The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

The Day After Tomorrow was, I have to say, was a bit of a disappointment. It was not a bad film but it just was not worth all the build up and excitement. The reason I did not enjoy it that much was that it made absolutely no lasting impression on you. I can remember the story and the characters but at no point was I overwhelmed or amazed by it. As everybody will have seen from the trailers, the plot is very simple. Polar ice caps are melting and ...
...a second ice age. Then the storyline talks about how different people survive (or don’t). One thing that I did think was well done was the special effects. For example, there were wolves, which before hand I found out were computer generated so I was expecting big lumps with legs and a head, but they actually looked real! You could see the hairs that did not face all one direction and some were different colours, the level of detail was great. ...

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I finally got to see the most awaited line in Hollywood of natural disaster movies “The day after tomorrow” by a well known director of independence day - Roland Emmerich. And like his previous attempts he has not failed to amaze us again. The film is basically about the global warming, waned by the media to come about in the next couple of hundred years, only this movie starts off by saying its six to twelve months and then turns out to be actually ...
...Los Angeles, hailstones which are the size of golf balls (which I have to admit looked bigger) and of course the tidal waves before it the end of the world scenario turns to the ice age. I have to say I was disappointed to see that there was little about other countries and mainly based around NEW YORK! And only New York – forget the rest of the USA. The nail biting ice age is one where the special effects take over the whole show. The eye of the ...

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...seeing it, but it was the only movie starting around the time myself and my boyfriend turned up at the cinema so thought what the heck just go see it. And I'm so glad I did. It starts of with Jack Hall giving an important speech about the possible chance of the world going through a second ice age because of the melting of the ice caps causing a disturbance to the flow of heat above the equator. (Which face it, could very well damn happen!!!!) He ...
...and doing something to save the world, as this ice age could happen within 100 years. In true movie style, 100 years is simply too far away and infact, the climate starts to make a startling change for the worse in the US. We discover that everywhere over the north of the Equator will infact turn to ice, and there is a massive tornado-like ice storm over Scotland, Serbia and... sorry, I forget. There's also huge ice hailstones in Hong Kong killing ...

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The Day After Tomorrow is a film not to be missed an excellent story starring Dennis Quaid as Jack Hall and Jake Gyllenhaal as his son, who get torn apart when global warming triggers the onset of a new ice age. I have watched this movie 3 times since I bought it a couple of weeks ago, and it is still just as good everytime, I like this story line although it could be better, it reflects our own world where we take things for granteed, and if were ...
...facing these very aspects of the film, including Tornadoes(special effects excellent on this you would not believe the size of them), Tidal waves big enough to engulf New York city, and finding that the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid it's a race to save your life, the life of humun beings, what would you do? and what could YOU do to stop it from happening? or is it all ready to late? Sound and special effects are fantastic a spectacular, ...

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...Although 'The End of the World As We Know It' flicks are commonplace, I'm not aware of any others with such a big budget that took the global warming idea to this extreme. The special effects in the trailers were impressive and they were even more so during the film. However, that's where the positives end for me. So much more could have been done with this film. There is an entire world entering a new Ice Age but all we get if a few American schoolkids, ...
...father of the lovesick adolescent) striving to get back together. Aside from a token couple of minutes of snow in India and a couple of scenes in a weather post in Scotland, it seems the Ice Age only really bothers the US. The Scottish scenes are typical Hollywood as well, with the country being one huge wilderness and obviously having no cities at all. So we get the extras determined to do the obviously stupid thing and go out in the snow, while ...

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...we got. Easy on the eye, lots of special effects and plenty of action. It tells the story through the eyes of a climatologist and his family. It, in an obvious way, blows out of proportion what would happen if the world continued on their day to day business destroying the earth – with regards to the Greenhouse effect and global warming. Climatologist, Prof Adrian Hall (Dennis Quaid) studies the weather movements of past years, in order to determine ...
...model that shows the president that if nothing gets done about saving the world at present, that they will be destroying it for their childrens children and so on and so forth. As the weather begins to change dramatically around the world, melon size hail stones killing on the streets of Tokyo and numerous hurricanes around Hawaii, Adrian Hall is the man to discover that his model is correct to the goings on around the globe – ONLY HUNDREDS OF YEARS ...

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...one of what I call the men who look like someone famous. Remember Indiana Jones............ Anyway, Quaid plays a Government climatologist who is so obsessed with his work that his family life subsiquently suffers. His son, Sam, played by Jake Gyllenhaal,( who you may remember from his star performance in Donny Darko), is as mentally gifted as his father, even to the point where he is failing in Calculus class because he can do such complex math ...
...climate shift whidh could devastate the world is voiced by him at a UN meeting in Dubai. Of course no one listens to him. This almost rings of the so friequetly use phrase, -I told you so-. It subsiquently starts to snow!! Hail stones the size of ostrich eggs batter the streets of Toyko and snow covers mos of Europe. As the crazy weather-predicting star is an expert at crossing vast areas of barren snow wasteland, this will obviously stand to him ...

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...until now. With all the big talk about Spider-Man II, Harry Potter, Troy and various other summer blockbusters, one film that seems to have silently gone about its hype is Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow. Obviously confident in the film's capacity to sit audiences in the theatre gallows. 20th Century Fox has preferred to let the trailer do the talking and rely on word of mouth to rattle up the box-office numbers. And why not? Tomorrow ...
...Hit UK screens 28 May, the latest big-budget special effects fest from the director of Independence Day and Godzilla has got the substance of some considerable talent with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal starring as a father and son Adrian and Sam Hall. The movie centres on its own predictions of what might happen if global warming continued at its current pace, resulting in worldwide catastrophe and disaster. Tornadoes smash LA to pieces, hailstones ...

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This was the best film that I have seen. That doesn't make it a great film necessarily, but it had all the right ingredients to keep the audience watching from start to finish. It had similarities with Titanic in that compared to the overall plot, the stories involved were at times contrived, but it was not really the sub-plot, or at times slightly dodgy acting, that raised any comment on leaving the cinema. Most importantly it was extremely thought ...
...- climate change leading to the ultimate destruction of mankind. The political issues were actually handled in a brilliantly understated yet powerful manner. The President's final speech regarding the southern hemisphere giving refuge to the world's most affluent nationalities was particularly poignant. If it makes 1in 1,000 filmgoers, particularly in the US, challenge the politicians as to why they will not support world treaties on the environment ...

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The hype before I went to see the movie was very impressive, from what all of my friends said it was a good movie a must see. As I had seen Independence Day from the same director I thought it would be well worth watching. Although I was not disappointed with the movie in certain areas it lacked a certain umph about it. The initial start to the movie was one to grab the viewer attention, in my opinion this certainly happened as it showed a huge piece ...
...swing, bringing in all of the weather reports, the story started to get a bit beyond my imagination, for example when the weather was so cold it was freezing the toughest of army helicopters designed to cope with extremities. Yet these scenes were portrayed with such realism it was untrue from the hailstones to the flooding to the blizzards to the freezing. In fact it was one of these scenes which was one of my highlights of the movies when the city ...

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I didn't actually see The Day After Tomorrow when it had it's cinematic release last year and have only just watched the DVD. I decided when I saw the trailer for the film , that it wasn't my cup of tea but after much persuading from my friends I watched the DVD and I'm glad i have. The film centres around the prediction of an impending ice age and the catastophic events that take place. The main, central character is Jack Hall (Dennis Quiad), a ...
...that will affect the northern hemisphere within the next hundred years. Nobody seems to believe him, even when all hell breaks loose around the world with melon sized hailstones and flash floods. Hall's prediction is correct, although like most long range weather forcasts, goes slightly haywire and ends up occuring within days, not years. Cue mass hysteria from the general public and international figure-heads when it actually dawns on them that ...

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I have seen all the advertising for this film for ages and was really looking forward to watching it ....I wasnt disappointed! The basic plot as i can see it is, the speed up of climate change on this planet and how it effects the population and life as we know it, i.e. everything freezes pretty darn quick and is deadly, and I for one really hope we and our future generations dont have to suffer this! I am going to break away from making any more ...
...this day and age when the agreement of nations to reduce greenhouse emmisions is not being backed by the likes of the USA and China to mention two......and even to hear an American senator state that they dont believe green house emmisions are the cause of the change of climate. So is this movie trying to make the population of the US realise that the Kioto agreement is something that they should be taking part in, to help it achieve respect in ...

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...Plot outline: a climatologist has the job to try and find a way to save the world from a new ice age, while trying to save his son who is trapped in the centre, New York. *cast* Dennis Quaid: Jack Hall Jake Gyllenhaal: Sam Hall Emmy Rossum: Laura Chapman Dash Mihok: Jason Evans Jay O. Sanders: Frank Harris Sela Ward: Dr. Lucy Hall Austin Nichols: J.D. Arjay Smith: Brian Parks Tamlyn Tomita: Janet Tokada Sasha Roiz: Parker Ian Holm: Terry ...
...Directed by: Roland Emmerich From the director of Independence Day comes a film of courage and survival of the fittest. A new ice age has begun. When global warming triggers the onset of a new ice age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York and the entire northern hemisphere begins to freeze. Climatologist Jack Hall has to try and figure a way to save many of the citizens of New York and save his son, who is trapped in the ...

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The Day After Tommorow... a decent title.... but somewhat questionable... because it took about 10 days to change the world in the film instead of 3 days. This film is just poor considering the storyline. I wasted £12.99 on it why? because it was made by the same people who created the masterpiece of Independance Day, I have a hobby for Twisters and i'm genuinly interested in Geography. Graphically i can definately say that this film is very good. ...
...the wall.... but would any of you watch it again.... i'd really doubt it. The biggest flaw has to be the storyline... anyone who has done GCSE Geography would know that what happens in the film is just totally unrealistic and it wont happen at this moment in time and certainly not in 10 days. Basically the storyline is... with Global Warming being a problem, and Ice Cap the size of Rhode Island breaks off from the Artic and melts causing a massive ...

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...GCSE course, i fully enjoyed the whole of this movie. so what? it was a bit predictable in places and Jake Gyllenhaal was a bit mis matched in his character, you can not honestly say that there was not bits in the movie that fully encptured your attention. The special effects were AMAZING!!!!!! Even though i was a bit dissappointed at the level of destruction. I'm sure that the director didn't want to be seen as inconsiderate by destroying new ...
...At first i thought the film was going to be boring because of all the technicsal terms, but it really made me think, and understand what climate change would do to Earth as we know it - even though it is put across a bit unrealistically in the film i think some people will start thinking about their actions and the role they are taking in destroying the environment. I recommend you see this film even if you are not interested in the environment... ...

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