I just saw the new movie "The Day After Tomorrow"......

....Wonderful! Well worth the price of admission, entertaining, humorous and filled with surprises. I sat through the credits at the end, they took nearly 8 minutes. Also, several surprises which make me think the producers are DU blogs.

Judging by the previews of other movies due to premier this summer, I'm saving my money until Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9-11" is released. Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, all.

Was it scarey enough to get people energized about global warming?

Sounds better than I'd hoped for.

I was expecting a disappointment.

Enjoyed it, but...

S

P

O

I

L

E

R



had some problem with the ending, which gave an unwarranted warm fuzzy, even in the face of a new ice age, that "we can pull together and get through this." Such a catastrophic climate change would cause mass starvation. Canada, Europe, Russia and much of America under ice = the "lucky" survivors dying of hunger.

if people would not spoil it for the rest of us who have yet to see it.

I'll add spoiler space on edit.

S
p
o
i
l
e
r

r
e
p
l
y

I agree the ending was too optimistic. wondered about the starving people. My 16 year old daughter and I also speculated whether the Asian woman got together with the young weather guy.

Thanks for the review! It looks like an awesome movie and I am MORE inclined to see it because the repubs are ticked off about it. Anything to piss 'em off. I like to be accommodating. :evilgrin:

:bounce:

I was just wondering about the movie this morning, heard an interview on NPR about "practical effects" versus "special effects" and it was extremely interesting.

Sometimes it would be nice to live close enough to a large city with a really good theatre and get the total experience of seeing a film. On the other hand, a 40-year-old theatre has its charms :)

schmaltz

anyway...an ice age that takes 2 weeks??? (according to some reviews I've heard) - bleah.

I haven't been to a movie in a theater since 1982. And we walked out on that one. :D

It was good. Some will be surprised about the ice age part. It is hard to understand how global warming will issue in a new ice age. There was some explanation about the ocean currents, but I would have liked a lot more dialogue into the science behind gw. However, movie producers have to create something emotional and action packed. This movie fills that bill! Plus, maybe it will wake up some of the sleeping lemmings! :kick:

I read. The movie seems to be taken from that almost directly and the plot of dad scientist and semi-estranged son laid over it. I was rather amazed to hear how woolly mammoths were found snap frozen in the ice with spring buttercups in their mouths and food in their stomachs... that part is fact. The super storms and sudden massive temperature drops were hypothesized to explain all of this as a result of the ocean current changes and secondary climactic changes due to global warming. It was plausible.

I saw the movie and enjoyed it but like most disaster films, afterward you keep thinking of all the things that just seemed a bit too much :-) (A storm surge that never receded?) (Cheney-look-alike becomes humble?)

the "Cheney-look-alike becomes humble" was definitely implausable! :D

But did you notice how much the movie's president looked like Al Gore? Or was it just me?

that England and northern europe's climate will turn into a climate similar to Siberia's.

Due to the changes in the ocean currents.

You don't fuck with mother nature.

....it mentions a book for more dialogue into the science of GW, the title of which was something like "The Coming Global Superstorm".....that's it here:

The Coming Global Superstorm
by Art Bell

Publisher Comments:
The dawn of the twenty-first century saw some of the most violent weather on record. Scientific evidence suggests this trend marks the beginning of a climatological nightmare: a massive and unprecedented storm of unimaginable destructive force.

WHAT WILL TRIGGER IT?

Global warming is about to cause the North Atlantic Current to drop to a more southerly route, causing cold Arctic air to barrel into overheated temperate zones.


WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?

Sudden, dramatic changes in climate all over the world. Blizzard conditions. Sustained winds in excess of 100 miles per hour. The most severe winter storms in history. Shocking death rates.


WHAT CAN WE DO TO STAVE IT OFF?

Plenty. Talk-show host Art Bell and #1 bestselling author Whitley Strieber, two of America's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena, offer a wealth of viable solutions in this impressively researched examination of modern environmental science and weather-related disasters. Read "The Coming Global Superstorm" -- and take action "today" to avoid a deadly tomorrow.

I just ordered the book from Amazon! Can't wait to read it!

I have heard some reputable scientists who believe the theories behind the movie, but I wouldn't count Art Bell among them.

I didn't get a chance to see it at the movies - it was awesome. My next movie trip will be Prisoner of Azkaban next weekend. What can I say, I'm a fantasy geek. I will be first in line, though, when Farenheit 9-11 opens in Atlanta.

My hope was that it would awaken the possibility of global warming to the masses. The funnest scene was the one at the Mexican border. Everyone in the theatre laughed. Personally I liked it but it was typically Hollywood..overdone.

OK popcorn disaster movie.
The global warming thing was just a hook to hang the story on.


New York got it again.

the hero was a scientist instead of some kind of ass-kicker type guy, the message was about humility towards nature and the president puts in a good word for the third world!

Usually these types of mindless summer-time movies are all about massaging the egos of Americans, but this one actually went against the typical myths and the usual smugness. I suppose I'm reading too much into it, but I came away thinking, could there be a change brewing in the air and people might be getting tired of the usual mindless nationalism?

that rocks!

lines to get in though. maybe i'll try the matinee showing tommorrow. also looking forward to seeing Troy. thanks for the reviews everyone.