The Day After Tomorrow

[MDRud216]

I saw this movie today and I rate it a 8.5, It was original and had a good storyline but certain things were really random.

 

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1. The title had absolutley no relevence to the storyline

2. The whole thing about the wolves was really random, almost a filler to add another challenge for the characters and nothing more

[Mojlnir]

I rated this movie a 7 out of 10. It's nice to see a blatantly environmentalist picture every once in a while, particularly one that will have people going to see it without realizing its hidden message before hand. Nice special effects and somewhat creative (hopefully...) science, this movie is the perfect way to spend an afternoon without wasting too much time thinking.

 

Character development was lacking, the wolves were poorly animated and completely extraneous to the story, and how, for the love of everything holy, did the father and his friend end up approaching Manhatten from the ocean when they were originally approaching from Philadelphia?!!!

 

Errors like this, run of the mill CG and retarded subplots rate this movie a 7.

 

-M

[MDRud216]

rofl!! I just realized that... they were aproaching from philedelphia but they ended up walking west by the statue of Liberty. Also the wolves were as poorly animated as the werewolves in Van HelSing (like you said)

 

there were giggles in the theater when all the American refugees were running to Mexico.

 

do we have an explanation of the name yet?

[Marxist ßastard]

...Perhaps you'll end up forgetting the entire movie the day after tomorrow...

[Ember]

do we have an explanation of the name yet?

 

I haven't seen the film, but an educated guess... I think it implies that the situation in the movie could arise out of ordinary human activity - 'the day after tomorrow' suggests the consequences of what we do today, in other words. Procrastination of whats important, and the dangers of pretending that the futures somehow automatically safe and secure. Ect.

 

Hence the advertsing campaign (in the UK) of established symbols of western democracy buried in ice; the idea that we could experience of another ice age has long been a symbol of the fact that nations are only ever concerned with their own affairs, and what most benefits their economy. Look at Americas attitude to world enviroment, and the consistent refusal to sign that agreement (the name escapes me, I'm sure somone lese can enlighten*) to put regulations on general pollution and stuff. Thats what I read into it anyway.

 

I've heard the film isn't exactly a politcal commentary, but I think they were probably alluding to that in the title.

 

Ember.

 

Edit by Malchik - *The Kyoto agreement IIRC.

[tyjet3]

All in all the movie deserved a seven. As stated before, graphics were a problem, plot didn't always make sense (people freezing insantly and a HUGE storm in one week... come on), screw ups in fillming (are the producers retarded or do they just need a map of the US next time they make a movie?!), and other technical things.

 

Is it just me or did it seem in possible for a huge boat to travel through streets of New York? Sure there was water, but not enough for a boat to glide on the water! It would have been on land before ever reached any streets, those boats hang very far below water line...

[Albareth]

An allright movie, decent message to send out. I rate it between 6 and 7 due to the usual corny scenes-that-make-me-flinch cliques that were to be found as usually in most hollywood movies.

 

Aside from those side faults, which I can understand since a great number of mentally retarded (no offense if anyone doesn't here :D ) people don't even seem to notice these things and don't like movies to be without them. So, for the sake of the message it sends, 7.