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I was looking for some of those yesterday but forgot the artist's name. Thanks for finding them!
Me too. Touray, how did you find these? What's the artist's name?
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Me too. Touray, how did you find these? What's the artist's name?
The artist name is Tim Wistrom. He has great paintings =)
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I still don't understand why climate change would result in a sudden giant tidal wave
I think what they were trying to potray was that a huge chuck of ice sank in the caps, and as a result the oceans rose. The scale, as one said, was pretty out there.

But it made for some damn good entertainment

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Are you sure??

From what I had understood of the film, both humans and robots had ceased to exist. It were ALIENS who were excavating Earth, to know more about the lost civilization of humans.

I think that's a common misconception... that they were aliens. They weren't. They were decedents of older 'mechas' (robots). At some point before humans became extinct, the robots had been created so advanced as to be able to reproduce themselves.
Humans eventually became extinct -- leaving the robots to "evolve".
As they became more sentient, they began to question their existence.
Finding David was important to them because he was "an original", as they called him in the film, and he actually knew humans... their creators/gods.
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EDIT....nvm, red x's galore.

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Even though the buildings remain intact...

I would consider a city overrun with homicidal infected persons to be destroyed.

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i love this flick




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I think what they were trying to potray was that a huge chuck of ice sank in the caps, and as a result the oceans rose. The scale, as one said, was pretty out there.

But it made for some damn good entertainment

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chunk of ice? I believe the entirety of the polar ice caps was melting, hence the crazy rise in sea level, which changed the weather completely. The currents that brought warm water/winds northward were now flowing differently, and the jetstream plummeted southward. This was followed by the beggining of an ice age(Hence people fleeing to Mexico). NYC ended up like it was in AI. The new ice cap was forming much farther south. I think the scale was fine. It was the short time period that was ridiculous.
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It is impossible for the sea to rise the way it did on that movie unless due to earthquase caused tsunamis or some meteor falling.
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there are a few great shots of L.A. in ruins after the big quake in "Earthquake" from the 70's. someone had mentioned some shots of KC from "The Day After". i have seen both The Day After and Threads. they were both great in their own right. i think DAT was better at special effects and the disaster itself. but Thread was much better about how it truly effects society....truly gruesome when the 3rd generation girl gives birth to that mutilation that is supposed to be her baby. and by that point in time everyone is partially mentally retarded because of all the radiation. truly terrifying. but from a disaster movie standpoint, it was AWESOME
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chunk of ice? I believe the entirety of the polar ice caps was melting, hence the crazy rise in sea level, which changed the weather completely. The currents that brought warm water/winds northward were now flowing differently, and the jetstream plummeted southward. This was followed by the beggining of an ice age(Hence people fleeing to Mexico). NYC ended up like it was in AI. The new ice cap was forming much farther south. I think the scale was fine. It was the short time period that was ridiculous.
That's actually what I was trying to say. When I meant scale, I meant the ice caps would probably not drop into the ocean enough to cause a tidal wave of that size in that time period. Essentially we're on different trains on the same track.

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God I wish I could find it online, but on a Discovery Channel show they aired a long time ago called "Three Minutes to Impact" it had a clip of Tokyo being destroyed by a tsunami...the effects from what I remember were superb, and the big monstrous choirs in the background for music as well as the editing...god it was so perfect. I soooo wish I could find it.

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It is impossible for the sea to rise the way it did on that movie unless due to earthquase caused tsunamis or some meteor falling.
Incorrect. Remember New Orleans? The storm surge recorded during the storm there was 30 ft tall at the highest places. The record recorded storm surge was 43 feet tall.

Weather can indeed make an impressive wave if the conditions are met.
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where are those gargoyles located? In the top of a fictional Art Deco skyscraper???? Seems to be as high as the Eiffel Tower!!
Actually, only half as high. If it were as high as the Eiffel Tower, the top of the tower would be flush with the horizon line. Sorry, a little linear perspective rule there
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I realize we're supposed to be looking at these images in kind of a bubble but it's most definitely a lot less interesting seeing this kind of stuff after we've been subjected to the real thing.
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I used to be obsessed with disaster movies until 9/11, so i collected nearly disaster movie ever made, from meteor (60's) to asteroid (1997 miniseries), and even a movie called "Gorgo" from the 1960's, where a godzilla-like monster destroys london, and has good sfx for the 60's. I also have the aftershock miniseries from 1997 on Vhs and a very obscure tv movie about an earthquake hitting LA, made in 1992. I would put some photos from the movies, but i don't know how to screencap.
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I would put some photos from the movies, but i don't know how to screencap.
Are you viewing these from your computer? If so, then pause the movie at whatever point you wish to do a screencap and then hit the Print Scr key. Then open whatever image editing program you use and create a new document and then paste the screencap via Ctrl-V (or whatever the paste command is for the image editor).
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and the iconic image from Cloverfield.




since ms. liberty's head comes barreling down the street....
and comes to a standstill in front of the film's stars.


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