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Release Date:
28 May 2004 (USA)
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Tagline:
This year, a sweater won't do. more
Plot:
A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won BAFTA Film Award.
Another 3 wins
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8 nominations
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(355 articles)
Panopticon Is The End Of The World, Not A New Transformer
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(From Twitch. 17 December 2009, 6:58 AM, PST)
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel okay.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dennis Quaid | ... | Jack Hall | |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | ... | Sam Hall | |
| Emmy Rossum | ... | Laura Chapman | |
| Dash Mihok | ... | Jason Evans | |
| Jay O. Sanders | ... | Frank Harris | |
| Sela Ward | ... | Dr. Lucy Hall | |
| Austin Nichols | ... | J.D. | |
| Arjay Smith | ... | Brian Parks | |
| Tamlyn Tomita | ... | Janet Tokada | |
| Sasha Roiz | ... | Parker | |
| Ian Holm | ... | Terry Rapson | |
| Nassim Sharara | ... | Saudi Delegate | |
| Carl Alacchi | ... | Venezuelan Delegate | |
| Kenneth Welsh | ... | Vice President Becker | |
| Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah | ... | Saudi Translator (as Michael A. Samah) |
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Tomorrow (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for intense situations of peril.
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124 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 (certificate #40177) |
Iceland:L |
Brazil:Livre |
Malaysia:U |
France:U |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:PG |
Chile:TE |
Czech Republic:12 |
Finland:K-11 |
Germany:12 |
Ireland:12 |
Netherlands:12 |
New Zealand:M |
Norway:11 |
Peru:PT |
Philippines:G |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
South Korea:12 |
Sweden:11 |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Zurich) |
UK:12A |
Greece:K-13
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Factual errors: We are led to believe that the only global surveys of the weather available are through manual observations from the International Space Station. In reality there are several dedicated meteorological satellites in orbit around the Earth.
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[first lines]
Frank Harris: See how it's done?
Jason Evans: Yeah, I think I got the hang of it.
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Frank Harris: See how it's done?
Jason Evans: Yeah, I think I got the hang of it.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "South Park: Die Hippie, Die (#9.2)" (2005)
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Soundtrack:
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
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Wouldn't The Water Wash Back Out To Sea?
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"The Day After Tomorrow" is a disaster movie, but it isn't a disastrous one. But if Roland Emmerich really thought he was making a movie with a message, he didn't quite succeed - to be honest, Emmerich is to serious film-making as Naomi Wolf is to recommending "Voluptuous" magazine. The fact that the movie begins with the Twentieth Century Fox logo under stormy skies doesn't make it any more significant.
Well-intentioned it may be, but the movie's plot takes second place to the imagery - the opening credits over an icy landscape, the massive weather systems over the planet, colossal hailstones pelting down on Tokyo, snowstorms over India, tidal waves - and the numerous effects houses make it an eye candy feast, especially for people with a grudge against the Big Apple (kudos to Industrial Light and Magic, Digital Domain and all the less renowned FX companies involved). So on that level, it works; the music by Harald Kloser and Thomas Wanker is also a bonus, being more restrained and serious in its support than is usually the way with Emmerich movies.
And then there's the script - it has a whole load of characters but doesn't do much with any of them. Example: Climatologist Dennis Quaid's relationship with son Jake Gyllenhaal doesn't seem to be as estranged as it's intended to be, and similarly the friendship Quaid has with a longtime colleague gets about as much emphasis as the crush his younger colleague has on fellow scientist Tamlyn Tomita (and the movie pays for it later on in a sequence shamelessly ripped off from "Vertical Limit," which has little of the emotional resonance it should). In fact, all the human elements - Gyllenhaal's repressed feelings for classmate Emmy Rossum, his doctor mother Sela Ward's problems with a young patient, etc - all of them are underdeveloped or just plain undeveloped, and some moments practically scream "Contrived Climax Ahoy!"
Those moments are there because "The Day After Tomorrow" doesn't have an enemy as a natural outgrowth of its story; the elements aren't really villainous as they have no concept of right or wrong, and the closest thing to a villain here is the current administration in the White House, so Emmerich and co-writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff have to impose a tangible enemy (why else are those wolves there?) on the proceedings. This does help things from getting totally boring in the second half, though it's still pretty watchable even then - but if some more thought had been put into the screenplay, like exploring the characters or developing the promising ideas therein (like Americans fleeing to Mexico, or further looks at the Government side), it would have carried more weight and made the movie into more than an improvement on "Godzilla."
As it is, it's a competently done if implausible attention-holder that wants to be more; that it actually had the potential to be more makes it a bit of a disappointment, but at least it's a watchable one.