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Supreme silliness doesn't stop The Day After Tomorrow from being lots of fun for connoisseurs of epic-scale disaster flicks. After the blockbuster profits of Independence Day and Godzilla, you can't blame director Roland Emmerich for using global warming as a politically correct excuse for destroying most of the northern hemisphere. Like most of Emmerich's films, this one emphasizes special effects over such lesser priorities as well-drawn characters and plausible plotting, and his dialogue (cowritten by Jeffrey Nachmanoff) is so laughably trite that it could be entirely eliminated without harming the movie. It's the spectacle that's important here, not the lame, recycled plot about father and son (Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal) who endure an end-of-the-world scenario caused by the effects of global warming. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the awesome visions of tornado-ravaged Los Angeles, blizzards in New Delhi, Japan pummeled by grapefruit-sized hailstones, and Manhattan flooded by swelling oceans and then frozen by the onset of a modern ice age. It's all wildly impressive, and Emmerich obviously doesn't care if the science is flimsy, so why should you? --Jeff Shannon
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Warmed my heart
Quite impressed with this movie. The human fragment of the film is slender but well brought into focus by the director. The CGI and visual element was innovative and extremely exciting. The 'science' of the film - (can a film have science anyway?) was not as bad as many here think, it stands to reason that if a hurricane is powerful enough and the pressure at it's core low enough then it could draw freezing air downward from the upper layers of the atmosphere - in theory, however if it happens i dont expect it to happen like it did in this movie! There is plenty of global warming research out there which can not be dismissed as easily as a piece of entertainment, however. Back to the film, some of the dialogue was corny and badly put together...
eg when one guy says to the woman 'Friedrich Nietzsche was the most important thinker of the nineteenth century'
and she replies 'he was a chauvanistic pig who was in love with his sister'
then he says 'he was not a chauvanistic pig'
They should have left it like this with an uncomfortable silence (the joke being that he was not chavanistic but was incestuous), instead she replies 'he was in love with his sister' - ruins the joke. The homeless guy and his dog were lovable characters and added a spark of humanity needed to counterbalance the pampered preppie kids around them.
I enjoyed this film and recommend it to any potential viewers with the warning that they should enjoy it as a piece of entertainment and a warning about the possible dangers of global warming - but please dont equate the film with the scientific global warming argument!
A warning message about the consquences of the "Green house effect"
This movie is one of my favorite ones. The main message of this movie is that we are living in one world and we, mankind, are responsible for the events that could affect life on earth. Therefore, the industrial countries that use excessive technologies that may result in raising the temparture of our planet should be aware of the consquences...The movie is based on a predictive model that corelates the raising of earth temperature to the forthcoming ice age. One of the main reason for increasing earth temperture is what is called" Green house effect" which leads to increasing the hole of the Ozon layer of the atmosphere and, in turn, decreases the protection against cosmic rays/UV and raises the planet temperature. This movie is highly recommended for science fiction fans....
Garbage
This move was uterly repulsing. So far fetched, with so many loop holes and factual errors. A waste of time and money. I mean pennicillin comming already diluted ready for inject in a russian oil tanker. Everyone knows penicillin is only stable for 7 days REFIGDERATED. What a crock of bull!
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