The World won't end if you skip The Day After Tomorrow

paramiteabe · #1 05-28-2004, 07:59 AM

Welcome to Disasterpiece Theater guys!

I can easily identify with the message about global warming that director Roland Emmerich sends in his latest disaster epic, The Day After Tomorrow.

The problem is, Id rather watch a 90-minute documentary on the subject than endure this film, which desolves into silliness.

And before you protest to my opinion on this film, don't. I realize it's just entertainment, but its positively wretched in some spots. I already saw it and once you've seen one disaster movie after another you seen them all. I am not going to give you any spoilers but I am warning you that the film suffers from the same malady that tends to sink Emmerich's other films. Its about as fresh as an open can of week-old beer.

To Emmerich's credit the opening sequence is wounderfully filmed, but he revels in excess. An example: a ship sailing up the same street that is home to the New York Public Library.

You have to love Emmerich's point about our shortsightedness with respect to how we use our natural resources and neglect the planet. You only wish that it hadn't been relegated to a film that mutes the message with the din of silliness.

Its a nice disaster film but thats all it is. Once you seen disaster movies you've seen them all. So far though the film got a rateing of 2 stars which I am not deeply surprised. I will most likely see it again because disaster movies are just so neat when it comes to special effects and the whole visual aspect of it.

Paramiteabe...

oddguy · #2 05-28-2004, 11:37 AM

I wasn't planning on seeing it. And after your review, I'm really not seeing it. I'm just not in the mood for a disaster movie. I'm going to see Mean Girls and Shrek 2 at the local Drive-In Theater.

-oddguy

Shell Man · #3 05-28-2004, 11:58 AM

Yeah, I could've sworn this movie had been done before. Two metiorite-smashing-into-Earth movies, Independance day, etc. Big disaster movies are just too easy to make these days. Just come up with some big Earth-threatening problem and tack on some human drama.

Zach Roy Wilson · #4 05-28-2004, 12:20 PM

Whaddup...
The Day After Tommorow seemed somewhat interesting... but is innacurate as far as I can tell... the world is destroyed by water in the movie ain't it? Well, what did God tell Noah

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I will never again destroy the world with water...

Okay... now if it was fire... not only would it be acurate but the director would go to hell...

Sekto Springs · #5 05-28-2004, 03:02 PM

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Okay... now if it was fire... not only would it be acurate but the director would go to hell...

Don't turn this harmless thread into a religious debate.

Shrek 2 is pretty good. I'm going to see The Day After Tomorrow anyway because I love seeing people die. Meangirls? That's for girls, dude!

Esus · #6 05-28-2004, 11:02 PM

The Day After Tomorrow was based entirely upon a book.

Hobo · #7 05-28-2004, 11:15 PM

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because I love seeing people die.

You're a bit of a sick fuck arn't you?

Sekto Springs · #8 05-29-2004, 04:30 AM

Lighten up. It's just acting.

Zach Roy Wilson · #9 05-29-2004, 06:20 AM

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Don't turn this harmless thread into a religious debate.

...I love seeing people die. Meangirls? That's for girls, dude!

1. Righty-o-then drop the Jewish conversation...

2. I play GTA:VC just so I can kill everybody... hehe...
-Speaking of which
1. You could very well become the next... Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Edward Cowan, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, Himmler, "Hillside Strangler", or even Joseph Stalin...

3. Hahahahahahaha!

Mac the Janitor · #10 05-29-2004, 06:24 AM

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Meangirls? That's for girls, dude!

Oh, quiet you...I saw it with my gf and it was a really good movie. Better than most out there.

But hey, if you're too "manly" to see it, wutevah.

Hobo · #11 05-29-2004, 06:30 AM

Bah. SS I apologise, I was having a shite morning.

Sekto Springs · #12 05-29-2004, 07:22 AM

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Bah. SS I apologise, I was having a shite morning.

*does his best impression of a mexican midget*
S'alright.

Dipstikk · #13 05-29-2004, 08:51 AM

Oh, my lord. ParamiteAbe making a post with sentence structure, paragraphs and minimal spelling errors?
The world really HAS ended.

But seriously, there's one movie I definately am not seeing. And that is The Passion. There are just a few things in life that should never see the silver screen.

But until I see this Weather_movie.exe, I have no opinion on it. And I probably won't see it, just to protest until PA coes back to typing in the same illedgable style that we love him for...

Majic · #14 05-29-2004, 09:18 AM

[QUOTE=Dipstikk]Oh, my lord. ParamiteAbe making a post with sentence structure, paragraphs and minimal spelling errors?
The world really HAS ended.[QUOTE]

I noticed that too. Complex sentence structure, descriptive adjectives, and proper spelling. Where did you copy this from PA, where?!?!

Jacob · #15 05-29-2004, 09:42 AM

'Meangirls? That's for girls, dude!'

I wanna see 'Mean Girls' aswell, i just love movies about teen hierarchy. Makes my socks rock.

paramiteabe · #16 05-29-2004, 10:05 AM

What does Passion have to do with The Day After Tomorrow? hehe

Esus · #17 05-29-2004, 10:23 AM

I have recently seen this film. I thought it was generally very good. A very unrealistic things niggled me, however:
-The young friends and librarian would have died within that room. A standard fire fuelled on paper would not be hot enough to prevent the utter freezing-ness of the ice. They would have died almost as instantly as the British man in Scotland did.
-On the space station, when the astronauts commented on the clouds clearing, we could see a perfect coastline of Europe, all covered in ice. Now surely, wouldn't at least some of the sea also frozen over, causing a distorted and non-European coastline?
The film had some very nice special effects, and I think it tops nearly every other disaster movie to date.

oddguy · #18 05-30-2004, 10:35 AM

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Meangirls? That's for girls, dude!

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Oh, quiet you...I saw it with my gf and it was a really good movie. Better than most out there.

But hey, if you're too "manly" to see it, wutevah.

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I wanna see 'Mean Girls' aswell, i just love movies about teen hierarchy. Makes my socks rock.

Yes, saw 'Shrek 2' and 'Mean Girls.' Both really good movies.

Shrek 2 was great because normal Fairy Tales end with Happily Ever After, but you never get to see what happens after the kids fall in love at the end and the dramma that takes place afterwards...or that we assume. You never get to see that Cinderella actaully had an OCD probelm to constantly clean the castle and that she needed therapy. Filled with new characters and even more laughs, Shrek 2 is a good movie.
4 out of 5

Mean Girls was also great because it was a movie that displays the harsh reality of High Scool. Usuaully in High School movies, you get Freddie Prince Jr. with a lovey puppies and flowers story. Not so with Mean Girls. It brings to light the hate of popularity, but the desire to have it...and all the backstabing and mind games that it take to be on top in High School. But in the end, they firgure out that calling someone fat doesn't make you thinner, and that being most popular doesn't make you a better person. A few cheap laughs here and there, but still an enjoyable movie.
4 out of 5

-oddguy

***Nate*** · #19 05-30-2004, 12:53 PM

I wasn't going to see TDAT anyway simply because they overpromoted it. Studios seem to thing that:

$ SPENT PROMOTING FILM [will be proportional to] $ PEOPLE PAY TO SEE FILM

but after a point the more ads on tv and billboards, the less likely people to go. Especially as I have seen about 100,000 ads and yet not seen the face of one actor in the film - only the special effects

the brew master · #20 05-30-2004, 08:52 PM

thats cause the actors are a buch of noobs who probably just started acting

oddguy · #21 05-30-2004, 11:05 PM

I just saw Day After Tomorrow and Troy at my local Drive-In Movie Theater. I wanted to see Troy, and Day After Tomorrow was just there, so I saw it. Wow PA, it actually wasn't all that bad. I was expecting the worst...you gave it two stars. It was pretty enjoyable for me. I liked it a lot better than Deep Impact and The Core. It wasn't the best movie I've seen, but I was entertained.

-oddguy

Fuzzles! · #22 05-31-2004, 07:00 AM

This is a movie I will not be seeing, unless I happen to rent it one night when I'm bored. It stars Dennis Quaid (yawn) and Jake Gyllenhaal, from Donnie Darko fame. I actually don't mind him.

But we had such a rash of disaster films about volcanos and meteors or whatnot that were practically identical, that I've been permanently put off of all disaster films.

***Nate*** · #23 05-31-2004, 12:34 PM

I don't know if you can call it "a rash of disaster films" - I mean they are stretched over the last decade - but they do seem practically identical. I particularly hate the Hollywood rule that the male and female star have to kiss before the end. Its as if two people can't just trust and rely on each other without shagging.

oddguy · #24 05-31-2004, 12:48 PM

Well, dude...they think the world is about to end. When in you're in that mindset of knowing you won't get to do all that stuff you wanted, you don't waste your time. The guy always tells the girl how he feels, and the girl thinks to herself, "Hmmm, well...he is somewhat attractive, and since the world is ending there's no need for commitment! Let's shag!"

-oddguy

paramiteabe · #25 05-31-2004, 01:02 PM

Well I never said it wasn't entertaining. It is a fun movie but its just like previous disaster movies. My fav Disaster movies of all time are Twister, and Independants Day. ID4 was cool because it reminded me of the classic War of The Worlds.

Majic · #26 05-31-2004, 06:10 PM

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My fav Disaster movies of all time are Twister, and Independants Day.

Independants Day. What was that one about? Some fashion show or something, right?

oddguy · #27 05-31-2004, 08:09 PM

Oh stop it Majic, you silly!

paramiteabe · #28 06-01-2004, 02:52 AM

Neh neh it was a fashion show across the Universe in a tatertot!

***Nate*** · #29 06-01-2004, 01:37 PM

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Well, dude...they think the world is about to end. When in you're in that mindset of knowing you won't get to do all that stuff you wanted, you don't waste your time. The guy always tells the girl how he feels, and the girl thinks to herself, "Hmmm, well...he is somewhat attractive, and since the world is ending there's no need for commitment! Let's shag!"

-oddguy

yeah, but while the world is about to be destroyed they are only making googlie eyes at each other like this

but then the aliens attack and kill people like this

and every one is shocked

. Meanwhile there is some subtle flirting going on

and the girl is flattered

. Meanwhile the guy - who is a rocket scientist - and the girl - a brain surgeon - have to work together to come up with a plan to save the world

. They manage to do it at the last moment - after all the trailer trash has been killed

but just before the aliens kill the president

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***Nate*** · #30 06-01-2004, 01:40 PM

part II:

But its too late for the male hero's beloved Aunt Gina

so he's upset

. The female hero is consoling him

and they end up kissing

so everything ends up okay and they all live happily ever after, except for Aunt Gina who's dead.

*sorry had to double post cos I couldn't have this many smilies in one post. *

What can I say? I've got too much time on my hands.

*rereads posts* Ummm.. I think with all the smilie excitement I lost the point of what I was trying to say which is that they only actually shack up once the world is saved. Whilst Earth is still in danger there's plenty of sexual tension but nothing actually happens beyond a few comical uncomfortable moments.