The Day After Tomorrow

Roo6339 · Jun 3, 2004

it looks good enough... i wanna see it.

Raybelle · Jun 3, 2004

I saw it last night....

It's an "Armageddon" and "Independance Day" casserole, with a side of "Jurrasic Park" (wolves) and a dash of "Vertical Limit." ................It's lunchtime, can you tell? ha ha ha!

(Did anybody else get the "Vertical Limit" thing in the movie???)

BibleGuy · Jun 15, 2004

I thought this was one of the best films I have ever seen! Ok, so the acting wasn't great but the special effects BLEW YOU AWAY! I love disaster films ( Though maybe that's a bit morbid) and this was a good one. I'd give it 8/10 easy

Liangonesearmy · Jun 15, 2004

I'd have to say it was better than I expected, but then again I didn't expect too much. I thought there were some funny parts, and the effects were pretty sweet. There is almost no suspense. I mean, seriously, would they make a movie where the main character got frozen to death? lol... but still, considering you knew what the ending was gonna be... it was a pretty good movie. Predictable? - yeah. Enjoyable? - ditto.

GuiltyCubicle · Jun 20, 2004

I quite liked it, I liked the acting also, But I have a bias, the main character Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my close friend's cousin.

mathias1979 · Jun 20, 2004

GuiltyCubicle said:
I quite liked it, I liked the acting also, But I have a bias, the main character Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my close friend's cousin.

ooo...that's fun. I wish I had some celebrity connections.

-Matt

GuiltyCubicle · Jun 20, 2004

mathias1979 said:
ooo...that's fun. I wish I had some celebrity connections.

-Matt

Well, he doesn't know Jake, he just knows he's closely related.

angrypanda · Jun 21, 2004

Ha, ha! This was a TERRIBLE flick ... it showcases everything that's wrong with modern, Hollywood-generated cinema: a lousy "plot", cookie-cutter characters, and a reliance on visual spectacle to keep the audience entertained.

Don't get me wrong, the visual effects were great--the computer guys, at least, know what they're doing. The rest of the movie, with its pseudo-scientific varnish thinly concealing an ecopolitical agenda (complete with obvious caricatures of President Bush and Vice President Cheney), was insulting to say the least! Please, Hollywood: if I want to learn about a serious topic (and global warming is a legitimate concern), I'll research the topic on my own; stow your cinematic scare-mongering.

MissRowboat · Jun 21, 2004

Me and my friend Lara saw it..I liked it alright. I'm not really into 'serious' movies that much, but I guess it was fine.

And I'm with the angrypanda, I don't think it's wise to do all your research on global warming thru Hollywood movies..Which, in most cases, are biased.

mathias1979 · Jun 23, 2004

I finally got around to seeing the movie today. I'll tell you, I was expecting the absolute worst when I went in...but I ended up really enjoying it. I love disaster movies, and this was one of the best. Unrealistic? For the most part. Over the top? Yes. Sesationalistic? Absolutely. But all of that is to be expected in these kind of disaster movies. The had no problem with the acting, though it was mostly good. There were some things that just didn't make sense that sort of bugged me. For instance:

Why did everyond in the southern US need to be evacuated...when the worst of the storm never even reached that far south. In fact, the people who were in DC survived almost to the end of the storm before they finally left the city.

Also,
I love how everyone in the library was on the virge of freezing to death, yet Sam's dad was absolutely fine taking off all his winter clothing in a flimsy tent without getting so much of a chill.

But I didn't find it lived up to the bad reviews it received. I felt for the characters more in this movie than in most other disaster movies I've seen (especially Deep Impact, Armeggedon). But again, maybe it's just because I am obsessed with weather and extreme weather events.

-Matt

Sopharos · Jun 24, 2004

Acting & Dialogue:

Story: (pukes)
Special effects: very good.
Realism: Erm, no. If the North Atlantic Current was to be reversed, the process of this reversal would be slow, spanning decades to do so. The result would still be devastating, but three flash-freezing hurricane each twice the size of Russia engulfing 80% of the Earth's surface? I'm sorry, but that's just pseudoscience - the Earth's atmospheric threshhold would not allow such a storm. And besides, hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones are powered by heat from the evaporation of warm seawater. Once they hit land mass, they loose energy and disperses. Rediculous amount of energy would be required to power such a storm, and there no such source of energy, especially if the ocean temperature drops by 10 degrees.

Still, a good two hours worth of time-killer.

Raybelle said:
(Did anybody else get the "Vertical Limit" thing in the movie???)

The bit where the guy cuts the rope. Am I right?

mathias1979 · Jun 24, 2004

of course this movie is a peice of trash if you take as scientific fact. that's not what it is. it's a fantasy movie based loosely on a theory which has very little evidence to support it. you can't take movies like these too seriously. I still think the acting wasn't too bad. Certainly not oscar-worthy...but I think most of the beef with the acting revolves more around the script than the acting itself.

-Matt

CeeBee · Jun 25, 2004

It was pretty good, but not awesome.

tweek821 · Jun 25, 2004

It was ok, i guess. I really liked the special effects but besides that, the story was kinda unbelievable. I do not know how that one guy's dad made it from Washington D.C. to NY City.

mathias1979 · Jun 26, 2004

But why are movies like these expected to portray a realistic story line? The radical climate change is fantasy, so shouldn't we expect some fantasy (or unrealistic situations) in the rest of the plot? All these popular super hero movies are coming out. For instance Spiderman, not many people watch that movie and come out saying: "there's no way any living human could pull off those stunts." Same goes for a lot of popular movies out there. So why do we expect so much realism out of fantasy-based disaster movies?

-Matt

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