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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (44104)	5/13/2004 5:19:04 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793640

Rumsfeld Makes Surprise to Baghdad story.news.yahoo.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (44104)	5/13/2004 5:22:12 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793640

Gale force laughter The Commons Blog The first preview audiences have seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow, and they're not impressed. Nature (Disaster Movie Makes Waves: But could the climate crash 'the day after tomorrow'?) reports: At a preview screening yesterday, the audience's reaction to the hammier sections of the film's dialogue did not augur well. Their derisive laughter may scupper Emmerich's ambitions for political leverage. Even in Paris, where one might assume that the bringing low of the United States would be greeted with enthusiasm, the initial reaction was unimpressed. The first review posted on the Internet Movie Database states: Honestly, i don't like Roland Emmerich's movies in general. But i appreciate his taste for destruction! And because of the trailer, i was really impatient to see The day after Tomorrow. So did i, this morning for the french premiere. Well, i admit that the intro is tremendous. The visual effects are spectacular, frightening and it's a real experience to see the LA typhoons doing a big cleaning up in the city. After that...well, not a lot of things. As usual, Emmerich develops one thousand times already seen characters, give them some dumb lines to say and except for a scene or two, there's nothing memorable in this movie. It's a pity. Al Gore and the George Soros-funded Moveon.org have staked a lot on the success of the movie. They seem to be as good at recommending movies as they were at choosing the best day to hold their last event warning of global warming; they held it on the coldest day of the year.