The Day After Tomorrow

[Sng]

I think every question can be answered with, "cos it was a really shit film".

[SeanR]

'bout 10000 years ago

http://www.scotese.com/lastice.htm

http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/iceage.htm

[squirtle]

'bout 10000 years ago

http://www.scotese.com/lastice.htm

http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/iceage.htm

It says 10,000 in the film, in that bit in the museum where he's on about the Mammoth with the food still in it's stomach.

And another thing...

Someone moaned about them getting all agitated about the big freeze hitting New York... Well, of course they will be. That's where Dennis Quaid, their very good friend and colleague has gone. That's where hs kid is stuck. Of course they'd be a bit worried that it's hitting New York. It's a tragedy for them on a general level when it all kicks off, but it becomes a near personal tragedy when it hits New York as it's affecting people they know. Some people will have a go about anything!

[JohnC]

oh yeah i'm sure they will. But what percentage of them?

Some think there could ahve been as little as 10,000 at one point.

[franki]

The Day After Tomorrow:

Starring Dennis Quaid as Harrison Ford.

indeed, in fact not just as harrison ford, as han solo no less!

[Guest]

i got round to watching this at the weekend and i thought it was pretty forgettable. i was expecting a big special fx rollercoaster but it just never seemed to get going. the tornadoes arrived and a big tidal wave but then what happened? the next scene everything was covered in ice...

and the less said about the plot the better.

[Sprite Machine]

I nearly fell asleep at a couple of points.

How long was it, again?

[Sng]

Nearly 3 hours.

Films shouldn't be allowed to go over 90 mins if you ask me.

[Guest]

Nearly 3 hours.

Films shouldn't be allowed to go over 90 mins if you ask me.

especially films like that... 45minutes would have done.

[kerraig UK]

It says 10,000 in the film, in that bit in the museum where he's on about the Mammoth with the food still in it's stomach.

And another thing...

Someone moaned about them getting all agitated about the big freeze hitting New York... Well, of course they will be. That's where Dennis Quaid, their very good friend and colleague has gone. That's where hs kid is stuck. Of course they'd be a bit worried that it's hitting New York. It's a tragedy for them on a general level when it all kicks off, but it becomes a near personal tragedy when it hits New York as it's affecting people they know. Some people will have a go about anything!

yes mate, I understood exactly that they were 'getting personal'. thats what I fucking hated so veryvery much. That we were asked to give a shit about this one guy who was actually going into the storm, at the expense of the millions (billions?) of others who'd perished. And to point us to caring by such a ridiculous device as his best mate and meteorologist extraordinnaire saying "oh my god its gonna hit new york city in half an hour!"

Your defence is my attack on this one.

Quite possibly the worst movie i've ever seen on the big screen.

[squirtle]

yes mate, I understood exactly that they were 'getting personal'. thats what I fucking hated so veryvery much. That we were asked to give a shit about this one guy who was actually going into the storm, at the expense of the millions (billions?) of others who'd perished. And to point us to caring by such a ridiculous device as his best mate and meteorologist extraordinnaire saying "oh my god its gonna hit new york city in half an hour!"

Your defence is my attack on this one.

Quite possibly the worst movie i've ever seen on the big screen.

He was going to save his son. That's all. Why, or indeed how, was he gonna save anyone else? This goes hand in hand with the point I made earlier about there being no real villain of the piece, unlike ID4 and Godzilla. It was a different film to them. Fair enough if you didn't like it, but at the end of the day, just about all disaster movies fixate on a few characters amidst the greater disaster.

And worse movie... Nah, I went to see Spawn. Good lord, now that's fucking awful.

[kerraig UK]

yeah I didnt see spawn on the big screen. nor batman and robin or the avengers. So day after tomorrow stands proud with dogma and moulin rouge as the worst cinema experience of my life.

I have no problem with the human drama. With fixating on one group of characters and rooting for them. What I have a problem with, is the trite, melodramatic cheesiness of the meterologist experts over in mexico watching the progress of their mate instead of giving expert advice and crisis management.

Every line of dialogue and every action taken made me hate the film more.

[Vemsie]

I was unfortunate enough to see Batman and Robin on the big screen. Never have I seen anything so crap in a cinema.

[Guest]

come on moulin rouge isn't that bad. i even managed to sit through it (for my bird's sake) and i hate musicals.

[Lovelyman]

I absolutely hated Moulin Rouge too. Too annoying for words and totally lacking any empathy for the poor dying slut.

[FishyFish]

I was unfortunate enough to see Batman and Robin on the big screen. Never have I seen anything so crap in a cinema.

Indeed, but the death of those trapeze artists was blackly amusing.

Fishy

[will]

. So day after tomorrow stands proud with moulin rouge as the worst cinema experience of my life.

I had you down as a man of taste Kraig! Now I see how you can dislike rouge but surely a film buff such as yourself can appreciate the visual and musical acomplishments of rouge that have to lift it above your "worst film at the cinema ever".

[kerraig UK]

I had you down as a man of taste Kraig! Now I see how you can dislike rouge but surely a film buff such as yourself can appreciate the visual and musical acomplishments of rouge that have to lift it above your "worst film at the cinema ever".

See thats just it though. thats exactly why I didnt like it. The production quality was so astounding that they really should have been able to produce something a little less staid and clinically predictable. The song arrangements too made me absolutely cringe. Heres my IMDB review written about an hour after I saw the movie (to explain its roughness):

Boy, where do I begin.

I hated this movie. Trying to sum up quickly what I didn't like isn't going to be easy. Let's start with the plot: I've seen Shakespeare in Love, so why watch an almost identical story about unrequitable love in the theatre?Especially one as predictable as this.

The Editing: Fast and messy, with absolutely no finesse. I thought the camera movements and cuts would relate in some way to the tempo and flow of the songs, but instead we are treated to random zooms, spins and 50 cuts a minute until we feel (or at least I did) rather unwell.

The Songs: What a heavy handed use of pop songs. A song about a prostitute? Oh, lets use Roxanne. In the name of love, Like a virgin, all you need is love, all too predictable. I was hoping for a really clever use of a song to make us see it in a different way. For me, the only tune that achieved that was 'Your Song' by Elton John. Unfortunately, this tune appeared during the most embarrasing scene of the movie.

The Arrangements: This for me is where the movie really failed. Every song (bar Roxanne, which was brilliantly done) received EXACTLY the same treatment. That is, each number would start with a few spoken words, which would then progress slowly (oh, so slowly) into tune. then some strings or a keyboard comes in and the tune picks up pace a bit. Building to a crescendo of huge orchestral accompaniment and high pitched screeching and then...silence. The music stops and our star quietly sings the last line. Again and again. The unoriginal arrangement is hindered further by the fact that we already know all the words, so while the stars are plodding along we are already a verse and a chorus ahead, waiting for them to catch up. I HATED what they did with the songs in this movie.

The Choreography: Average. I liked the Indian dancing at the end, but there wasn't enough of it shown. The Dancing during Like a virgin and especially the scene with the Duke in the Elephant were excrutiating.

The Stars: Nicole Kidman was fantastic, with a solid voice. But Ewan Macgregor, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo & especially the Duke fellow were all awful.

The Directing: On the whole, fairly solid. The movie certainly had fantastic production values. However, the one thing that really grated me was Baz's use of a slow motion strobe effect to convey moments of drama. This technique worked best in Strictly Ballroom when our hero came sliding onto the dancefloor on his knees in the finale. It really hit you in the gut. But in Moulin Rouge we see the same trick every time Nicole had a little cough. Or when we saw the bad guy, or indeed in any moment of 'high drama'. This seriously diluted the desired punch and became way too repetitive. Also, using the exact same zooms and pans every time we go from Ewans hotel room to the Moulin Rouge becomes so very tedious.

Now you may have read this thinking that this movie is just not to my taste, but you'd be wrong. I loved Strictly Ballroom, Shakespeare in Love, Rocky Horror picture show, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Red Shoes, My Fair Lady etc. etc. I have nothing against musicals, or kitsch movies or any of that. On top of all this I was really looking forward to the movie. I just cannot praise a musical with badly sung, badly arranged & badly filmed tunes, that has a plot stolen from any number of other romantic drama/comedies and does absolutely nothing new with it except sprinkle on a bit of glitter

Of course, there are worse movies out there than Moulin Rouge and day after tomorrow, but when guaging my hatred I take into account such things as budget and the team behind it. With the amount of talent and money thrown at both these movies i found the end result devoid of any artistic merit.

[franki]

when he hid in that wendy's to avoid the storm, wouldn't it have been better to hide in the walk in fridge or freezer than in the kitchen? go where it's insulated surely. and when the storm had passed, why was there no water dripping from melted ice with all those burners running? lastly, they passed up a perfectly good gag - when the second meteorologist came round in wendy's, jack should have been grilling cheeseburgers or something. where's the fun in these films?

[Lovelyman]

when he hid in that wendy's to avoid the storm, wouldn't it have been better to hide in the walk in fridge or freezer than in the kitchen? go where it's insulated surely. and when the storm had passed, why was there no water dripping from melted ice with all those burners running? lastly, they passed up a perfectly good gag - when the second meteorologist came round in wendy's, jack should have been grilling cheeseburgers or something. where's the fun in these films?

The fun was lost in the attempt to make every line as cheesy and predictable as possible.

"Glad to have you back"

In real life it would be "wahey! knobhead's awake" *throws stuff at him*

[Lovelyman]

With the amount of talent and money thrown at both these movies i found the end result devoid of any artistic merit.

Moulan Rouge, Agreed

Day after Tomorrow, Expected a worse film than Godzilla personally

[squirtle]

The fun was lost in the attempt to make every line as cheesy and predictable as possible.

"Glad to have you back"

In real life it would be "wahey! knobhead's awake" *throws stuff at him*

Because Dennis Quaid's character is a dodgy londoner, isn't he...

[Lovelyman]

I was only funning squirty!

I'm not even a londiner.

[footle]

Just awful.

I think that just about every single plot detail was wrong.

But, just to pick one scene from the movie:

The weather centre where they're watching the buoys.

(i) Why does the machine beep when a buoy drops by 13 degrees? Who coded it?

(ii) What kind of scientist buys a brand new keyboard to attach to a monitoring PC?

(iii) The football tv "commentary". "We're rejoining the game in the 67th minute of the second half".

and so on.

[DoctorK]

Saw it yesterday (good old Orange Wednesday) and was expecting utter dross but was pleasantly surprised.

Yes it's cliched, sugar coated sickly sweet trash but the effects were fantastic, story quite gripping (for the first hour anyway), totally predictable like all of Emmerich's movies. But then you don't go for a good story do you?

Shame about the blatant product placement though. And amazingly after all those days, nobody stank or needed a shave.

[kerraig UK]

Just awful.

I think that just about every single plot detail was wrong.

But, just to pick one scene from the movie:

The weather centre where they're watching the buoys.

(i) Why does the machine beep when a buoy drops by 13 degrees? Who coded it?

(ii) What kind of scientist buys a brand new keyboard to attach to a monitoring PC?

(iii) The football tv "commentary". "We're rejoining the game in the 67th minute of the second half".

and so on.

I hated the commentary on the football for the obvious concessions it made to american audiences. "Welcome back to Glasgow, IN SCOTLAND..."

[Lovelyman]

Just awful.

I think that just about every single plot detail was wrong.

But, just to pick one scene from the movie:

The weather centre where they're watching the buoys.

(i) Why does the machine beep when a buoy drops by 13 degrees? Who coded it?

(ii) What kind of scientist buys a brand new keyboard to attach to a monitoring PC?

(iii) The football tv "commentary". "We're rejoining the game in the 67th minute of the second half".

and so on.

It would be ace if you posted more of those.

I chuckle to read them.

[kerraig UK]

new thread coming...

[The Liberal Elite]

Even though i watched it in French, I never thought I was missing anything. It's an ultra high concept film, isn't it? I mean, all the bits that are supposed to be the plot - they don't need to be there, do they? Just a string of disasters plugged together.

Would have lved to have worked on the fucking up new york sequences though - looked like excellent fun!

[V3zna]

Excellent, I am bringing another thread back from the dead! I suppose I should really go to the cinema to see these movies instead of waiting for the dvd release.

Anyway, I thought TDAT was a half decent way to spend a hour and 55 minutes. The build up and the disaster sections within the first hour where good. The second half dragged on a bit but nonetheless I enjoyed it. Not the sort of film I will watch over again too many times.