Day After Tommorow

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » May 31, 2004, 12:45 pm

Did anyone watch?
I'm curious.

Pherr the Dorf · Post by **Pherr the Dorf** » May 31, 2004, 12:52 pm

Bad, cheesy and kinda fun

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 31, 2004, 1:53 pm

Haven't seen it yet but I'm guessing it's worthwhile for some brainless summer action with little acting involved.

The showing I went to see was full so I saw Shrek2 instead. The Day After Tomorrow and Shrek both had reached 70Million or so for the weekend so it's doing well at the box offices.

Waran · Post by **Waran** » May 31, 2004, 3:42 pm

If you haven't seen it yet and are going to, don't read the below

[Show]: During the U.S. people crossing the border into Mexico bit, all the crowd in our theatre was busting up laughing. Then the part where they "reopened" the border because they forgave howevermuch multibillion dollar debt to Mexico came and everyone was laughing again.

Yeah the graphics were alright, but damn it was cheesy B.S.

Fesuni Chopsui · Post by **Fesuni Chopsui** » May 31, 2004, 10:20 pm

May have been bad...but Jake Gyllenhaal...ugh, if anyone has seen the recent cover of Entertainment Weekly, they'd know why I'm drooling!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 1, 2004, 3:27 am

It was decent, but had plot holes the size of Texas. For disaster movies, I perfer emotional involvement (ala Deep Impact), and this movie had none. Watching Donnie Darko try and get some pussy while the wolrd was ending was a tad trepid. It was also a bit self-rightous and full of itself at times too. Still, I went in expecting pretty much what I got. It was a fun get away from reality despite the many flaws.

6.5 out of 10.

Kguku · Post by **Kguku** » June 1, 2004, 3:28 am

I was wanting to see this movie until I saw the trailer with the 'killer cold' chasing the guys, and they stopped it by closing the door!

Truant · Post by **Truant** » June 1, 2004, 10:00 am

Maybe I'm crazy, but I saw commercial/trailer for this and had zero interest in seeing it. ever.

I keep hearing about it tho, wtf?

Apollyon · Post by **Apollyon** » June 3, 2004, 11:32 am

There were some pretty good action sequences that would take your breath away, so overall I'd say it was an ok flick. I won't be buying the DVD though. The one thing that bugged me was the environmentalist spin on the whole thing, as if the Ice Age were caused by mankind being bad. HELLO! Ice Ages have been happening since the birth of this planet, long before man has been polluting it, and will continue to happen with or without us. Its a natural cycle and yes, we're about due.

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » June 3, 2004, 5:59 pm

I'd give it a solid 4 out of 6 or so. It's a decent movie to sit down and be entertained with, I guess it added a bit to it since we had insane storms here at the time heh. And of course, Emmy Rossum is adorable!

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 3, 2004, 6:10 pm

Kelshara wrote:I'd give it a solid 4 out of 6 or so. It's a decent movie to sit down and be entertained with, I guess it added a bit to it since we had insane storms here at the time heh. And of course, Emmy Rossum is adorable!

4 out of 6? what the fuck kind of rating scale are you on? Does Roger Ebert use a 6 point rating system? 4, 5 or even 10 is much more sensible! Maybe even a 5 point rating with an optional power star awarded to creative films.

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » June 3, 2004, 7:45 pm

Eh that is how I am used to doing it from back home. They've always used a dice (yes a d6, not even a fancy d8 or d12!) to rate movies so it has kind of stuck with me.

10 is more sensible I suppose, but 5 is not. 5 is about as sensible as the yard, foot, inch and gallon!

Call me stupid but.. who is Roger Ebert?

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » June 3, 2004, 7:53 pm

Roger Ebert, formerly of Sicle and Ebert.. one of the most respected critics in the US.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 3, 2004, 8:25 pm

The man...the myth...Roger Ebert!

He's just one of many movie critics but pretty well known due to a TV movie review series.

Fesuni Chopsui · Post by **Fesuni Chopsui** » June 3, 2004, 11:32 pm

Winnow wrote:The man...the myth...Roger Ebert!

He's just one of many movie critics but pretty well known due to a TV movie review series.

Is it just me or could he pass really well as a woman in that picture?

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » June 3, 2004, 11:37 pm

Only to disuade people like you, Fes.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » June 4, 2004, 12:19 am

He looks a lot like one of my aunt's lesbian friends.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 4, 2004, 12:31 am

Keverian FireCry wrote:He looks a lot like one of my aunt's lesbian friends.

This any better?

Are you saying Roger isn't photogenic?!!!

Fesuni Chopsui · Post by **Fesuni Chopsui** » June 4, 2004, 1:36 am

Winnow wrote:
Keverian FireCry wrote:He looks a lot like one of my aunt's lesbian friends.
This any better?

Are you saying Roger isn't photogenic?!!!

I didn't know lesbians were huge red x's...although that would explain why they're always so angry!

Siji · Post by **Siji** » June 4, 2004, 10:08 am

d20 > d12!

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » June 4, 2004, 11:57 am

I prefered d10 personally, could make those suckers spin forever.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » June 4, 2004, 1:55 pm

Kelshara wrote:Eh that is how I am used to doing it from back home. They've always used a dice (yes a d6, not even a fancy d8 or d12!) to rate movies so it has kind of stuck with me.

10 is more sensible I suppose, but 5 is not. 5 is about as sensible as the yard, foot, inch and gallon!

Call me stupid but.. who is Roger Ebert?

You can blame the Brits for those measurements. All of them were derived from some retarded king's measurement system. Only inbreeding could cause measurements to read as "from the tip of the king's nose to the tip of his thumb" or other such nonsense. The U.S. merely kept thos measurements after we kicked their asses out...and now it is too ingrained to stop using it.

Midnyte_Ragebringer · Post by **Midnyte_Ragebringer** » June 7, 2004, 1:57 pm

Siji wrote:d20 > d12!

d20 is the bomb. I still look on ebay every now and then and contemplate buying new d20's even though I'm 7 years seperated from D&D.

As far as the movie....I wish I could get my money back. Take out the ridiculous political bullshit and the running away from the insta-freeze eye of the storm bullshit and maybe it's a semi-watchable Cinemax when nothing else is on movie.

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » June 24, 2004, 3:28 am

Summary... stolen from somewhere

EXT. ICY PLACE

DENNIS QUAID does scientific things that are DULL.

AUDIENCE: Ice cores? **** this.

SUDDENLY, the WEATHER attempts to RUIN DENNIS QUAID'S ****.

DENNIS QUAID: Holy crap, what a coincidence that we happened to pitch our tents exactly where this was going to happen. Time for me to risk my life to save some ice even though since I have a family this makes me look like a ****ing moron with ass-backwards priorities.

He does this. This would be EXCITING if he wasn't the leading man and could actually die in this scene.

INT. CONFERENCE

KENNETH WELSH: Rawr, I am the Vice President of America! I am very stupid and arrogant and certainly not a blatant reference to anyone!

DENNIS QUAID: I am Pierce Brosnan from Dante's Peak. I think you should listen to me.

KENNETH WELSH: That's complete nonsense, boy, this is a completely different formulaic disaster movie so there's no reason for me to listen to you. Business is nice. Where's a bottom line for me to worship?

EXT. JAPAN

RANDOM HUMAN: I'll just lie to my girlfriend over the phone. I'm glad I'm not in the kind of movie where that would attract any kind of over-the-top retribution.

GIANT ****ING HAIL leaves his **** in ruins.

INT. WEATHER BUILDING

ONE OF DENNIS' INTERCHANGABLE FRIENDS: Dennis, there's huge hail, melting icecaps, rising sea levels and we've just had reports that stock footage of hurricanes has struck California. This sounds disturbingly like your bull**** theory.

DENNIS QUAID: Then let's stare at monitors looking horrified until someone forces us to stop.

This happens.

IAN HOLM: This is extremely bad. I'm in an incredibly English research station in Scotland, for no apparent reason. I am some kind of weather-Yoda. Seriously.

DENNIS QUAID: Ian, why the **** did you have to destroy the One Ring before all this bull**** went down? Now I'm going to have to talk to the Vice President again to reinforce the idea that he's a stupid stereotype.

INT. LA

RANDOM AND POINTLESS CHARACTER: Hey, let's have sex.

FEMALE OBJECT: Yes, let's.

TORNADOS appear and MURDER THE HELL OUT OF THEM, leaving LA's **** in ruins. People stop and take pictures.

AUDIENCE: It's good to see that in the face of dreadful danger and the raw force of nature out of control people display the intelligence of plankton.

THE WEATHER ****s more stuff up in slightly preposterous ways.

INT. SCOTLAND

MEANWHILE, IAN HOLM has run out of 'PETROL.'

IAN HOLM: We'll face this the British way.

RANDOM ENGLISHMAN: Stiff upper lip, determined to the end?

IAN HOLM grabs a whiskey bottle.

IAN HOLM: Blind drunk, my lad.

DIRECTOR ROLAND EMMERICH [Masturbating furiously]: Damn, destroying things is fun. I love Deep Impact so I'll...COPY IT! SHAMELESSLY!

THE SEA totally ruins New York's ****. A lot of people are KILLED off-screen, but others including JAKE GYLLENHAAL run to the LIBRARY and are SAVED. All named characters SURVIVE. Then a large, rather pointless tanker with 'LVZY PV0T DEVICE' written on the bow slowly floats past and just stops.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL: My father is a climatologist. He says we should stay here.

RANDOM COP: Bah, what the **** would a climatologist know about the climate? Everyone, follow me!

Everything FREEZES and everyone who is an extra DIES.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL [burning books in a heavy-handed symbolic manner]: Now, Western civilisation has ground to a halt, the world as we know it has been obliterated and the Earth changed forever, millions are dead and we're a small group of survivors stranded and alone against the elements. You'd have thought Roland Emmerich would have been able to come up with a more interesting scenario than a tedious fetch quest featuring fake-looking CGI wolves.

LIBRARIAN: Shut up. You need to go to the "ship" and get the "antidote".

They do so. It is COMPLETELY UNINTERESTING.

Suddenly, the BULL**** COLD AIR SPECIAL EFFECT breaks some windows and makes things icy. Everyone runs away from it and they all SURVIVE. Eventually, DENNIS finds JAKE.

DENNIS QUAID: I'm glad we're reunited for male bonding bull****.

HELICOPTERS appear to rescue people, burning lots of FOSSIL FUELS and showing that actually, nobody seems to have learned a ****ing thing from all this.

ROLAND EMMERICH: See, Audience? This shows that you should care more about the environment.

AUDIENCE: It intrigues us that you should choose to waste millions of dollars showing us rather than, say, doing something about it.

ROLAND EMMERICH: Oh, **** you all.

END.

murr · Post by **murr** » June 24, 2004, 10:21 am

Nice. I didn't have any interest. The secret tagline was "The movie you'll regret seeing The Day After Tomorrow"

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » June 25, 2004, 2:06 am

IAN HOLM grabs a whiskey bottle.

It was Scotch, actually. 12 year old Scotch.

And that part with the pack of dogs (wolves.. whatever!)... WTF was up with that? That could have easily not been in there.

Fesuni Chopsui · Post by **Fesuni Chopsui** » June 25, 2004, 1:25 pm

Whatever! I got to see Jake Gyllenhaal without his shirt or pants on for about 10 seconds! That is clearly worth 10 bucks

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » June 25, 2004, 1:55 pm

Hehe. you gonna love Jacks new film Fesuni, hes gonna play a homosexual cowboy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » June 25, 2004, 3:20 pm

I'm glad he's still around after October Sky. I thought he was pretty good in that but with most young actors you don't usally see them around after a movie or two.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 25, 2004, 3:41 pm

Aslanna wrote:I'm glad he's still around after October Sky. I thought he was pretty good in that but with most young actors you don't usally see them around after a movie or two.

He's an excellent actor IMO. If I was Fesuni I'd give him five snaps!

Fesuni Chopsui · Post by **Fesuni Chopsui** » June 25, 2004, 5:09 pm

Hesten wrote:Hehe. you gonna love Jacks new film Fesuni, hes gonna play a homosexual cowboy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/

Please...what gay man isn't aware of Brokeback Mountain?!

Heath Ledger and I quote, "It really is a great script and story, and Jake sure is cute!"

/orgasm

Ps - Ang Lee? Wtf?

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » June 25, 2004, 7:16 pm

Heeh, no clue how wide known Brokeback mountain is for gay people, i personally only know of it because i liked Jack since Donnie Darko (oh, and his sister Maggie too, gotta see Secretary someday).

But yeah, think Brokeback Mountain is gonna be interesting to say the least.
With Ang Lee directing a homosexual cowboy story, i mean, Ang Lee directing non-action, and pretty sure its the first gay cowboy story filmed so far.