Why can't Holywood join the modern world

[malumbu]

The second of my highly irrelevant threads based on recent TV. For some reason I watched the Day After Tomorrow on Film 4. I saw it ten years ago and thought it pretty bad then. It is about a sudden massive drop in air temperature in the Northern Hemisphere. With temperatures plummeting and people freezing to death our hero manages to walk from Philadelphia to New York, to save his son who was doing a pretty good job of not needing saving. The hero only lost one of his colleagues on the way.

The first minor whinge was the use of the term global warming, as opposed to the proper terminology climate change.

But the thing that got my goat was the continual use of 'Fahrenheit', I stopped using this for summer temperatures last century (could never handle degrees F for cold temperatures) and have used the metric system since school and through a technical career. No scientist either side of the pond would us Fahrenheit. I expect that they haven't used it in space exploration since the 1960s. Well done for the film the Martian, I doubt that there were riots in small town USA for using proper units in that film.

[TheCat]

Totally, and that bit where a container ship floats up fifth Avenue to then be frozen outside the New York Library is total rubbish....I mean it would have definitely taken Madison....

:)

[fishbiscuits]

I like the bit where they're literally running away from the encroaching deadly freeze... they manage to escape it by going into a room, closing a door behind them (phew!) and lighting a fire.

[Blah Blah]

To be fair, they did have to set fire to an entire library to keep from freezing. I guess they dialed deliveroo for food deliveries.