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Wow, this was MUCH worse than I could have imagined. Nice special effects but limited in screen time. Way too much Kyoto Bully Pulpit. Independence Day 2 would have been preferable.
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I mean the trailer did it for me. After watching 10.5 on TV, about the big quakes out west, I have no desire to see this one.Chris
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I was checking my watch after 20 minutes. Pure shit of a movie. Think Towering Inferno and Earthquake....and not really that good.
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will put you to sleep in no time.
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> > > "The question is not whether *I*, but rather *Al Gore* has sat through it." < < <To the contrary, that was NOT the question *I* asked of YOU! I asked if you had seen this film because your inference about Gore's recommending it was of a critical nature. You've managed to avoid answering my question through a rather clumsy attempt at misdirection; I reiterate, have YOU seen it?
AuPh
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...probably on-line somewhere too... about Al going on and on about what an *important* movie it is and how *everyone* should see it who wishes to have *any grasp* of *environmental science*, a true *must see* movie.Come to think, he sounded a lot like you.
Is that why you hated me quoting him?
clark
PS Note I gave no view of my own on DAT.
You were using albee33's derogatory remarks for a dig at Al Gore when you haven't even seen the movie yourself! If you HAD seen the movie then at least your opportunistic chime-in would've had 1st hand support to lend creedence to your snarky zinger, but since you obviously haven't seen The Day After Tomorrow your remark is just another cheap-shot.AuPh
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movies are part of the culture. just like any form of art. Why is global warming politics. There is consensus that it is happening.Art, politics, film, music are all human expressions. Why not discussing them as they are.
RubenSan Francisco, California
There is no evidence it is happening, only supposition.
because doing something about it is bad for business...It was just another special effects movie for me and most of the "science" was pretty bad. But if it makes the public more aware about global warming, I won't complain.
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RubenSan Francisco, California
I have the 1984 release of "The Day After" on video tape. It was a terrifying
film and it was incredibly realistic. There were no super fancy computer effects.
Most of the nuclear explosion scenes were just cut ups stock archive film
footage of US test explosions in the 50s and 60s.I think what made the film terrifying was that there were no super-hero roles
and no personality actors in the film ; All of the roles were shot with relatively
ordinary people. The military staff in the film were real military officers who were
shot doing test exercises on live military hardware: i.e. the CINCSAC onboard the
Looking Glass plane who unlocked the war orders, and the minuteman launch
crew that we get to know who staffed the Oscar-1 launch control capsule. No
drama. Just ordinary people doing their jobs and, after the fact, dealing with the
consequences.-- Jim
and it was banned in Britain!Des
Agreed, the most scary moments, for me, was when those missiles lauched from Lawrence, KS. Imagine walking outside and seeing those contrails streking skyward--you know it's all over.
Totally inept hollywood version of events with ridiculous melodrama to fill the time.There was a very good film on this topic which I don't recall off-hand - But another pretyt strong one out of Britain was called "Threads"...and that was an infinitely better film than Tthe Day After.
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This was supposed to be very good but I missed it along the way and the video stores never seem to carry it.
I liked Threads much better than The Day After .
BBC: 1. Hollywood: 0.
It was, I remember feeling the pessimism going through me. I saw it few years later, it did not catch my attention anymore, I suppose that the cold war was long over.
The Day After was not much more than a bad TV play.
;^)
ah
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"Alas, Babylon" is a book by Pat Frank. It is about the survivors of a nuclear holocaust in South Florida. They are aware something has happened, but at the moment they are dealing with the lack of electricity and gas, no more food being delivered to the grocery store, no more gas for their vehicles, and the dangers of radioactivity. Most high schoolers in the United States are required to read the book at one point or another. It is not political...it is more about what would it take to survive in a world cut off from what used to be.The title comes from a verse in the Bible. Psalm 137:5 (NIV): "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion."
It refers to the sorrow felt by the Israelites during their Babylonian exile.
By the way the Psalm was us in Germany for a kind of " Disco " hit in the 70īs....
Pat Frank's(Harry Hart)novel of same title, think he wrote it
in 1959, published 1960. I've read novel and seen movie, setting
in North-North Central Florida, USA (I think). Has been so many years memories are vague, but I
do recall seem enjoying both, however, would have to reassess via
new viewing-reading. - AH.
is my favorite post-apocalyptic film
The final scene is one of the best ever...
Grins
an award-winning British docudrama about nuclear post-apocalyptic
Britian. Directed by Mick Jackson. Stark and hard-hitting. Parts
of this film I found difficult to view. - AH.
Never scoped this one. A low-budget, B&W post-nuclear film
directed by Arch Oboler. Check out reviews at www.imdb.com if
interested. - AH.
Albee,It made ID4 look like Spartacus or Ben Hur...it was so bad.
Other than the cute nerdy girl, the entire cast could have died in the cold and I would not have noticed.
Roland made a stinker.
Tosh
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