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Author Topic: The Day After Tomorrow Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-26-2004 11:18 PM                    Can't I just sit in the theater and enjoy watching New York city and Los Angeles get demolished without having the leftist propoganda shoved down my throat? Please? Ugh. The special effects were cool, but they were nothing new honestly. If you've seen all the trailers for this movie, you've seen all the effects. So if you're only watching to see the effects, just splice all the trailers together and watch that instead. You'll save quite a bit of time. With all that's going on in the world right now, I don't think many are going to want to deal with the message of this movie. I predict an above average opening at best, and then a quick drop off. We'll see.  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 05-28-2004 12:12 AM                     I agree Mark. I thought the effects were really awesome. I found the politics to be very leftist. This film will be to much on the science end for people. I thought that it was well acted though and I found the science to be very interesting. This is good, but not great. 5/5 for effects pi for everything else  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-28-2004 01:57 AM                        Worst. Dialogue. Ever. Imagine a cross between Deep Impact, Battlefield Earth, Independence Day, Godzilla (the 1998 version), Armageddon, and a bunch of other marginal films. Imagine the same with better CGI and worse dialogue/acting/direction/editing. That pretty much sums this one up.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-28-2004 02:07 AM                     I agree with the above reviews, but I can sum this one up even better. It's CRAPTACULAR!!! The director and producers need to be frozen so they don't make any more of this crap.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 05-28-2004 04:46 AM                        I enjoyed it. Yes, bad dialogue... But the effects were just cool. 4.5/5 [ 05-28-2004, 11:04 AM: Message edited by: Jennifer Pan ]  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-28-2004 10:19 AM                     I agree that it was cool seeing LA get nailed. Some of the other things that happened just couldn't. [Possible Spoilers] How can a supertanker fit down a city street, must less a NY One. What happened to this same tanker when the rescue happened? (It just disappeared) How could a little fire in the fireplace and stovetops keep people from freezing. The supercold air was freezing anything it touched. It just dragged on once the disasters happened.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 05-28-2004 03:28 PM                     I haven't seen it yet, but I'm surprised to hear that the "message" is considered to be leftist. Usually, German film directors become 200% American patriots when they work in the USA, Roland Emmerich did it with INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE PATRIOT, Wolfgang Petersen with AIR FORCE ONE...  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-28-2004 06:57 PM                    I guess he's spent too much time in Hollywood.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-28-2004 08:23 PM                    I would like to know who thawed Rolland Emmerich out in the first place. It has been ages since I saw his name on screen. The visuals looked pretty good but as mentioned above we have seen it all before. But I guess with these types of films that becomes the case. I like Dennis Quaid and I thought he did good with what he had to work with. I was hoping this film would have some of the feel that Deep Impact had with telling the story around the effects. But a lot was lost with pointles discussions and luke warm character development. I give this one ** stars out of 4  |  IP: Logged Dennis Udovich Film Handler Posts: 71 From: Sheboygan, WI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 05-29-2004 12:47 PM                        The film is just OKAY.  |  IP: Logged Sam Johnson II Film Handler Posts: 25 From: Waynesburg, KY, USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-29-2004 11:05 PM                     Sounds like I'm the only one on this website who actually enjoyed the movie quite a bit...  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-30-2004 12:04 AM                        29 May 2004, 7:10PM, Regal Cinema World 8, Eugene OR, House #3, some kind of digital sound. Attendance around 150. Excellent presentation. No complaints except too many ads. Brad nailed it: IT'S CRAPTACULAR!!! The screenplay is ludicrous and at times unintentionally funny. The audience was snickering in the wrong places. On the other hand, the special effects are pretty amazing sometimes, definitely top notch. Dennis Quaid still looks a little constipated (a la The Alamo). Worth it only for the CGI work, which is mostly Grade A. Everything else belongs in the reject pile.  |  IP: Logged Kamakshipalya Dhananjay Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Bangalore, India Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-30-2004 12:30 AM                     The Day After Tomorrow is no science movie. But it never needed to be one. There are other places to learn about Sciences. TDAT has little emotional punch. For that, the film-makers must have expected moviegoers will seek out other films. TDAT has spectacular special effects. The film-makers sought to dazzle audiences who were willing to suspend their disbelief for a while. On this, I think they have been tremendously successful. TDAT never wanted to be a certain type of film. I am surprised so many reviewers assumed it should have been of a certain type, discovered it was not and panned it for that lapse. But in areas where it set out to be what it is, I am thoroughly surprised and both delighted to say, it is one hell of a superior 'disaster' movie. The movie has so many flaws but the true hero of this film, the special effects, seem to have fewer still. The really good thing about the pace of this film is that it leaves little room for thinking about the holes in it if you ordinarily wish to not focus on the flaws. The opening credit shots are well taken and put the mood for what to expect next. The quick shot outside the Mexican Embassy that shows desperate foreigners flasing their Passports with 100 dollar bills stacked inside their Passports threw the entire theatre I was watching this film into a cloud of laughter. The concluding shot of the President making that apology and affirming the will to start all over again is however, very impactful. So is the final shot of the beautiful ice-cover over the northern hemisphere. In all, this movie far exceeds my expectations and I was not at all surprised to see so many people around me unhesitant to say they enjoyed this film. Good for a 'blockbuster' type.  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 05-30-2004 01:00 PM                     United Artists METRO, SF. Saturday 5/29 1pm. 1/4 full. I thought the sound level was a little too low. During the action sequences, the sound was great, but the rest of the movie I was having a hard time hearing it and focusing my attention to it... Anybody else notice this, or is it my older age or the crappy theatre? WOW! I REALLY ENJOYED THIS. Everybody is talking about all of the 'leftist' politics in the movie, but I really didn't notice anything like that 'thrown down my throat'?? I enjoyed the efx and the disaster scenes. I loved the REAL CHARACTERS and REAL LIFE they brought to the film. None of the characters seemed fake to me. I enjoyed the homeless guy's contributions. Very real and human touches. Although I enjoyed this thoroughly, I thought the ending was kind of weak. Or maybe I was just having trouble hearing it? Or the dude in front of me who kept shaking is cup of ice eating it was bugging the hell out of me. People can be so inconsiderate.... I might check this out again at another theatre...  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-30-2004 02:49 PM                    quote: Eric Hooper Everybody is talking about all of the 'leftist' politics in the movie, but I really didn't notice anything like that 'thrown down my throat'?? Really?? Oh, wait... Eric Hooper From: San Francisco, CA Nevermind.  |  IP: Logged

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