maplesyrup Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 Has anyone seen this movie? If you have, do you think it is going to impact on the Canadian voters in the upcoming election campaign? The Day After Tomorrow The Day After Tomorrow By john lekich Publish Date: 3-Jun-2004 Seconds before Fifth Avenue is buried underwater, Emmy Rossum comes to the aid of a trapped taxi passenger. The disaster movie may be mainstream cinema's guiltiest pleasure. Where else can you enjoy the sight of overpaid actors getting crushed in the wake of nature's wrath? Writer-director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla) is smart enough not to spare the cheese in his latest squish 'n' flee extravaganza. The Day After Tomorrow is a visually spectacular tribute to the horrors of global warming that--quite apart from its painfully earnest environmental message--knows we really want to see yuppies scattering like ants. And the script provides plenty of reasons for characters to drop their cappuccinos and run like hell. About the only natural disaster we don't observe on the way to the meticulous trashing of half the United States is a belching volcano. Oh, yeah, Canada gets wiped off the map too. But that's just a warm-up. The sumptuously tacky tone is set when climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid as the hunkiest weather nerd on the planet) is seen lecturing on meteorological armageddon to an international assembly of political bigwigs. The most intelligent question is asked by a solemn man in a fez while the U.S. vice-president is openly derisive. You just know it won't be long before the Statue of Liberty is buried up to its armpits in snow. Jack's dire predictions of environmental disaster come true with dazzling speed. Freakish weather is happening all over the world. But the Americans don't really begin to pay attention until downtown LA gets gutted by a tornado. Sure, the Scots can freeze their kilts off in a bizarre cold snap, but once the famed Hollywood sign is history, it's finally time to declare a national emergency. The president (a befuddled Perry King) takes Jack's advice and allows the stunned survivors to begin a massive trek for the safety of Mexico. Thanks to a script with more than a few moments of unexpected wit, none of this is quite as silly as it sounds. In fact, the movie's major subplot is surprisingly absorbing. It involves Jack's son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), riding out the mother of all storms in the New York Public Library. Hunkered down with his nerdy pals from the debating team, they can't agree on what books to burn until someone finds a whole section on tax law. Not bad for a movie with hail the size of billiard balls. I didn't even realise that Jack was in this movie! Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
Stoker Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 Come on Maple......whats next, Shrek 2? Quote The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. -June Callwood-
playfullfellow Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 Alomost looks like some of that dicrimalized BC pot at work here. Quote
Kliege Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 Yeah..Maple what next the Harry Potter Movie Lets get real. Quote
CanadaRocks Posted June 7, 2004 Report Posted June 7, 2004 Maplesyrup does have a valid point I feel. Movies often put a familiar face on unfamiliar situations. A million children die in a far off land and few among us shed a tear, but should your own child die most of us would ache for a lifetime. It is more than possible that the more popular the movie is, the greater likelihood that its issues will be given that sense of familiarity and believability. ..especially when those issues are real ones already facing us, even not if quite at that point ..yet I've always felt that right wing politics focus, is to say to hell with the issues, the people at the top need more money. If the right wing, are entrusted with the choice of either a) gathering more money to themselves, or taking expensive steps towards dealing with real threats like global warming etc ..then without a doubt, I'd say until that tornado/earthquake/glacier hit, a right wing goverment would focus on denying it and concentrate on making more money to fortify their own position while telling the majority of Canadians .. pfft .. its just a snowjob ignore it and vote for me because I'll lower your taxes by cutting a few more programs you won't miss anyway !! I'm glad mayple syrup brought this up, after the people I know have watched it, I'll have to ask them to see if their opinion on the importance of global warming issues has changed. Cheers! Quote
Argus Posted June 8, 2004 Report Posted June 8, 2004 Has anyone seen this movie?If you have, do you think it is going to impact on the Canadian voters in the upcoming election campaign? Uh no. Even the reviewers who liked it didn't fail to mention its science was ludicrous. It'll have about as much affect on an election as Independance Day. Now I wonder what affect Farenheit 911 will have on the US election? Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley
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