The Day After Tomorrow (Spoilers)

[Trainz]

Thats not what I mean. I mean that you might not have been exposed to as large/representative a sample of US movies, let alone American political discussion about said movies. Sorry if it sounded rude.

Hey, no problem at all, all is well north of the border !

 

[Mog Elffoe]

What makes it really interesting is that Roland Emmerich isn't even American...

 

[Dark Jezter]

I have also noticed that. For one, the NRA must hate Runaway Jury.

The NRA is not the US government.

I know that Hollywood is NOT a US government propoganda machine. When they gave that Oscar to Michael Moore, they made that quite clear.

The list is much, much longer than that.

That said, I have never implied that it was. I made it quite clear that this was my opinion about ONE producer and a FEW of his kin. Why must you guys be so defensive ?

You know, living north of a border doesn't deprive one's ability to use one's judgment. Maybe you have met quite a few canucks that were american bashers ? This is not one. This canuck is quite glad about many things that come out of the US, and is also quite glad to know and interact with quite a few US'ers.

I didn't think DM_Matt was getting defensive, nor did he say that Canadians had poor judgement. All he did was explain that in recent years, it's become fashionable in Hollywood to portray the US government and military as bad guys.

 

[Taelorn76]

I thought the movie was enjoyable. Yeah it had it's over the top suspend your belief moments, but it was good mindless fun.

 

[Wrath of the Swarm]

I thought the movie was enjoyable. Yeah it had it's over the top suspend your belief moments, but it was good mindless fun.

'Good', 'mindless', and 'fun' are mutually exclusive states for me.

I generally don't respect the opinions of people who would consider the paddleboat ride scene from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" a complete and satisfying movie.

 

[WayneLigon]

Just came from seeing it. Not a bad movie though a little too 'pat' in some circumstances. I'd probably have preferred to see more of the social chaos that would erupt here and in Europe.

The CGI wolves were, well, no reason to bring them in to it. Polar bear, that might have been better. And why CGI them? Surely it would have cost a lot less just to use real wolves? I thought that perhaps because they were an endangered species, there might be some regulation forbidding it but then we have movies with tigers and they're far more endangered than wolves are.

Didn't see it as being very preachy. I've sat through lots of 70's eco-horror films and they were all far more preachy than this was.

Re: the time frame; from the IMDB:

Director Roland Emmerich read "The Coming Global Superstorm", a non-fiction novel by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, before he began writing for this film. Emmerich concedes that while the events portrayed in the film are indeed possible, the timeframe over which they take place is implausibly short and was tailored for sheer entertainment value.

Roland Emmerich confided that the Statue of Liberty would be turned over by the force of the massive amount of water flowing around it but said he wanted to create a symbol of American values that stood up to the forces.

Don't really have a problem with either of those; it's normal and expected to do things like this for dramatic impact, pacing, etc.

 

[Green Knight]

Director Roland Emmerich read "The Coming Global Superstorm", a non-fiction novel by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber

*GUFFAW* Art Bell?!? I'm not even gonna touch that one with a 10-foot pole.

 

[Krieg]

*GUFFAW* Art Bell?!? I'm not even gonna touch that one with a 10-foot pole.

But you give Whitley Strieber a pass?!

 

[Numion]

I was more bothered by the killing cold than the CGI wolves. If there's no wind cold air can't freeze up people in seconds.

Coldness is the lack of warmth, so something can become cold only if the heat is somehow transferred away - either by radiating, carried away by something or being conducted somewhere. Air doesn't conduct heat well, radiation happens at a rate slower than depicted in the movies, and since there didn't seem to wind in the supercold air, heat couldn't have been carried away.

But I did like the tornado and water effects very much.

 

[Tanager]

I was more bothered by the killing cold than the CGI wolves. If there's no wind cold air can't freeze up people in seconds.

Coldness is the lack of warmth, so something can become cold only if the heat is somehow transferred away - either by radiating, carried away by something or being conducted somewhere. Air doesn't conduct heat well, radiation happens at a rate slower than depicted in the movies, and since there didn't seem to wind in the supercold air, heat couldn't have been carried away.

But I did like the tornado and water effects very much.

IANOC (I Am Not A Climetologist ) but, ieven if air could cool that fast, wouldn't that create more air currents?