Anyone else seen this yet? I caught at a mixed critics/general public screening two days ago and, best I could tell, it wasn't just the cynical critics types who found it funny for all the wrong reasons.

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Originally posted by kphipps3000:
Anyone else seen this yet? I caught at a mixed critics/general public screening two days ago and, best I could tell, it wasn't just the cynical critics types who found it funny for all the wrong reasons.

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No, I haven't, but I want to. You write for a satirical online mag, don't you KP3000? Great publication... Yeah, it seems odd that such folks as Fox News are calling this the "Al Gore" film and really politicizing the whole thing. It just seems like a good time disaster flick to me.

Yep, that's me. Thanks for the nice words.

As for the politics, it's definitely pro-environment. A Cheney-lookalike vice president takes it on the chin from Dennis Quaid for not honoring the Kyoto accords. So those attacks aren't exactly unfounded.

On the other hand, if I were sympathetic to environmental/liberal/Democratic Party causes (and I am, if it matters) this is the last movie I'd want to be associated with.

Also, the closing credits reveal that the "science" behind it comes from a book by Art Bell and Whitley Streiber, whose political sympathies, if they can be called that, aren't exactly traditional.

Art Bell and Whitley Streiber? That's hilarious. They might as well have used Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

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Originally posted by Mark Millard:
Art Bell and Whitley Streiber? That's hilarious. They might as well have used Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

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Ha! That's my favorite post of the day.

I thought this movie was terrible, but it doesn't occupy the same cachet as, say, Van Helsing. After all, at least the disasters are enjoyable!

Tons of portions are accidentally hilarious though, not least of which being the following exchange:

"All our planning simulations are worthless!"
"No, I don't think our planning simulations are going to help much here."

There were others, but I can't really remember them.

The movie was really, really crap. It was total garbage, but it was kind of like Indepedence Day in that the first two thirds of it or so were actually enjoyable crap. Then it just got stupid and boring. Roland Emmerich seemed to forget that the whole Northern Hemisphere was getting destroyed because after about the first hour or so you didnt see any shots outside of New York.

And the movie had all the characters and situations that added absolutely nothing to film and werent even tied up well.

I was really looking forward to some look at life and society after the big disaster and to see how much humans had learned from their mistakes, but it just didnt happen.

yea, I expected this movie to be way better than it really was. I was kinda dissapointed with the short distructive scenes (tornado scene, hail scene etc).

you can't really expect much about a movie titled "The day after tomorrow" but it wasn't total crap. i thought the special fx were believable. i remeber asking my friend how they made such a pretty set and brought in all that wind and water to destroy it. i genuinely thought that everything was real until my freind gave me a "what the f*ck is wrong with you look." even though it doesn't make sense to weigh the end of the world with jake gylennhal's attempt to get the girl, i enjoyed it.

The film looks pretty and all, but that counts for very little IMO if the director doesnt bother to create a believable scenario for those visuals to exist.

I really didn't think it was that bad!!

yes it isn't believeable that it will all happen in like a week but I liked it!

8/10

Indeed Brian.

The film wasn't THAT bad! I mean, the first half hour is brilliant, thanks to Jake Gyllenhaal and the Special Effects.

But then it become slow, a bit boring and ultimately becomes cheesy thanks to Roland Emmerich's inability to find a good script!

Calling a scary horror film is a bit of a joke really...well, unless you happen to have a job as the weatherman, then it could be pretty scary. Oh my God! A freak thunderstorm with Tsunamis and hail and tornados and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and....well I think you get my point: Stupid.

"the day after tomorrow" is a masterpiece. throngs of americans illegally trying to cross the mexican border? brilliant. and jake gyllenhal's obvious discomfort? pricesless.

The fact is "Day after Tomorrow" is one of the worst movies I have ever had the misfortune to see. The acting is crap ... well many people seem to understand that, at least. But the science is worse. It is impossible for such a "superstorm" to exist; the idea of rapidly declining temperature violates the Ideal gas law. For those who have actually passed high school physics this means adiabatic heating and cooling do not depend on velocity,ie. no flash frozen mammoths, helicopters, flags or people. By the way those famous Siberian mammoths were NOT preserved intact. The people doing the excavation were nauseated by the stink of putrid flesh. Only their dog seemed interested in this "fresh" meat. Actaully this sounds a little like one of those bullshit stories we used to hear about 150 year olds from Soviet Georgia. i think the only reason people buy into this crap is due to the general illiteracy of the American population. Isn't it true that 45 percent of US citizens think the world is ten thousand years old or less? Check the websites which support these "mammoth" stories and you'll see that many of them are run by creationists.

And people tell me to lighten up...

oh, it wasn't THAT bad. If you're gonna call this a Worst Of, you better also say Independence Day sucked, Godzilla sucked, Armageddon sucked, and any other 'Destroy everything and don't make a good plot' movie. It isn't made to be good, it's made to be mindless action, and that's what it achieved.

It wasn't the greatest movie ever, but by no means was it a terrible movie. The whole idea of an "ice tsunami" was kinda cool. And the special effects are very nice. I'd give it a 6 out of 10.

I enjoyed Day After Tomorrow, I didn't get caught up with the science of the movie, but rather was fascinated at the diversity and amazing totality of all the disasters occurring while at the same time the movie was able to retain the human elment, much more intimate and non-stereotypical of most disaster movies so that I actually rated this movie 8 out of 10 stars.

Saw Day After Tomorrow on the small screen over the weekend and I must say that the special effects do not transfer to the small screen and enable the rest of the movie's flaws to become more noticeable. The wild dog scene is probably the most unnecessary scene in the movie and is an obvious commercial exploitation as well as the giant ship itself when medical supplies are to be found (an alternative source could have been reasonably been located, especially in the New York Museum of Natural History). Nevertheless, the concept as well as the overall execution of the movie in terms its geo-political premise and the consequences for the United States President, the avoidance of the cheap love triangle make this movie superior to the many other disaster movies that pandered to a formulaic storyline. However, I can readily understand now why so many people may view this movie as pretty average and the shiny varnish of invulnerability surrounding this movie has become somewhat tarnished. I still would rate this movie 8 out of 10 but with more reservations.