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HypnoticFreddy
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Taken and edited from www.Moveon.org
On Memorial Day weekend, Hollywood is releasing a summer blockbuster movie that's making the Bush administration very nervous. In fact, they'd rather you didn't see it at all.
Why? Because it's a disaster movie about global warming.
While "The Day After Tomorrow" is more science fiction than science fact, everyone will be talking about it -- and asking "Could it really happen?"
Maybe you've already seen the trailer for "The Day After Tomorrow": tornadoes whip through Los Angeles and Manhattan is frozen over as global warming triggers an Ice Age across North America.
Nearly 20 million Americans are expected to see this movie, with as many as 7 or 8 million over Memorial Day weekend alone. Because the movie capitalizes on our real-life concerns over climate change, audiences are likely to walk out of the theater asking themselves: "Could it really happen?"
The right wing (oh no....there is that term again) has already cranked up its PR machine to discredit the movie as "fright flick" propaganda cooked up by climate change conspiracy theorists. Never mind that they're relying on stone-age science, or that they're light-years behind the curve on the public's acceptance of global warming as a real environmental threat.
It might be nice to take our minds off of war, terrorism, and torture and look at a domestic issue like global warming, which amongts many should be a priority for the White House. It looks like a cool flick!
-Scott
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« Reply #1 on: May 14th, 2004, 12:15pm » |
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I plan on watching it. I heard the FX are awesome. I read about it in Outside Magazine (tree-huggers version of sports illustrated). 
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Guess I better learn how to swim once those glaciers and stuff start to melt. Greenhouse gasses? is what's causing it and emissions from cars isn't it? Scary this stuff.
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« Reply #3 on: May 14th, 2004, 1:06pm » |
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thomas.....Wow...you are the only other person besides my friend who owns a roll=off service.....use the term tree-hugger.....thought it was just him and I...what a rush!!!
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I think we should all get together and do a movie..."Night of The Clusterheads". George Romero would have nothing on us!!!
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« Reply #4 on: May 14th, 2004, 1:56pm » |
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Down here in the Great White North, we often pray for global warming 
Just kidding, this is serious and scary stuff...
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Good one Scotty! Now beam down my clothes...
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« Reply #5 on: May 14th, 2004, 2:12pm » |
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Wow...I just found the trailer.....definitely want to see it now!
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I think we should all get together and do a movie..."Night of The Clusterheads". George Romero would have nothing on us!!!
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