What I learned from `The Day After tomorrow'

Rating: 5/10 (1 June 2004)

Don't let a rookie run the core drill!!!
No one thought it was possible but polar ice is more fragile than it looks and only the most experienced technician should be taking the samples. This movie tries to blame the ensuing disaster on some mythical global warming but it's clear that the real villains are the reckless environmental researchers.
If it wasn't for them punching holes in the ice it never would have happened! I'm telling you people we need to stop all our careless `scientific' research now and just live in ignorant bliss.
(That's what I got from this film)
I also got that this happened before. Did the Wooly Mammoth's flatulence cause global warming? I don't recall anyone mentioning a meteor strike...isn't that what caused the last ice age? I'm so confused.
I also learned that the poor innocent politicians get the blame for something that no doubt started well before they were ever elected and that scientist are the first to point the finger.
The finger should be pointed at the software engineer who wrote the buggy CAD system that was used to design the flawed core drill that when operated by a novice can cause the ice to failironic how our rush to technology was our eventual downfall. (or is that just poetic?)
Anyway  if you liked the deep heart wrenching story in Twister, then this is your film. The filler they used to stretch this out to 2 hours had the audience laughing when they shouldn't, and applauding at our own suffering.

The effects are very nicely done and represent an evolution in doing massive realistic computer simulations. (Except for the lame ass wolves) The ONLY reasons to see this film in the theater ARE the effects.

The `message' this film tries to convey is so transparent and presented in such a laughable manner, I think it is doing the environment more harm than good.