The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
  RATING: ROTTEN READING: 56%
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Reviews counted: 18 Fresh: 10 Rotten: 8 Average Rating: 5.3/10 |
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.
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.
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.
I'm waiting for the extended edition. Don't know why they wait so long, really ticks me off.
RATING: ROTTEN READING: 56%
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Reviews counted: 18 Fresh: 10 Rotten: 8 Average Rating: 5.3/10 |
I'll wait until someone straps me to a chair, props my eyes open, and forces me to watch it. ; )
Quaid is known only as "The Rookie" in my house!
A good question. Back when it was on, it seemed fun. But with the last few years of movies, it seems necessary
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.
Oops, that was supposed to be "can't" (with a healthy dose of sarcasm).
"You just can't keep a "good" Leftist down."
How could we ever prove that?
[one's never been found]......;)
"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...]
Heh.
Sounds like the special effects has to carry the movie. Are they at least worth a glance?
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!
BUMP
That's three words.
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