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The Day After Tomorrow [Blu-ray]
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When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than any they've ever encountered: Mother Nature!
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Supreme silliness doesn't stop The Day After Tomorrow from being lots of fun for connoisseurs of epic-scale disaster flicks. After the blockbuster profits of Independence Day and Godzilla, you can't blame director Roland Emmerich for using global warming as a politically correct excuse for destroying most of the northern hemisphere. Like most of Emmerich's films, this one emphasizes special effects over such lesser priorities as well-drawn characters and plausible plotting, and his dialogue (cowritten by Jeffrey Nachmanoff) is so laughably trite that it could be entirely eliminated without harming the movie. It's the spectacle that's important here, not the lame, recycled plot about father and son (Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal) who endure an end-of-the-world scenario caused by the effects of global warming. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the awesome visions of tornado-ravaged Los Angeles, blizzards in New Delhi, Japan pummeled by grapefruit-sized hailstones, and Manhattan flooded by swelling oceans and then frozen by the onset of a modern ice age. It's all wildly impressive, and Emmerich obviously doesn't care if the science is flimsy, so why should you? --Jeff Shannon
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The Day After Tomorrow [Blu-ray]
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Jake Gyllenhaaaal sizzles as the guy they get when Toby Maguire is busy, and his congenital smirk lights up the screen. An ethnically balanced mob of nobodies rounds out the cast, but a special mention is merited for Kenneth Welsh, who plays a Cheney-esque Vice President so bilious, so bitter and acrid, that his performance actually eats a hole in the floor. Director Roland Emmerich lends his usual subtle style to this story of a world in which we should constantly feel guilty for driving to get the pizza instead of walking. Dennis Quaid stars as hard-driven scientist Harrison Ford, who discovers that a humble meteorologist, given enough power, can kill us all. It's time to watch the end of the world, which is our fault of course, as RiffTrax Presents Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy's razor-sharp political analysis of The Day After Tomorrow - which, by my reckoning, at least for today, may also be called Friday (day of the week may vary in your area; check your local calendar). As soon as we figure out how, we'll get back to you. Enjoy safely - and remember that downloading RiffTrax actually helps to save the environment.
. Leave your Prius in the garage and cash out your carbon debts. Ian Holm adds the weensy bit of English charm that makes the other performances go down like overdone rump roast.
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Quality flick. Kindly disregard reviews complaining...
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Oh, and this is best to watch on a cold day.just adds a certain ambiance that lets you associate with the characters more. The movie is not heavy handed nor does it attribute much blame to any one group. It's just a good, quality disaster flick that is fun to watch. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.about whether we have or have not caused harm to our planet. Most disaster flicks kind of suck but I've actually watched this several times and I can't say that about many movies.
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I love this movie. Many thanks to a great seller. Yahoo. Like new.
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I won't say anything about the environmental message, but it is fun to watch
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Warning or not, it's fun, fairly mindless entertainment that just looks freaking cool. In fact, I never even bothered to see it until it came to DVD. I know I do, and the wild special effects and insane plot twists are enough to keep me happy. While I consider myself reasonably environmentally friendly, I never did pay much attention to all the political hulabaloo that surrounded this film. And I will happily say that this is a movie worth keeping around, assuming you are one of those people that love a good fluffy adventure every now and then.
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Jeff Shannon". "It's just a movie" and so whatever. ANYWAY, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is absurd and unless Americans are as dumb as apparently talk radio hosts seem to think their listeners are, this film does not work very well as propaganda for environmentalists. Suspend disbelief. Anyway, "liberal" Hollywood is mostly about money, not ideas whether the ideas be artistic, scientific, or even political and that's clear enough with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Actually to the extent environmental activists are linked to wacky movies like this they are regarded as extremists and crazy by much of the public.
Well that's my take. We are to enjoy the "eye candy" and dim plot and dialogue but I'm not going to just enjoy CGI storms and buildings falling apart because I've seen it before and I sure have experienced enough mediocre story telling in my day. If it were somehow done with a wink and a nod we could be in on the joke but it's not. Gee, I don't know really. But I don't want to.
An absurd disaster popcorn flick might could work well if it recognized it's own utter preposterousness. But I digress: THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW sucks because it takes itself too seriously. Right-wing radio would go outta business if they didn't have Hollywood to demonize and whine about all day long like victimized babies.
INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.Robert Emmerich = dumb, big, loud, silly entertainment for the masses during summer time. They would learn there is money in making better movies. We're not supposed to laugh at it and not supposed to take it too seriously, obviously.
"Emmerich obviously doesn't care if the science is flimsy, so why should you. I wish Hollywood would get a little more ballsy and start moving away from their tired mega-budget summer blockbuster strategy and invest just a little more capital in different projects. Ronald Emmerich makes the kind of movies it would be better if we had a lot less of.
This one is done as they all too often are with the pretense that this scenerio could realistically happen in the real world but obviously that's nonsense and we're supposed to what.
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