Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:21:34 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] "The Day After Tomorrow" Reviews
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Found a couple of reviews of "The Day After Tomorrow".  Movie reviewers
really like carving up a nice, juicy turkey.  These are hysterical.

Via Nancy Lebovitz
(<http://www.livejournal.com/users/nancylebov/10198.html>), "A
Climatologist Reviews 'The Day After Tomorrow'".  Review at
<http://tinyurl.com/3w7z4>

"In short, this movie is to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart
transplant surgery."  Note -- they had to pay him $100 to do this.  How
the $100 was collected is a story in itself (links on the LJ page above).

A more "conventional" review (ie, from a regular movie reviewer) from
the New Yorker is at <http://tinyurl.com/3sore>.

"'The Day After Tomorrow" is about a threat that confronts us all. Two
things make the threat especially frightening. One, it is already in our
midst and may, without warning, assume catastrophic proportions. Two,
there is almost nothing that we can do to fend it off. There may have
been a chance to forestall the calamity, but we chose not to act on our
responsibilities, and that chance has effectively passed. All we can do
is wait. This planetary menace has a name. It is called ..."

Well, read the review.

I don't think I'll be seeing it until it comes on TV (probably *very*
late at night).

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."