Anyone see the movie yet. What do you think about it.

im gonna see it the day after tomorrow

I'll wait till the dvd!. No movie is worth $8 dollars for ticket, $3.00 for coke, and $4.00 for a medium pop-corn! I'ts cheaper at home, plus I can always hit the replay button ;).

Godless.

Matinee is only $6.00. Besides, wouldn't you rather see six tornadoes rip through LA on the big screen? How about a huge tidal wave sweep through NY City? It might not have been realistic but those scenes were pretty cool.

This looks more like one of thoes 'I'll wait for it come out on dvd or on tv' type of movies. But if somebody is willing to pay for my ticket, then giddy up

There you go Certified, if anyone is willing to foot the bill, I'm all for watching the movie. Otherwise I rather wait with patience.

Matinee is only $6.00

Compared to $.99 cents thats just way too high. Plus I get the movie for five days.

Godless.

Great Movie, i liked it alot.

i think its got a very valid message
http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=36604

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I liked it heaps, 3d's were brilliant. Storyline was good, if a little old. A little cliche`. You'll come out shivering. :-d

No offense, Zoney, but the only person in the thread you linked who found any validity in the flick was you.

Tom Or Row

please tattoo it on your hand

Heck, I enjoyed it. I think the message is valid though the science is stretched-ed-ed-ed. Then again, it may point the way to some research as some of the data was drawn from real theory, such as the idea that decreased salination of the North Atlantic would shut down the main thermocycle in the ocean. This idea that a lot of tropospheric level atmosphere and it's relative cold would be funneled to the surface, does someone actually suggest that such is possible? That cargo ship in downtown Manhattan sure seemed tongue in cheek as did the crossing the border into Mexico by US refugees.

I do believe that the current control of US resources is in the hands of people who actively support suppressing science that does not conform to their cartel's interests.

"Hey guys, there's a huge section of tax law down here we can burn." The inclusion of that homeless guy who was first introduced lamenting all the cars with their exhast was interesting. He was made out to be pretty wise, more so than the security guard as he remained with those who prepared for the big freeze.

It has long been held now that the onslaught of a new ice age can happen fast. From study of ice cores and from study of deposited pollen the change has been hypothesiszed as taking perhaps as little as a decade or two. Despite the naysayers that frequent this forum, according to the long and well established widespread confirmed 100,000 year glacial and 10,000 year interglacial that has occurred for as much as the last one million years, we are due. There is also evidence that carbon dioxide levels have peaked in the past right at the time of glacial conditions onset. How can all of that moisture get out of the oceans and onto the land to cover huge expanses with mile and more thick glaciers? If we basically put more moisture into our atmosphere via global warming, we provide the basic material for decreasing the albedo of the planet, high altitude ice crystals, clouds and ice packs that reflect much of the incoming solar radiation back into space.

This is virtually a taboo perspective. There are those here who seem to be acting as Christian apologists in a literal sense by denying the time scales and the evidence as well. We can choose what data we wish to trust but let it be well aware in your mind, kind reader, that much propaganda exists and its major foundation is the desire to amass money and sustain long standing oligarchies. The Bush cartel is just the extreme example. Most human institutions appear to show corruption from public service to private advantage. Interesting times we live in.

Past ice ages have been considered to have pushed humanity to adapt more towards social cohesion. I wouldn't be surprised that the changing weather conditions will eventually allow some people to feel alarmed by the potentials of changing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide or methane or just water vapor for that matter to the extent that we will seek better means to match policy to science, in other words, guided social experimentation. Me thinks the situation may be kind of self correcting, with humans a part of the equation. The means to stop the next coming of the ice age appear to exist. It only remains to be seen if we get motivated quick enough. The means to return the planet to pre-industrial concentrations exist without mass murder which hasn't, doesn't and wont work.

Heck, the movie will be referred to by many as time goes by. I suggest you go see it and formulate your own opinion or, look into the matter and see if you can disclose the consensus of scientific investigation for yourself. We wont get the truth from so-called leaders who want their fossil fuel supplying friends to remain in business as long as possible.

So does Jeff Goldblum save the day with a Mac laptop in this too?

Josh

Great effects. erm .. the effects..er.. they were ok..hmm .No thats it really.

I liked it, but then I've always liked end-of-the-world films.
There WAS plenty of cheeseball dialogue but so what?
If you want quality dialogue then go see a Woody Allen or Tarrantino film!
This is all about the effects, baby!

And as for you bunch of tight-arsed Americans: You'd rather wait for the DVD than splash out a few notes for a cinema ticket?
Shame on you!

The Flemster--keeping Hollywood alive single-handedly.

this would suck on DVD, movies are only place to see it

I wouldn't go so far as to sy it will suck on DVD as some lucky people have shit hot home cinema systems, however, i agree: this film is designed for the massive screen and should be viewed there.
It's only the price of ticket to see NYC getting proper fucked up. It's well worth it!

(Ooops! Lemmee explain: I'm not aginst NYC-- I love the place-- I just meant it's cool watching it get swamped on the big screen!)

The (foot in mouth) Flemster.

i thought they stopped doing that on screen when it happened for real.

Deffinetly a good movie. These kind of movies are only worth seeing in the theatres. Poor quality and sound found in tvs just ruin it.

I liked the movie. It has a definite message that everyone should consider. I recommend it to anyone.

liberal propaganda. but i found i could identify with some of the characters... in a really creepy sort of way that ended up bothering me for the duration of the movie and later that evening. good times!

I have to wait for the dvd. There is not theater around here for mile. :D

i thought they stopped doing that on screen when it happened for real.
This time they are down to earth. No ET / alien occupations. Some improvement from eariler fantacies. :p

spoiler (insofar this is possible with this kind of movies)

It was so touching in the end that everybody was sporting a big smile after realizing that millions of people had died, the climate was ruined, but a few people had managed to survive.

And the wolves looked like shit and behaved not like wolves.

I thought the wolves looked pretty cool, as it goes.
I dunno how captivity-reared wolves would behave in a city recently frozen and full of dead people, so I can't comment.
But you're right about your original comment!

The Flemster. Brrr.

It was so touching in the end that everybody was sporting a big smile after realizing that millions of people had died, the climate was ruined, but a few people had managed to survive.

And the wolves looked like shit and behaved not like wolves.

could you please stop reading my mind :)

Great movie, very exciting in both its global scope and its individual survival dramas. The effects were spot-on, of course, and the ending was touching with its triumphant rescues. Enough that dozens of people in the auditorium with me applauded.

Mr. Chips said plenty on the theoretical side - except that, since the troposphere is the lowest part of the atmosphere (the part we live in), then the icy air brought down in the eye of the storms would actually be from the STRATOSPHERE. It does get as cold as -60 Centigrade up there; but that equates to -76 Farenheit, not the -150 F mentioned by Ian Holm's character.

Also, since New York was flooded by a gigantic storm surge, wouldn't the water have receded back to the ocean before it could freeze? I mean, the global sea level hadn't risen - in an ice age, of course, it would fall.

I saw the movie a few days back. I thought it was pretty good. Good plot, nice cast and a truthful message. TAKE CARE OF MOTHER EARTH DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the heads up Starthane. I think they did mention troposphere in the movie. Perhaps I got it out of context. Yeah, the sea rushing in was pretty unbelievable. I would expect there would be some warning too and people would have already gotten out of the streets rather than being taken unawares.

i thought the storms were pulling in air from the mesosphere, no?

they said troposphere

Well, I don't suppose it matters if someone misspoke themselves. "Cool" is the word for the instant deep freeze scenes, especially in New York.

It would have been better to see more of the situation in Europe as well. New York has suffered too many cataclysmic fates in various movies; can't someone destroy London or Berlin instead?

both london and berlin have actually been destroyed. besides, they probably have hundreds of models of new york ready to explode, or catch fire, or be inundated.

I just can't get past the scene where they out run the "instant deep freeze" and then save themselves by shutting a door on it, as if it were an axe weilding maniac and not an unstoppable force of nature. It's like successfully protecting yourself from a meteor shower with an umbrella.

You mean that would't work?

The Flemster.

I believe it was the dinosaurs that first tried the "umbrella defence", apparently it didn't work very well.

Damn! well there goes my first line of defence. back to the drawing board.

Matinee is only $6.00. Besides, wouldn't you rather see six tornadoes rip through LA on the big screen? How about a huge tidal wave sweep through NY City? It might not have been realistic but those scenes were pretty cool.
It's all about the eye candies, eh? :D ;)

Most definantly!

And the wolves looked like shit and behaved not like wolves.
because they were too cold and hungry to bother touching the ground when they walked. :D

http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/misc/squint.gif As I patiently wait for it come out on dvd.

You'll be waiting a long, long, long, etc. time.

http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/misc/bncry.gif Gosh, I figured six months at the most. Any idea how much longer?

Don't know. At least you'll get behind the scene and bonus stuff on your DVD. But still, is it worth the wait? My opinion: no.

Wasn't that the Capitol Records building in Hollywood that was one of the victims of the tornados? That was kind of cool when the janitor up in a top floor opened the door.

When the quick freeze descended on the city, I doubt that that kind of fireplace burning only books in a room that was not insulated for such weather would of worked. Appears that they really piled on the books when it happened and it did not last that long. Afterwards, recall, the entire building was engulfed in snow which makes for good insulation. Oh well, I allowed my disbelief to be disspelled for the sake of the story.

since it's already dropped 60% after it's first week and has a stream of gigantic blockbusters to compete with over the next couple months I wouldn't be suprised if it's in the cheap theaters before month's end and the dvd is out by christmas, possibly earlier.

Don't know. At least you'll get behind the scene and bonus stuff on your DVD. But still, is it worth the wait? My opinion: no.

Heck, it's a two hour drive to the city, 2 hours watching and another 2 hours home. I guess I could find 6 hours somewhere to go see it. I'll just have to wait till it gets to a city near me.

Heck, where on earth do you live? At that rate, the DVD might be better for you. But arn't you going to have to go to the city anyways to get the DVD?

I can order the cd off the internet.

I live in Northern Ontario. The somewhat isolated area 2 hours outside the Sault.

Goodness! I hate that 10 charactor min!

It's really not that bad. You have to schedule things and do as much as possible when you make your trip to the city. I get to shop on both sides of the border, and the real estate is reasonably priced. Medical is a different story though. You need a doctor, don't look here.

Other than that, it is relatively quiet. Low crime. Great for the outdoors type.

Not good for movie go'ers.

Sounds cool!

It is nice. I use to live in a city when I was younger, and even when I went to college, a city was great. Now, I miss the convenience but I do enjoy the peace.

I almost hate to see what I will be like when I get older. lol, maybe then I will want to go back to the city.