El_Kabong I meant I don’t think it’s possible for one to hit west the Sierra Nevada’s. And the SLC one was pretty amazing.
Tornados have been in the LA Basin over the years (albeit very rare). I remember one tornado back in the '70s taking off half a roof of a Levitz Funiture store in La Verne, CA. Of course, it was a weak tornado, but nonetheless, a tornado. But in a preview of the movie, I saw a tornado tracking up the Hollywood Hills to take out the famous “HOLLYWOOD” sign (as IF the tornado had a mind of it’s own), I automatically thought “What a load of BS!”, and therefore, I will skip another incredulous grasp at movie dollars.
Well, I stand corrected on the whole west of the SN’s. But still find it incredulous for one to hit downtown L.A. Of course, I’m not a geologist, so take it for what you will.
Great, it’s real comforting to know that if a tornado hits west of the Utah, it’ll likely be in my back yard. As though Earthquakes wasn’t enough to deal with…
I can’t wait for this movie! It has a great 1950s-sci-fi-last-man-on-earth feel to it. 
I really hope its not an action movie and focuses instead on the societal impact of such a disaster, and on the inviduals’ actions towards surviving.
There’s a good article about this in PopSci.
Basically they say that the scenario is sorta plausible, but sped up many times. The storms wouldn’t be nearly as bad either.
Melting glaciers could possibly stop the atlantic conveyor, which would mean a new ice age, and it would take as little as 10-20 years to set in if the geologic record is any indication! The setting in of the ice-age in one week as the movie describes is pushing things a bit however. The only thing that is implausable is the speed and severity of the changes. As far as we know, the next ice age could be a few decades away. In the article the meltwater affecting the ocean current was likened to a finger on a light switch. You keep up a steady light pressure until suddenly it flips…but you can’t predict exactly when. Or even if.
I’m going to see this becuase I like storms and it’s not a totally ( details wrong, gist might be right) imlausable disaster movie like “the Core”. ( Which I laughed at the trailer for and went on a personal 'tell everyone I know this is a rediculous movie" campaign.)
I’ll be there opening day. It’s fun seeing stuff blow up big time, and I enjoy CGI effects when they’re well done. I liked The Core, in a fifties-pseudo-scientific nonsense-sci-fi-movie kinda way. It appears to be Los Angeles that gets reduced to rubble; New York gets hit by a big wave and then frozen, though the big wave thing taking out New York was done in Deep Impact.
New York and Los Angeles do get the brunt quite a bit in movies like this, as well as San Francisco. Maybe filmmakers should be targeting Miami or Dallas for destruction to provide some variety.
Because when you want to know about tornados, the first person you go to is a geologist.
:dubious:
Take comfort in the fact that, while Devlin & Emmerich were the “masterminds” behind Independence Day, only Emmerich had a hand in The Day After Tomorrow.
Al Gore invented global warming, you know.
No, he and Tipper inspired global warming…
And I tried so hard to avoid saying that myself. 
Note: Al Gore never said he “invented the Internet”. We’re supposed to be fighting ignorance here.
My girlfriend wants to see this movie, so I guess I’ll go. But what’s that nonsense in the trailer about there being a world-changing storm 10,000 years ago? The last ice age ended about 50,000 years ago, right? I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.
For an interesting (well, strange) movie set in a near-future ice age, I’d recommend Robert Altman’s 1979 movie Quintet, with Paul Newman. It was filmed in winter at the frozen-over site of the '72 Montreal World Expo. Unfortunately, it’s not available on DVD.
True, but explaining the context of Gore’s statement, extrapolating that tho the common claim that he said he “invented the internet” and then applying that to global warming is a bit much for a throwaway joke, donchathink? ;j
[nitpick] Actually, the Expo was in '67[/nitpick]
That may be the only thing in the movie they get right.
Really, 10,000 years ago? What the hell was I thinking about? Man, you think you know something… As I get older, I actually seem to know less and less.
I don’t know why somebody doesn’t just remake When Worlds Collide. Actually, I can think of a few reasons why they don’t, and perhaps it’s just as well, since they’d probably ruin it.
Note also that Gore never claimed that he and Tipper inspired Love Story, only that a certain newspaper reported that. He was entirely correct; it was the newspaper that made the mistake.
Geez…may I offer humor lessons? If this were a serious political discussion and someone threw the internet and Love Story things out, I could see the need to step in and correct the misimpression, but they were obviously jokes. Gore isn’t running for President, Vice-President, Senator or even dogcatcher. Gore jokes are kosher with no worries about quashing his chances…
If Gore’s appearances on Futurama are any indication, he’s a pretty easy going guy.
“In my book, Earth in the Balance, or the much more popular Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth…”