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Awesome trailer for Roland Emmerich's THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!
Hey folks, Harry here... Pretty awesome teaser trailer. It's about the next Ice Age, the next change in the eco-system of Earth. No fixes, no miracles. It happens. They deal with it, most die. Or at least that's what I get from the trailer. This is Roland Emmerich's first thing since Centropolis and his partnership with Dean Devlin parted ways. It certainly has scope and grandeur... But what is the story that takes us through it all? The cast is made up of Dennis Quaid as a Professor and Jake Gyllenhaal as his son. The delicious looking Emmy Rossum is there along with Sela Ward. Really, this teaser is the first real look at any of the film and it looks real cool, very ice. sorry... can't help it. Here ya go...
Check out THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, before it is too late...
You probably already have this scoop, but I thought I would send it in anyway. This movie looks fairly interesting because, unlike most disaster movies, the characters seem resigned to the fact that the disaster is an unstoppable force and the movie appears to be about how they deal with it. It seems more like a spectacle/drama than a disaster movie is essentially what I am getting at. Anyhow, I'll probably be waiting in line on May 28, so whatever. If you use this call me von Rauffenstein.
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Emmerich sucks donkey...as shall the film.
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Wow! Will this be filled with the incredibly nuanced acting of Independence Day and Godzilla? I'm sorry but Emmerich (with or without Devlin) is just not a good filmmaker. He is a worse director of actors than, dare I say it, George Lucas.
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As a rule I usualy HATE disaster films, but this actualy looks good...
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doesnt look bad, but with a record that includes godzilla, look for special effects over substance...
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another disaster movie...well, still looks it might be fun.
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Looks really good. One of the better teaser trailers in recent memory. Devlin & Roland Emmerich aren't buddies anymore?
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Emmerich is good at making icons explode and fall over. Therefore, I think this movie will be good.
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Nov 05, 2003 1:07:29 AM CST
"Awesome" and "Roland Emmerich" do not belong in the same senten
by osmosis jones
Disaster movies are so 1996.
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Maybe living in Southern Louisiana and dodging hurricanes and coastal erosion my whole life has made me overly sensitive to climate-based disaster movies, but that kinda scared the piss out of me.
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They always look cool. They're teasers. Not many I can think of where I didn't think...hmmm...that's pretty cool. Hell, even PEARL HARBOR was a great teaser. Second rule of summer event teasers: 90% of those movies ended up sucking.
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how many people would be scrambling for space shuttles, though ironically there'd be no where to go?
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Nov 05, 2003 1:25:29 AM CST
Damn, I'm actually excited about a Roland Emmerich flick ...
by godoffireinhell
After he's raped my soul with THE PATRIOT and GODZILLA I would not have thought it possible. The trailer has some shots that are typical Emmerich stuff, like the tornado destroying the Hollywood sign but I also get an epic feeling from this trailer and it looks like they went for emotion as well and not just for empty spectacle. Depending on the full length trailer and possible advancre reviews I might actually go and see this in the theater.
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Guess its been long enough to show ppl in cities (NYC for one) being killed in mass quantities without giving a shit. Thanks Hollywood!
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A friend of mine, when he was a kid, watched Ice Station Zebra in an air-conditioned theater and almost froze to death.
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Was it this jerk who did Patriot? Probably one of the most intentionaly evil film of the last few years! I wont see his film on principle...
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Really cool-looking, wide-scale devastation turns me on. Schwing!
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Nov 05, 2003 2:23:03 AM CST
It's amazing how soon America forgets the 9/11 disaster. They w
by alcamaeon
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If I was Fox then I wouldn't be advertising the fact that this comes from the producers of Independence Day. Surely the viewing public can't take another dissappointing non-stop cliched cheese ball movie about how strong and courageous Americans are in the face of adversity? Until I read a review I can't help but see this as a disaster, literaly.
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If I was Fox then I wouldn't be advertising the fact that this comes from the producers of Independence Day. Surely the viewing public can't take another dissappointing non-stop cliched cheese ball movie about how strong and courageous Americans are in the face of adversity? Until I read a review I can't help but see this as a disaster, literaly.
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If I was Fox then I wouldn't be advertising the fact that this comes from the people behind Independence Day. Surely the viewing public can't take another dissappointing non-stop cliched cheese ball movie about how strong and courageous Americans are in the face of adversity? Until I read a review I can't help but see this as a disaster, literaly.
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A report for you to check out.
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Many of us are still mourning those deaths two years ago although, from the lookw of this trailer, Hollywood has forgotten. Maybe that was a little overboard but truth be told, Roland Emmerich or some other big shot director is only a phone call away from turning 9/11 into the next Titanic. I guarantee you, we will see it in the next 2 to 3 years. Very sad.
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these two people in the last shot walking towards nyc ... looks like they are 5m tall compared to the skyscrapers ... so fuck this shit ... i'm already bored to death. and what does gyllenhaal do in this kinda crap flick, huh? and spilling some gossip here: devlin and emmerich were lovers since moon44 ... but afaik devlin turned straight again some moons ago
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Dont point me to some god damn conspiracy website. If you can read.....my post had nothing to do with the politics of who/what/why.
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Nov 05, 2003 3:23:30 AM CST
Look on the bright side, New York. You could be covered by snow.
by jeff fries iii
Or a BIG WAVE. Does Roland Emmerich realize that, despite all odds, the image of a giant wave rolling over Manhattan is completely and totally familiar to the audience? Maybe he could thrown in some pterydactyls like they did in Citizen Kane. Don't no one expect a motherfuckin' pterydactyl.
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Independence Day sucked! Emmerich sucks! The scale is all wrong! Jesus Christ! This site has become so depressing. It's turned into a cesspool of negativity rather than a site for actual movie fans. This used to be a site for people who loved movies and who LOOKED FORWARD to movies. Instead it's become a bitch session for frustrated losers and/or a free plant site for movie studios. Sigh.
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Against New York. He already unleashed aliens and a giant lizard, now it's a big wave and snow. What did the New Yorkers ever do to this guy?
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Nov 05, 2003 3:58:22 AM CST
For crying out loud, its the ID4 formula all over again! Just re
by thefoywonder
Although personally I'm looking forward to the scene where the two Category 5 hurricanes off the coast of California collide and form a super Category 10 hurricane (at least that's what the pretty negative script review I read said). What is it with German genre directors (Roland Emmerich, Uwe Boll) that seems to guarantee mind numbing stupidity?Still, it can't possibly be lamer than THE CORE was, I hope.
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Do NOT Fear! There is plenty of Tequila to keep'em warm. This should be good with Jake Gyllenhall and Dennis Quaid on the movie. They both kick ass like a Pacifico with an Hornitos Tequila chaser! CHEERS Amigos!
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Since when has Roland Emmerich ever made a good film? Moon 44 would have to be his crowning achivement.
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Sorry. I'm not going to let you away with that. Do you think 9/11 was the first time anything bad ever happened to anyone? Other countries in the world have had to deal with floods, famines, massacres, civil wars. Didn't stop these being the subject of movies. The situation in Ireland has led to more deaths than 9/11, but that didn't stop numerous Hollywood thrillers being made about that. It was a single terrorist attack. They happen all over the world, all the time. And the movies keep getting made. New York is not some sacred cow that can't be harmed in a film anymore because of something that happened 2 years ago. You're being silly. I thought we'd moved on a bit from the kind of insanity that had people lobbying for the title of The Two Towers to be changed. Reading your post I'd say some people have a bit to go.
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When these two bozos unleashed that steaming pile of dung, i've lost all respect for them! It's bad enough that they ass rapped Godzilla!
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That comes as standard with every Emmerich movie. Who can forget the cheesiest moment in movie history (c), Bill Pullman's stilton worthy motivational speech from Independance Day.
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But that has to be his only OK-ish film. MOON 44? Not really. And while ID4 had some cool scenes it also had some of the worst shit I've ever had to endure ... Bill Pullman as the friggin US President jumping into a fighter jet to battle aliens??? Motivational speech in the desert??? The smell of cheese basically made you puke. But from what I've heard it was Devlin and not Emmerich who was responsible for the cheesy/humorous parts so maybe now that he's gone Emmerich will get better? If DAY AFTER TOMORROW has a scene in which a tidal wave rushes towards the White House while the president stands in front of it raising his fist in the air and screaming never ... I'll be pissed but not surprised. BTW, what's up with the Emmerich/Devlin gay lovers thing? Is that supposed to be a fact? Not that I'd have a problem with it but it sure would be interesting to know. And Foywonder, while I agree with your comments about Emmerich and Uwe Boll you should not forget that Wolfgang Petersen is also German and he'll kick all our asses HARD with TROY very soon. It's not about nationality, it's about talent.
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I've read the script to this overblown tardfest - it's one of the most aggressively dumb things I've ever read. Mark my words, even Harry will be trashing it (less than 24 hours after he loves it).
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I'm sure like the rest of his films it will make me crinch. He is the undisputed king when it comes to brilliant trailers but the films that follow are usualy crap. But I'm going to see this anyway CAUSE IT LOOKS SO DAMN COOL!
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that's gotta be the dumbest thing I've heard as a reason for why Emmerich would have NY destroyed in a movie. It's just that for a movie (or its teaser), the thrill of seeing a town of 800 in Backwaterpodunk, Iowa get levelled is not exactly on par with seeing a major metropolis get trashed. If the Independence day teaser had ended with a some barn in Wisconsin being blown up instead of the White House, something tells me it wouldn't have had quite the impact it had. (Though in this movie, a hurricane hitting a Wisconsin dairy farm might be quite amusing, with cows flying everywhere. And with Devlin gone, we might even avoid the "milk shake" jokes.)
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Nov 05, 2003 7:23:18 AM CST
As if further proof of Uwe Boll's directorial incompetance were
by grando
..Check this travesty out - http://www.alone-in-the-dark.com/trailer/AitD_352x160.mpeg
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Then it would be killer.
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I was in lower Manhattan on 9/11, about 8 blocks away from GZ. I've convinced I'm gonna eventually die in some terrorist incident in NYC. That's how the mop flops.
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Devlin and Emmerich must have attended that seminar right after they got out of "Retreads: How to Swap Heroes, Villains and FX Houses and Make Big $$$ With the Same Damned Script." ........ But I'm gonna be there for this one! There's nothing that calms the torrent of confusion in overstressed, overtaxed, underpaid middle age like a good end-of-the-world flick. Oh wait... I said "good." Ah well, it's all relative. ;)
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But that's just me...
Folks, I'm born and raised in NYC and while I think (if memory serves) that there are other recognizable major cities on the East Coast that have been wiped out far fewer times on film than mine (hint, Hollywood), it's nothing to get all morally outraged about.
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That movie was GOLD! sk
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He knows how to shoot footage for AMAZING trailers (for less than amazing movies). Independence Day, Godzilla, now this. But enough with NYC. Now, I'm sure that, like Independence Day, the whole movie doesn't take place in NYC, and that the ad wizards who came up with the poster decided to play on our collective post-9/11 feelings to get people to see the movie (but that's a whole other talkback), but it's getting a little crazy. There's no getting away from New York City being a target for all sorts of Hollywood death and destruction but I don't think one director has made a point of kicking one city's ass so many times in unrelated movies. Real life tragedy or not, it's getting boring, Roland.
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Boarding season's here folks! I'd get my ass into 50th floor window of the Nasdaq building and carve that shite up.
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Nov 05, 2003 10:34:33 AM CST
Instead of NYC or L.A. they could try taking out Chicago next
by terry_1978
It really hasn't been used as a backdrop for movies as of late...and seeing those famous landmarks like the Buckingham Fountain and the Art Institute get CGI-pummelled wouldn't be too shabby.
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WONT LET ME DOWN LIKE DEEP IMPACT
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What? Just curious as to what some of you saw as "wrong" or "bad" about the Patriot. I believe "intentionally evil" was even mentioned. Please educate me. Thanks all...
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I thought it was really ridiculous when they pulled movies after 9/11 just because they had the Twin Towers in them. After all, just looking at a picture of a building isn't going to be a tramautic experience for anyone. And yes, the consideration to rename "The Two Towers" movie, that was the height of stupidity. But what happened on that day I think did affect the way I view action movies like this. When I saw "The Core", during that scene of the Golden Gate bridge collapsing, I didn't think "Wow! What an amazing special effect!' I thought "Hey! Those are innocent people falling to their deaths; I'm supposed to get some enjoyment out of watching this?" I know it's just a movie, but still. I don't find images like that entertaining anymore, just upsetting.
And it's not that I'm anti-violence. I enjoyed "Kill Bill" tremendously, and that was full of violence. But it was so over-the-top and exaggerated, that it wasn't like anything that could happen in real life. But a movie like this, in which people are fleeing from a terrible event and being killed, it's just too close to what happened for me to really get into it. Sorry. -
Nov 05, 2003 3:09:25 PM CST
Based on the book - "The Coming Global Superstorm"...
by rosco p coltrain
by Art Bell (yes, that Art Bell) and Whitley Strieber.
Read the book, look at the screwy weather patterns the past year or so...
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pardon me for sounding a bit evil, but for gods sake people, GET THE FUCK OVER IT! It happened over 2 years ago. Why the hell should our entertainment be sacrificed because a bunch of towl heads took out our two biggest icons? Why cut out the towers from flicks? Hell, keep'em in there. Sort of Hollywoods own memorial to them. Don't show them falling or getting damaged again, but just picture them. Like with Spiderman and that awesome helicopter trailer they cut cause of 9/11. Time to move on people, sorry, but it really is. I've put this behind me and you probably should too.
BTW: Trailer looks awesome. I enjoyed ID4 and the Patriot. Patriot showed some good ol' fashion bloody battles(pre-WW2)Seeing a guy get his head blown off by a cannon ball hasn't occurred in many movies I don't believe. Hell I have no problem with watching NYC getting trashed by a tidal wave again, or covered in ice. Don't affect me one bit. If you think I'm evil for saying this than you can go fuck yourself. -
I'm not going ANYWHERE NEAR The Day After Tomorrow.
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This movie looks so freakin' awesome. I hated Independence Day and Godzilla, but the trailer for this film is just so unsettling. I don't make any connection with the disaster in this film with what happened on September 11th either. It's not as if those fucking terrorists attacked New York with a freeze machine. I cannot wait to see this flick especially considering the gorgeous and unbelievably good Sela Ward is in it. Backed by Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and the cutie from Mystic River, this film can't miss for me.
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Nov 05, 2003 7:00:41 PM CST
trey parker and matt stone were gonna make a version of this
by slade justice
werent they? i read them say they got a copy of the script and were going to shoot a marionette version from the same scritp and release it on the same day but their lawyers advised them that it probably wasnt a good idea....
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But I will check it out anyway because I am a sucker for a good summer SFX-orgy. Hell, it's not even summer and I'm gonna go check out Revolutions despite all the, ahem, less then enthusiastic reviews. Ahter all, maybe it won't be that bad BWAHAHAHAHAHA*ahem.*
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All you wads crying over 9/11 and Hollywood... For the record, Hollywood didn't screw up 9/11, The Republican Neo-cons Did. Period. The America I live in Loves to blow Shizit Up. Anything. Cities, Cows, Bottles the bigger the Bang the Better ;) God Bless the USA, And C4 ;)
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...but this is really the only kind of movie Emmerich knows how to make, right? Big images of CGI destruction of cities? This looks like kind of a greatest hits collection: "Twister," "Deep Impact," "Earthquake," "When Worlds Collide," "Batman and Robin,"...
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1.a tattered American flag
2. a dog getting sucked up into the wind.
3. a very determined looking police officer.
4. donnie darko running holding on tightly to his girlfriends hand
6. screw it... admit it to yourself, this is horrible. how on earth could this possibly be good? there's no way. UNLESS...
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I have to agree with Nathandetroit, I'm tired of hearing people whine about stuff that makes them remember 9/11, saying the people making them have no heart etc... If anyone wants to make a movie about 9/11, right now is the time. While it's fresh. It'll be a lot more accurate (hence it'll a be a better homage to the people who died) and will have a lot more effect. Yes, people will cry in the theaters. Yes, it'll be painfull to watch for those related to people who died and all, but it's your choice to go watch it. No one will force you. I have some gripes with the fact that hollywood would be making money off the tragedie though, I think the studio releasing that movie (if it gets made) should give all the profits to hospitals or any association that helps in a crissis like that (not to the fucking army or any group whose principal purpose is violence). You american whiners (note that I'm not referring to all americans) need to grow up and realise your country has suffered very little compared to others. Yes, every tragedy is tragic, but making a movie about a tragedy whether it happened or happens to a city where another tragedy has happened does not in any way disrespect what happened (unless they make fun of it in the movie).
Now, for the person who said he/she can't enjoy a movie because in a scene innocent people die on a bridge. That scene isn't suppose to make you go wow this was a cool special effect (at least it shouldn't have been suppose to be intended that way). It was suppose to make you care about what happens (but it was handled badly if you ask me). Now, if you can't enjoy a movie because it has some sad elements in them stick to completely emotionaly defficient movies. Enjoying something doesn't mean it has to make you feel happy or like you just watched the coolest thing ever. -
I wonder how well the Patriot would have done if it had been named more accurately. Something like "Slave Owning Rebel Gets Mad Over Loseing His Privleged Lifestyle..."
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Then again ID2 should have been called "Just Don't Watch this CRAP!" and saved us all a lot of pain.
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Back when this film was being shot here in Montreal I was working behind the counter of a video store on the main and I had the frequent pleasure of meeting several Hollywood actors. Meeting the likes of Penelope Cruz, Jake Gylenhal (yeah i know its spelled wrong)and Bridget Fonda among others was treat and they were very pleasent (even when they had enormous late fees which was always)and were always open to conversation. Then there's Emmy. Having worked the in the customer service business for a long time I have met more than my share of unpleasant people. Ms. Rossum rates in the top ten of all time. (somewhere between the woman who threw tapes at my head and the guy who urinated on the carpet)Before I go on let me just say that my intention is not to spread gossip but to call attention to the type of person that she really is. This may sound petty and vengeful but vengance is not my motivation. It is a tremendous gift to be given the opportunity to work in the film industry. You get to wake up every morning and play make-believe. You get to create something. You get to be a part of something exisits in its form because of your involvment. Maybe someone else could have done your job but it wouldn't be the same thing in the end. Whether you're an actor or a grip. (A butterfly flaps its wings)And most of all you get to have been a part of something that lasts forever, be it a masterpiece or be it drek. You're not stuck making a sandwich or packing a box or renting out a video. When you reach a station in life where you get do the thing you love you should allow it to make yourself a better person. Use your privilage to add value to the lives of the people around you. Emmy Rossum used her position to claim power over those she felt were beaneath her. Firing off threats attached to phrases like "do you know who I am" (yes literaly). My crime? I didn't recognize her. Since my encounter with Emmy I have found gainful employment with a casting agency and I'm working on a deal to direct my first film. My joy knows no bounds. Everyday I meet and talk to struggling actors who who click thier heels at a role in a local commercial and offer advice and support to other struggling actors whenever they can. Ms. Rossum's abuse of whatever star power she believes she has shows nothing more than a tremendous disrespect for those who spend every day of thier lives honing thier skills and paying thier dues just to get a small piece of the pie that Emmy had handed to her. I'm sure that if someone was able to trace the steps of her career you will no doubt find that lucky connection somewhere along the line that is responsible for her getting to where she is. You can always tell when someone did have to work for what they've got because they don't have any respect for it. It's too bad for Emmy Rossum she is living her dream and finds no happiness in it. Maybe she will happen across this little talkback one day and realize just how terrible she treats people (it wasn't just me and it wasn't just one occasion)and make a change. She would be a lot happier if she did. And so would the next video clerk that serves her.
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Yo, I was dreading this but the trailer makes this look money. I kind of got that same feeling when I saw the trailer for Independence Day
Revolutions was money. Good flick
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Think people! Did the makers of movies like Fail Safe, Deep Impact, Independence Day, Godzilla and King Kong decide to trash New York because they knew it was going to be the victim of a despicable terrorist attack someday? Obviously NOT. They chose New York because it is the most instantly recognizable skyline in America, if not the world. Only San Francisco even comes close, and that's only if you show the Golden Gate Bridge or TransAmerica Tower in the background. If you took pictures of the skylines of Los Angeles, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Detroit or Atlanta and showed it to 100 people anywhere in the world outside the U.S., how many people do you think would be able to correctly identify any of those cities? I'll tell you -- less than 10 percent. I know this for a fact because I live in Japan and have lots of pictures different cities from my travels and the only one that EVERYONE recognizes at first glance is New York. Now I don't begrudge anyone who is still affected by the tragedy of 9/11. My wife's an international flight attendant who flies to New York several times a month. As a result, we live with the reality and the possibility of terrorism on a daily basis to a degree that most people don't. But even we realized that you have to stop looking back and get on with your life sometime. You can't always choose whether you're going to be a victim, but it's up to you to decide how long you're going to remain one.
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Nov 06, 2003 12:46:55 AM CST
I just think that it is funny that they treat an Ice Age as some
by smeg for brains
Um, an Ice age is not a "storm" as it says in the trailer. It is a gradual decline in the average temperature of the planet which allows the ice caps to grow and glaciers to cover areas farther south than they normally do. Or it might be the shifting of the earths surface crust so that areas normally in warmer climates are shifted towards the poles, depending on which theory you believe. Anyway it isn't a natural disaster that just suddenly hits. It happens over hundreds or thousands of years. Also, off topic, but isn't it funny that when A Democrat leaves office and then the country goes to hell it is the former Democratic presidents fault and now we are just seeing the results, but if a Republican is in office when things are going well it is all their doing? Doesn't that mean that Republicans are never to blame for the bad times, but are always responsible for the good times? How can that be? Sounds like pathetic bullshit to me. P.S. I've never voted for a Democrat, but I sure am next year, because if we don''t get rid of that cocksucker Bush then we are all going down big time. We can't take four more years of that crook and his thieving cronies.
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i dunno. But if I were to see those birds migrating like in that one shot, I would be packing my bags and making like a canadian goose, umm,...brother!
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Nov 06, 2003 3:44:44 AM CST
I must be getting old because this just looks really boring
by theginger twit
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Nov 06, 2003 3:45:42 AM CST
After November 13...... not only will none of you cae about this
by theginger twit
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Nov 06, 2003 4:21:33 AM CST
I can't believe some of you people still think muslims attacked
by theginger twit
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wow, that
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Nov 06, 2003 5:33:42 AM CST
Great, another Armageddon/ID4/Deep Impact/The Core special effec
by puddin' taine
Other than the special effects, there wasn't anything in this trailer that makes me want to see this.... oh, wait, that's right. THERE WASN'T ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS TRAILER BESIDES SPECIAL EFFECTS! Once again Hollywood suspends disbelief in the name of science because it seems to take a whole of 2 hours for the ENTIRE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT TO BECOME A SUB-ZERO FREEZER! I'm sure they'll be all fine after they explode a few nookyoolur warheads and magically change the rotation of the Earth. Or something.... o_O
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Nov 06, 2003 7:06:06 AM CST
THIS is an "awesome trailer"?!?! Are you out of your tiny mind,
by ageingfanboy
It looks like a garden variety CGI-fuelled disaster flick, a combination of TWISTER and DEEP IMPACT with (no doubt) a generous measure of INDEPENDENCE DAY's jingoism (the world is coming to an end and guess which country suffers most and has to save the day - that's right, the U.S.A.). That's a truly HORRIBLE CGI shot of Manhattan at the end, BTW. Why is Emmerich satisfied with mainly making variations on the same movie (ID4, GODZILLA and now this)? Is he trying to become the Hitchcock of soulless crap for Bush voters? Anyhow, it's an awful trailer.... and the film will be huge.
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Nov 06, 2003 7:07:55 AM CST
Hey, TheGingerTwit, if Muslims didn't attack the U.S., who did?
by ageingfanboy
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I am pleased to report that, prior to reading this Talkback, I had never heard of Emmy Rossum.
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If you gained control of the weather, screw sending hurricanes or tornados at your enemy. Just set the switch to "snow" and walk away. Check back in six months. Even the places best prepared for snow would collapse in about three weeks; food supplies would start to run out as soon as the transportation network stopped functioning; those elements of the Army that were still mobile would start looting remaining food stocks for their own use at about week eight; cannibalism would be widespread at about week eleven. Then a period of exhaustion would set in since movement would become all but impossible and the only people still alive would be those isolated enough to escape the looting and prepared enough to survive without outside assistance for a while [i.e. some Mormons in remote towns in Utah and farmers off the beaten track living off the contents of their root cellars]. Turn the snow switch off a few months later, let everything melt, and walk into a nice empty country complete with cities to live in. Now that would be a nice movie, or maybe a mini-series.
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This is so typical. The comments are typical, the trailer is typical, everything is just so typical!
The only country in the world that matters is the good ol' US of A, if you don't already know, and that's the only thing that Hollywood cares about too. It's a world-wide disaster, but only the happenings in the US is what matters.
But the thing is, if the people in the USA didn't feel this way, Hollywood would not put these images and greenlight films that are so damn pro US.
It's the American people that only care about themselves and the only way they can identify with tradgedy and emotion is if it's portrayed BY Americans. If the CG shot of New York was instead of London, there would be no controversy, and likely, no press or big box-office smashing opening weekends. Hell there would be no film at all!
The only way this cycle ends is if Americans stop circle-jerking themselves and actually start caring about the rest of the world.
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Nov 06, 2003 11:50:14 AM CST
I'm sorry that all the Euro's on this site is tired of seeing mo
by lost skeleton
...Hollywood, last I checked, was in America and we are responsible for a sizable amount of the profits Hollywood makes from its movies. And, to be honest, I love Paris, London and Rome and I have been to those cities multiple times but I don't care to see how the French are reacting to any diaster in any Hollywood movie. That's right, sorry guys but americans just don't care what happens to the rest of you. If you don't like it, produce your own flick (ie 28 Days Later which I enjoyed)
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Before 9/11, no one was bitching about disaster films showing thousands of people dying being eerily similar to a terrorist attack on a September morning. They'd complain that disaster movies suck or they're old or whatever, but that was it. After 9/11, any image with collateral damage to skyscrapers or with Muslims shown in a negative light is automatically bitched at. But, YOU are saying that, somehow, 9/11 has jaded you to disaster films? If you even BRING UP THE TERM 9/11 as a reason to not see the movie, you're obviously not over 9/11. Hollywood wouldn't even do disaster films if 9/11 had happened? So, I take it all those 90s disaster films with plots similar to this movie were made after some weird time loop, eh?
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You're worried because a disaster movie shows people get killed an things get blown up... in New York? Oh, the humanity!
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Nov 06, 2003 7:28:41 PM CST
Congratulations on your directing deal, videoguru! PS I'd never
by aston lad
...and a quick look on IMDb confirms that I haven't seen any of her films. But you know what? Stars usually go through phases of being obnoxious, and then - once they realise celebrity's not the lifestyle it's cracked up to be - much more down to earth and pleasant. Just look at Hugh Grant. At the height of his fame, just after Four Weddings and a Funeral, I could barely stand to see or hear him in interviews. He was so in love with himself and with his new found success. By the time Notting Hill came out 5 years later, in which time he'd had various flops, he seemed a lot more charming and modest, at least in interviews. I understand what videoguru means, I was one of several extras snubbed by a B-list supporting star on an a-list summer movie years back, and theres nothing more vomit-inducing than a so-called star who really isn't all that. But give her time. She's 17, she may change yet.
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Nov 06, 2003 10:21:45 PM CST
Agingfanboy.... I'll tell you what I can about 911 and november
by theginger twit
9/11/01 world trade centre... 10/12/02 Bali bombing.... 11/13/03 ??? It's going to happen! Bush and his government need it to happen - just as they needed 911. Usama was being blamed before the buildings even fell. There has been no independant investigation - the bush administration stops all attempts to find out what really happened that day. "No no, listen to us, because we know all the facts' Give me a break. The whole world knows what's going on... everyone except the vast majority of Americans who don't know anything except what their government tells them. To the rest of the world, you guys are no better thn the nazi's way back when. Not my words... general consensus.
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EC, I'm all for the blowing shizit up, 9/11 and America's pity party was a hoot for the rest of the world. Go to Israel or Ireland and get some tears from them over the WTC, won't happen, They LIVE/LIVED that moment every day. Orion, I forgive you thinking Republican because you must be young, or old. Too young to know better and think for yourself, or too old to care about what the 'Grand Ole Pizzants' are don't to a little thing we live to call 'Life. Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness' Some of us believe it's OK to do your own thing, even if we don't agree with it. ;)
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I must say that you are actually right on. We are like early Nazi Germany. We are also a lot like Oceania in 1984. Everyone is living in ignorance, fear, and hatred, and we are sitting back and letting our freedoms and liberties be taken away. What's worse is that Hitler was actually elected, while Bush wasn't. We actually sat back and let someone steal an election in America. How pathetic is that? I love America, but I hate what we have let it become. THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-AMERICAN STATEMENT OR BELIEF. Real patriots know that waving a flag and blindly trusting your government is how Nazi Germanys happen. Real patriots will admit when their country is wrong, and is headed (or in our case being guided intentionally) down the wrong path. Real patriots will try to change it for the good of our country and it's future citizens. REAL PATRIOTS WOULD VOTE AGAINST BUSH NEXT YEAR AND MAKE IT SO OVERWHELMING THAT THEY CAN'T STEAL IT. I think that this next election is our last chance. If we let it get close enough for them to steal it again then we are done. By the next election our "democracy" will be so far gone that they won't even have to have elections. I think it is that bad here. I just hope that the rest of the world wins against us in WWIII, and isn't too irradiated by our weapons of mass destruction.
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Nov 06, 2003 11:00:27 PM CST
Am I the only one who still watches movies for the sake of watch
by misterblonde
I really only started reading stuff on this site recently. I think the thing that everyone seems to be missing is that movies like this weren't MADE for you people. I can't imagine Emmerich sitting around thinking, "I gotta make the talkback kids like it..." This movie was made/is being made for people like me, that don't find out how the movie ends or dig up every spoiler before they see the damned movie. I feel that people that bitch about movies seem to have lost something that I am proud to be holding on to. There's something great about eating popcorn and drinking coke and watching stuff just GET BLOWED UP. Independence Day was a great action movie for a twelve year old to go see with his dad. This movie is going to be great. I'm going to go see it twice, once with my kid brother, once with my friends, and giant tornados are going to destroy buildings in, get this, our dear New York, and I'm going to say, "Wow. That looks scary. And amazing." and I'll get goosebumps when there is a quiet shot of New York covered in ice, with no music, just the sound of the wind. I can't wait for this movie, cause I like to watch movies.
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...I fear that before the time comes to vote bush out, the world will be in such a state that marshal law will be in place, and the government will have cancelled all election possibilities. As I said... November 13.
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I don't know what smeg is, but after reading the diatribe you're spewing, I'm assuming it must be closely related to the shit family. I find it very amusing every time someone uses the 2000 election as a sticking point in their political arguments. Does it still linger inside of you that bad, eating away at you? To know that regardless of what the Supreme Court or anyone else did, when it all comes down to it, vote-for-vote that was recounted several times, including after the debacle ended, that Bush won Florida by a handful? I would think that knowing Gore won the popular vote would ease your pain, but it seems that it builds up inside the lot of you to the point that utter nonsense keeps seeping from between your lips. So tell us, oh messenger, what exactly have we as a nation become? What liberties ... what freedoms .. have you *personally* suffered from having been removed? I don't call into question the patriotism of any American, yet I will certainly call into question the judgment and wisdom of anyone who blatantly slanders the country they live in, in a time of war, FOR POLITICAL GAIN. And that's exactly what the 9 jackasses who are running for president on the Democratic ticket are doing. They, and other pompous liberals like them, couldn't give a rat's ass about what Bush is trying to do to protect American interests and way of life. They're in it for the sheer power of being put in that office, and out of revenge for the fact that it wasn't Gore who was elected in 2000, because they wish a *Democrat* had been in the White House for 9/11. I dread the day that a Democrat will finally take the office of president again, now that we are post-9/11, and watch our stance in the world change from defiant in the face of terror and tyranny, to placatory in order to appease our "allies" in the EU and the fangless snake that is the U.N. Fortunately, right now we have a man in the White House who knows that if we are to keep terrorism to a minimum (because it can never be fully eliminated, that would be a fool's errand), we must put our foot down and play chicken with the enemy. Otherwise we will end up being decimated. Maybe not in the near future, but eventually.
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Nov 07, 2003 7:25:17 AM CST
'Mr.Death Goes To Washington'... now that's a movie I'd like to
by workshed
Bush play's chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot in a stunning return to form) on the lawn at the Whitehouse whilst Chaney (Lon Chaney Jr. Jr. Jr.), Rumsfeld(with director, Asamo Nib Nadel, coaxing a strange performance from Condoleeza Rice) et al fall victim to Bubonic Plague. Bush gets to contemplate his demise. Bush dies. Now THAT'S a movie and one I'd gladly pay $1000 to see.
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I just read all about the buzz on this site and it is a good look at the mental state of the good old USA.Calm down it is a popcorn movie and all of you guys
will lately see this film,you will go to the theater,rip it from the internet or buy the special edition.Why?Because everyone of Emmerichs Movies have this kind of visual moments and grandeur we all remember.The kind of feeling that comes with them is worth the bucks you spend.It is a good old fashioned disastermovie made with the technic possibilities of modern times and Emmerich will deliver the goods.What a shitty discussion-Emmerich Flick and Politics - come on wake up!!
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