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xatalantaxFilm Threat review of day after tomorrow (no spoilers)
'... And if you’re coming into the theater with any knowledge of meteorology, thermodynamics, physics, or engineering, just leave those diplomas at the door, thanks. “The Day After Tomorrow” is pseudoscience-fiction on a grand scale. You’ll thrill to phrases like, “It’s sucking in supercooled air from the upper troposphere,” just as you’ll marvel at the ability of a Wendy’s burger grill to stave off the rapid onset of sub-Arctic temperatures. Don’t think, it’ll only hurt the movie.
Finally, there are those who will see “The Day After Tomorrow” as left wing propaganda, timed to help spirit John Kerry into the White House. We call these people idiots. Sure, there’s a nice dollop of wishful leftism at the very end, when a formerly skeptical White House muckety-muck repents the error of his SUV-driving ways, but Emmerich himself admits to skewing the timing and the science of his film to better increase the entertainment value. For the most part, he’s successful, but assuming “Tomorrow” is going to convince people to vote Democrat (or Green) is like thinking “Mars Attacks” would have us all rushing out to buy Slim Whitman LPs.'
Washington Times:
'The next time a political group hitches its wagon to a film, it better screen it first. Let's give MoveOn.org members, the liberal activists trumpeting the global-warming tale "The Day After Tomorrow," the benefit of the doubt. It's hard to imagine any group, left or right, thinking such a dumb picture could serve as a stirring polemic for their cause. What in the run-up to the film threatened to be a two-hour ad against the Bush administration's environmental record turns out to be a depth charge sinking the credibility of anyone claiming the film for its side.'
'... And if you’re coming into the theater with any knowledge of meteorology, thermodynamics, physics, or engineering, just leave those diplomas at the door, thanks. “The Day After Tomorrow” is pseudoscience-fiction on a grand scale. You’ll thrill to phrases like, “It’s sucking in supercooled air from the upper troposphere,” just as you’ll marvel at the ability of a Wendy’s burger grill to stave off the rapid onset of sub-Arctic temperatures. Don’t think, it’ll only hurt the movie.
Finally, there are those who will see “The Day After Tomorrow” as left wing propaganda, timed to help spirit John Kerry into the White House. We call these people idiots. Sure, there’s a nice dollop of wishful leftism at the very end, when a formerly skeptical White House muckety-muck repents the error of his SUV-driving ways, but Emmerich himself admits to skewing the timing and the science of his film to better increase the entertainment value. For the most part, he’s successful, but assuming “Tomorrow” is going to convince people to vote Democrat (or Green) is like thinking “Mars Attacks” would have us all rushing out to buy Slim Whitman LPs.'
Washington Times:
'The next time a political group hitches its wagon to a film, it better screen it first. Let's give MoveOn.org members, the liberal activists trumpeting the global-warming tale "The Day After Tomorrow," the benefit of the doubt. It's hard to imagine any group, left or right, thinking such a dumb picture could serve as a stirring polemic for their cause. What in the run-up to the film threatened to be a two-hour ad against the Bush administration's environmental record turns out to be a depth charge sinking the credibility of anyone claiming the film for its side.'
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Date: 2004-06-03 08:37 am (UTC)Duuuude! The world is like, one big turbocharger! Awesome!
(nothing can beat the slip from Mars Attacks where the aliens suck in the helium produced by the nuclear blast [nevermind that a fission bomb would never make helium, that's another story, but it was FUNNY!])
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Date: 2004-06-03 11:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-03 01:40 pm (UTC)i SO can't wait to see this!
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Date: 2004-06-03 01:43 pm (UTC)