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Freeper Movie Review: Day After Tomorrow
Sneak Preview ^ | 5/26/04 | Rebelbase

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.


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To: Rebelbase

I keep saying that, except I refer to it as a "FOX reality show".....:))

You gotta admit, having Christopher Walken play Streiber was a stroke of insane genius.


41 posted on 05/26/2004 8:27:19 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: isthisnickcool
Bet you Gore has a financial investment in the film.
42 posted on 05/26/2004 8:29:21 PM PDT by varina davis
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To: Rebelbase
No one clapped at the end.

No one clapped at the end of The Passion of the Christ either, but that was because we were just so emotionally overwhelmed. Please tell me that wasn't the case for this turd. Of course, being that most of the people in the audience were probably hard core Rats, it wouldn't surprise me.

43 posted on 05/26/2004 8:29:58 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC (The media's mouth keeps moving but all I hear is Blah-Blah-Blah!)
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To: Rebelbase; yall
No one knows how fast or why, -- the ice age effects you describe could develop, but the possibility of 'superstorms', freezing downbursts, etc. -- have some scientific basis.

Sure, the movie has a political axe to grind. Very few don't.
Get a grip, and ignore the propaganda. - Or better yet, use the movie to point out the ludicrous 'theory' that mans puny actions can cause global 'warming/cooling' effects. -- Excellent opportunity to teach young folks that this has been going on for millions of years.
44 posted on 05/26/2004 8:32:04 PM PDT by tpaine ("The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." -- Solzhenitsyn)
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To: RaceBannon
LOTR Return of the King just went on sale a couple days ago.

I'm waiting for the extended edition. Don't know why they wait so long, really ticks me off.

45 posted on 05/26/2004 8:36:16 PM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: Rebelbase
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Tomatometer

 RATING: ROTTEN  READING: 56%
(FRESH = 60% or Greater)
  Reviews counted: 18
Fresh: 10  Rotten: 8
Average Rating: 5.3/10

46 posted on 05/26/2004 8:39:58 PM PDT by dennisw ("Allah FUBAR!")
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To: Ethyl
I'll wait until it is on TV.

I'll wait until someone straps me to a chair, props my eyes open, and forces me to watch it. ; )

47 posted on 05/26/2004 8:56:14 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: ncjetsfan

Quaid is known only as "The Rookie" in my house!


48 posted on 05/26/2004 9:02:56 PM PDT by SteelTrap
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To: Dog Gone
...a perfect movie for Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Why'd they quit that show? It was a hoot.

A good question. Back when it was on, it seemed fun. But with the last few years of movies, it seems necessary

49 posted on 05/26/2004 9:34:45 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer; Dog Gone
Let an old-time MSTie fill you in...

MST3K had simply gotten too expensive for Sci-Fi as compared to its ratings (which were not stellar.) In order to show each episode, the network running the series must -also- acquire the rights to each -movie.- That is why Sci-Fi only showed a relatively few eps over the past year or two...most of the rights to many of the movies had expired and it was too expensive to acquire them again.

50 posted on 05/26/2004 10:36:50 PM PDT by TheBigB (When Woody Allen and Soon-Yi are in bed together, does he ever yell, "Who's your daddy?!")
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To: SpyGuy; Salamander
You just can keep a "good" Leftist down.

Oops, that was supposed to be "can't" (with a healthy dose of sarcasm).

51 posted on 05/26/2004 11:19:34 PM PDT by SpyGuy
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To: SpyGuy

"You just can't keep a "good" Leftist down."

How could we ever prove that?
[one's never been found]......;)


52 posted on 05/26/2004 11:41:14 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: Rastus

"I'll wait until someone straps me to a chair, props my eyes open, and forces me to watch it. ; )"


Alex?
Is that you?


[oh, my brothers.....I was cured alright...]


53 posted on 05/26/2004 11:43:45 PM PDT by Salamander (Just another Droogie)
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To: Rebelbase
During our "big storm" the other day, I was sitting in the 4Runner outside of Tractor & Supply whilst hubby went in for dog food.

Just as he went through the door, all weather-hell broke loose.
Horizontal rain mixed with hail suddenly poured down upon me like the wrath of a hundred Nordic gods.
Well over 60 mph wind gusts rocked the 4Runner to-and-fro.
Hopelessly, I switched on the wipers so that I could at least watch the meteorological mayhem that enveloped me.
All I accomplished by doing that was to have a good close-up view of an 8-foot circular galvanized steel stock tank trying to decide whether it felt like remaining earthbound....or not.

Just as suddenly, the deafening deluge *stopped*.
There was a moment of discomfiting silence.
The sun came out, the store's resident birds returned and recommenced their merry chirping as though nothing unusual had happened.



[in a perfect world, "Carmina Burana: O Fortuna" would've been playing on the CD, but then again I'm the type that likes to stand outside and watch the lightning]
54 posted on 05/27/2004 12:01:27 AM PDT by Salamander (I sing the Salamander, electric)
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To: Salamander

Heh.


55 posted on 05/27/2004 12:04:57 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: Rebelbase

Sounds like the special effects has to carry the movie. Are they at least worth a glance?


56 posted on 05/27/2004 12:10:26 AM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: Rebelbase

From what I've read about this movie, it sounds like it has the potential to be a camp classic -- maybe it could be the "Showgirls" of disaster flicks!


57 posted on 05/27/2004 2:12:33 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Socratic

I loved that show! Co-starring my fave B-movie actor Whit Bissel!
58 posted on 05/27/2004 2:23:41 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: Rebelbase
Or better yet rent it for $1 at McDonalds.


BUMP

59 posted on 05/27/2004 2:58:00 AM PDT by tm22721 (May the UN rest in peace)
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To: Rebelbase
One word: Save your money.

That's three words.

60 posted on 05/27/2004 3:01:27 AM PDT by Glenn (The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
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