The Day After Seeing “The Day After Tomorrow”

NewsMax.com ^ | 6/01/04 | James Hirsen

[kattracks]

In terms of disasters, it has them all – storms, floods, tornadoes, tidal waves, blizzards and more. I’m not talking about an outtakes reel from the Weather Channel. I’m talking about the PC piece of celluloid called “The Day After Tomorrow” that I saw the day before today. Actually, the thing’s a rollicking comedy. Or at least that’s how it hit me. While watching, I found myself alternating between restrained chuckles and outright guffaws. I’d suspected it might be a side-splitter when I heard that the snarling Internet inventor who’s suffering from “mad Howard Dean disease” had endorsed it.

For those of you who may actually be thinking the film is serious, I have to tell you it contains scenes that could only be there for laughs.

Apparently, filmmaker Roland Emmerich relied on his prior “Godzilla” experiences for the project, because it has the same kitschy quality of the original Japanese monster movie and generates about as much fear as his 1998 remake.

Tidal waves crash against Manhattan’s skyscrapers. Huge balls of hail knock over billboards, bend steel frames and crunch cars as crowds of Japanese people scream and run for cover. Twisters descend on Los Angeles and devour the Hollywood sign, as well as the Capitol Records building. Finally, a super fast-freezing storm encases New York in ice, leaving Lady Liberty partially submerged in a cinematic déjà pew.

Characters are heard prattling on endlessly about how we got ourselves into the frosty mess. Being a science fiction buff, I found myself wondering how the writers could think they could pull off such a snow job, believing that no one would recall the climate change that occurred eons ago had zip to do with greenhouse gases or SUVs. Maybe they’re under the illusion that liberal science fiction doesn’t have to be consistent.

The Kyoto Protocol is brought up in the movie more than once, in reverential terms, of course. (You remember, Kyoto was the UN treaty that the Democrat-controlled Senate under Bill Clinton voted down 95 to nothing.)

And there’s a presidential character who’s a Dubya look-alike. The guy becomes a victim of greenie circumstance and is killed off. Shortly afterwards, a veep-turned-prez Cheney replica apologizes to the world for not having seeing the enviro light sooner.

Razzie musings aside, I can’t help but connect with reality for a moment. The science on global warming is far from settled. The temperature on the ground shows that there’s only been warming of a little more than one degree over the last one hundred years.

But even with that, ground measurements have been discredited by new equipment. Satellite and weather balloon measurements are considered to be more accurate and show that very little warming has occurred since first used. It seems to me that there has to be a heck of lot more warming before the climate goes bonkers and we all become popsicles.

Some greenies are hoping that the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, which forces Kyoto down our throats via legislation, will gain support from this film.

As for me, I’m hoping that Woody Allen considers re-dubbing the flick for a “What’s Up With the Weather” release the day after tomorrow of the week before yesterday of next year.

[sionnsar]

Box Office Mojo: 4-day Estimates: 1. 'Shrek 2' - $92.2M, 2. 'Day After Tomorrow' - $86.0M,..

[LadyShallott]

If I remember correctly there was a group of actual weather experts who watched the film, and laughed through the whole thing. The disturbing factor is that many liberals have latched on to the film as if it were a documentary. But then again they watch Michael Moore. Enough said. :)

[smiley]

I also read an article where some scientists watched this film and outright laughed at the absurdity of the whole movie.....

[aft_lizard]

The good news is that June will be full of Blockbuster type movies knocking this movie out, the bad news is that the movie will still earn its money back.

[Maceman]

I saw the movie on Sunday. It was a hoot, and regardless of what anyone else says, the special effects are dazzling and wonderful. Lots of great "money shots," as they say.

Of course, the plot, the politics and the science are utterly inane. And it did bog down in places. And I thought the dim witted President looks a LOT more like Al Gore (apart from being sandy haired) than George W. Bush.

The political message is guaranteed to make any respectable Freeper barf, and when I saw the movie there were some approving titters from the audience at scenes depicting the "Dick Cheney" VP and the President, as well as when large chunks of the US population stormed the borders trying to get into Mexico.

So that was a bit of a bummer, though not unexpected.

Still, the boffo special effects were well worth the price of admission. A really good way to spend a few hours over Memorial Day week-end, if you are looking for an idiotic, mindless, eye-popping summer movie.

As Irwin Allen-type disaster flicks go, it is certainly the best I've ever seen.

[WOSG]

I ask that you all also pledge not to watch "The Day After Tomorrow" ... first because it is so bad...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1132625/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=5&rid=1284412

"quite possibly the single stupidest film ever to spring from the mind of writer/director Roland
Emmerich"

Not only is it a horrible movie, a rotten disaster flick chock-full of bad anti-Bush/Cheney hits and cheezy ecofreak globaloney, BUT it was made by this director Emmerich, who is a Big-Time clymer and bush-hating leftist.

He said: "With a policy of fear they tried to find a pretext to invade Iraq after September 11. The
Americans were made insecure, to make them agree to that. The intelligent Americans are so appalled by
what their
president does, you cannot imagine it."

" The United States are the most powerful country, and there sits George W. Bush, a
president who cares about nothing but oil. How different would the world be if the Democratic
environmentalist politician
Al Gore would have come to power? All this is hard to bear for me as a German. I never want to be an
American."

"America is the oldest democracy in the world. Since then they have totally developed beckwards. Euope
was most of the time under
monarchic influence [sic], but is today three or four times as democratic as America."

"Al Gore had the consent of the regular voters, and
only the electoral college finally changed it. I still think it was a family affair in Florda. There was something
fishy about it."

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!

[San Jacinto]

Twisters descend on Los Angeles and devour the Hollywood sign, as well as the Capitol Records building. Finally, a super fast-freezing storm encases New York in ice

So does anything bad happen?

[Patrick1]

Go see the movie and then drive your SUV to the local golf course and get in a quick nine holes.

[WOSG]

You dont need to be a weatherman to see through absurd hollywood over-the-top schlock... X



"To combat this, Emmerich keeps trying to up the dramatic ante by adding contrivances so overdone that
they quickly become absurd. Instead of one devastating tornado hitting L.A., he gives us no fewer than
six. Instead of merely being content with the suspense of a key later scene revolving around a mission by
the estranged son to retrieve some penicillin from an abandoned ship to save the pretty girl from blood
poisoning, he has the son also being chased by rogue wolves. Instead of simply having the Sela Ward
character be a dedicated doctor, he makes her only apparent patient be a cancer-stricken boy (whoops, a
blind, cancer-stricken boy) whose parents have disappeared and who cannot be moved without an
ambulance. Without the excesses, these moments might have worked; with them larded on, they take an
already silly story and tip it into sheer preposterousness to such a degree that they could be considered
self-parody if Emmerich ever displayed any evidence of a sense of self-reflexive humor. "


"quite possibly the single stupidest film ever to spring from the mind of writer/director Roland
Emmerich"
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1132625/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=5&rid=1284412

[correctthought]

"crowds of Japanese people scream and run for cover"

Go go Godzilla

[Gone_Postal]

The disturbing factor is that many liberals have latched on to the film as if it were a documentary.

THis is however the liberials PASSION

[WOSG]

Another review of this turkey. I cant believe anyone over the age of 14 would actually enjoy this non-believable schlock ...

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/listings/film/726/index.html

" Welcome to the year's big mystery movie, the mystery being: Who the hell greenlights insipid Irwin Allen
wannabes? Entertainment value and political provocation prove shockingly lacking as the haughty,
gross-pollutin' northern hemisphere gets ravaged and flash-frozen by moderately nifty CG superstorms,
summoning an instantaneous ice age. Ever-reliable Dennis Quaid plays paleo-climatologist "Jack" (along with
"Nick," a stock name usually indicative of terrible screenwriting) whose promise-keepin' ways send him
walking impossible miles of sub-sub-Arctic tundra toward devastated Manhattan to help his outrageously
boring "teenage" son (Jake Gyllenhaal) save cardboard characters who can outrun massive tidal waves and
even the lethal cold itself. While it's marvelously refreshing to observe Mother Nature obliterating L.A. and
New York along with caricatures of ghastly world leaders, almost everything good is in the trailer, save
perhaps brief run-ins with malevolent wolves and Ian Holm. What remains is a bumbling, sappy, laughably
self-serious test of patience as director and co-writer Roland Emmerich (the failed American Godzilla remake)
preaches to the environmentally converted his dumbed-down gospel of Green. -- Gregory Weinkauf

[Eastbound]

Maybe the film wasn't based on Kyoto.

Affix tinfoil body armor and click here:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=25143+Itokawa

Comet Itokawa incoming this month?

[San Jacinto]

Here is what the kraut filmmaker missed-- If the Northeast gets frozen solid and the west Coast is ripped off into the ocean, then Dubya wins the electoral vote by about 400 to zero. Talk about sublime justice.

[f15falcon]

LOL! But I though Micheal Moore's movie was the passion for liberals!

[WOSG]

Another review of this clunker ...

heard it here first, the plot's a 'finding nemo' remake! lol...

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie?id=6071749&pageid=rs.ReviewsMovieArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1086109277550&has-player=unknown

"Did they see the same blockheaded cheeseball movie that I
saw? The one in which climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) leaves
snowed-in D.C. (where he scolds the foot-dragging vice president,
a real Cheney-esque dick in the performance of Ken Welsh) to
embark on a mission: Jack must rescue his seventeen-year-old
son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), who is holed up with his buds in the
New York Public Library burning books for warmth. You got it, folks.
Director Roland Emmerich and his co-screenwriter Jeffrey
Nachmanoff have lifted the plot of Finding Nemo, only this time it's far
more cartoonish. ...
Kill me now. The avalanche of cliches just won't quit. There's a
homeless black man in the library with a cute dog who barks
whenever calamity approaches. Sadly, the mutt doesn't bowwow
when a new chunk of dog dialogue is about to be spoken. Quaid
gets the lion's share of clinkers. "Unpack the snowshoes, we're
walking from here," says Jack when his car conks out in Philly and
he and his team begin the trudge to Manhattan.

The film's career-threatening performances must be blamed on
Emmerich, who brings out the worst in actors (see Godzilla) making
them gaze into the camera for close-ups meant to resonate with
feeling when it's clear they are staring open-mouthed into a blank
screen on which special effects will be projected later. You can't
blame Emmerich for recycling many of the effects that worked in his
biggest hit, Independence Day, but his disregard for even the flimsiest
logic turns the film into an unintentional campfest. First we see the
steel girders of Manhattan freeze over and snap. Then we cut to
Sam and Laura sharing a smooch in the library, where one fireplace
and their love are apparently sizzling enough to ward off the latest
ice age. Don't ask whether or not you should take The Day After
Tomorrow seriously. Don't take it at all."

[HEY4QDEMS]

The disturbing factor is that many liberals have latched on to the film as if it were a documentary.

Why not, lefties view Hollywood as their god.

They already get their history from Hollywood, so why not science?

I remember when the movie "JFK" was out, I knew two people afterward who stated, as fact!, that Kennedy was killed by gay fascists. They're both diehard Rats.

On the up side to all this is that these types of films are usually what cause the more intelligent of the Dem's to come to their senses and cross the isle. Leaving the stupid ones behind.

[Jivana108]

I saw the movie over the weekend. It definately has a strong "political" liberal message in it. It was entertainment and nothing more. Anyone that takes this movie seriously, is retarded (liberal).

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...cheezy ecofreak globaloney

Ha! I love it. A new catch-phrase.