Lets go see it.

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Maybe on Sunday.

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rawr, i was going to say that .


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i just got home from it, it was very good.

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Next week Saturday, tho since I'm going with two girls, I'll be going again sometime to actually watch the movie.

It was AWESOME. I mean some of the effects in it just blew me away. Plus you'll see some trailers for upcoming movies, and let me just say, this summer is going to be a good one for movies.

Cellular
http://www.empiremovies.com/movies/2004/cellular.shtml

Collateral
http://www2.empiremovies.com//movies/2004/collateral.shtml

And of course I, Robot which was posted here a long time ago.

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I'll go only if I can bring a razor so I can slit my wrists half way through.

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

I feel your pain :/



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Cody
"No, whats your real name"
Arkon............
Proud member of the Co-op

Saw it Thursday (advanced screening) and we all came to the conclusion that "It was utter bollocks, but really good fun all the same."

So there you go.

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I thought, other than the few entertaining scenes, that it sucked in general. It was an eco-doomsaying at it's worse, with plenty of cliche moments to make it a true disaster.

Was there any story to this movie other than Mother Nature hates us? At least with ID4 everyone knew we had kick alien butt back to their home planet.

Dennis Quaid's son is trapped in New York City, and Dennis Quaid goes on a search for him.

From where I sit, that right there can be used to describe a very large percentage of all movies out there right now.

Meh, to me, however, the trailer made it look cool. Other than that, I've seen and heard nothing. I'll blow 5 bucks on it next week after an exam.

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--End of Line--

Might go see it tonight... It looks entertaining, if nothing else.

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There is no spoon.

*reads title*


...


*explodes*

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

For those that have seen it, and have also been to the museum in New York that was in the film, does that frozen mammoth actually exist?

Also, a question I was pondering. If glass were frozen rapidly, would it shatter? I immediately assumed that as any matter was cooled it became more dense (apart from water) and would contract, so the block of glass would merely fall out when frozen.
But I also figured the glass might be mixed with something else too, for strength or something, or glue as in double-glazing, and so the rapid freezing would mean the decrease in density would occur at different rates for the different materials and so the window might shatter?

Also, I didn't quite understand why the ice age only lasted a matter of weeks, when the last ice age lasted hundreds of years?

Also, I didn't quite understand why it only affected the northern hemisphere? There may or may not be some legitimate answer for this, I don't know. But it did make for some interesting political irony regarding the global north-south divide.


But other than the questionable climatology, I didn't think it was too bad. It raised some important issues, and hopefully has made some folks more concerned about the actual effects of global warming (it could, though, have quite the contrary effect and make people think that 'global warming' is simply a Hollywood concept or something).
The storyline was a little predictable, but nice enough, I liked the characters (though I would have preferred it if more of the main characters had died, ala Deep Impact). I did like how it at least referred to the rest of the world (whereas almost all other apocalypse films are all about the end of the world affecting only America, ala Deep Impact).

Generally, it wasn't particularly bad. I liked it.


[This message has been edited by Mort-Hog (edited May 29, 2004).]

It wasn't that bad. I enjoyed the irony of the Mexico-America border incident. I usually hate movies where nature is the villain, but this pulled it of better than most.

Plenty of questionable science, even to a layman, but whatever.

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I think that they should have released that movie, literally the day after tomorrow. Then it would never come out!

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It was enjoyable. The writing, characters, and acting were collectively nothing short of laughable, but who doesnt enjoy seeing major cities destroyed? The special effects were very decent, except for the wolves. What the hell was up with the wolves? They looked really, really, bad.

****SPOILERS****

For those who have seen it, can anyone confirm that there was a window to the outside in the room with the fireplace where they took refuge? One of my friends thought there was, which makes them surviving that snap-freezing thing rather dubious.

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There is no spoon.

Is there a happy ending?

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The huge storm only lasted a few days, but Dennis Quaid said something along the lines of 'the frozen north hemisphere will reflect sunlight dropping the world's average temperature plunging the world into a new ice age'. Soooo interepret that as you will, but either way mankind was in for some tough times

Also, forgot to mention how for once I liked how they focused on America. Usually in those movies (Independance Day, Deep Impact etc) they always devote 95% of the movie to America, and give a token 5% screen time to showing special effects shots of major landmarks from around the world getting destroyed. This time it was kinda like 'America's screwed, Europe's screwed but we dont really care about them, while everyone south of the equator is fine and watching this on CNN'. Suits me

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There is no spoon.

Well, I'm gonna go get in my mother's gas-guzzling SUV.....

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"None knows what the new day shall bring him"

I really did not like this movie. The plot had too many stupid moments to count, the acting was poor, and I love when Hollywood Blockbusters try to preach. This movie is going to get people all worked up over a theory. Again I repeat, a THEORY. However, the destruction scenes were fun to watch.

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It looks awful, but I know plenty of people going to see it just because it has the 'Donnie Darko' kid... I hate it when one of my cult movies becomes everyone elses' cult movie too.

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Bah, then you just have a bigger cult! The movie wasn't too bad. Very interesting to think about at least. As someone else said, only the storm lasted a short time. The temperature stayed low which caused the ice age. I don't think they mentioned how long it would last. I wondered about the northern/southern hemisphere thing too. I guess it was only because the storms came in the northern? Though why that is I couldn't venture to guess.

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Eh, Day after Tomorrow was more 'global' than most, even having the English people in Scotland (who I assume died?). but they were pretty boring. What I would have liked is to have lots of characters across the world all witht their own storylines and seeing the effects of the storm on them, like the with Japanese bloke at the start - I would have liked to find out more about him (if he hadn't died). I like films that do that.
I did like how it had sort of mini-storylines, like the guys in the ISS, would have been good if they had expanded on that.
Like Love Actually, but made interesting.

Also, I love how the American president goes on air and the whole world see him like he represents everyone on Earth. That never happens, heh.



Considering pretty much every other end-of-the-world! film is like that, it irritates me, heh. If it was end-of-America! then yes, that would make sense, but a film about the end-of-the-world! really should show, like, the world. but like I said, Day after Tomorrow wasn't that bad, in this sense. The last scene was even the Earth, not an American flag or the statue of liberty. That was good.



Eh, I think there's more than enough evidence of global warming affecting the global climate to get legitmately 'worked up'. I think the Bush Administration has now actually accepted that global warming occurs, too!

Its a confusing world



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It was The Core, only with better special effects. That being said, the movie sucks and you might as well go see it just for the eye candy.

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"I have no clue why people trust statistics like that. 99% of the time they are made up." - Raoul Duke

People who don't believe in global warming make me mad.

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Really? So the fact that there is evidence that global warming isn't happening doesn't matter to you?

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It is happeneing. it's just that people saying its because of humans is wrong.

The world heats and cools naturally. its been happening since the beggining of the earth. it's not humans. get over it.

although this movie RULES. oh man it was hilarious, too.



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The fact that global warming is occuring is rarely disputed. What is disputed is how much of an effect human activity has on the rate of warming. That's a debate for another time, however.

I did feel trying to package a heavy handed environmental message in the same film as ice cyclones was a tad ridiculous.

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Yes, the fact that the globe is warming is not disputed, but the causes are.

Among natural climate forcing factors, the most important have been the changing incoming Solar irradiance due to variations in Earth's orbital parameters, and the cloud effect of aerosols from volcanic eruptions.

Regarding the human activities are the 'greenhouse gasses', carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have been considered the most influencing on climate.
Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activity. It is responsible for over half the enhancement of the greenhouse effect. The largest single contributor to emissions from fossil fuels is power generation. Transport is another major contributor.

The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased from about 280ppmv, before the industrial revolution, to 358ppmv by 1994. The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has been measured in Mauna Loa, Hawaii since the 1950s.


(I don't know why it's such a squiggly line, though, but it is increasing at an accelerated rate)

Read more: http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/ghgs.htm

Paleoclimatologists, studying the global temperature variations across millenia, suggest that solar irradiance and volanism may be responsible for 41-64%, while natural variability and human-induced greenhouse gas is needed to reproduce the rest.

Read:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-01/su-eog123002.php
http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/


Yes, the global warming would never have the ridiculously accelerated effects as in the film, but it is causing unnatural effects on the weather, effects only seen in the last 200 years, after the industrial revolution. It's ridiculous to assume the tremendous increase of fossil fuel combustion over the last 200 years would have no environmental effect whatsoever.

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O_o

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<ubuu> does hitler have a last name?
<jipe> .. yes, Ubuu, we're racist commy nazi jews, and we hate male pattern baldness
<Professor`K> Sorry, but half-way through your logic, my head exploded

One thing I thought was kinda funny with the movie was that, when the storm was starting to disipate, the "eye" of the North American storm was *right* over where I live.


I wonder if I would ended up dead. . .

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Just make sure to wear your thermal underwear.