Day After Tomorrow

Pros: Incredible visual effects. Decent, but not stand-out acting.
Cons: Paper thin story. Cliche and cardboard cut-out characters. Stilted dialogue.

I've been interested in seeing The Day After Tomorrow since I saw the first trailer. Even from the very little revealed in that teaser, I knew I had to see this movie. Well, I've just walked through the door not 15 minutes ago, and I wanted to ...

Pros: Extreme closeup with the forces of nature - a gift of modern day special effects
Cons: Story line exposes its weakness and plot is predictable

After the “TWISTER” twisting the city of Oklahoma and the purulent “VOLCANO” shaking the Los Angeles, the “THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW” has caused a mass exodus due to the coming of the ice age and the crowds from all over the world ...

Pros: Special Effects, not much else.
Cons: No Plot, little character development, far-fetched science that is meant to be real.

It is quite hard to believe why some conservative commentators (i.e. Matt Drudge) have felt so threatened by this film. It is quite easily a work of fiction. It is quite silly to think that in the span of 2 weeks, the climate would change so ...

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On the most under-hyped movie weekend of the year, just between Shrek 2 and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, what’s a cinephile to do? Roland Emmerich answers that, by reminding us that nothing screams Friday night like a good old-fashioned ...

Pros: Special Effects
Cons: Wholly imposable plot, underdeveloped story, incomplete sub-plots

I am a summer movie junkie. I really dig hitting the theater and catching the latest releases. I am a fan, not a buff. Some people see films for inspiration or literary vision. This is not that kind of movie. The Day After Tomorrow ...

Pros: Good special effects which are lost on the small screen.
Cons: Boring, predictable scenario.

If not for the fact that I would have had to taken physics I would have probably become a meteorologist. I've been fascinated with the weather literally forever, especially with tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards. However, after watching The Day ...

Pros: Special effects excellent, plenty of action, good ecological message
Cons: Script wasn't great for characters, Emma Rossum

When I first saw the previews for this movie I felt that it would be a typical disaster movie where a lot of things blow up, some characters endure hardships, and then life returns to normal. Typically, that seems to be how movies such as these go, ...

Pros: special effects, musical score
Cons: Almost everything else about this film

Who would have thought that one of this summer’s most anticipated action films would become the political lightening rod the radical environmental activists have made it today? How did this come about? In essence, 20th Century Fox, owned by conservative ...

Pros: Special effects.
Cons: Needed: acting, plot, script, wolves.

This review was written in disgust as an open letter to Roland Emmerich. Dear Mr. Emmerich, You sir, have no shame! The Day After Tomorrow was positively the most pathetic, incomprehensible piece of garbage that has ever been churned out, to date, ...

Pros: Special Effects.
Cons: Subplots, subplots and subplots.

In 1994, I recall seeing previews for Roland Emmerich's Independence Day, and saying, "I GOTTA see this!" The then state-of-the-art special effects, particularly of the destruction of a very real looking White House and Empire State ...

Pros: Jaw-dropping effects; intelligent and engrossing story; I never was bored!
Cons: A few stupid actions and choices made in the movie; some bad dialogue

If there's anything I love the most, it's a movie where mother nature opens up a can on the world. And "The Day after Tomorrow" certainly brings the mere thought of a second ice age to life with its near picture-perfect effects and interesting premise, ...

Pros: Incredible special effects, entertaining
Cons: Some ludicrous scenarios, passable acting

No this time it isn’t about Nuclear Fallout, those days are past us. This is another type of cold war, one waged against us by a most formidable foe (or as the movie ultimately suggests, friend), Mother Nature. I took in the The Day After ...

Pros: The characters are more believable than some summer movies
Cons: The weather and parts of the script, aren't.

In the early 1980's Colleen McCullough wrote Another Really Great Novel With An Archetypal Hero, "A Creed for the Third Millenium," about a new Ice Age. When I read it in 1990 I was already aware that our planet faced intensified warming, not a new ice ...

Pros: Terrific special effects, and not in small doses either.
Cons: Paper-thin characters doing the dumbest things sometimes.

Too much has been made of this film, in some quarters. No, I am not unaware of the perils of global warming or climate change. Yes, these are real issues with the capacity to make life harder than necessary for our descendants. Yes, sooner rather than ...

Pros: I enjoyed watching the beautiful images of Snow and Ice.
Cons: Plot! Acting! Dialogue! The way the Theme was conveyed so unconvincingly!

I am indeed an environmentalist. I at least consider myself to be one... I recycle, encourage others to do so, clean the beaches of the little island country I live in, and basically freak out whenever I see anyone littering. When I heard about this ...