He's known as "Blue" in mine ... and my wife and I still use the phrase "My name is Muerte!" "Oh, hi, Morty." as an in-joke from the movie ... My name is Muerte>
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.
things getting better 21 years later : "the day after" is worst than the the day after "the day after"
If you like special effects you'll give the movie a "B" at best. I give it a "C".
Please go see the movie and let me know what you think of it of it.
"the ice age effects you describe could develop, but the possibility of 'superstorms', freezing downbursts, etc. -- have some scientific basis."
What scientific basis is there for a 15 second temperature drop to -150 in the eye of a hurricane type storm? The movie shows that temp. drop happening with no visible wind. (*everyone* knows there is no wind in the eye of a hurricane so it must be plausible, right?)
I forgot, the 2nd law of Thermodynanics doesn't apply to movies.
"That's three words."
Indeed.
ping
Where would you get one of those???
Me too. Who gets to start the Harry Potter movie review thread, I wonder?
Why bother putting it on TV, when its proper venue no longer exists?
Thanks for that explanation. It's hard to imagine that most of those movies had a high license fee to broadcast on Sci-Fi, because they were blatantly horrible. But the explanation makes sense.
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.
What scientific basis is there for a 15 second temperature drop to -150 in the eye of a hurricane type storm? The movie shows that temp. drop happening with no visible wind. (*everyone* knows there is no wind in the eye of a hurricane so it must be plausible, right?)
Beats me. Do you really thing disaster epics ~must be~ 100% plausible?
I forgot, the 2nd law of Thermodynanics doesn't apply to movies.
I forgot, movies must have all scientific & political themes vetted by the Legion of Poli-Sci Correctness.
He's known as "Blue" in mine ... and my wife and I still use the phrase "My name is Muerte!" "Oh, hi, Morty." as an in-joke from the movie ... My name is Muerte>
I thought global warming was caused by cow farts.
"If there is any global warming it is caused by Al Gore's big mouth spewing hot air."
You took the words right out of my mouth!!!
You'd better get a helmet for that Pith.
Pith off.
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Papa John's is giving away DVDs with every large pizza. Maybe I'll wait till then.
Wanna bet? :-)
LOL! I've never seen it but now I gotta see it.
Back when I was in college, a couple of friends and I would sit in the dorm tv room every day and watch the original Star Trek series. Others in the room got mad at us because we were always tossing up wisecracks. But after a few days, people were listening more to us than Kirk and Spock, and even offering their own comments.
Then years later I saw a show called MST3K, in which actors had the idea to get paid to do what I had done for free. I always respected them for that.
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