifetime movies of the week, with the soap opera story grafted onto the main plot. Pathetic.
This sounds as though it's likely to make me long for Irwin Allen.
Don’t waste your money on this one in the big screen Wait till it hits DVD. You’ll be glad you did
I'll wait until it is on TV.
I think I'll rent this one... I can fast forward to the good parts.
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What the F.E.M.A. guy didn't save the day like he did during the clintoon years?
That always made me want to throw up.
LOTR Return of the King just went on sale a couple days ago.
"This sounds as though it's likely to make me long for Irwin Allen."
I miss him already!
Fun with keywords!
Yeah -- like on Insomniac Theater at 2 a.m. on Thursday nights.
How about the special effects and the music? I like eye candy and will ignore the politics if the art is good.
Nah, I'll pass on the DVD too. If I need more coasters to put under my drinks, I'll just scrounge up an old AOHell CD.
Uhhh, Mexico, "third world?" I really hope that's what the writers said, so we can see the response from Mexico and Mexicans, who decidedly do NOT see themselves as third world. Very politically incorrect, if true.
"Irwin Allen"
Yeah, "The Time Tunnel" was one of my favorites. I must have been in 6th or 7th grade. "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," was OK but the creatures were too cheesy. (Nothing special about those effects!)
Even in the midst of a global disaster of Biblical proportions, the college-student son-of-a-liberal activist is busy burning books. You just can keep a "good" Leftist down.
"One of the main characters is Dennis Quaid (sp?), a climatologist whose career got in the way of his family life straining his relationship with his college age son."
Dennis Quaid,No Fair!
Al Gore was born to play this role,he's been treated like a lunatic for his insane speeches about global warning, and his son is always getting arrested.
First Bush steals his election,then Dennis Quaid steals his Oscar,Is there no justice for Al?
Yes one day. Multiple F5 type tornadoes in L.A., the place is leveled.
Darn that President Bush, why has he not used our American technology to achieve this goal yet?
This sounds like a perfect movie for Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Why'd they quit that show? It was a hoot.
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