# The Day After Tomorrow - Thank you conservative press **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375 "2004-05-27T17:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/21 "2004-05-27T22:10:45Z")
Still, the movie’s got officials at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. concerned. Have a [look.](http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040531sh_shouts) ---
**Author:** ![CalH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@CalH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalH)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/22 "2004-05-27T22:41:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, some movies are factually accurate to a very high degree. “Masters of the Universe” for example… You ought to be shot twice in the foot and once through your left testicle for saying this, **Meatros**. This film stars Hans Lungdren, the greatest actor, humanist, and quite frankly, American - in the entire world. Shame on you. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/23 "2004-05-27T22:41:55Z")
Yeah, that’s a pretty weak complaint, really. Environmentalists have been all over the place pushing this thing as a big fat warning sign. Though it’s not the director’s or producer’s fault some over-zealous tree-huggers tried to attach any significant message to a silly FX-ridden fluffpiece. Makes the “conservative press” reaction a bit more understandable, though. ---
**Author:** ![CalH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@CalH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalH)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/24 "2004-05-27T23:15:04Z")
You guys just don’t get it do you? You sit here, in your cozy homes, in your fancy clothes, driving your fancy cars… and all the time ignoring the fact that the liberal media is gonna come into your homes… take your TV’s… drive away with your cars… and… um… well… they’re gonna take your homes… drive away in your cars in YOUR clothes… in your nice warm fancy clothes… and… well… and you see… they are gonna be coming after you… in your fancy homes… waiting for your clothes… waiting to drive your cars… get your license… and steal it… and then spit on it a little… and come back into your homes… wipe thier dirty shoes over your nice fancy rugs… and take your fancy clothes… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/25 "2004-05-27T23:54:38Z")
> [@CalH](#): > > You ought to be shot twice in the foot and once through your left testicle for saying this, **Meatros**. This film stars Hans Lungdren, the greatest actor, humanist, and quite frankly, American - in the entire world. Shame on you. It’s _Dolph_ Lundgren. And he isn’t American – he’s Swedish (I suppose he could have been naturalized, though). Even so, he played the commie bastard who killed Apollo Creed, so he can’t be the greatest American in the world. [IMDB page](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000185/). ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/26 "2004-05-27T23:55:31Z")
> [@CalH](#): > > You ought to be shot twice in the foot and once through your left testicle for saying this, **Meatros**. This film stars Hans Lungdren, the greatest actor, humanist, and quite frankly, American - in the entire world. Shame on you. Actually it’s Dolph Lundgren, his brother [Hans](http://www.liu.se/org/music/hl/) went into the music biz. ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/27 "2004-05-27T23:56:37Z")
Yeah, what **Dewey** said… ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/28 "2004-05-28T00:38:19Z")
If we just use the dance scenes of _You got Served_, and juxtapose it with the non-dialog portions of _The Day After Tomorrow_, we would have one of the best films ever. We won’t know the point is, but who cares? At least we have one great movie instead of 3 bad ones. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/29 "2004-05-28T00:58:09Z")
The thing that gets me about the **Rufus\_Xavier** quote is this: WHY do we need to look beyond the legitimate reason of hyping a movie, which the article itself admits IS legit? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/30 "2004-05-28T01:20:30Z")
Btw, Art Bell himself says the human-caused component of what he & Streiber predict in THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM (the inspiration of TDAT) is negligible (sp?) & that it’s more a matter of natural cycles, so the political points both sides are firing (and that are made in the film) are misplaced. ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/31 "2004-05-28T02:12:08Z")
> [@capacitor](#): > > If we just use the dance scenes of _You got Served_, and juxtapose it with the non-dialog portions of _The Day After Tomorrow_, we would have one of the best films ever. We won’t know the point is, but who cares? At least we have one great movie instead of 3 bad ones. The reviewer on JJJ yesterday suggested they should go the porn route with the summer popcorn flicks and stop trying to craft a story around the huge CGI action pieces. Her paraphrased words were along the lines of, ‘when I’m watching porn, I fast forward through the story to get to the sex, it’s the same with these movies, if they just did away with the crap story instead of forcing something so unbeleivable on us, then we’d get these amazing movies that we all expect’. Twas a most amusing, but highly articulate view point. I can’t say I disagree, I’d watch these things more if it was just action no ‘plot’. (in inverted commas cos the concept of plot is tenuous at best in these things!). -zoooooooooooom! ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/32 "2004-05-28T02:36:38Z")
> [@dangergene](#): > > Twas a most amusing, but highly articulate view point. I can’t say I disagree, I’d watch these things more if it was just action no ‘plot’. (in inverted commas cos the concept of plot is tenuous at best in these things!). A friend and I once wanted to make a video of nothing but explosions. You take all that explosion footage (bomb tests and what not) and maybe set it to music. I’d watch it at least once. ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/33 "2004-05-28T02:52:50Z")
**Doomtrain** I’d watch it once too! …But I think the key here is not that it’s just explosions, it’s the artistry involved in the explosion. The devastation involved in Independance Day and Godzilla, and now in The Day After Tomorrow (_’…tomorrow, there’s always tomorrow, it’s only a daaaay a-waaaaay’_) isn’t just big 'splosions, it’s beautiful in a horrendous, mind-blowing sense of the word. That’s why Michael Bay has TWO Criterion DVDs (The Rock and Armageddon). The argument in their favour being that the guy KNOWS how to make pretty pictures, he just doesn’t know how to craft a plot worth shit, but no one watches these films for story, do they? ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/34 "2004-05-28T02:55:59Z")
I’m awfully sorry, did I just hijack this thread? ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/35 "2004-05-28T03:09:15Z")
Blockbusters are not just about explosions. They are about _slow motion_ explosions. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/36 "2004-05-28T03:23:52Z")
> [@Doomtrain](#): > > A friend and I once wanted to make a video of nothing but explosions. You take all that explosion footage (bomb tests and what not) and maybe set it to music. I’d watch it at least once. You mean like [Trinity and Beyond](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114728/)? ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/37 "2004-05-28T03:52:44Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Ah. And here I thought it was a morality piece designed to make the thinking public step back and take a more enlightened look at how their actions affect the world around them. > > Like, say, _Starship Troopers._ > > The _movie,_ not the _book!_ Ow! Quit it! Or, say, [Starship Troopers II](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367093/)? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/38 "2004-05-28T04:22:20Z")
> [@capacitor](#): > > If we just use the dance scenes of _You got Served_, and juxtapose it with the non-dialog portions of _The Day After Tomorrow_, we would have one of the best films ever. We won’t know the point is, but who cares? At least we have one great movie instead of 3 bad ones. Now, I don’t understand why everyone is so down on _You Got Served_. I admit, I was confused at first by the choice of casting Lil’ Fizz as Young Mr. Grace, but overall I think they did a splendid job of capturing the spirit of the original. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/39 "2004-05-28T04:32:56Z")
> [@Kel Varnsen - Latex Division](#): > > Did they “expose” _Jurassic Park_ when it came out? [Jeff Goldblum] Well, when Stem Cell Research Legislation breaks down, John Ashcroft and George W. Bush don’t start eating the voters…[/Jeff Goldblum] ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375/40 "2004-05-28T04:35:40Z")
> [@skutir](#): > > Blockbusters are not just about explosions. They are about _slow motion_ explosions. And not just _slow motion_ explosions, but _slow motion_ explosions that chase people down hallways or tunnels. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-tomorrow-thank-you-conservative-press/247375.md?page=3)