The Day After Tomorrow
2004 Directed by Roland Emmerich
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Where will you be?
After years of unabated global warming, the greenhouse effect is wreaking havoc all over the globe in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and, most ominously, the beginning of the next Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall tries to save the world while also shepherding to safety his son Sam, who was in New York when the city was overwhelmed by the beginnings of the new big freeze.
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It's like 2012 with less imagination, if that was humanly possible. At least 2012 had John Cusack, this had Dennis 'I have the emotional range and face of a teabag' Quaid.
So its two hour running time is pretty much this:
1. Dennis Quaid being out-acted by CGI ice.
2. Dennis Quaid being out-acted by CGI tornadoes.
3. Dennis Quaid being out-acted by a CGI tidal wave.
4. Jake Gyllenhaal opening his eyes WIDELY. A lot
5. Dennis Quaid being out-acted by that naked chick from Shameless.
6. Oh look, there's Dash Mihok. He was in the The Thin Red Line. He's so fucking more talented than Dennis Quaid. Why isn't he in the lead.
7. Ian Holm simply being… -
"Look, look, look, just look for a second, one second."
Yes this movie is horrible, but in the same way that a McDonald's double cheeseburger is horrible. You can think about the process that went into making it and be disgusted, or you can just enjoy the greasy, cheesy disgustingness of it all.
The Day After Tomorrow is an absolutely ridiculous film. Roland Emmerich is the ultimate climate change fetishist, and he pops all over this film. Everything is cliche, but I wouldn't want it any other way.
The only reason I don't go 5 out of 5 is because of the wolves. I like the ship scene, but the wolves are the worst. Maybe if another type of animal had been used. Either bears or wolverines would have been my choice.
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Above being critiqued, The Day After Tomorrow simply exists.
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The best thing about this film is the poster.
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Until today, I was one of the very few people who hadn't seen this film.
I finally get what all the hype was about.
The Day After Tomorrow is an exciting, nerve-pounding thriller that genuinely has you freaking out on the edge of your chair.
Forget the scary monsters from Cloverfield, Manhattan is under a much more serious threat - the powerful, destructible, very real force of something we have absolutely no control over.
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At least 2012 had John Cusack (and Amanda Peet!)...
Dennis Quaid couldn't have carried my library card, let alone this movie. And while we all know Jake Gyllenhaal is a better actor than other disaster movie chumps like Shia LeBeouf (the Baysplotaion of Transformers), Jake really didn't have much halfway decent to do here. Heck, most of what he actually had to do could probably have been done as convincingly by Rihanna (Battleship anyone?).
I would never sink as low as trying to apply logic to a disaster movie or demand good storylines, and least of all in one made by Emmerich, but this was a sad excuse for a Antarctic walk through US.
I almost smiled a couple of…
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roland emmerich does it again!
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Some pretty cool disaster scenes can't entirely overcome the immense stupidity that permeates every inch of this film. I still laugh about how dumb the idea of OUTRUNNING COLD AIR is.
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it slows down towards the end
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It's impossible not to enjoy this film after watching it a thousand times on Film4.
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You know, I have decided that I like Emmerich disaster films. ID4 is a significant film for me, but even this one which isn't is still a lot of fun. It has just the right amount of ludicrousness and taking itself seriously that it works.
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It's big and stupid... but I kinda like it. Inexplicably, I've been able to sit through this movie at least 4 times through the years.
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"I will come for you, do you understand me? I will come for you."
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Until today, I was one of the very few people who hadn't seen this film.
I finally get what all the hype was about.
The Day After Tomorrow is an exciting, nerve-pounding thriller that genuinely has you freaking out on the edge of your chair.
Forget the scary monsters from Cloverfield, Manhattan is under a much more serious threat - the powerful, destructible, very real force of something we have absolutely no control over.
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Above being critiqued, The Day After Tomorrow simply exists.