DAY AFTER TOMORROW REVIEW
OK I know this came out this past summer, but I feel I must review this latest effort by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, the geniuses who re-made Godzilla, but did good flicks like The Patriot, with Mel Gibson, and Independence Day. I'll try and be gentle, but maybe not.
First, I am glad I waited til this came out on DVD to watch. It wasn't much costlier than wasting time at the multiplex and I can zip through the annoying parts. This is a summer flick, pure and simple. Very little plot, but lots and lots of loud booms and death and destruction. That did not irk me. The 2-D characters got to me, but not so much them as why this film was hyped.
What got me zonked and ready to spit nails was who was endorsing this. Al Gore and MoveOn.org. That's right the nice folks who say Bush betrayed this nation and the org that showed a commercial with Laura Bush smiling and reading a kid's story over the graves of dead Iraqi children. They are radicals of course, and they feel that The Day After Tomorrow is a preview of things to come. Why, you may ask?
Well, the USA decided NOT to sign the Kyoto Accord, Environmental Pact. Why didn't we sign it? Well, Bush and Secretary Powell argued that this pact would hurt American business. Our economy would be brought down to a Third World Level. Second, no other major polluters were pressured to sign this as much. Russia is re-considering, but many like China, Indonesia, and others will not. I doubt Mexico or Brazil will sign on to such a treaty as it would impose expensive environmental regulations. Mexico City is still the city where the cops wear gas masks to direct traffic. Russia is not much better. Gore and company will have you believe that the movie shows what will happen due to our not signing the pact.
Emmerich and company zero in on the percieved menace of a Bush administration, not the hundreds of years of industrialization or even the Third World's contributions to the disaster. In the film the smart and liberal climatologist Jack Hall- Dennis Quaid, argues his case at the Dehli Accord for Global Warming to a skeptical and conservative Vice President Beck (Dick Cheney look alike)- Kenneth Welsh. The VP and developed nations diplomats all laugh at the theory that the world will sustain weather changes of cataclysmic proportions. Later, the same VP is asked to make the decisions by an incompetent MidWestern Born President played by Perry King, can we say George W Bush? OK, they got the Administration in a ringer and have started in on them. Theme- the UN if led by the conservatives and pro-industrialists is evil, they'll get theirs.
Now the fun starts, there is a rebellious yet gifted son Sam Hall- Jake Gulleyenhal of Bubble Boy fame, who is stuck in NY at a prep school with a diverse class. Nothing wrong right? Of course not. He is in love with another girl and the real fluff floats in. Hey Roland, they tried this crap in Pearl Harbor, IT DIDN'T WORK and the only thing that saved Pearl Harbor was the battle and Jerry Bruckheimer, you idiots! OK, let's get back to this. The son, Sam, is the product of a broken home and is in New York, and then the birds and animals start acting up and birds are flying over New York eerily like The Birds with shades of September 11, 2001. Uneasy.
Don't get me wrong the sappy love stuff is OK, but I wanna see destruction. Albeit more uneasy nowadays in a post-9/11/01 World. There is plenty of it!!! There are ice glaciers separating having Dennnis Quaid dangle against the sheer side of ice. Tokyo gets pelted with basketball sized hail and folks are crushed by it. The crown jewels of destruction are reserved for the US, of course. Evil Americans! First, there is Los Angeles. Los Angeles is nailed, bad. There are typhoon winds, but tornadoes are the main harbingers of war in this city. There are big and little ones that hit the Hollywood sign and Hollywood Blvd itself, and an F-5, that's a big one, that levels Downtown Los Angeles. Tornadoes blow cars and buses onto news reports. One poor soul was from Fox News, what a chance accident! LA is hit because it is America's smog capital and of course #2 city in the US. The worst is reserved for good old New York. Why? Well, lots of banks and evil industries are based there. There is lots of oppulence and of course for asthetics, tall buildings and narrow areas that get hit. New York is in the middle of a horrendous rainstorm and flooding, first. Then a tidal wave hits New York. It covers the Statue of Liberty, Midtown, Wall Street, everything. Millions die and it's a shame, if you aren't paying attention to Sam the kid and his girl trying to wade into a building, the New York Public Library and ride out the Great Flood. Didn't they do this in DEEP IMPACT back in 1998? Color me crazy. New York then freezes solid. Climate change, right? Right.... Washington DC is not spared, like Independence Day the 3 major centers in America- NYC, DC and LA are all clobbered. The White House and Capitol are all buried under massive snow drifts. The American Political center is buried under snow and ice, Washington DC is gone. The financial and communications capital of America, New York City, flooded and then ices over. And LA our entertainment and another commercial center, is blown off the face of the earth. Roland, do you have it in for us, or will the audience look past you hammering the US for cool special effects? I think the audiences went Beavis and Butthead- hehehe cool. The theme in the destruction, is that the industrialized world, especially America gets creamed and it brought it on itself.
Roland also kills alot of people in this. Not just the nameless millions in North America, Europe and Asia, but faces and authorities get it. The Royal Family is stuck in an iced over castle in Scotland in the UK, where the freezing is starting, and they freeze to death as their rescue helicopters crash due to sudden flash freezing and their fuel lines going out. Then there's Japan. Several Businessmen on cell phones are pelted in the head with the gigantor hail. They die, clutching their materialistic cell phones. LA, celebs and Fox News reporters are killed by flying cars and others sucked into the wind like Dorothy and Toto. Evil materialistic Americans! The wrath is upon you! That's what MoveOn and Al probably were thinking when they pushed this film, as did alot of the enviro freak audience. New York, hey they clapped for Bush after 9/11 and are the epitome of workaholics. They gotta go. The President of the United States- President Blake or Bush or whoever, is stuck in his motorcade, when a flash freeze hits and kills him and most of his cabinet. The Vice President must take over, since his "boss" is dead. The VP Cheney clone then gets compassionate and suddenly sees the error in his ways. Too late, since millions are dead or dying, now. Anyone notice a pattern? If you are an authority or part of the urban legend of evil conservatives and non-entities, your death in this film is justified as you have pissed off the earth. Might as well say God is angry with you also! Kind of like a forward showing Florida after it got hit by 3-4 hurricanes in August through September of this year. All the counties appear to be Bush counties. Oh, what a shame. Roland, the nihilism ain't working. It's a shame you and Gore wanted Bush to freeze and die, but remember Cheney takes over, so have fun with Dick Cheney!
Now, what is funny about this film, is that it wants to be taken seriously. It wants to be The Pianist or Monster or something else. It is a joke, and could be a Rocky Horror Picture like cult classic. Glenn Beck, a radio guy out of Philadelphia, of course saw this film and laughed through out the whole film, ticking off the liberals in the theater. Beck of course hit upon another idea. Make The Day After Tomorrow a Rocky Horror Experience. When the snow hits, throw ice shavings in the air. When there is hail, pelt each other with ice cubes. Sing this song- Let's Do The Flash Freeze Again! (Let's Do The Time Warp). Others would mock the crappy dialogue between Sam and the girl by waving cheese in the air- cheesy dialogue. The Day After Tomorrow may be a cult classic.
WHY WOULD THIS BE A CLASSIC?
1. It's so bad it's funny. The probability of the world flash freezing and everyone dying in mere months is astronomical. Nobel Prize winning scientists dismissed this premise. They said that the global change could happen, but would take thousands upon thousands of years. Dennis Miller said it best in a rant: Some one says 'Hey what about your kids? The temperature is changing too much!' Dennis: "It's warmer today, I'll adjust the thermostat.' 'Well, what about your grandkids? 10 degrees in so many years.' 'Tell em I moved to Phoenix, it gets too cold anyway.' 'Well what about your kid's kid's kids?' 'I don't care. I could tell you I care, but I don't give a rip.' Needless to say many of the audience and MoveOn thought we did. Many of us laughed at this. Cheesey dialogue is rampant like Michael Jackon's felony charges.
2. Move On and Al Gore endorsed this film- If the producers of this film remembered that former Vice President Gore endorsed Howard Dean and Dean did not make it to John Kerry's nominee position, they would have thought twice. Apparently no, and the film did so-so, but was not the blockbuster or election changer. MoveOn tried to spin this as a preview of things to come. Glenn Beck and www.evilconservatives.com parodied this and had their own mock previews for this film. Move On is now hammering hard for Kerry, but their ads are being filtered to other less public areas. Wow, they must be awfully bad.
3. The Message They Wanted to Give- The earth is precious, stop messing with it, otherwise you'll get what you deserve! Well frickin duh! I think we know the passages in the Old Testament- Go forth, fill the earth and subdue and All in the earth is yours that I give you mastery of. Of course so are the New Testament passages- I shall take you talent since you dealt with it selfishly and foolishly. OR To much is given, much will be expected. To whom little is given, little is expected. We are aware of the world God created, and are trying to make it better. Short of petitioning God, what else would MoveOn and Enviro-Prez Al Gore suggest. Drive Jetsons cars? Rollerblade to work- have you seen how huge some of us Americans are? You wanna see me on Rollerblades- hey it's Roller Hog! I'll hog you, oink! We know where we live is our trust, we get the message.
4. THE MESSAGE WE GOT- Cheesey dialogue, hammy actors, hammy spokesmen like Gore and Move On. Style, but no substance.
This is not a terrible film, but it was given enough of a stain to turn off many a conservative or moderate. Had MoveOn not endorsed this, I'd have seen it sooner. Now, no one is going to ever convince me ever buy or watch Fahrenheit 9/11 ever again.
That was The Day After Tomorrow, crazy fantasy given a crazy tinge of credibility from the far left. Enjoy!!!
First, I am glad I waited til this came out on DVD to watch. It wasn't much costlier than wasting time at the multiplex and I can zip through the annoying parts. This is a summer flick, pure and simple. Very little plot, but lots and lots of loud booms and death and destruction. That did not irk me. The 2-D characters got to me, but not so much them as why this film was hyped.
What got me zonked and ready to spit nails was who was endorsing this. Al Gore and MoveOn.org. That's right the nice folks who say Bush betrayed this nation and the org that showed a commercial with Laura Bush smiling and reading a kid's story over the graves of dead Iraqi children. They are radicals of course, and they feel that The Day After Tomorrow is a preview of things to come. Why, you may ask?
Well, the USA decided NOT to sign the Kyoto Accord, Environmental Pact. Why didn't we sign it? Well, Bush and Secretary Powell argued that this pact would hurt American business. Our economy would be brought down to a Third World Level. Second, no other major polluters were pressured to sign this as much. Russia is re-considering, but many like China, Indonesia, and others will not. I doubt Mexico or Brazil will sign on to such a treaty as it would impose expensive environmental regulations. Mexico City is still the city where the cops wear gas masks to direct traffic. Russia is not much better. Gore and company will have you believe that the movie shows what will happen due to our not signing the pact.
Emmerich and company zero in on the percieved menace of a Bush administration, not the hundreds of years of industrialization or even the Third World's contributions to the disaster. In the film the smart and liberal climatologist Jack Hall- Dennis Quaid, argues his case at the Dehli Accord for Global Warming to a skeptical and conservative Vice President Beck (Dick Cheney look alike)- Kenneth Welsh. The VP and developed nations diplomats all laugh at the theory that the world will sustain weather changes of cataclysmic proportions. Later, the same VP is asked to make the decisions by an incompetent MidWestern Born President played by Perry King, can we say George W Bush? OK, they got the Administration in a ringer and have started in on them. Theme- the UN if led by the conservatives and pro-industrialists is evil, they'll get theirs.
Now the fun starts, there is a rebellious yet gifted son Sam Hall- Jake Gulleyenhal of Bubble Boy fame, who is stuck in NY at a prep school with a diverse class. Nothing wrong right? Of course not. He is in love with another girl and the real fluff floats in. Hey Roland, they tried this crap in Pearl Harbor, IT DIDN'T WORK and the only thing that saved Pearl Harbor was the battle and Jerry Bruckheimer, you idiots! OK, let's get back to this. The son, Sam, is the product of a broken home and is in New York, and then the birds and animals start acting up and birds are flying over New York eerily like The Birds with shades of September 11, 2001. Uneasy.
Don't get me wrong the sappy love stuff is OK, but I wanna see destruction. Albeit more uneasy nowadays in a post-9/11/01 World. There is plenty of it!!! There are ice glaciers separating having Dennnis Quaid dangle against the sheer side of ice. Tokyo gets pelted with basketball sized hail and folks are crushed by it. The crown jewels of destruction are reserved for the US, of course. Evil Americans! First, there is Los Angeles. Los Angeles is nailed, bad. There are typhoon winds, but tornadoes are the main harbingers of war in this city. There are big and little ones that hit the Hollywood sign and Hollywood Blvd itself, and an F-5, that's a big one, that levels Downtown Los Angeles. Tornadoes blow cars and buses onto news reports. One poor soul was from Fox News, what a chance accident! LA is hit because it is America's smog capital and of course #2 city in the US. The worst is reserved for good old New York. Why? Well, lots of banks and evil industries are based there. There is lots of oppulence and of course for asthetics, tall buildings and narrow areas that get hit. New York is in the middle of a horrendous rainstorm and flooding, first. Then a tidal wave hits New York. It covers the Statue of Liberty, Midtown, Wall Street, everything. Millions die and it's a shame, if you aren't paying attention to Sam the kid and his girl trying to wade into a building, the New York Public Library and ride out the Great Flood. Didn't they do this in DEEP IMPACT back in 1998? Color me crazy. New York then freezes solid. Climate change, right? Right.... Washington DC is not spared, like Independence Day the 3 major centers in America- NYC, DC and LA are all clobbered. The White House and Capitol are all buried under massive snow drifts. The American Political center is buried under snow and ice, Washington DC is gone. The financial and communications capital of America, New York City, flooded and then ices over. And LA our entertainment and another commercial center, is blown off the face of the earth. Roland, do you have it in for us, or will the audience look past you hammering the US for cool special effects? I think the audiences went Beavis and Butthead- hehehe cool. The theme in the destruction, is that the industrialized world, especially America gets creamed and it brought it on itself.
Roland also kills alot of people in this. Not just the nameless millions in North America, Europe and Asia, but faces and authorities get it. The Royal Family is stuck in an iced over castle in Scotland in the UK, where the freezing is starting, and they freeze to death as their rescue helicopters crash due to sudden flash freezing and their fuel lines going out. Then there's Japan. Several Businessmen on cell phones are pelted in the head with the gigantor hail. They die, clutching their materialistic cell phones. LA, celebs and Fox News reporters are killed by flying cars and others sucked into the wind like Dorothy and Toto. Evil materialistic Americans! The wrath is upon you! That's what MoveOn and Al probably were thinking when they pushed this film, as did alot of the enviro freak audience. New York, hey they clapped for Bush after 9/11 and are the epitome of workaholics. They gotta go. The President of the United States- President Blake or Bush or whoever, is stuck in his motorcade, when a flash freeze hits and kills him and most of his cabinet. The Vice President must take over, since his "boss" is dead. The VP Cheney clone then gets compassionate and suddenly sees the error in his ways. Too late, since millions are dead or dying, now. Anyone notice a pattern? If you are an authority or part of the urban legend of evil conservatives and non-entities, your death in this film is justified as you have pissed off the earth. Might as well say God is angry with you also! Kind of like a forward showing Florida after it got hit by 3-4 hurricanes in August through September of this year. All the counties appear to be Bush counties. Oh, what a shame. Roland, the nihilism ain't working. It's a shame you and Gore wanted Bush to freeze and die, but remember Cheney takes over, so have fun with Dick Cheney!
Now, what is funny about this film, is that it wants to be taken seriously. It wants to be The Pianist or Monster or something else. It is a joke, and could be a Rocky Horror Picture like cult classic. Glenn Beck, a radio guy out of Philadelphia, of course saw this film and laughed through out the whole film, ticking off the liberals in the theater. Beck of course hit upon another idea. Make The Day After Tomorrow a Rocky Horror Experience. When the snow hits, throw ice shavings in the air. When there is hail, pelt each other with ice cubes. Sing this song- Let's Do The Flash Freeze Again! (Let's Do The Time Warp). Others would mock the crappy dialogue between Sam and the girl by waving cheese in the air- cheesy dialogue. The Day After Tomorrow may be a cult classic.
WHY WOULD THIS BE A CLASSIC?
1. It's so bad it's funny. The probability of the world flash freezing and everyone dying in mere months is astronomical. Nobel Prize winning scientists dismissed this premise. They said that the global change could happen, but would take thousands upon thousands of years. Dennis Miller said it best in a rant: Some one says 'Hey what about your kids? The temperature is changing too much!' Dennis: "It's warmer today, I'll adjust the thermostat.' 'Well, what about your grandkids? 10 degrees in so many years.' 'Tell em I moved to Phoenix, it gets too cold anyway.' 'Well what about your kid's kid's kids?' 'I don't care. I could tell you I care, but I don't give a rip.' Needless to say many of the audience and MoveOn thought we did. Many of us laughed at this. Cheesey dialogue is rampant like Michael Jackon's felony charges.
2. Move On and Al Gore endorsed this film- If the producers of this film remembered that former Vice President Gore endorsed Howard Dean and Dean did not make it to John Kerry's nominee position, they would have thought twice. Apparently no, and the film did so-so, but was not the blockbuster or election changer. MoveOn tried to spin this as a preview of things to come. Glenn Beck and www.evilconservatives.com parodied this and had their own mock previews for this film. Move On is now hammering hard for Kerry, but their ads are being filtered to other less public areas. Wow, they must be awfully bad.
3. The Message They Wanted to Give- The earth is precious, stop messing with it, otherwise you'll get what you deserve! Well frickin duh! I think we know the passages in the Old Testament- Go forth, fill the earth and subdue and All in the earth is yours that I give you mastery of. Of course so are the New Testament passages- I shall take you talent since you dealt with it selfishly and foolishly. OR To much is given, much will be expected. To whom little is given, little is expected. We are aware of the world God created, and are trying to make it better. Short of petitioning God, what else would MoveOn and Enviro-Prez Al Gore suggest. Drive Jetsons cars? Rollerblade to work- have you seen how huge some of us Americans are? You wanna see me on Rollerblades- hey it's Roller Hog! I'll hog you, oink! We know where we live is our trust, we get the message.
4. THE MESSAGE WE GOT- Cheesey dialogue, hammy actors, hammy spokesmen like Gore and Move On. Style, but no substance.
This is not a terrible film, but it was given enough of a stain to turn off many a conservative or moderate. Had MoveOn not endorsed this, I'd have seen it sooner. Now, no one is going to ever convince me ever buy or watch Fahrenheit 9/11 ever again.
That was The Day After Tomorrow, crazy fantasy given a crazy tinge of credibility from the far left. Enjoy!!!
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