Posted on 05/31/2004 8:19:14 AM PDT by oblomov
The Ice Age Cometh The Day After Tomorrow is full of hot gas. By David Edelstein Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 3:35 PM PT
Eco-soap opera gets a rinse The Day After Tomorrow (20th Century Fox) has one of the most absurd and implausible plot turns I've seen in a movie, ever. Global warming melts the polar ice caps, which makes the oceans rise and disrupts the Gulf Stream. There are lethal hailstones in Tokyo and ravaging tornadoes in L.A.; and after New York City is flooded by seawater, the temperature plunges at a rate of 10 degrees per second, so that people are transformed into ice statues where they stand. Tens of millions are dead and the upper United States has become uninhabitable. Now here's the implausible part. The vice president (Kenneth Welsh)—closely modeled on Dick Cheney—who has pooh-poohed all evidence of global warming, goes on TV and says, "I was wrong."
Of course, if I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it—unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it.
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I wonder, will the flim frighten little boy Al Gore?
As he always does.
Al Gore - the Kiss of Death.
Just saw it. Amazing film, stupid science...and nothing but the most hoary leftish cliches:
1. The wise black homeless man, who, although cast aside by society, is wise and insightful about our wasteful society. Did I mention he is wise? And we see him oppressed by the doorman of a rich white kid who he helps save with his wisdom?
2. Many venal & White Old Men, who, although they could have at the last minute averted this castastrophe don't, becuase they are White Old Men, and you know what they're like.
3. A smart and assertive Attractive But Not In a Exploitative Way Asian chiklet who is a genius.
4. A young black wise academic decathalete.
5. Wealthy yuppies who arrogantly bribve a bus driver to let them onboard so they can get out of the rain, but who Get What's Coming To Them.
This film is the "Reefer Madness" of environmental didacticism.
Good review. Propoganda films are never entertaining.
But they work.
"The paleoclimatologist hero...is introduced to Terry Rapson (Ian Holm) at a climate conference in New Delhi and exclaims, "Professor Rapson? I've read your work on ocean currents!" I just love lines like that."
LOL.
The North Atlantic Current (Gulf Stream) is depicted as flowing up the West coast of Africa across the Atlantic and down the East Coast of North America.
This movie sets Global Warming pseudoscience back many decades. It is no wonder Algore thought the movie to be important.
After reading this review, I almost want to go see the movie. I haven't had a good laugh since "Airplane".
Did his name happen to be Mr. Wendell?
MUST-READ REVIEW of The Day After Tomorrow.
A wildly funny review of a wildly funny film.
Thanks for the post, oblomov.
LOL fun in this review.
The party games that you can play with this thing when it comes out on DVD are incredible.
1. Count the ultra-liberal moments.
2. Count the Hollywood cliches.
3. Count the female "damsels in distress". (was I the only one that noticed that NO female contributed positively to the movie?)
It just goes on and on and on....
Following up on my previous post, can anyone who has seen the move tell me what the point of Sela Ward's character is, besides standing around looking worried?
Go to www.rottentomatoes.com. You can read about 150 reviews from all over the country. This movie has a rating, by their system of 47, meaning 47% of the reviews are positive. What is really funny is the positive reviews sound negative. Generally they say the movie was silly, with plot contrivances, ridiculous science and hilarious dialogue. However, they liked the special effects. The negative reviewers couldn't get past the silly plot, including instant melting of the polar ice caps, temperatures dropping one hundred degrees per hour and the main character WALKING from Washington to NY to save his son. Also, they all reference a ridiculous ending. I've got to see it for the laughs.
whoops....move = movie
To be honest, I don't know if I've seen a positive review of the MOVIE....every one I read is a positive review of the POLITICS.
The Day After Tomorrow is the best environmentalist action movie since Steven Seagal’s On Deadly Ground.
Most of the positive reviews praise it as a campy Irwin Allen romp.
What is the 'utterly preposterous ending' I keep hearing about?
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