This thread is general as it was on a DVD Tharg gave me.
I'd like to thank you all for making it an enjoyable film. I came at it with such low expectations from reading all you'd said about it that i liked it, it was far better than i had expected, my dad didn't like it, but he came thinking it'd be quite good, and didn't like it.
I think it's message was good. Even if it wasn't technically accurate. Yes, the Mediterranean sea will still be there and Europe will look like a white version of now (nazis will be pleased).
Pity the Mediterranean ocean would disappear again, and the oceans would have begun to freeze over buy then, especially near the coast.
Max
You just got around to watching that?
Hey, so did I (last week)!
I can't agree with Max. It was exactly as piss-poor as I expected.
your expectations weren't low enough then.
Yeah i only got round to it. Wasn't bothered, my dad wanted to see it, so i saw it too.
There's 20 mins of fun (wave, tornados) in 2 hours of utter shite there... "They wolves have escaped!" Well I wonder if they will be turning up again...
The most unbelievable part of that film is where the mighty Glasgow Celtic are getting beat at the start!
Heh - I liked the scene where a collection of 'Young American Geniuses' (apparently, their main claim to genius is their ability to answer some Weakest Link-grade general knowledge questions in teams of three) decide that they have to burn all the books in a library in order to survive because there's 'nothing else to burn' - despire all the bopoks being on shelves, which are made of wood... which would not only burn, but would burn hotter and for much longer than paper...
They're later seen complaining that they've almost run out of books to burn, and they still haven't burned the shelves or the furniture...
well, obviously they were Nazi's and favoured book burning
This thread is general as it was on a DVD Tharg gave me.
Even a thread about the Judge Dredd movie is better placed in Film/TV than General
Cheers,
Wake
oh yeah, ok, didn't see that subject. whoops
well, I liked it. Like Max said I went in with pretty low expectations and found it quite enjoyable for the usual Americocentric end of the world movie. I'm a real sucker for doom scenarios and this certainly had some eye opening end of the world stuff in it.
CU Steamboy
It was entertaining fluff.
I quite liked the conceit that Mexico were suddenly in a position to tell America to feck off.
Might have been interesting to see a movie set after the effects of global warming, rather than this "it all happened in a day" gubbins.
I know - make a movie of Give Me Liberty (by Frank Millar & Dave Gibbons).
Talking of Dave Gibbons, shouldn't he be re-hired to paint a new Rogue Trooper epic based on Apocalypse Now? No?
Didnt they do that in General Gunn?
Major Magnam?
Hah!
That reminds me. Someone asked me which Beatle represented me the most.
I said Peter Sutcliffe.
:)
I laughed my ass off from start to finish. Which probably wasn't the intended effect, but still makes it a great movie in my book. I especially like that there's about four lines of non-expositional dialogue in the whole film.
you mean Stuart Sutcliffe?( or Pete Best?)
Peter Sutcliffe was a nasty man, with no connections as far as I know, to the famous Mersey beat combo
I liked the weather effects a lot in this movie but everything else, especiallay the cgi wolves was pretty poor
you mean Stuart Sutcliffe?( or Pete Best?)
Peter Sutcliffe was a nasty man, with no connections as far as I know, to the famous Mersey beat combo
Er, I think that was the joke...
Anyway, Peter 'Yorkshire Ripper' Sutcliffe has been lobying to come out of prison for the last couple of years now - he seems to think that almost 20 months imprisonment per victim is more than enough punishment...
I meant the members who never got to see the limelight of the Beatles but helped encourage them to be the best band in the world at that time.
And the fact they may never have been the same Beatles if it were not for Starkeys van.
I could have said Stuart Best,I suppose.
I have not(nor do I wish to)watched TDAT.
You mean Stuart Best .. the plumber from Huddersfield?
Link: Stuart Best .. the plumber from Huddersfield
Who was, infact the water specialist on The Day After Tomorrow!
So we aren't being wildly off topic;p
Link: Its in Huddersfield.
Max's post reminds me of my patented Godzilla Entertainment theory. I posted this years (and I do mean years) ago, but in essence the theory states:-
Your enjoyment of a piece of entertainment depends upon how far above or below your expectation level it falls. This allows you to really enjoy rubbish, provided that it falls above your expectations. Equally, it allows for the disappointment of a hyped film not living up to expectation.
I first came across this phenomenon when watching Godzilla. Examples of its application(best expressed in percentages) are:-
Godzilla
Expect: 15%
Actual: 35%
Enjoyment: +20%
Return of the Sith
Expect: 60%
Actual: 50%
Enjoyment: -10%
Titanic
Expect: 10%
Actual: 40%
Enjoyment: +30%
Blood Trails
Expect: 70%
Actual: 50%
Enjoyment: -20%
This theory explains why you like films that are crap, sometimes better than films you know are better!
(Hope I got the italics right - it's the first time I have tried to use them in a post)
Indeed you did. 13th of October, 2003 if memory serves me correctly.
Link: Yes, I am sad enough to hunt the thread!
How time flies.
My problem with The Day After Tomorrow is it treats the whole subject in a very boring, predictable manner. Okay so America has a day till its destroyed and yet it does NOTHING. Yep this big, bad right wing rogue nation with enough nukes to destroy the planet several times over just sits there with its thumb up its ass as its destroyed. A much more interesting film would be seeing America reacting to its impending destruction by launching a desperate invasion of Mexico/Latin Amercia for the "living space" it now needs. It'd make for a better action movie and work better as a satire of American particularism and selfishness.
Will
...and why does Scotland cop it first???We're used to the cold up here. Whits that? -50 ye say, better put a jumper oan then. Its always the same. First we get American missiles,then nuclear waste, then the poll tax and now we're first tae get hit wae a new ice age.
Bloody typical.