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This makes 2012 look like The Godfather

Saw a double session of Van Helsing today! Bear in mind my rating is mostly
biased because of the lovely, adorable, divine, so beautiful Kate Beckinsale!:)
She is so fantastic she owns me! OK the movie was a good popcorn flick,
basically what you expect from a Stephen Summers film. It had lots of action
fast editing and a lot of dynamic motion in its scenes. It's alomst to the point
of overload. I didn't really care too much for their Dracula he could have been
improved upon. Hugh Jackman is a good Van Helsing but it's Kate who steals
the film! I thought of taking points off for dracula and the fact that
Kate's character Anna Valerious dies in the end but
Kate's presence and the overall entertainemnt value prompted me to award a 9!

The Day After Tomorrow which I was at a press screening today is actually
one of Emmerich best achievements to date. His separation from longtime
writing/producing partner Dean Devlin apparently did good for him. The
effects work is first rate, but the natural disasters are a bit short. What
starts out as a promising, suspensful disaster movie slows significantly in the
2nd half and put too much weight un unneccesary character side plots. 7 for
the impressive, if somewhat brief disaster scenes, but no more for the
subsequent loss of pacing!

Review for TROY is coming soon, I'm just too beat to type it up right now, but it was very, very good!

Beware the beautiful, but dangerous Anna Valerious!

This looks like a good movie.

This must be the best movie this year.

They did a crew screening for Day After Tomorrow today.

It ain't bad! It is about THE definition of the FX driven film. In these cases it's just up to the cast to catch up or stay out of the way, and that they do extremely well. There's some pricelessly cheesy moments in there, but it really isn't too bad, and is funny enough that it actually improves the experience. In fact I'd say most of the characters are likable enough that you actually DON'T get annoyed enough with them to want to see them die. Dennis Quaid is good. The eco-preaching is there, but thankfully restrained.

The FX were tremendous fun. Massive, epic-scale, mayhem. It's not exactly anything new. Tornados you saw in Twister in 1996. A massive tsunami hitting New York in 1998's Deep Impact. Storm effects in 1999's Perfect Storm. (All of these are ILM films actually.) But you can see how the technology's improved since then. We handled creature stuff with the wolf attacks and the environment stuff with the frozen NY sequences towards the end. Some of it's great. Some of it, particularly that frozen NY waterfront shot I've been talking about that annoyed me since the trailers came out, are real stinkers. Just couldn't fix it, I guess.

Other thoughts:
- I found it odd that they made the US prez look like Al Gore, and tried to evoke Dick Cheney for the veep. How'd that ticket get put together???
- If you notice a close resemblance to the score for 'Thin Red Line', it's probably because a lot of the animatics used that score as filler during production.
- Predicted short list for the VFX Oscar: Spider Man 2, Day After Tomorrow, and... hm. not sure. Maybe Harry Potter 3? Definitely some strong entries for the VES matte painting awards from this film.
- Watching it with an audience of educated people is probably more fun.
- It's always nice when you hit the first release of the year that you worked on and actually like.

I just got back from my preview screening, I am tired and need sleep, so I will make this quick for now.

I will come right out and say it, I love watching Emmerich's films. Not all of them mind you, just Independence Day and Godzilla. Neither are significant pieces of cinema but they succeed in keeping me well entertained for 2 plus hours. In short it is a difficult task to find two better examples of escapist spectacle-filled filmmaking then Independence Day and Godzilla.

Much like Emmerich's two other big destruction-laden films Day After Tomorrow is riddled with ridiculous logic, countless plot holes and idiotic characters. In classic Emmerich fashion, so many characters instead of fleeing from catastrophe stare on in amazement as it claims their lives, and yet I am not sure that I blame them. There is a mesmerizing quality to these huge effects sequences, it is damn near impossible to turn away from their big-budget majesty. To the credit of Emmerich and his crew the epic disaster scenes are always imaginative, well-constructed, and most importantly high on body counts. I love the irony of the product placement in this film, sure there is a big blatant corporate logo, but you watch with a smile as it is demolished by a tornado, engulfed in water, or encased in ice.

The science of the plot is at a near middle-school level and is almost impossible to take seriously, but it is obvious how Roland feels about the whole Global Warming debate. This is defintely a pro-environment film, a little preachy (Hell, Quaid drives a Honda Insight in the film), but it did not get to me. Letting the plot and its many holes drag the experience down for you is not the way to watch this film.

I will expand on this later, but I will say, that if you enjoy Emmerich's "popcorn" style films, then you film will have a good time with this film. If you are one of his many critics, then this will only fuel the fire of your burning hatred.

7.7 out of 10

I actually liked this movie a surprising amount. I mean some of the science/facts were downright ridiculous (let me walk from DC to Manhattan in 3 days in the craziest storm ever) and the extra cheesy drama had the entire theater laughing out loud quit a few times, but all in all it was a good film. Definitely one to see on the big screen as the special effects were one of the highlights.

I went, I watched, I laughed, I enjoyed, can't ask for too much more from a night at the movies.

Oh, and I thought it was quite ironic that the same SUVs that caused the global warming/biggest storm ever were the ones they used to save themselves. ;)

It's a mindless, stupid but still enjoyable now and again mainstream movie.

I once read in an article that there are three fundamental aspects that make up a story: characterization, plot, and conflict. All three are present in groundbreaking tales such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Three Kingdoms, and many bestselling novels today. So where does Day put itself in?

First, The Day after Tomorrow is not a story. It's a non-stop special effects extravaganza plus a heavy deal of adrenaline-rushing shots, both still and motion. If you thought Twister was terrifying, wait 'til you witness three, no, four, no, SEVEN of its kind rampaging downtown Los Angeles. Not brought in-depth, obviously, but enough to make its predecessors humbled like rumbles of 12-inch constructions of UNO

I'm gonna start by saying that i've been getting sick of the same old recycled plot pretty much every disaster movie has these days. The world is in jeapordy, a bunch of people decide to save it, and in the end world is saved and everyone lives happily ever after. I'm happy to say that The Day After Tomorrow seperates itself from all these other movies.

This movie is about survival. Everyone accepts early on hat there's nothing to be done that will save the earth, and all there is left to survive. The first place to point fingers negatively at thyis movie, will of course be the plot. Frankly, it sucks, and there are a lot of parts that rate pretty high on the cheesy scale. Despite this, i enjoyed a good portion fo the slower moving character driven scenes. Jake Gyllenhaal for one was just great. His character was played so well. He wasn't over the top at all, but just reached a nice balance of hero/regular guy. I have to say he was my favorite part of the movie, and i enjoyed pretty much every scene with him in it. I woudl name off soem fo the scenes i didn't enjoy as much, but alas, i'd like to keep the spoilers to a minimum.

Now if you're thinking ok, guess i'm not gonna see this movie, casue it soudns slow and lame, think again. This is a must for the big screen only becasue of the stunning, jaw to the floor visuals. The plot takes a back seat when the storm comes out to play, and it's a welcome change. The storms destruction is just phenomenal. I can honestly say i've never seen a better tornado sequence, and better yet are the incredible shots of earth form space during the storm. They aren't good enough to forget the slow moving storyline, but they're enough to justify at least one theater viewing.

The pacing overall was also very satisfactory. The special effects sequences were well spaced with the more dramatic scenes, and it kept me entertained throughout. So go see this movie. There's a chance you mey not enjoy all of it, but there's no way to ignore the enjoyment you'll have watching major cities ripped apart by mother nature.