When Weather ATTACKS

[nostalgia_lj]

The Day After Tomorrow: A Review

I have been wanting to see this film for ages. It is the most amazing film in the entire universe ever. Basically, Americans get killed by the Earth itself. Join their struggle as they fight back to win...

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[doyle_sb4]

Everyone gets terribly upset about the loss of Western Civilisation, even though the Middle East and Australia seem to be fine

There should be a sequel where the Australian Empire rules the world with an iron fist.

[fyrdrakken]

You just reminded me of The Peshawar Lancers, where asteroids struck the earth in the 19th century and the British Empire evacuated to India and the French to Africa while the people stuck in Europe had to become cannibals and America went all savage. I can't remember what Australia was doing, though it was probably kept on in the Empire.

[doyle_sb4]

Damn you, you have made me break my resolution of not 15 minutes ago to not buy more stuff off Amazon.

[fyrdrakken]

SM Stirling has written some interesting stuff. Dies the Fire (whose sequel I haven't read yet) came across as heavy SCAdian fantasizing about "the day when civilization collapses and my geeky hobby suddenly makes me a valued member of society," Conquistador was pretty interesting, and I can't recommend Island in the Sea of Time, Against the Tide of Years, or On the Oceans of Eternity enough.

[pontisbright]

fans of big loud films with weather in them

I am troubled, as this sound like the sort of thing I would like, but the only other example I can think of is Twister, which is loud and has weather in it, undoubtedly, but it also has the least charismatic leads ever and is very dull.

Please to be making a list of big loud films with weather in them? There must be a Blizzard or a, um, Cumulonimbus or two that have passed me by.

[lornelover]

There is Ice Storm, but it is mostly about Toby Maguire's emo geek man-boy pain and love for the Fantastic Four, and how Elijah Wood is really awkward. But a real honest ice storm features at the end. With hilarious results!

[pontisbright]

Any film that has both Ice and a Storm is clearly win. If there is also man-boy pain I am definitely on board.

[lornelover]

It's actually a really good film. And has Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver in it, as well as Christina Ricci (who gets perved over a lot, despite being a tiny girl). But the end. It's supposed to be all tragic, and it is, really, but... dude. I am forever condemned to Hell for laughing at the end of that movie. But it's so horrible! And awesome! I can't even tell you what happens, lest I spread the damnation.

[ladysorka]

That movie made me laugh and laugh because I was very confused as to why they were all going to Mexico. Couldn't they just hang out in, I don't know, Oklahoma? Or Texas? Or Nevada? Or Mississippi? Or all those southern states that were now probably cold but no more so that Illinois usually is in the winter? And things stopped freezing instantly cause the sky was all clear, so they could just all go realtively back home and dig out sweaters and snow shovels!

It was a movie full of weaklings who thought having to wear sweaters meant death! Really stupid weaklings who didn't even realize that there is civilization in places that are not the US, the UK, and Japan.

[bibliotech]

No! It was pure ice right up to the US/Mexico border. Not only is this a super-storm, it's a super-storm that plotted this out with a map.

[msp_hacker]

I thought the ice sheets only went to about Kansas? I remember Florida being still-populated...

[bibliotech]

I think they did, but then everyone in the rest of the movie seemed to forget about it. I got most of that the second time I watched it--the first time, they made it seem as if every inch of Europe and the US was devastated, and everything else was okay. It was very cracktastic.

[scifigirl]

I love this movie! I went and saw it like the day it opened! I never do that with films! I just mapquested the distance between NYC and DC and it's roughly 225 miles (360ish kilometers), in other words comletely implausable that Dad could walk all that way to save his kid, even if he did drive much of it. But the cheesetasticness of the movie more than makes up for any of its shortcomings and I love it!

[nostalgia_lj]

They walked through SNOW!

[tencrush]

This film and the equally brilliant Volcano (tagline: It's hotter than Hell. I mean, seriously, how brilliant a tagline is that?) really got me into the When Earth (or Space Debris) Attacks America genre of movie. They fucking rule. Weather, geology and asteroids are awesome.

[tencrush]

I know, but in Volcano, it's hotter than Hell, they fucking try to divert the lava flow, through the subway system and out to sea. Americans, man! They have the hugest balls IN THE WORLD!