It is about killer freezing fog...
This is the science bit, concentrate:
"Well, head-of-climate-science-group, as you know 'hot air rises and cold air drops' and 'the ozone layer which usually provides a buffer was damaged due to man-made pollutants'*.
Also, water is wet.
*Yes I am with the climate scientists on the (various)causes of global warming but, really, do they talk to each other like this?
Dramatic scene, on beach, really good view of oncoming thing that looks VERY like a tsunami (you would think that would get people moving):
Honey we need to leave now!
But, dad what is that wall of stuff approaching at around 30 miles an hour?
Darling that is a fog that is minus 100 0F (cause we are Australian scientists and we think in Farenheit), we need to leave now.
But Jimmy is still in the water.
Jimmy get out of the water!
What?
GET OUT OF THE WATER!!
This approaching wall of fog is, like, awesome man!
Jimmy dies
Girl calling for Jimmy doesn't move. About 30 seconds later, girl dies
Dad and daughter look on.
...
Darling
Yes dad?
I know it is awful what happened to your friends and all but we need to leave.
Now Dad?
Yes.
etc...
(by this stage you are practically yelling at the screen)
Anyway they were chased by some CG dry ice...and the thing about dry ice is that making a CG version is a little pointless...but mostly the car was faster than the wall of cold air so that was ok.
What I WILL say for Australians/Tazmanians (as opposed to the nation (which shall remain nameless) normally being abused by random acts of nature in these types of movies) is that when the scientist rings the people with access to TV stations and gives them some information about an anomaly currently only witnessed by two living people they IMMEDIATELY release a countrywide alert saying 'guys it is about to get cold! We mean like, really cold, NOW - find a fire'. Which in real life/another movie would result in people changing the channel/discussing the problem until it is too late to leave/going outside to take photographs. In this case the people all take this warning to heart, and go on an instant stampede to Walmart to buy all sorts of sensible things.
'Oh my God they're over Russia, England and China' (that's an exact quote - that is one hell of a specific cloud over the UK) The fog rifts (!) seem to be targeting famous monuments in each country.
Boss guy who needed basic physics explained to him just came up with a very complex weather balloons, missiles and magnesium to seal up the hole in the ozone layer solution to the problem. The rogue scientist says this is a bad idea, because this problem was caused by 'man-made global warming'* and they need to harness the power of lightning instead - 'cause we need to work with nature not against it'. Apparently the earth needs a psychiatrist not a climate scientist.
LOL, eejity 'Kim the climate scientist' has not taken her insulin and is now basically making life difficult for the man who is going to save the world, or Kim, pick one.
(For her survival she has been offered a choice of insulin or a candy bar - these are usually mutually exclusive in these circumstances.)
Boss man agrees with me that scientist dude should be trying to save the world and not Kim. However it appears that as a result of him feckin' off at a vital moment a bad mistake may be made (drama, tension). A 16 year old is having the use of a computer explained to her...
Why is it that teenagers that can do practically anything, and seem to pretty much live without parental supervision, in other types of movies, suddenly can't walk and chew gum simultaneously (without a parent around to encourage them) in disaster movies?
This movie would annoy the life out of Anne, well except that it stars Daniel Jackson.
Ooh, I have just realised something. We can avert everything from worldwide natural disasters to alien invasions to meteor strikes by, as soon as they start to happen, destroying all national monuments - don't give them anything to aim at, they'll soon get bored.
Hah, the trailer has pretty much everything I described above!
Hang on a minute! -100 0F? That's -73 0C. The freezer in our lab goes down to -82 0C and I cleaned it out the other day and am still alive...with all my fingers still attached. I mean you wouldn't want to be in it for any length of time but still.
Of course if someone had an Australian script and wanted to alter it for an American audience and just changed C to F...
Well whaddaya know?:
Within the mesosphere, temperature decreases with increasing altitude. This is due to decreasing solar heating and increasing cooling by CO2 radiative emission. The top of the mesosphere, called the mesopause, is the coldest place on Earth.[1] Temperatures in the upper mesosphere fall as low as −100 °C (173 K; −148 °F),[2] varying according to latitude and season.I mean it is only the fundamental point of the movie.
A (genuine, unaltered) one star review from Netflix:
your typical hollywood leftwing global warming crap less than 2 mins in to the moive and they and they started on oil and so called fosilfuels polluting the planet.could of ben a good moive if was'nt for that.
A cogent argument I feel.
Another reviewer gave it 6/10 cause he liked one of the actresses (from Home and Away) and says that if the movie turns out to be prophetic and we all unexpectedly freeze to death he will give it another 2 stars.
By the way I very much enjoyed the movie (miove).
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But you see these movies are aimed at people like me who watch movies (well not very often tbh) in an uncritical, brain asleep sort of way, which is why I like fantasy.
Anyway I enjoyed your critique much more than I would have enjoyed the movie.
I'm with Helen on daft, made-for-tv disaster movies. They are filled with such silliness that you can't help but like them. They all have pretty much the same cast...
slightly odd-ball expert that no one listens to until it's nearly too late,
his slightly dysfunctional family,
the boss figure who has to be convinced of the imminent danger to "everything",
and disaster fodder...
The science is always so woolly that it has it's own comedic value. If you have a slightly logical mind you can easily spot the glaring theory holes.
And last but not least, the minimal sets (cheap plywood with knobs and buttons), and the "special" effects make the whole thing funnier than any intended comedy.
I watched the trailer.
Science? Pbffh.
Daniel Jackson winz.
Although my faith in his adorableness was shaken by "We have to work with nature, not against it!" the most klutzed "this is the deep philosophical point of the moive" ever.
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