NationStates Jolt Archive

and talk natural disasters.

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! Hong Kong was the first place in the world to show. :lol:

I can't wait. :D

I have been eagerly anticipating this for weeks. I will forgive them their infantile treatment of wave mechanics, for an hour and a half of complete destruction. :D

Sad fact is that it can (and probably will happen). And that humanity will not act to prevent it.

However I must say that it looks like a huge movie.

TEEHEEHEE. BUT DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR JAKCETS ALONG. THE CINEMAS WILL MAKE IT SO BLOODY COLD YOU FEEL THE MOVIE PERSONALLY! :evil:

Sad fact is that it can (and probably will happen).

Well, not in the way the movie portrays...

That said, if it increases public awareness (of the potential effects of desalinisation on the Gulf Stream) it can only be a good thing. I just hope people don't forget it's a movie and not a documentary.

I've seen trailers for it, and the wave looks a hell of a lot more realistic than the one in Deep Impact.

Sad fact is that it can (and probably will happen).

Well, not in the way the movie portrays...

That said, if it increases public awareness (of the potential effects of desalinisation on the Gulf Stream) it can only be a good thing. I just hope people don't forget it's a movie and not a documentary.

I've seen trailers for it, and the wave looks a hell of a lot more realistic than the one in Deep Impact.

plus it's not something from outer space now - it's something that us personally humans have created. :(

plus it's not something from outer space now - it's something that us personally humans have created. :(

I was thinking a couple of days ago about how most disaster movies are based on something we can't control (asteroids, earthquakes, volcanoes etc.), despite the fact that the biggest threat to our continued survival at the moment is ourselves (war, climate change etc.).

I can't wait. :D

I have been eagerly anticipating this for weeks. I will forgive them their infantile treatment of wave mechanics, for an hour and a half of complete destruction. :D

And as an added bonus for the Limbaughs,Coulters and Savages of the world,LA and NYC are some of the major cities that get axed...

As a side note,it's made by the same guys who did ID4 (Independence Day).

it's been a while I think since a really good disaster movie has come out...I just haven't gotten into the big box-office ones in the last few years...

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From how high should we drop them?

Yes it was an absolutely fantastic movie!

A bit stereotypical with the handsome, yet nerdy guy winning the heart of the gorgeous chick - but it is exciting.

However, I have to say that it was amusing to see the Mexicans put up the barriers when Americans began flooding south. It is a bit rich coming from a nation which just lets anybody skip into California!

As for global warming causing that...think again.

The film was most likely a scare camapign by ultra left wing tree huggers to stop the burning of fossil fuels - regardless of the cost. Interesting how in the end the Third World was praised for taking in Europeans and Americans (after agreeing to abolish world debt, though it wasn't like America was in a position to do anything by then). Very left wing.

However, I liked it no matter how unrealistic and left wing it may have been :D

I noticed how my country...Australia...was left untouched by the storms! HEHE. We truly are the "lucky country".

The people from Haiti/Dom Replublic don't have
to go to the movies for this...

They're feeling the effects already. :oops:

Or is this storm just a normal thing in that area ?
(be carefull, you have to take at least 40 years in count for this one...)

Heh, no disaster movie is worth taking seriously. This one is just going to be a bit of fun, like all the rest. Laughing at its politics and lack of realism seems kind of beside the point.

I noticed how my country...Australia...was left untouched by the storms! HEHE. We truly are the "lucky country".

actually, if you access the official site Sydney is drowned... :lol:

now, hong kong was untouched at all.

but you know the hong kong version was cut cut cut cut... :cry: and the new, ice-covered earth at the end of the movie is not realistic. increased ice caps should lead to receding coastlines. and then i foresee a million problems springing up because of the new Ice Age... blah blah blah. sorry. :oops:

I noticed how my country...Australia...was left untouched by the storms! HEHE. We truly are the "lucky country".

actually, if you access the official site Sydney is drowned... :lol:

now, hong kong was untouched at all.

but you know the hong kong version was cut cut cut cut... :cry: and the new, ice-covered earth at the end of the movie is not realistic. increased ice caps should lead to receding coastlines. and then i foresee a million problems springing up because of the new Ice Age... blah blah blah. sorry. :oops:

The "official site" is not the same as the movie now is it.

As I said, Australia was untouched.

Besides I do not see how an 8mm rise in sea levels over the next 100 years is going to "flood" the world.

These tree huggers are amusing.

I noticed how my country...Australia...was left untouched by the storms! HEHE. We truly are the "lucky country".

actually, if you access the official site Sydney is drowned... :lol:

now, hong kong was untouched at all.

but you know the hong kong version was cut cut cut cut... :cry: and the new, ice-covered earth at the end of the movie is not realistic. increased ice caps should lead to receding coastlines. and then i foresee a million problems springing up because of the new Ice Age... blah blah blah. sorry. :oops:

The "official site" is not the same as the movie now is it.

As I said, Australia was untouched.

Besides I do not see how an 8mm rise in sea levels over the next 100 years is going to "flood" the world.

These tree huggers are amusing.
"8mm rise in sea levels over the next 100 years" may only well be according to current projections on current statistics. Do you think Global Warming will stay the same for the next 100 years? With the level of industrialisation the Third World is picking up to, and the reluctance of the First World to limit greenhouse gases, I foresee that one day both Sydney and Hong Kong will be under the sea. :cry: