Saw it last night, enjoyed it immensely.
Wonderful effects, not too dopey plot.
Cheney is supposed to be in it,
for all you Cheney lovers, and
learns his lesson.
I don’t think a movie like this could make it
unless Americans (realistically or not) are
no longer much afraid of terrorist attacks.
Anyhow,
See what happens to LA. Best
The note what follers SOL?
You laugh now. Wait till the ozone layer
is depleted a teensy bit more…
My (tongue in cheek) guess is that the Day After Tomorrow scenario will be met with the following reactions:
By liberals and greens: scary and all too likely (although reality will probably conform to scientific principles a little more closely than the the artistic-licence-for-the-sake-of-a-spectacular-movie specific disasters depicted).
By socialists: Hmm… it would be scary if it were true, but as the jobs of so many hard-working trade union members depend upon the oil/coal/automotive etc etc etc industries, it couldn’t possibly be true.
By conservatives/Republicans: Scaremongering and nonsense. This climate-change stuff has not been scientifically proven. It’s a leftie plot. A good capitalist society would endure anyway. The buck is far more powerful than Mother Nature…
I wonder what they global blamed natural disasters on BEFORE the industrial age?
“Gee Morg, I guess we have to install fart controls on Mastedon to keep ice age from coming.”
Don’t get me wrong, I am sure pollution is not a good thing. It is just that global weather will change regardless.
It just happens.
You show amazing insight into the American psyche. I would add:
Conservatives/republicans: Tidal waves swamping New York? Tornadoes savaging Los Angeles? OK, we can live with that. 
Nature’s way of cleaning house.
Ahh yes. Movie producers found the elixir of entertainment. Earth seeking retribution for it’s black sheep children’s mass consumption and general disregard for natural life + Overpriced refreshments= Serious entertainment.
The movie wears its environmentalist intentions
on its sleeve, so much so that only those
with no sense of humor will be offended.
‘The American economy is more fragile
than the environment’ the Vice Pres
complains belligerently, as hail the
size of basketballs starts falling in Japan..
It’s great fun, you know, very entertaining.
And visually very impressive.
The wolves. Oh god the wolves looked rediculous.
The same basic thing, except with a deity responding to our misdeeds rather than the laws of physics responding to our misdeeds. That hurricane was God’s punishment for our bad behavior, etc.
Of course, this is not to imply that science is more of the same hocus-pocus. We send probes into the upper atmosphere and find human-made chemical compounds exactly as we’d predict if we had a hand in ozone depletion. This science stuff really does work, as attested by the fact that you are reading this.
Don’t get me wrong, I am sure pollution is not a good thing. It is just that global weather will change regardless.
It just happens.
Death happens to everyone regardless, but we still catch murderers and put them in jail.
Caj
Sure thing, and lots of people on death row are getting retried and found innocent.
All I know is that any time there is a chance for money to change hands (usually from me to “them”) they will find a way to promulgate some desparate situation to justify the movement.
I have also been around science enough to know that the results can be (ANS ARE) made to be whatever is wanted just by changing the method of evaluation. This happens in EVERY field, incuding the medical industry.
One reason I am so cynical about this sort of thing is I live in California. They have raised the price on gas so many times to try to “improve” the gas for pollution. They also raise the price of it AGAIN to take the processes away after they find out that the “solution” was worse than the problem it was supposed to solve.
That movie provides lots of laughter to real scientists, btw.
The trouble is, nobody listens to someone that actually knows something.
Back in the 50’s, all that stuff was supposed to happen by 1980 according to Playboy articles.
Ah, you read Playboy for the articles, too, eh?
Certainly. All except their jazz stuff. I was more of a blues and women crooner (Julie London sent shivers up my spine) fan at the time.
I looked at the pictures too, but that was back in the “airbrush” days, so the kids called it B&B (boobs and bottoms) magazines.
Are they still in publication and I guess the Hef is putting on some age. Is he still alive?
When I am in a bookstore, it is usually a gig and I haven’t taken the time to look around since I got involved with bagpipes and computers.
I used to be a big book reader too, but I don’t think I have read a novel in the last 10 years or so. Too much amusing stuff on the internet to read to leave time for books…
Say it ain’t so!
Hef seems to be alive, anyway…
I’ve not seen the movie but I’ve read a couple of reviews and heard NPR review it on the radio. The NPR reviewer thought the movie was tragically bad (a sentiment echoed by many other reviewers). One thing he pointed out, and I agree with, is that this represents a real wasted opportunity and even a setback for those of use who are concerned about the environment. The problem, he explained, is that the science and plot behind “The Day After Tomorrow” is so laughable that instead of helping to illustrate the very real environmental issues at hand it makes a mockery of them, the environmental movement, and science in general - in trying to make people more aware it turns something very serious into a joke. I think that’s too bad.
Chris
I just wanted to point out a fact that I wasn’t aware of until just before the movie was released. George W. Bush didn’t want the movie to be released because it makes the use of fossil fuels look like such a bad thing… But when your family owns Texico I can see why you wouldn’t want a movie like that to come out. I did see the movie and I thought it was a pretty good movie. The special effects were good but they didn’t drive the movie (like the new Star Wars movies). It wasn’t just one special FX sequence to the next with a half arsed plot to tie them together (again like the new Star Wars movies). The wolves were rediculous. I’m in no way a meteorologist so I can’t comment on the science part of it… That said Shrek 2 was better 
-Cy
Wait, Steven, are you actually saying that although you’re sure pollution isn’t a good thing (!), any movement to work on solutions is exaggerating the problem so they can somehow make a buck?
I know my sense of humor has atrophied, but are you serious?!?
Susan
Yeah, the wolves were digital. Didn’t quite make it.