Posted on 05/31/2004 9:59:53 PM PDT by MplsSteve
OK everyone. Take a deep breath and remind yourself that this is only a movie...it's only a movie...it's only a movie.
You don't have to be a climatologist to figure out the likelihood of a dramatic climate shift (as depicted in the movie) is really really really small...next to impossible actually.
Nonetheless, this is a good movie because of the special effects. Seeing LA getting wiped out by multiple tornadoes is incredible. The acting is decent. The plot (involving the people stuck in the NY Library) is believable. The action scenes are well done.
Maybe some of you did but I didn't believe that the Vice President was supposed to loosely represent VP Dick Cheney. I tried to see it...but couldn't.
The knaves out there who believe that this climate shift can really happen...well, we can't do anything about them. Go to the movie with an open mind. I think you'll like it.
I'll wait for the DVD, but thanks for the review :^)
I saw it as well, and thought it was far-fetched yet entertaining.
A friend said (half-humorously) afterwords something to the effect that we should probably sign Kyoto. I disagreed, because as the movie plainly showed that the climate shift happened 10,000 years ago, and the lack of human activity didn't help...
I just read an article in Popular Science on the movie. They interviewed three scientists about the possibility of the movie coming true. They all agreed that nothing is going to happen in a week, but they said another ice age is inevitable--it's just the way the earth works. Comets and meteors are a part of our world, too, so laying awake at night worrying about stuff you can't control is useless.
Then I won't try to convince you. just out of curiosity, did the guy playing the president seem more like:
a)Howard Taft
b)Richard Milhouse Nixon
c)Franklin Delano Roosevelt
d)George Dubya Bush?
The part where ravenous wolves attack the kids inside a Russian Tanker which is icebound outside the Library is the most believable part. /sarcasm
I think you'll like it.The film was truly horrible. For me the film jumped the shark when a pack of wolves attacked the geeky teenagers who were attempting to pilfer antibiotics from a Russian trawler marooned in ice beside a Manhattan library just as the entire sky opened up and the upper atmosphere got sucked down into the lower atmosphere--the audience at the theater I attended all burst out laughing.
Two words: ART BELL
I slept through the move "Day After Tomorrow", does that count?
Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us who aren't going to see it.
I plan to see it . . . the day after tomorrow.
Please, folks, QUIT THROWING YOUR MONEY AT ANTI-AMERICAN LEFTIST MILLIONAIRES!!
Roland Emmerich: Ein Spätentwickler wettert los ("Day After Tomorrow" Director Hates Bush-MUST READ)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143613/posts
This guy is as bad a Sean Penn, and his 'work product' aint as good.
Quit feeding the beast. Defund the Left!
"it was a great disaster film."
Yeah, damning with faint praise. Better than "The Poseidon Adventure" with Ernest Borgnine. Who'd a thunk?
A 'great disaster film' is like Twain's comment about Fenimore Cooper: "America's greatest bad novelist."
Ping
They all agreed that nothing is going to happen in a week, but they said another ice age is inevitable--it's just the way the earth works."
They DONT NEED A "BUT" IN THAT SENTENCE.
Geez, people are bending over backwards to give credence to stupidity. Here's a clue: If something happens over 1000 years, it makes a *big difference* versus it happening in 1 week. The movie expresses an utter and total impossibility.
It's as realistic as those clamation "Sinbad" movies, just with better special effects.
Bump what you said.
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