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Old 05-31-2004, 08:44 PM  
MattO
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Originally posted by iownthefrench
Great special effects, but that's about where the "greats" stopped. The premise of the movie is bullshit. First off, what magically makes this giant hunk of ice "the size of rhode island" fall off? Secondly, it fell off the larsen ice shelf... in ANTARTICA. That means that in all probability that 200 foot tsunami would never have even reached new york. a little thing called distance plus it's lovely friend diffusion. Congrats, that's bullshit. Any flooding would have been over time (i.e. the rain). Speaking of diffusion, I fail to see how this huge rhode island chunk of ice (which magically breaks off and is pushed north to sea at an AMAZING pace) is able to melt, and then focus it's melted fresh water into the atlantic current. Oh and, the fact taht everyone in the movie was so nonchalant up until catastrophe hit them is bullshit. THe media hype alone from LA getting annhilated by 5 tornados would scare people to shitting their pants. Not only that, but the media would definately have picked up on all of these other catastrophes. This movie really did get cheesy, I half expected the president to tell America that lighting fires in their houses would save them. Oh wait, he did. I could go on forever, but i'm out of town, and pretty damned tired. Just my

Yea and it was nice how they had to ask fucking Astronauts to look out the window as if there aren't shitloads of weather sattelites to refer to.

Fuckin' animated wolves?

Flying news choppers right next to a bunch of tornadoes?

And why the fuck did the people who wanted to leave the library go through Brooklyn???? I'd think you'd want to go INLAND after a fucking flood.
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