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The Day After Tomorrow

  • 25-05-2004 8:26am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭


    Theres a new movie out at the end of the month dealing with a sudden global warming phenonenon.

    You can see the trailer here
    It looks feckin excelent!
    Tomorrow the enemy is an even more devastating force:nature itself. Tornado's rip los angeles;a massive snow storm pounds new delhi;hail the size of grapefruit batters tokyo;And in New York the temperature changes from sweltering to freezing in one day

    Rate This Movie 62 votes

    Amazing
    0% 0 votes
    Good
    14% 9 votes
    Ok
    38% 24 votes
    Bad
    22% 14 votes
    You wasted 2 hours 12 min of my life and i want them back
    24% 15 votes


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Comments

  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    nice one rocky.
    I like the trailer,looks like something to watch.
    I'll leave this thread here for a bit, if anyone wants to get a discussion going on it.
    Then I might move it to films :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭DapperGent


    A load of people in work got tickets to the premier. I couldn't be arsed the Independance Day association scared me off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Woden


    i enjoy a big disaster movie looking forward to seeing it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭babyhack


    i have tickets to see it today will let u know later how good/bad it is


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭minority


    Its pure special effects.

    Not much acting to be seen at all.

    I Loved it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭User45701


    I know there is aready a topic on this movie put a poll it better cause allot of ppl dont want to bother commenting but still gives there views on the movie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,618 ✭✭✭milltown


    Yeah, not exactly story or character driven but a spectacular disaster movie with stunning special effects.
    I don't think I'll ruin it for anyone by saying I had to suppress a laugh when the President made his speech at the end. How hackneyed was that?
    I doubt anybody is in two minds about going to see it though, you either want to see it or you don't. It's that kind of movie.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I thoroughly enjoyed the film, i didn't think it would be that involving.

    Although the acting was not that great (didn't really require much from the actors, in all fairness), it was good to see Dennis Quaid in a big film such as this and the effects really made you believe that it was happening, especially the rain and the floods...that gave me a shiver.

    It was like Independence Day, action, bit of story, more action, bit of story, but i enjoyed it more i think.

    Won't win an Oscar but the effects are worth going to see for themselves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    saw it yesterday, pretty disappointed found teh whole thing a bit cliched and all....the effcts were good which is why you see a movie like this i know, but i guess it has been a while since iv seen a big hollywood film like this & i dont think i'll be repeating the experince....some of the dialogue was just sooo cheesy

    but jake gyllenhaal is a honey ww)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭timeout


    Saw it last night. Not a bad movie. I liked the story and the effects. As MoonHawk said
    Won't win an Oscar but the effects are worth going to see for themselves.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    it was exactly what i wanted it to be.

    great film...


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I saw it earlier today. I thought it was fantastic. I have to say that as a child my two favourite films were Stargate and Independance Day. Acutually Stargate is still one of my favourites.

    I have to applaud Roland Emmerich, the studio wanted the scenes of LA being devestated cut because of september 11, but Emmerich said no. And hey how many other disator films mention Ireland?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭User45701


    I thought it was good, the presdiants speech at the end was so funny loads of ppl couldent stop laughing. i was VERY suprised that ppl clapped at the end of The Day after tomorrow but then they where drowned out by ppl laughing at them.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,001 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    It's around what I expected, which is to say a stupid popcorn movie, with some great fun scenes immersed in woeful dialogue. The first half is quite enjoyable but the second half seems to sort of slink along, without any real punch. It's certainly a better summer movie than Van Helsing, but it's pretty average overall bar some superb scenes of mass destruction - DIE STUPID PEOPLE DIE!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    hated it...



    worse film i've seen so far this year (and i saw van hellsing)



    The effects were crap

    the story was far too predictable

    the acting for the most part was woefull

    the characters were so goddamn cliched it was'nt even funny.

    the actual aspect of the film it was advertising, that made me go see it
    the day AFTER tomarrow, them surviving the aftermath of the disaster
    was so rushed and unimportant to the overall film that it ended up being an inconsistent 10 minute collection of scenes between crappy destroy things scene and woefull ending scene.


    here are the aspects that pissed me off the most:
    The opening shots, flying over a pure cgi Antartica was so rubbish that it just really really annoyed me, yet it went on for ages and they finally do come to the acting, it looks like a guy standing on a block of ice surronded by a blue screened antartica. The scene itself was useless and predictable, the whole jumping the chasm looked as bad IF NOT worse then those woefull vine swings in van hellsing
    alot of the effects during the film were either just crap...or average at best. the scene with the helicopters was woefully bad to watch, as was the flooding of new yoek. LA was average at most. Dont get me started on the wolves
    the characters were so goddamn cliched. I mean the 3 english guys in the research room, an old english guy who says 'a spot of tea' and 'enough biscuits and tea to sink a ship?' is the equivilent of having an irishman saying 'top of the morning to you'?? you have the caring black father (which i swear i have seen that character in alot of films lately) and finally you have the manchester united fan...GROAN Away from england you see him straining in America, the Asain scientist...I swear she was put in there to be more culturaly diverse, and nothing else. The doctor who stayed behind with the lukemia kid...how bloody predictable and far too melodramatic for my tastes. Also the Seperated couple who get back together because of disaster THAT IS THE THIRD TIME THIS GUY HAS DONE IT WHY???? The kid who is ultra smart but to afraid to speak up, seen it Godzilla and in stargate. i think the only original aspect of the film was that the vice president did not get knocked out or something worse.
    and finally i must ask...This is the fourth film i have seen from roland...yet in 3 of those films he has something trash new york...CAN WE PLEASE CHANGE IT A BIT? I swear the new york scene was almost shot for shot Independance Day except remove Fire replace with Water, most obvious was the scene with the bus driver looking in the mirror, thats in ID4. The scene where the girl and boy run away from the flood, thats in ID4 with the mother her kid and the dog...In fact i'm tempted to say, its the same with GOdzilla...but at least that was more original with the fact the monster actually diversived...



    so overall in case you havnt guessed I HATED THE FILM ALOT and have warned most friends and family against it. Hell I rather sit through Van Hellsing again then sit through the day after tomarrow again. But that doesnt mean van hellsing is great. This is the 2nd crap film of the blockbusters.


    so who wants to flame me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    I liked the film but it smelled of independence day.
    it was yet another opportunity for news corporation to advertise its various news channels fox news sky news etc
    the portrayal of the english was pretty lame as well, i didn't like the "oh at least we have some tea and buiscits left " line. although I thought the "manchester united line was funny.
    at least ireland got a mention in this movie where belfast and dublin are evacuated and get a mention on sky news, you have to listen out for it though

    all in all it was a "leave your brain in the lobby" kind of a film. a good yarn

    hah me using vbulletin code that actually works :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,162 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    Excellent big screen fun. Sure it's cliched but it's nowhere near as cheesy as independance day. It's not going to be anywhere near as satisfying on DVD.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    the line about ireland was: "citizens of Belfast and ____ have been asked to evacuate to Dublin city"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    Originally posted by BlitzKrieg
    the line about ireland was: "citizens of Belfast and ____ have been asked to evacuate to Dublin city"

    so much for the spoiler tags


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭joe_chicken


    how can you have a film with a line like
    the sea has reached a critical desalantion point
    and it still be good...

    it was ok...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    I taught it was ok. Nothing special. The special effects are very good. Acting isn't the best. Leave your brain at the door, eat some popcorn and enjoy it. Not one to go back an see again. Predictable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭Space Coyote


    Chewing gum for the eyes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    too many people are complaining about it being like indipendance day. it was the same writer director... what were you expecting?

    it could have easily been a lot worse... will smith could have been in it.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Originally posted by BlitzKrieg
    the acting for the most part was woefull

    the characters were so goddamn cliched it was'nt even funny.

    While I agree with the above, I have to wonder if you were watching the same film when you said the effects were crap.

    The messages behind the film were probably totally lost on the target audience.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭ObeyGiant


    Originally posted by monument
    While I agree with the above, I have to wonder if you were watching the same film when you said the effects were crap.
    There were two points in the film where I thought the effects looked a little ropey. The first being the shot of the water crashing into the library, which itself looked quite nice, but they decided to throw some blue screened Jake Gyllenhaal in front of it, which looked amateurish.

    The second was where Denis Quaid was walking into New York. It's harder to pin down exactly what looked so wrong about this. It's either that they ran out of computing power halfway through and had to leave it looking like a cheap, low-resolution render, or that the two human characters looked completely out of scale to the rest of the scene. Or a combination of the two.

    Other than that, I thought the effects were quite good. The CG wolves worked really well, because you hardly got to see them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭namaimo


    The movie is inaccurate it's as if there was no research done at all... the best bit is...
    Yes, the sub-temperature instantly freeze anything it touches. Yet, a few burning books is able to save our characters. Hurrah.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Apologies to all the people I am about to offend here, the film was ****ing ****e!!!

    If you enjoyed that or actually believed any of the pseudo science rubbish, you are a moron and deserve to be squashed by a one thousand tonne tanker docked outside Manhattan Library!!

    The opening shots of the film over the ice caps gave me a horrilble headache and dragged on for what feels like eternity... Then the silly chappy drilling away with a 12 inch drill causes a massive ice cap (the size of this country) to split in two.. Like come on. Then some tool risks his life to rescuse ice samples!!! God christ!!

    Then there was a scene covering the global warming conference in India.. It was snowing outside... In India!! No one thought this was odd enough???

    You really wouldn't have guessed the film was backed by Fox either.. Constant ****ing reference to Sky News, Fox News and even ****ing Manchester United.. All that was needed next was a David Beckham gell advert.. Then there was big silver DELL emblems pasted onto everything - I am nearly sure it flashed up for one frame in every 60..

    Then there was the wolves.. They were savage beasts I tell ya.. I expected them to pull a rocket launcher out and take the choppers out of the air at the end...

    The one original thing about this film was what I thought I would be the typical rich Amercia kid with devorced parents.. He didn't turn out to be a cocky arrogant prick, I thought this was amazing!!! Ohhhh

    A Giant swell in the tide flooded the whole of New York with about 30 foot of water.. Then "heroes" were hiding in the library for a mere 30 mins when a big oil tanker comes sailing up a main street in Manhattan!! How the **** did it avoid the wave and still get there in 30 mins?? OK, a 30 foot tidal wave, and not one building was knocked down.. Think about it!! Somehow mobile phone networks were still working but were just jammed with users. Considering what was going on outside, some muppet spends ages bitching about mobile phones!!! ahhhhhhh

    The hurricanes in LA, there is 4 or 5 massive ones sucking up everything in its path and actually taking chunks out of buildings (only ever half the building for some reason) but news choppers freely fly around them!!

    Note a hurricane can destroy buildings but the biggest tidal wave ever cannot, not even a ship!!!

    Then the main characters father decides to treck from Washington to New York to rescue him... He and two friends hike across snow covered countryside and soon reach New York.. But they end up on the east side of New York on the Atlantic Ocean standing beside the Stutue on Liberty... Did they decide to take the scenic route or something as they should have approached from the West!!!

    I have just wrote the most incoherent lump of dribble ever.. **** just sprung into my mind and I typed.. This is now poor this film is.. Now consider this, I liked Bad Boys 2!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Originally posted by namaimo
    The movie is inaccurate it's as if there was no research done at all... the best bit is...

    Yes, the sub-temperature instantly freeze anything it touches. Yet, a few burning books is able to save our characters. Hurrah.

    Not only this, it causes three RAF choppers to drop out of the sky. The cause, they frooze, including the fuel!! Yet after the crash landing, the pilot is able to freely open the door (not frozen), whereby he is frozen alive in about 5 second.. But the door still works fine!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭sound_wave


    have to agree with namaimo, jesus and all the others who said this film is ****e! Its absolutly mind numbing and utterly crap. Dont waste your money


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Come on people, you will never find a film such as this to be a blockbuster AND be entirely scientifcally satisfying.

    For example, the snow in India was highlighted to be strange, as the news reporter there said to the camera.

    the floods were caused by a rising of the sea level, there was no tidal wave, just a sudden rising, which meant that the docked sea vessel would have just floated along...in real life, such a thing might not have happened (the vessel might have crashed into another buliding) but then there was no film!

    Also, the 12 inch drill did not make the ice cap split, the world's inability to adjust its carbon dioxide emissions was the cause. He just happend to be drilling when the ice cap split.

    It's a pity you can't see this when you're watching the film, but please try to understand a) the context of the film b) the audience of the film and c) the plot of the film before you attempt to berate it.

    Also, try some spell checking :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    Ye are all missing the point here, disaster films are very rarely based on fact.

    I loved it, cos its god things that go bang.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    first of all the mention of ireland in the film is not essential to plot therefore no need for spoiler

    On the Cgi of the film
    Did you notice how bad the entire opening was? The fact that they CGI'D the entire scene, antarica has never looked so fake. The bit with the British Helicopters looks crap, as mentioned allready, the scene with the flooding was not as impressive as it should have been, the only really impressive CGI i thought was *some* parts of the hurricane bits in la (the part where they first form...


    on the excuse that its similar to ID4 because same writer/director...thats B*LL****. Its the same people who did the original stargate so making this tripe is a BIG step down. Also there is writers who have similar themes in their films, and then there are writers who have the SAME FILMS with minor changes.


    look at the last three films by this guy:

    ID4
    GODZILLA
    DAY AFTER TOMARROW.


    all 3 involve something trashing new york. Has the scientist know it all on the subject save the day, the bitchy government who wont believe him. THe Couple who get back together. the crappy speech near the end. the seperated stories that all link up. and so on.

    in fact of the three this could be the worse because the seperate story lines are not really seperate and they dont link up well...


    I wanna try putting the ID4 audio track over this film just to see how well it fits...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,162 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    Do you go to the movies to be enlightened and treated to absolutely correct real-life situations, or do you go to be entertained? For just about everybody it's a mix of both, it just depends where you balance the 2. Real life is boring as fk onscreen (look at the amount of manipulation they put into 'reality tv' ffs), scientific facts about the effects of global warming etc. are disputed amongst many different research bodies, it usually depends on who's funding them. So stop acting as if you know what would happen, or even what's likely. Sure there are many gaffs but you don't go to a movie like this and NOT expect them, that's stupid in itself. Get a reasonable grounding in reality with a healthy dose of exaggeration thrown in for excitement and you have a good popcorn muncher.
    Discussions like this always make me think of the movie 'In The Company Of Men'. EXcellent well directed/acted/written etc., none of the usual cliches yet it's not a very enjoyable film - impressive but not entertaining.
    Which is worse?
    Movies like this are a good one night stand, stop trying to make out it should have been the love of your life yet failed :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    where have i complained about it being unrealistic?


    I've only complained because it is simply put a crap movie on purely the entertainment value. It wasnt even worth a one night viewing with me...i know its unrealistic and i dont care. I just think its a crap movie. (end comment.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Woden


    i saw it last night and enjoyed it, sure it had issues, but none of the effects bothered me and i always enjoy seeing new york in a film after having visited there and have been at the front of that library and stuff.

    the science mumbo jumbo wasn't that bad imo, i didn't see the issue with the "critical desalanation point". whether its true or not is another is frequently cricital points in a number of physical systems and it was a decent enough explanation as to why the current had changed

    and yes i didn't think your man's drilling caused the whole shelf to fall off and i thought it was decent enough effort to link in the whole instant freezing of the wooly mammoth and then the whole cool air being sucked down from the troposphere in the eye of the storm.

    also whats up with the spoiler tags on films that have been released, are they customary, i be of the opinion that if its out, if you don't want to know anything about it don't read the thread

    data


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭brianomc


    best part of the film was the presidents speech thanking the non-suffering nations for their hospitality. Mexico didn't want you, as usual you just invaded.

    I wouldn't recommend this to many people, it's so slow moving you will be looking at your watch hoping it will soon be over. It's no independence day (which i liked).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Woden


    Originally posted by brianomc
    best part of the film was the presidents speech thanking the non-suffering nations for their hospitality. Mexico didn't want you, as usual you just invaded.

    ah come on thats a ridiculous statement its not like they went into mexico with troops it was just masses and masses of people crossing the boarder, ordinary people panicking, not an invasion force ffs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,570 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I can't believe the high minded geekiness of this thread. ITS A FREAKING MOVIE! Pay your money, watch it for 2 hours, leave. Move on......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭Fence


    Originally posted by ObeyGiant
    The CG wolves worked really well, because you hardly got to see them.

    Gotta disagree, thought they looked like crap. More suited to Van Helsing, mind you the whole film was pants. And not improved by idiots in the cinema (UGC) who decided to cheer and whistle
    during the kiss
    . I mean did you really think that would never happen. And then they clapped at the end.

    Please!
    This film did not deserve any applause, although maybe they were being ironic or sarky or somet, but I doubt it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭Fuhrio


    My God, that was one craptacular film.

    it stole so much from other films, vertical limit, twister, armageddon etc...


    it was also the cheesiest movie ive ever seen




    "just tell her how you feel"

    *VOMITS*

    horrible horrible movie


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Art_Wolf


    Originally posted by Fence
    Gotta disagree, thought they looked like crap.

    yeah gotta agree didnt think the wolves looked crap - liked the way they moved though.
    And not improved by idiots in the cinema (UGC) who decided to cheer and whistle
    during the kiss
    . I mean did you really think that would never happen. And then they clapped at the end.

    Ha hate to have gone to that showing ;)
    Wish they had dropped the whole love crap...and also the mom as the doc - why was that included..?


    Overall I thought it was Good mainly cause of the cgi *shrugs*

    There was little else to the film - the plot pfft, the dialogue *cough* best to ignore :dunno:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭bada_bing


    well just saw it tonight and thought it was the most barf-inducing pile of crap i have ever seen over the last few years........:mad: ...................the movie was so cheesy that it bordered on being offensive!!!!!!!! it was just so sad that the scene in antartica had to be wholly CGI generated.............it felt like none of the scenes were actually shot outdoors at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭TCamen


    For the first hour or so, I was quite enjoying the movie, but I felt the pace dropped off far too much after that, and there really wasn't much drama/excitement/action in the remainder of the movie.

    I mean, in ID4, yeah there was a lag in the middle, but it was bolstered by the preceding alien invasion, and then a big FX climax.
    The end of DAT didn't pack a punch because
    there was nothing any of the humans DID to end the disaster. In ID4, there was a retaliation attack that resulted in the aliens being destroyed, and the Earth was safe.
    In DAT, the weather just....stopped. Disaster over. It was lame, and could've used some silly, unscientific intervention e.g the space station doing *something* that at least sped up the weather cycle? Would it have been too much to have some satellite in space have a device to heat areas of the Earth? Yeah it's probably not possible, but I just think for a big dumb summer blockbuster, we should've seen more than the entire human race hiding away from frost, hoping that it'd go away? I can forgive the fact that all the people out in the freezing cold kept taking off their face gear and/or leaving their faces exposed, cos it's a dumb movie. BUT, there should have been some human input into the resolution of the situation imo.

    All in all, bar the dodgy blue-screen insert of the kids running from the tidal wave, and the wolves the FX were all very nice, and far better than anything in Van Helsing.
    The message about global warming seemed to have worked on the kids leaving the theatre at least :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,726 ✭✭✭quank


    Didn't like the film.

    Cheese. Bad storyline. Wouldn't recommend it to be seen in the cinema.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 Fendervendor


    I made the mistake of watching the 'Sky' special prior to seeing the movie. there was NOTHING new to see in the movie that was not in the special. A total waste of time and money and soooo dissapointing, as i am a big fan of Emerich's work. Id4 rules!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    bad film but guys its only a film like dont nit pick at every hair that is out of place

    just makes ya look like nerds! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    Good special effects on most of the scenes (like the wave through NY and LA getting torn to bits), but other than that the film was a pile of cack. I only went to see it for the effects though.

    I agree though, the CG wolves looked awful. Really awful. Even in the trailer. Why bother with CG? Get some huskies and paint them grey or something, anything would have looked better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭Fungtank


    Yeah it wasn't a great film but the disaster scene though short were class. They should have shown more of the disaster.

    Also did anybody else notice that

    1 after the disaster all of the newyork harbour was frozen over yet when the showed europe the mediteranian and the adriatic sea were still liquid!!!

    2 when dennis quaid arrived in new york and was looking around for the library there was no smoke coming out of the chimney!! Ah it was snowed in you say - then why weren't they all dead from monoxide poisining - ah but the smoke froze you retort - then how was the fire still on!!

    And finally

    3 when the new president made his speech at the very end he made it on television. Who's tv in the northern hemisphere would work? No electricity no aerials.

    Maybe i'm reading into it too much but who cares


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭ObeyGiant


    Originally posted by koneko
    I agree though, the CG wolves looked awful. Really awful. Even in the trailer. Why bother with CG?
    Well, because getting animals to "act" is notoriously painful. Getting them to run around a ship, chasing someone is even worse. And, well, getting them to slip around and slam into walls.. well, that would probably be easy to do (just throw them against the wall), but it would probably alarm PETA.

    I personally didn't feel the film needed the wolves, but they never asked me my opinion before they made the film, and since they went ahead anyway, CG wolves was the only way.

    (also: did anyone else notice that Day After Tomorrow got 3 stars (out of 3?) in the Sunday Times Culture magazine?!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭Fungtank


    oh yeah and the wolves..... F's sake!!

    My 4 year old brother would draw more realistic ones. And was it just me or did the wolves characteristics in body those of the velosa raptors in Jurassic park 1


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