~ ~ 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”.
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Advantages: Awesome special effects Disadvantages: Infantile plot and poor acting
~ ~ 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, ... ...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 ... more
~ ~ 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 to be able to destroy them all over again, this time not by alien attack, 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 of epic proportions. Tornados lash Los Angeles, (even having the temerity to tear down the famous ‘Hollywood’ sign!) there’s snow in New Delhi, hailstones the size of golf balls in Tokyo, and tidal waves in New York. And all this is only a precursor to the coming of the New Ice Age, which strikes at lightning speed, fast freezing everything in its path with temperatures as low as 150 degrees Centigrade!
~ ~ There’s a sub-plot of sorts, or storyline if you will. Dennis Quaid plays palaeoclimatologist (some job title, no!) Jack Hall, who suspects that something is drastically wrong with our weather, when huge chunks of the Antarctic ice shelf the size of Rhode Island start dropping off into the ocean. He addresses the United nations to give them due warning, but is (of course) totally shot down in flames by the unbelieving and sceptical politicos, including a Dick Cheyney look alike of a Vice President called Becker, (Kenneth Welsh) who thinks he’s madder than a March hare, and the oil producing nations who are (naturally) unwilling to give up their huge profits. He finds a supporter for his mad theories in a British scientist called Professor Rapson, (Ian Holm) who is concerned about the rapid fall in water temperature in the Atlantic Ocean currents. Of course, nobody thinks that events are going to advance so rapidly, thinking that they have around a 100 to 1,000 years to put things to rights.
~ ~ In fact, it’s only days before things begin to go drastically wrong with the world’s weather, giving Emmerich the opportunity to scare the bejaysus out of the lot of us with his totally amazing special effects. They really are awesome, and for these alone the DAT has to be a ‘must see’ movie this summer. The natural climax of the movie is the scene where New York is completely devastated by a gigantic tsunami, and then quickly overwhelmed by the rapidly advancing ice. But the story is drawn out long past this scene, with Jack Hall and a couple of his workmates deciding to trek to the by now flattened New York in order to rescue his son Sam, (Jake Gyllenhaal) who has been stranded in the New York library along with some of his classmates while attending some sort of inter-College quiz. Meanwhile his wife, Dr. Lucy Hall, (Sela Ward) is unselfishly (and unbelievably) looking after a terminally ill boy with leukaemia at the hospital where she works.
~ ~ Enough of the storyline, which in all honesty is a load of total bollocks, most of the actors being practically unknown “B” movie extras, and the lines they speak being lifted straight from a ten-year-olds comic book. The true star of DAT is the special effects, computer generated and otherwise, which will have even the most sceptical viewer thinking twice before turning on their car engine or using their aerosol deodorant. (Both are large contributors to the global warming process.) All the scenes are very dramatic, with the best of these being the tidal wave hitting New York, and the ensuing rapid ice advance. (You’ll blink more than twice when you witness a Russian freight ship floating sedately down a mid-Manhattan street!)
~ ~ What I found particularly interesting about DAT is the way mankind generally (and especially we in the Western World) seem to have an ongoing and completely insatiable appetite for movies about our imminent destruction and extinction. Ever since Hollywood started churning out films they have fed this appetite on a constant basis. (Making mega-bucks for themselves in the process) In recent years we have had films like “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact”, which play on our fears of destruction by being hit by a gigantic comet from outer space. We’ve been over-run by aliens, killed off by germ warfare, and blasted to kingdom come by nuclear warheads. Even before we had the cinema and TV, there was the phenomenon of the radio play “War of the Worlds” by Orson Welles, (invasion by Martians) which had people panicking in the streets in America when it was first aired. And still we don’t seem able to get enough of this particular genre of movie, and flock to fill the box office coffers every time a new offering hits the cinema screens! It’s almost as if we all have some sort of in-born racial memory of Armageddon, and are sitting in our comfortable homes waiting for God, science, (the new God in today’s secular society) or nature to wake up to our annoying presence on the planet and rectify the mistake! Maybe it dates back to the Great Flood described in the Bible, and now generally accepted as a fact by modern science. (They’ve even found the remains of Noah’s Ark buried on a mountain somewhere in modern Turkey!)
~ ~ Taken as a whole DAT is a profoundly silly movie, with a childish plot and wooden acting. But yet it has stirred up a hornet’s nest of comment in the world’s media in regard to the question of global warming, and in particular the refusal of the USA to accede to the Kyoto Treaty. It’s basic premise is sound, even if the science behind the story is obviously fatally flawed, and it has had the effect of making people stop and think about the world and their environment. Whether the effect will last, or make any lasting difference, is another question altogether.
~ ~ However and whenever the world we know (and love?) eventually meets its end, I don’t think that it’s going to happen in the way Emmerich speculates in DAT! But the wee lass and myself both enjoyed the movie immensely, and it comes with a high recommendation from the mad cabbie, if for no other reason than the awesome special effects.
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Released: May 28, 2004 (20th Century Fox)
Director: Roland Emmerich
Running Time: 124 minutes
Rated: 12PG (Here in Ireland)
Cast List
Jack Hall: Dennis Quaid Sam Hall: Jake Gyllenhaal Laura Chapman: Emmy Rossum Jason Evans: Dash Mihok Frank Harris: Jay O. Sanders Dr. Lucy Hall: Sela Ward Vice President Becker: Kenneth Welsh Prof. Rapson: Ian Holm President Blake: Perry King Brian Parks: Arjay Smith
Advantages: Incredible effects, lots of action Disadvantages: It's a disaster movie so... bye-bye plot, intelligence, normality etc etc
...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, ...
LostWitness 23.06.2004
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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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Advantages: The story, the awesome CGI effects! Disadvantages: The actors performances and the characters in general.
...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 ...
LR_17 07.01.2005
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Advantages: Great special effects and good interesting characters. Disadvantages: I wasn't to keen on the ending and also felt that some things were cut out.
...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 ...
ralfschumacher 02.06.2004
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Advantages: Special effects galore Disadvantages: Everything else is substandard
...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 ...
WormThatTurned 12.07.2004
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Scientists talk about the planet being threatened by a possible climatological disaster. In this big budget feature the threat becomes a reality in quick time. The planet's oceans become cooler sparking deadly storms. A new ice age begins.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Deluxe Video Service - Fox, 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date
18/10/2004, 06/03/2006
No of Discs
1, 2
Catalogue No
26503 DVD, 26503 CDVD, 2650301034
Barcode
5039036018487, 5039036018494, 5039036026444
Languages
Main Language
English
Subtitle Language
French, Spanish
Hearing Impaired Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Commentary By Director And Co Writer Roland Emmerich, Commentary By Producer Mark Gordon, Commentary By Co Writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff And Cinematographer Ueli Steiger, Commentary By Editor David Brenner And Production Designer Barry Chusid
Aspect Ratio
2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound
DTS 5.1 English Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Award information
BAFTA
Best Achievement In Special Effects 2004 (Karen E. Goulekas, Neil Corbould), Best Achievement In Special Effects 2004 (Neil Corbould, Karen E. Goulekas)
DVD Description
With THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, director Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA) trades evil aliens and radioactive lizards in for some seriously bad weather. When a radical change in the temperature of the world's oceans causes deadly storms and sets a new Ice Age in motion, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) must race from Washington D.C. to save his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), in the subzero climes of New York City. Elsewhere, tornadoes and hail menace the globe, leading to international disasters on an extraordinary level. Emmerich, who has proven to be a master of big-budget cinematic destruction on numerous occasions, aims to outdo himself with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Here entire cities are ripped apart, flooded, and/or frozen, adding up to one of the biggest disaster movies ever filmed. Although astonishingly rendered special effects rule the movie, adept actors such as Quaid and Gyllenhaal (along with Sela Ward, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and others) turn in solid performances that help to balance out the meteorological mayhem. Surprisingly, Emmerich also uses the film as a vehicle for clever moments of social and political commentary, making THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW admirably smarter and considerably more entertaining than typical Hollywood blockbusters.
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