Day After Tomorrow

[paulvonscott]

It's as bad as they say it is, but about as tenth as exciting as you'd hope.  I spent much of the film chuckling to myself, but any port in a storm of insanity.

You may want to see the world end, don't bother, watch this and you'll be hoping it comes during the film.

Best bit:  having a piss after two hours of watching it.

[VampiraJen]

someone who went to see it told me it was good........

[Generally Contrary]

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Well, there is some impressive destruction in the first third of the film, but after that...

[VampiraJen]

i'm guessing graphic depiction of the statue of liberty being destroyed.....every disaster movie must have that...........

[Generally Contrary]

Well, you see, destruction is always better on the big screen... but I just can't recommend you paying a fiver to go and see it.  I'd tell you the best bits, but that would a spoil too far.

[Generally Contrary]

Oh, and in surround THX sound too.

[Max Kon]

what about the white house?

[UZI 4U]

Was looking forward to this film- 'til I found out that it was from the makers of Independance Day. Who in holy hell would brag about that! What a disappointing, patronising, intelligence insulting bag of shite that film was. Think I'll be giving Day after Tomorrow a miss on that score alone. (Well at least 'til I can watch it on a cheap pirate and slag it from the comfort of my own home).
Jim.

[Dunk!]

One for a beery lad's night I feel.

Hope more folks post honest reviews on this board, maybe then I would have avoided sitting through the utter tedium of Troy or the moving wallpaper that was Van Helsing. Both would have suited a watching from the safety of my settee though.

[El Spurioso]

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Day After Tomorrow:  another film that thinks it can get away with trading on the strength of its special effects.  That sort of mentality might have worked for Independence Day, but we're all far more cynical now - we know you can do more or less anything you want with CGI (they're using it in home insurance adverts, fer feckssakes) so we're looking for something more than that now.

And when the 'something more' is a bunch of tedious quasi-scientific hokum delivered in a series of glaringly clunky exposition-lines ("...so what you're saying is that within five to seven days the world could enter a new ice age due to the impressive sounding meteorological guff I just spouted a moment ago?"  "Yes, that's correct, within five to seven days, a new ice age may be upon us.  It's all because of that pesky North Atlantic current - remember the one? We just saw a sequence of buoys there, remember?  Five to seven days.  Five to *seven*.") you know you're in trouble.

Fun, but don't expect to be challenged.  Still far, far better than Troy.  IMHO.

[GordonR]

I quite liked the fact that it put the boot into Dick Cheney, America's veto on the Kyoto Agreement (mentioned specifically at the scene near the beginning) and the irony of Americans flooding en masse across the Rio Grande and entering Mexico as illegal immigrants.

Oh, and the bit of dialogue about how Mexico would offer refuge to tens of millions of US citizens, in exchange for the US wiping out all Latin American debt.

It was stuff like that that told you it was a big dumb summer blockbuster but written and directed by a European.

[Art]

I think the third worlders killing and eating the Americans would have been better.

[swavesey]

Methinks that it's a little dangerous to exaggerate global-warming effects to a fantasy scale. You lose the facts underneath all the unbelievable crap, and people think that it's 'just a film'.

Still, I guess that tuna moving into our seas and a vague change in vegetation wouldn't make for much of a film.

[Dunk!]

Gawd no. Do you realise how much saturated fat there is in an American?

Best off as land fill.

[Art]

Hmm... The global cooling in "The Day After Tommorow" matches your average alarmist prediction on Horizon, only with a massively accelated timescale. The mini disasters (such as the tornado clusters and the super cell bringing THE VERY COLDNESS OF SPACE ITSELF to groundlevel) are the product of just-for-fun mathematical prediction that science documentary makers love as well.

Personally I can?t wait for the next disaster movie that features the world being destroyed by the yellowstone supervolcano going off.