The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

~ ~ The mad cabbie and daughter went to watch the latest in a long line of Hollywood ‘Armageddon’ movies last night, the new blockbuster “The Day After Tomorrow” (henceforth DAT) from Director Roland Emmerich, who also gave us such classics as “Independence Day” and “Godzilla”. For his latest offering Emmerich has had New York and various other American cities rapidly rebuilt after their practically total destruction in his other movies, in order ...
...but by dramatic changes in the weather, which sees the whole of the Northern hemisphere plunged into a new Ice Age in the space of a couple of weeks. ~ ~ If you’re wondering about a plot, then I just gave it to you in my last sentence. Emmerich has taken the theme of global warming, which we are all warned about on almost a daily basis in the media, and accelerated the process beyond either recognition or credibility, to produce a doomsday scenario ...

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...ice shelf breaks away from the main ice cap. Fearing that this may suggest an abrupt and dangerous change in the world’s climate, Hall sets about trying to analyse and model the effect of the shift in frozen water. When his worst fears are confirmed, he goes in front of an advisory council to express his grave concerns. His words fall on deaf ears – he has little in the way of actual evidence and although the implications of what he says ...
...the cost impact of taking any remedial action. Around the world, strange meteorological events are taking place. In India, snow falls on the Taj Mahal. Australia suffers the worst typhoon in recorded history and in Japan, freak hailstones the size of rocks start to fall from the sky. But despite the fevered media interest, the world takes little notice of the warnings of what is about to happen. As dark clouds start too loom over Northern America, ...

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...I had high hopes that the new flick would be different; particularly stemming from quotes such as the film would be “eye opening” to say the least. Indeed, the film was “eye opening”, broadening my mind on issues featured, such as the careless burning of fossil fuels and its effect on global warming and the impending melting of the polar ice caps ; unfortunately, concurrently, the film was head-slappingly stupid and terribly clichéd. What had promised ...
...Quaid) claims to have made the discovery that the world is in for a large-scale climate shift; the consumption of fossil fuels will eventually result in the paradoxical eventuality of a new ice age, due to an imbalance of fresh water and salt water and its negative effect on the north Atlantic current. Or some movie-speak jargon which strives to sound conceivable. However, Hall’s estimations of an on-coming ice age are a lot more likely that he thought, ...

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...for xmas! She loves the flipping thing and is buying DVD films left, right and centre.......including the next one I'm about to review..... THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW ***ACTORS AND ACTRESSES*** Dennis Quaid - The Alamo, Cold Creek Manor, Dragonheart Jake Gyllenhaal - Bubble Boy, Moonlight Mile, Highway Emmy Rossum - The Phantom of the Opera, Nola, Mystic River Sela Ward - Runaway Bride, Catch a Falling Star, The Badge ***CHARACTER PROFILE*** ...
...and creates models that monitor the worlds weather conditions and any change in them. Unfortunately, being so wrapped up in his work has taken time away from his son and his wife. A bright and intelligent scientist, who is dedicated work, at the end of the day, his family is what matters to him the most. Sam Hall Played by actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Sam is an extremely bright 17 year old kid. Slightly resentful at the fact his father can't be bothered ...

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...this one and after seeing the trailer it was on my top 10 list of films to see. Though I actually was going to see Harry Potter on that day but it was sold out. The film opened in the US with a very respectable $70 Million Dollars into the number 2 spot of the Box Office as Shrek 2 still was hoilding the no 1 slot on it's second week and totaling up $238 Million. 'Day after Tomorrow' was made on a $125 Milion budget so it will easily get it's money ...
...something else may come from the director 'Roland Emerich' further down the line. The film is made and written by, as I stated above by Roland Emerich who made films such as 'Godzilla', 'Independence Day, 'The Patriot' and 'Stargate'. He also recently produced 'Eight Legged Freaks'. So all in all he has a very good filmography but does this film live up to the reputation of his past projects? Well as you know the story is kind of based on true ...

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...one of my jaunts to the cinema and it immediately appealed to me. Disaster movies are a tricky genre, even the most noted such as 'The Poseidon Adventure' and 'The Towering Inferno' haven't exactly gone down as classics. Aside all of this, I was still hopeful, Jake Gyllenhaal (a male lead) starred in one of my favourite ever movies 'Donnie Darko' and with Hollywood maturing 20 years or so since the last big time disaster flick, I was sure this movie ...
...near and tries to convince the politicians at a World summit but is patronised and scorned at in the cliched way politicians do. He isn't deterred and he isn't alone in his beliefs either, a Scottish weather expert (Ian Holm) has been noticing changes in tidal patterns in the North Atlantic and thinks Jack Hall's prediction could become reality quicker than anyone anticipated. Indeed they do, hailstones the size of footballs cause havoc in the Far-East ...

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...witnessing a massive chunk of the Antarctic Ice Shelf breaking off, climatologist Jack Hall is very worried. Prolonged global warming has come full circle and is set to cause global cooling. A series of freak weather conditions around the world (heavy snowfall in Delhi and giant hailstones in Tokyo) herald the beginning of a huge storm that will usher in the next Ice Age. He warns the US government, but his advice goes unheeded. Then New York floods, ...
...the situation hits home. Especially for Professor Hall whose estranged son Sam is in New York. Jack must get to him before the city freezes over and all hope is lost. Roland Emmerich is a director who can be relied upon to create great spectacles. He’s good at blowing things up. He’s famous for his rabidly pro-American stance, odd for a man who hails from a small town in Germany. Here he has created another blockbuster with plenty of bang per buck. ...

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...After Tomorrow' DVD. From the director of Independence Day, Stargate and Godzilla The Day After Tomorrow was first released on DVD in 2004. The movie genre is Sci-Fi/ action/ adventure/ thriller. The film has a run time of 118 minutes and designated a category 12. The DVD is a two disc special edition with a whole host of special features, trailers, commentaries, in depth looks behind the scenes and the special effects. I never watch these to be ...
...the actual movie, therefore I will not pass judgement on this element of the DVD! ==Basic plot== the action starts in the first few minutes. Climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid)is drilling for ice samples on an ice shelf when the ice breaks beneath his feet. Jack is almost killed, he returns the America and then travels to India to speak at a conference about Global climatic changes, he fears that a new Ice age is imminent, but he is not believed. ...

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The “Other” film blockbuster released last holiday weekend has to be “The Day After Tomorrow”. Directed by Roland Emmerich, (who directed Independence Day and Godzilla), this film is somewhat different from his previous blockbusters – in that this plot is much closer to a real issue facing the world today – that of global warming. Certificate 12A and with a run time of 124 minutes, the film is set in the present day. The fact that it is not decades ...
...is in the here and now. Jack Hall, is a paleo-climatologist addresses an environmental summit; yet his warnings continually go unheeded by his government who are also juggling short-term political issues like that of the economy – a small challenge then... Simultaneously, scientists and climatologists in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres begin to witness a series of abnormal weather/climate events around the globe. A scientist working at ...

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...for years now, claiming that the damage we have done to Planet Earth will be our downfall. The Day After Tomorrow takes that threat seriously, and pits Scientist Jack Hall against the weather. When the Polar Ice Capsules start to melt, Jack tries to warn the governments in the Northern Hemisphere that within years humanity will face destruction. Naturally, the powers that be dont believe him. As Jack's son Sam takes off to New York with his classmates ...
...the worst. Various parts of the Northern world find different weather disasters inflicted upon them. The citizens of a Chinese city are bombarded with giant ice stones raining down on its head, Hollywood is virtually destroyed by cataclysmic twisters, and New York is initially covered over by rising waters that quickly turn to ice and freeze up most of the city. Jack's priority quickly changes as he treks across the frozen lands to a now practically ...

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...finally sat down to watch the Day After Tomorrow last night. I’ve read a number of reviews on it, with opinion seemingly split down the middle. I’d really put off seeing it as I wasn’t entirely convinced I’d really enjoy it all that much. It was the special effects that convinced me to watch it in the end. I’ve spoken to a number of people about it and although the opinion on the film varied they all seemed to say the same thing about the special ...
...It’s brought to us by the director who brought us Independence Day and rather than relying on little green men this time he’s dealing with nature. So the main star of the film is global warming and the effects the amount of pollution is having on the Polar ice caps. Mixed in amongst this is a tale of a father (Dennis Quaid) who neglects his son (Jake Gyllenhaal) until he’s trapped in a frozen New York. Having discovered what’s happening and explained ...

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The Day After Tomorrow is not, by anyone’s standards, typical Hollywood fare. I mean sure, they churned out some weather horror stories (most notably The Perfect Storm), but to turn global warming into a top 10 film worldwide and to make it an action flick on top of that, is no easy feat. The film, written and directed by Roland Emmerich stars Dennis Quaid as Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist who’s area of expertise concerns weather changes ...
...last Ice Age. In the capacity of the film, which deals with the dawn of a new Ice Age triggered by global warming, his job is to try and figure out a plan of action and determine what the storm will do next, since nobody saw this coming so soon, including himself. In the context of the film’s subplot, he is father to a teenage son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), who has just left for a school trip to New York when these mega storm cells erupt. Jake ...

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...bloody rain cloud strike at the most inappropriate of moments, and if that is such a popular scenario, then THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW could have been a very relatable film. I mean, sure, in true Hollywood tradition it is a highly exaggerated version of that situation, but you can still imagine the frustration of a character as one minute he's on a school trip trying to get in with the girl of his dreams and the next he's drowning in a flooded out library. ...
...scene worthy of mentioning in the very same sentence as the truly atrocious and fake looking opening of VERTICAL LIMIT, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW starts with a doctor called Jack, played by Dennis Quaid, who seems more than happy to look permanently grumpy throughout the film while his team of no less than two unlively followers discovers that an ice cap has just split in two and there will probably be a drastic climate shift in a few hundred years ...

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The next time you relax at home and think to yourself,'I know I think I'll burn some fossil fuel', think again, as who knows what could happen tomorrow. The concept of our misuse of planet earth has been highlighted on numerous occasions and the 'greenhouse effect' that delivers us hotter summers and harsher winters stands as a testament to our destruction of the ozone layer and all that that will bring with it. The idea here follows this train ...
...and the sea levels rising. This triggers tidal-waves, tornadoes and freak storms aplenty, but also disrupts the earths air currents and plunges most of the northern hemisphere into the early stages of the new ice age .. as it would I suppose. This is where this movie differs from most of it's genre, in that we have to accept that this event IS going to happen and that whatever the heroes of the film contrive to do, the world will change forever ...

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...people's reviews and many of the comments include 'poor acting', 'not very realistic' and 'a shabby plot'. But I think if you look at the directors aim of this particular movie, i don't think that the quality of the acting was meant to be ( not to be insulting) in line with the acting or 'realism' of many hollywood movies and their stars. Lord of the Rings was a fantastic film and has been recognised as so because of the special effects and the ...
...great in that the plot was already provided by an author which had to be transferred on to film. that particular movie was highly fantastical, about good combating evil. The Day after Tomorrow, addresses the very realistic issue which we 'ourselves' have created- pollution. No Im not a raving Green Party looney but recently my attention has been brought to these issues. particularlt by the film. i think the director has done an excellent job in showing ...

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