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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 2:47 pm
This was pretty hokey schlock, but the scenes of NYC getting flooded were cool. Some of the plot devices were just cringingly bad, just like in "Armageddon" and "Independence Day". I still don't understand why Washington did not flood if the ocean level raised 40 feet or whatever it was. By the way, they never explained why the ocean level was raised, did they. (The ocean level would go down in an ice age because all the water is in snowpack, but the level would increase in a warmer age than now, because all the ice would melt, not freeze). Also, why were all the books and doors and stuff frozen and frosty -- even in the warmer room with the fire? It's funny to rollback the plot devices in a movie like this. The girl was there to help the black woman get rescued so she could cut her leg doing it so she would get gangrene so that when the boat floated up 5th Avenue filled with medicine the boys could go get some to cure her but not before almost being killed by marauding wolves before they almost get killed by a cold snap lol! That's why the girl was there. The Gore look-alike as president (that was Perry King, by the way) was a strange touch, but the Cheney look-alike as vice-president was the most frightening part of the film lol.
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 6:48 pm
OI, the ocean level raised because of global warming from the breaking off and melting of the ice shelves. The reason they gave for the sudden ice age was that the desalinization of the oceans from the ice melting caused an extreme shift in the ocean currents which seemed to cause a catastrophic shift in the weather...ummm...and blah blah blah they pretty much lost me after that.
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Bluebug
Member
01-05-2004
| Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 6:54 pm
Maybe it was just me but i thought the preident looked like bush.
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 6:56 pm
Oh, everything was frozen because they were in the eye of that huge hurricane looking weather formation and it was sucking down the cold air from the upper atmosphere so fast that it didn't warm up before it got to the ground like it usually does and that made everything that was underneath the eye get flash frozen in seconds. I somewhat doubt that a little fire in a fireplace could keep them from becoming instant ice pops if it was cold enough to instantly freeze everything else in the building. It was definitely hokey. I think we were just supposed to watch and not think too hard.
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 7:02 pm
The ocean level raised? Doh, I'm in fine grammatical form tonight.
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 8:35 am
There's still no explanation of why Washington, DC was not under water. Another thing that was stupid is that there is no 'air' in the upper atmosphere like they made it sound. There are gases and substances, but at very diminished concentrations which means they would not just go swooping down like that.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 4:02 pm
Perry King is not ageing very well. At one time he was absolutely gorgeous!
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Bronxie
Member
07-29-2003
| Friday, June 11, 2004 - 4:02 am
...with all the money that was spent on special effects you would have thought they could have come up with a better and more realistic storyline.
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Friday, June 11, 2004 - 8:19 am
OI... my understanding is they weren't "swooping down" and much as they were being "sucked in"
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Tashakinz
Member
11-13-2002
| Friday, October 15, 2004 - 8:34 am
we're going to watch this tonight. Hubby's b-day is today and he loves a good disaster movie lol.
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Bbfanatic
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, October 15, 2004 - 11:52 am
My hubby and I watched it a couple nights ago. Special effects were really good. There were some "yeah right" scenes. But, it is a "yeah right" movie. I would reccommend it. It isnt boring at all.
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Ohiomobprincess
Member
11-07-2003
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 6:03 am
DH bought it for me for Sweetest Day. What an awesome movie. I'm a Science teacher, so I'm going to show a couple of clips from it during my severe weather unit.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 9:53 pm
Good flick. Quaid is very good, JG is very good...nice special effects(CG wolves). Nice story, ripe for a sequel...
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - 4:19 pm
I was on the edge of my seat
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 4:34 pm
Just watched the DVD and was thoroughly entertained.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 9:02 pm
Lol,this movie. What to say? It was about as hokey as it gets. Let's all walk to NYC to fetch our grown son.And,drag a flunky along. The effects were good,but good grief. Dennis Quaid,COD he is lucky to have a career.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 9:04 pm
Oh,and I thought that Perry looked more like Reagan.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 7:58 am
My sentiments on this movie exactly, Hippy. Great effects, but too bad they didn't spend a little more time on the story. Add me to the skeptics about the fireplace and its ability to keep them alive, in spite of the fact, the entire building just froze around them.
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