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Ann-Marie 2012-05-24 21:46:48

DONT GO SEE IT!!

This movie was horrible!! I wasted not only my money but 2 hours of my life. The acting was horrible, the movie was predictable, and worst of all unrealisitic. A man can not walk from Pennslyvania to New York City in a matter of days when the worst blizzrd ever is occuring. I would reccommend that you wait until this movie comes to TV before seeing. I wish I would have. I would have rather sat through "Gigli" then watch this movie.

FREDY 2012-05-24 07:08:33

Not Even Close

This movie is a waste of time just like my man justinglin said "WOW" the only reason you would watch this movie might be because in the trailers they show on tv so you could watch it was just the special effects on how everything was getting destroy and thats everything it has no story its boring and ill just warm people that they shouldnt waste their money.

cudgalactica 2012-05-15 01:34:26

Best Comedy Feature

One of my friends saw this movie on the day it came out and told me itwas the best movie they'd seen all year. But I'm not very big onweather themed movies so I avoided it until it came out on DVD, I justsaw it this past weekend and it was one of the biggest laughs all year.The opening scene had me convinced I might like it. (I was like woah!)but later on in the movie I was laughing so hard I was crying. Ofcourse there were some perilous scenes in the movie, but the airplanescene? That was the biggest ripoff of Lost that I've ever seen! It wasvery funny how they portrayed the Pres/Vice (So much like Bush/Cheyneythat I can believe the controversy)But I was glad at the ending of themovie that wasn't to corny. This just shows you what happens with aspecial effects heavy movie with just a few good scenes.

antoniotierno 2012-05-14 19:27:46

full of political messages

After Troy I guessed Hollywood had produced the greatest movie,concerning visual effects but I gotta change my mind after thisstunning production. Its plot leaves a little to be desired but whatmatters most is how it perfectly describes any sort of naturaldisaster, making you feel right there, in the middle of everything. Thedirector could have avoided making up a story with a father risking hislife to save his son (after neglecting him and being reconciled withhis former wife) but he managed to give the main MESSAGE: keeping onpolluting and destroying the environment, like we have been doing wecan, will provoke these catastrophic consequences. The picture isdefinitely sided against the current American administration but it'snot simply democratic propaganda since it tells facts, only facts.Another warning sent out through the screen and directed to the starsand stripes leaders is to quit treating the poor countries likedoormats... I'm curious to know how deep will the impact of this filmbe on Americans minds.

Robert Vann Smith 2012-05-05 02:14:30

Great Special Effects Movie

Okay, so, I went to see the movie because it seems as if natural disastermovies have become quite the rave over the last six or seven years --- fromearthquakes ("Earthquake") to tornadoes and volcanoes ("Twister", "Dante'sPeak" and "Volcano") to comets and asteroids ("Deep Impact", "Armageddon",and "Asteroid") to even the earth's core acting all crazy ("TheCore")."The Day After Tomorrow" doesn't have much of a story line but the specialeffects are terrific. It basically shows what could very well happen ifman-kind doesn't stop polluting the atmosphere.But --- let's be honest here --- large industrial countries like the U.S.A.really don't give a damn about Global Warming. I mean, yeah, they pay lipservice to it, but nations like this one are built around individuals owningand driving their own vehicles. They "seem" to care about Global Warming butpeople aren't about to give up the luxury of being able to drive their owncars, no matter how much the environment suffers.Someone is going to have to mass produce vehicles that run on water --- andstop pumping out these fossil fuel guzzlers --- if they want people to stoppolluting the air with carbon monoxide. Plain and simple.

gazzo-2 2012-05-04 15:51:07

If you liked ID4, you will like this....

.....and I did, so there ya go. This IS about as braindead asIndependence Day and Armageddon reality wise too-an instant Ice Age ina matter of Days? Really? Glaciation takes millenia and of coursethere's that nagging fossil record to deal with...but anyhoose...that'sall besides the point in a flick like this.Spoilers below am sure!I liked the familiar faces-Quaid, Jay O Sanders, 'Mueller' from'Basic', Sela Ward, Perry King as Bush Jr, the Cheney lookalike wasquite obvious too, Ian Holm, etc. All good. Terrific sequences-the tornadoes ripping thru LA, the flooding of NooYoike (boys they done made that there Statue of Liberty Tough huh?!),the instand Ice age, the shots of the Huge Storms while inside theireyes, etc, all well and good. Crossing the Rio in droves-turnaboutbeing fair play...Bad sequences-the wolves were idiotically done. The ship scraping rightby the library, yah right. The pay phones working under 9 feet ofwater. Quaid thinking he can drive/snowshoe from Philly to NY in themiddle of the Instant Ice Age. And didn't we somehow forget about theSouth Pole being Arctic too and maybe there'd be some Freezing allalong S America, Aussie, S Africa, etc? Sure guys all in the north....This is simply your basic Disaster flick ala ID4, the PoseidonAdventure etc etc. Enjoy it for what it is. I liked the F/X and enjoyedthe fam. faces as I said, though it's quite as believable as Armageddonand not as funny.*** for the Big Freeze.

ryan_hates_pants 2012-05-04 08:12:01

Why did they burn books in a building full of wooden furniture?

Aside from the poor science, writing, acting, plot, etc., the singlemost baffling thing in this piece of trash was the burning of books. Ifyou're in a metal box surrounded by books fine burn 'em. But there wasfurniture and fixtures and doors that would burn much better thenbooks. They would burn hotter, longer, and more efficiently then books.So anyways watch this crap if you want to see some nasty fake storms.That's about all this film has to offer. On a side note though, seeinga fake Cheney having nature slap him in the face with devastation wasnice. And the fake Bush being so insecure and weak willed that hecouldn't make a decision without his VP explicitly instructing him onthe "correct" course made me giggle.

2012-05-03 16:23:19

Typical Hollywood

This movie is so typical of Hollywood that it is unbelievable. Thismovie not only was the most implausible film I have ever had thedispleasure of experiencing, but it redefines the phrase "politicalagenda." Global Warming and climate change are the hot issues of thelast few years so, naturally, the movie industry lends itself tospitting out irrelevant garbage about the subject. The main idea of themovie is that man is destroying the planet, neglecting the environment,and abusing nature....... SO MOTHER NATURE RETALIATES!!!!!! New York isflooded, hit by massive tsunamis, and frozen, LA is decimated bytornadoes, and three gigantic freezing land hurricane blizzardsobliterate everything north of the equator. All because we have hit acritical desalinization point which is a fancy made-up Hollywood wordfor not enough salt in the ocean. You may be thinking: wow, this moviesounds pretty implausible, but it gets better.... much better. All ofthese cataclysms happen in a number of days instead of the ratherconsistent million year cycles the earth generally operates on. Inaddition, during the freezing of New York, the buildings freeze fromtop to bottom which blatantly disregards the fact that heat rises. Onemay say, you are taking this movie way too seriously, but I think thatmovies like this are genuine problems for society. The politicalovertones in this movie are anything but subtle and now we're going tohave a bunch of global warming activists running around that think bslike this could actually happen.

Steven Folger 2012-05-01 17:07:30

Tornadoes, tidal waves, the Ice Age. Oh my!

This was an okay movie. The CGI effects gets the audience to think ofthe global warming effect as if it ever happened in present time of anincoming storm that'll return the Earth to a new Ice Age. The one stormthat changed the face of the Earth 10,000 years is about to happenagain.Climatologist Jack Hall, played by Dennis Quaid, warns the governmentof the possible storm and the impending doom it'll cause across theglobe. While his son Sam, played by Jake Gyllenhall, is in New York,the government heeds his words as the actual disastrous events begintake place.It first begins with the 5-pound hail raining over Japan causinghysteria.In Los Angeles, devastating cyclonic tornadoes decimate Los Angelescausing to wipe the Hollywood sign off the mountainside and rip apartthe Empire Records building.Other forces of natural disasters are being reported across the world.Shifts from the Arctic causes fresh water and salt water to mixtogether that causes the Atlantic Ocean to raise and flood into thestreets of Manhattan Island. Sam Hall "Gyllenhall" and friends avoidthe menacing wall of water as they run off and into the library forsafety.But the worst is yet to come as the eye of the storm freezes the entireupper-half of the United States. Including Washington, DC. ThePresident's motorcade is lost in the storm as they evacuate.As Sam Hall sets off to rescue his son in New York and bring him homesafely, its a battle of survival as he endures the freezing chillhimself as he goes to save Sam and more survivors.There is humor without a doubt good and hits it at the proper momentsin the film. The acting is tolerably great by the performances of Quaidand Gyllenhall. Director Emmerich who gave us Stargate, Godzilla andIndependence Day makes the audience "ooh" and "aah".

sethkohrman 2012-05-01 02:46:22

Three stars

Overall I think the movie was very good. I loved the special effectsand I really enjoyed the irony. One of my favorite parts has to be thatall of these Americans are illegally crossing the border into Mexico tobe safe. I love that! That is so funny! The special effects for the NewYork scene were incredible. Some of the acting could be better. Itdefinitely wasn't Dennis Quaid's greatest hour. A couple of parts ofthe movies just weren't believable. When the soldier tried to get outof the helicopter and froze within seconds- that was a bit too much forme. I am not a big student of weather though.Who knows what kind ofthings can happen with the weather?!I would give the movie three offive stars.

Nick Barker 2012-04-27 10:22:18

An accomplished but Shallow film

Roland Emmerich. Where would modern film be without Roland Emmerich?His Independence Day was a classy action flick, a hand-crafted originalin a day of cheap cash-ins. His new picture, The Day After Tomorrow, isanother of Emmerich's disaster films, but fails to reach the heights ofIndependence Day. The Day After Tomorrow stars Dennis Quaid, as JackHall, and Academy Award Nominee Jake Gyllenhall as his son Sam. Jack isa climatologist, and is predicting the end of the world via a new IceAge. Sam is Manhattan and gets caught up in the ice storm, and isconfined to a small room in the library. Jack ventures across Americato save his Son.Co-Writer/Director/Co-Producer Emmerich gets his game on for the actualdisaster scenes, but he falls flat when directing the limp dialoguebetween the supporting cast. A largely boring disaster picture, withactors at their worst.

Rattrap007 2012-04-26 19:06:27

Ludicrous and just plain far fetched

This has got to be one of the stupidest films I've seen in a while.This movie is like a dream come true for Al Gore because it would provehis global warming bull was right. Basically if you watch this filmleave your brain turned off otherwise you won't believe one iota ofthis film.OK it starts out in Antarctica. Suddenly a piece the size of RhodeIsland breaks off. It is global warming. Well the VP and world leadersdon't believe it. (The VP is a blatant stab at the Bush admin by makinghim look like Dick Cheney) Well the Earth goes into massive weatherproblems like Tornadoes in LA, massive massive hail in Tokyo andeventually the northern hemisphere freezing (all inside of a week orso) Preposterous. Also it is possible to walk from Philly to NYC inarctic conditions in a day or two? Yeah right.Also there is a bizarre sub plot that goes nowhere. Sam's mom/Quaid'swife is a nurse. There is a sick boy. The plot with the kid makes nosense nor does it really have much of an end. The kid has cancer. He islooking at a book. He can't read the book, but he looks at the picturesand remembers the story. Later she reads to the kid. Then theambulances forget them during the evacuation. She stays with the kid.Then a rescue team arrives. Then she sees him again at the end.OK but why is this in there? Were we supposed to learn the parents diedand she now takes the kid in as her own? Were the parents to bereunited? What? There was going to be a second one involving theJapanese man and a NYC stockbroker, but it was cut. The Japanese man onthe phone was re-dubbed to Japanese and made into a conversation withhis wife. This sticks out due to his facial reactions being kinda wrongfor the scene.This movie is far fetched, has a needless subplot that goes nowhere,and bad CGI (mainly the shot of the wolves. The were obvious CGI) Onlything this movie is good for is making fun of on MST3K. Or in its newform Rifftrax.

2012-04-26 00:23:03

Put 2 and 2 together.

Brought to you by the same people who dropped Godzilla and Independence Day on the American public. 2 of the worst films ever made. When will people learn that special effects should be secondary to the plot. If you can't compose a decent script, then chances are your film will suck...like this one.

davoshannon 2012-04-25 04:21:19

Are you so sure, anymore?

Just watched Day after Tomorrow again, and must say I enjoyed itdespite all the critical panning of just about everything except theCGI effects.But after the recent meltdown of global financial systems, instantrecession, and rising unemployment are you all so sure that globalshifts can't happen?.Most of the critical put-downs of this film occurred when confidencewas unnaturally high. The Masters of the Universe (Lehmann Brothers)are now just a memory on Wall Steet. Matter of weeks, like the film.Maybe it won't be so difficult to suspend disbelief now!.

S.R. Dipaling 2012-04-20 11:49:06

Why did people take this film as seriously as they did?

This film got a lot of (in my humble opinion)unwarranted attention forits environmentalist message, both good and bad, and of course,Iwondered:why? Even before seeing this film(OK,I read a few reviews,so Iwas already for what I was to see) I knew that this was,messageaside,little more than a big-budget special effects blockbuster. Afterseeing it,my suspicions were confirmed. My politics would probably favor the general message of the movie,but Istill found it hard to believe that groups like MoveOn.org were tryingto do the hard-sell for this picture. For starters,the way the climatechanges are portrayed in this film are so rapid and,at times,ridiculousthat it siphons away much of the legitimacy of the "Global Warming as alegitimate threat" menace,which would seem to do more harm than good tothe "Save the Environment" movement. The visual effects AREimpressive,but they are given such force and vibrancy that they becomethe stars of the show,rather than the message or (get this!)the actorsinvolved.On that topic,really there is nothing at all distinctive of interestingabout nearly all the characters involved. In particular,DennisQuaid,JAke Gyllenhaal,Emmy Rossum,Sela Ward(overrated TV actress,alsoMHO),Jay O. Sanders among others seem to be mere readers to theirscript lines,truly wasting their talents. A subplot about a group ofmeteorologists in Scotland,led by Ian Holm,was,to me,more interestingand sympathetic but,naturally,this being an American film(directed bythe Kaboom-obsessed German director Roland Emmerich),they will geteasily left behind in favor of the pluckier American heroes. Being aYank myself,I wouldn't mind this if I thought the characters from mycountry weren't as flat as the paper they were written on. IN short,I would recommend this film to watch more as a sort oftopic-related adventure flick, rather than a stirring "call to arms"type picture,and that's if I were to recommend it at all. The WhiteHOuse being alarmed by this film's message was unnecessary. If thisfilm stirs you or someone to become more environmentallyconscious,well...God bless ya,but I think you'd be in the minority ofits viewers. A summer movie,pure and simple,and not a terribly good oneat that.

Alex Brown 2012-04-19 17:39:44

Great SFX!

If you go to see a big Hollywood blockbuster nowadays, you can at least relyon the special effects being good. In the case of The Day After Tomorrowthey're a lot better than that, and some of the action on the big screen istruly jawdropping.As you can also expect with Hollywood blockbusters, the money's beeninvested in the effects and the script suffers it accordingly. A cast ofnobodies [other than Quaid] seemed to do well enough with it, but thedialogue was a bit corny and was lacking craft.That's what you've come to expect though, and if you go to see a big namefilm that's been much hyped expecting anything else, you *are* as stupid asthey think you are!I enjoyed it as some harmless fun.

dromasca 2012-04-15 04:06:10

bad cinema

Reading the IMDB Message Board with the comments and reactions of viewers ismuch more interesting than the film itself. I usually know what to expectwhen I go to a disaster movie, so I bought my popcorn and entered thetheater to see the big effects, not some cinema masterpiece. I must say thatI was still very disappointed. After reading all the press articles, andseeing the TV clips, there was no surprise for me in the subject. If you sawthe trailers then you saw all the good effects - the rest is quiteun-impressive relative to the money that must have been invested. When it isnot un-impressive it is really bad - in a couple of instances, you sawactors running off and escaping a huge tidal wave, and the glacial age(yes!) - this was so un-believable. Acting is average minus, although EmmyRossum and Jake Gyllenhaal have the potential to become big stars. Thescientific premises - not of the movie - but of some of the effects like theextreme cooling are so unbelievable and defying the logic, that they lookextreme even in Hollywood terms. There is some more truth in details of thescript, in the human father-to-son relationship, or in some surprisinglyfunny ideas like having US refugees flying the Mexican border southbound insome kind of reverse historic irony, but then all falls back and is swollenin flat and bad dialog. The only good thing that will come out of this movieis the theme park ride which may already be in building some place. The grimwarning about our future if we ignore ecology deserves a better movie. Thisone gets 4 out of 10 on my personal scale.

davidm-14 2012-04-14 10:55:42

does ANYONE remember the disaster movie formula??

this is a great disaster movie. yes, of course it slows down in thesecond half. that's what's SUPPOSED to happen. in all disaster movies,there's a disaster in the first part (poseidon adventure, earthquake,Armageddon) or in the last part (deep impact, titanic) and theremainder of the film is taken up by human interest stories to put thehuge disaster on a human scale. why is everyone who reviews this movieacting surprised or as if this is a new formula?? it's enjoyable,mindless entertainment. the fact that it has a foot barely in theplausible realms of science seems to be causing people anamazing amount of stress. more free advertising for the film, iguess....turn your critical mind off and lose yourself in the story.it's a summer movie, folks...

cestlavie03 2012-04-11 08:02:57

It's All In Good Fun

I'm sure you've heard all sorts of things... rumors about how cheesy thedialogue is, or the idea of "man-eating" wolves running loose in the streetsof frozen over Manhattan. These are all true. The wolves don't actually EATsomeone though... so that one is blown slightly out of porportion. As withany movie there are many factual errors. The ones in this movie are just infun, so lighten up! This is a summer popcorn flick, and it does its job ofentertaining. Even if there are parts where you want to say "yea right" androll your eyes to (like when the tornadoes hit LA...), all-in-all if youwant to see an icy independence day sans the aliens then you've got it.There's comedy (couple of lines delivered by Dash Mihok and a group of menstranded in Scotland), drama (come on, northern hemisphere ice age!), and ofcourse no movie is complete without the romance (Gyllenhaal andRossum).

mfarmer1 2012-04-10 20:17:25

Did you know that Hong Kong zombies "hop" when they attack?

If I want to see a bad movie for pure entertainment value, I can alwaysrely on my wife to bring home some truly awful Hong Kong zombie/vampireflicks in Cantonese...those I can watch...this I could not. Let me seeif I've got this right: I drive a SUV. Therefore, ocean currents arereversing, the ice shelf in the Antarctic just happens to split rightdown the middle between two tents in a US base, tornadoes just happento devour LA and take out the Hollywood sign perfectly as if thetornado thought it was a mobile home, and the eye of a monster stormjust happens to pass exactly over downtown Manhattan? How about thosesub-plots? Let's see: The idiotic love story about a braniac babe toostupid to tell anyone her leg is festering, the human interest storyabout a cancer-ridden child and the brave nurse who stays with her asArmageddon approaches, the father/son epic about a dad crossing acouple of hundred miles in two days on snow shoes in -150 degreeweather and ends up in exactly the right spot, the touching story of ahomeless man and his keen insights on how to keep warm on the streets,and the lectures...oh the sanctimonious lectures from some lame actorwho probably thinks he actually was doing a public service for mankindby participating in this film as he scolded the obvious let's make DickCheney seem like a real buffoon and mean guy shtick. The acting? Topnotch. I refer back to my wife's zombie/vampire Hong Kong movies. Thezombies do a better job than this cast, geesh. Just when I thought Imight consider a hybrid vehicle, this comes along and changes my mind.I do have one lingering thought however...just where can I purchase oneof those orange tents that apparently were manufactured on Krypton?