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.
"Dennis Quaid’s kid is trapped in the library burning books to stay warm"
Ray Bradbury wept.
[no salamander insignia jokes, please]
"How about the special effects and the music?"
Now that I think about it, I can't even remember the music..so it must not have been anything special.
The effects are cool. People in Tokyo getting nailed by softball sized hail, people in NYC getting washed away, people in LA getting blown away.
The tornado scenes in LA were nice. Especially when the HOLLYWOOD sign gets ripped up.
For a great MST 3000 style disaster flick, find a copy of a Japanese movie made in the early 80's called "The Last Days of Planet Earth".
Its very MST 3000ish.
One of my favorite Irwin Allen treasures was in the movie Earthquake. During the quake a bunch of people packed into a skyscraper elevator and of course the cable broke. The elevator freefalls, and when it hits the ground it looks like the special effects guys just threw a bucket of red paint at the camera lens - a big red splotch ends the scene. I just laughed out loud in the theater when I saw that the first time - still cracks me up when I see the movie.
Please don't remind me.
I'm still grieving.
I haven't watched the Sci-Fi channel since they took it off.
It actually sounds pretty entertaining, but anyone who would take this movie (based on a book by Whitley Streiber and Art Bell) seriously probably thinks that the X-Files was a documentary series.
Did anybody see The Rock in "Walking Tall"?
That was in theaters, literally, for five minutes.
Dennis Quaid continues to do these leftist, politically correct movies (Disney's The Alamo was the one before this one) that bomb at the box office and kill his career. Stupid role selection. Too bad, I used to like Dennis Quaid.
"...a big red splotch ends the scene..."
I always get a laugh out of that too!
I agree. I am gonna see this movie.
The special effects and the plot are what'll get me to see this movie.
The key for any dicerning movie-goer is to understand that this movie is primarily fiction.
Sit back, enjoy the movie, laugh at some of the stupid lines and we'll all be fine.
LOL!
Great minds....and all'a that....;)
"anyone who would take this movie (based on a book by Whitley Streiber and Art Bell) seriously probably thinks that the X-Files was a documentary series."
LMAO!!!
Maybe he was a sloppy second choice since his brother wasn't available.
[he flew up/blew up the mothership in Independence Day]....:))
Wait. Art Bell was involved in it, so it has to be good, right?
I'm cracking up just reading it.
Don't tell me the audience took it all seriously?
That's Hollywood, folks!
This is the movie that Al Gore endorsed as being scientifically accurate.
I'll save my money for Harry Potter.
Did any of the audience members believe the global warming premise?
Not necessarily a bad thing.
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