Hey folks, Harry here... Fox sent me the "Limited Edition" dvd for INDEPENDENCE DAY today. There's not really anything new on it, save for a micro-glimpse of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW - of about 5 minutes of behind the scenes stuff - Completely not worth checking out. You'll be seeing everything on the preview on websites and on Entertainment Tonight in the coming weeks anyways - and there's nothing there that really makes you go, "HOLY SHIT" the way that most recent trailer does. I'm looking forward to this one... nobody destroys the world with more beautiful mayhem than Roland Emmerich. He was definitely a "card board box" kid growing up. You know, the kid that pretends cardboard boxes are cities for him to destroy, set afire, stomp, destroy with the water hose... However, the water hose he wields now... COOL!
Hey Harry.
Long time reader first time writer and so on.
I´ve just seen "The Day After Tomorrow" and since you don´t have ane reviews, I thought I´d give you one.
I went in really wanting to like this one. I´m not a big Emmerich fan. Godzilla and The Patriot both sucked. I kinda liked Independence day and really dug Universal Soldier.
I won´t get into the plot, because I guess everyone already knows what´s going on.
Positive things first:
The CGI in the film is fantastic. Some of the pictures in the film look like art work. Really beautiful.
The acting is ok. It´s always good to see Dennis Quaid, and Gyllenhal plays the shy look once again and it works. All the supporting actors also do a good job. The film also has some great one liners.
The negative things:
When the shit hits the fan and we think the whole world is fucked, we don´t see a lot of it. We see L.A. And New York get smashed, but that´s it. Then we see a lot of snow, but no more smashing. That really ruined it for me. I´m european and had hoped to see The Eiffel tower or something like that get ripped apart. But no. Emmerich concentrates on those 2 cities and for a disaster movie in the year of 2004 that´s not much.
It also seems that Emmerich tries to make this one a Character driven drama. But I never felt anything for anybody. Gyllenhal and his nerd posse hide out in N Y public library and they just wait for Daddy Quaid to come rescue them. There´s some wolves that mess with them but that´s it. I never got to know any of the characters so I didn´t care if they lived og died. I missed the feeling from the old disaster movies in the seventies. An extra 30 minutes (its 124 minutes) of character development had made my day.
In conclusion: It could have been a lot worse. They could have asked Stephen Sommers to direct it. I´m just joking. NO I´m not. Van Helsing sucks! Buy a ticket and go see it. It´s worth the dollars and you have to see it on a big screen.
Munchausen.
