This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
#1This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
Posted: 6/19/09 at 7:58am
I have a confession:
I enjoy watching The Day After Tomorrow.
How can you hate a movie in which a character literally out-runs the approaching ice age?
Watching the world go boom is popcorn fun at its best!
Take a look at this new trailer for 2012. Was that Manhattan I saw sinking ala Titanic into the Atlantic?
Michael Bay, eat your heart out.
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#2re: This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
Posted: 6/19/09 at 9:02amThat looks seriously awesome. I really hope it doesn't suck. I'm with you there on The Day The Earth Stood Still, I thought it was a pretty cool movie. It also didn't hurt that we got to watch it in school.
#2re: This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
Posted: 6/19/09 at 9:21amWell, at least we don't have to worry about the 2012 election.
#3re: This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
Posted: 6/19/09 at 9:37amThat actually kinda scared the sh*t out of me... but it does look awesome.
#4re: This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
Posted: 6/19/09 at 9:41amlol was that a shot of California breaking off and falling in the ocean at one point? This looks awesome.
#5re: This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
Posted: 6/19/09 at 10:08am
I love me some crazy disaster movie!
This + 'Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus' are going to be highlights of the film year I feel.
Although, I am slightly puzzled what they're going to blame for buildings just randomly crumbling and entire countries bailing into the ocean...oh, and the shot of the Vatican dome rolling about intact squashing everyone in the square was also another classic moment.
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#6re: This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
Posted: 6/19/09 at 10:30am
IT looks like he had a bunch of leftover effects shots from his previous movies and edited them together.
IF the world IS going to end, I hope it doesn't come down to JOHN CUSACK to save us.
Updated On: 6/19/09 at 10:30 AM
#7re: This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!
Posted: 6/19/09 at 10:38amThis will be a fun ride. My hubby is going to love it. I saw The Day After Tomorrow in the theatre and had such a great time. The audience reactions was half the fun.
#8I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 10:43am
How many movies can you make where there is a mass destruction and still keep it fresh? Armageddon.Independence Day. Deep Impact. Day After Tomorrow.Earthquake.Twister.Dante's Inferno. Volcano and about a hundred or so others.The water towards the end of the trailer looks way too CGI (duh!)I am sick of these kinds of movies but why is this coming out in November 2009? Wouldn't 2012 be a better year? If this must come out this year why is not a summer release? This looks like it would be a perfect Summer popcorn movie. Did they feel threatened by TRANSFORMERS PART TWO?
I guess my complaint is here they are spending a ton of money on a movie that will not be that memorable and be confused with a dozen other movies a year or so from now. Then you have a talented filmmaker like Terry Gilliam who can not raise a third of what this film probably cost to make a movie he's been wanting to make for years now. I am using Gilliam as an example but there are so many others like him. SO many un-produced original stories to tell and we get The Day After Tomorrow Part II.
Argh! (end of rant)
#9I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:11amromantico - Did you see The Brothers Grimm and Tideland?
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#10I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:11amI can't stop daydreaming about the wonder that is The Day After Tomorrow. I loved the part where they showed people in the Northeast getting FROZEN SOLID in SECONDS, then had Dennis Quaid put on gloves and a parka and WALK from DC to NYC with no ill effects.
#11I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:25am
romantico - Did you see The Brothers Grimm and Tideland?
I did. Not very good films.However I LOVED Time Bandits, Baron Munchausen,Fisher King,and even 12 Monkey's.Every Director has had their duds. TO be clear, I will more than likely see 2012 I just go off on a rant very easily these days with remakes,sequels,and films that are all the same.Where are all the original fresh movies this summer?
#12I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:33am
"How many movies can you make where there is a mass destruction and still keep it fresh?"
The disaster movie doesn't claim to be fresh, it's just fun to watch sh*t get destroyed.
From "San Francisco" in 1936 to the Irwin Allen pics of the 70s people have always enjoyed the spectacle.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#13I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:42am
Brainless as they might be, his movies have given me two of my most memorable moments in a packed theater:
1. In INDEPENDENCE DAY, when the White House was destroyed, and the entire audience burst into spontaneous cheering applause.
2. In THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, when US citizens were advised to evacuate to the south and found the Mexican border closed - with the same cheering reaction.
#14I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:43amYeah, disaster films are an enduring genre and usually a moneymaker. Asking for them to disappear is like trying to get rid of romantic comedies or super hero flicks. Every film is a variation of its genre and some are better than others. Disaster flicks keep getting produced because people enjoy watching them and they may not want to simply watch the same ones over and over again. Personally, I'd happily attend another disaster film than any of the endless parade of sophomoric frat-minded SNL-inspired "comedy" films.
#15I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:43amI know, you are right and I do enjoy them to an extent.Disaster movies have just changed too much I guess. Take for example THE TOWERING INFERNO.One of my favorites or THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE,which they ruined with the remake.I guess for me, I can only watch mass destruction so many times before I get bored.If someone like James Cameron was doing this film I would be more excited I guess.
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#16I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:48am
I LOVED Independence Day! LOVED IT! I went to one of the all-night screenings when it opened- I think I got tickets to the 5 am showing- the theater was packed. I happened to sit behind 4 British Tourists who were screaming and whooping through out....until the scene where all the other world's armies were shown hiding, waiting for the Americans to do something. When the British soldier was told "The Americans have a plan!" and he remarked "About Bloody Time!" They went curiously silent.
I think any of us could conceive of an alien plot to destroy earth, but it's impossible to imagine a scenario where any organized human resistance would be lead by anyone other than the Americans.
#17I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:50am
My favorite part of ID4 is when Will Smith uploads a computer virus into the alien mothership.
Who knew the aliens used microsoft?
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#18I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:54amTruly, that is the Odessa Steps sequence of Sci-Fi films.
#19I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:57am
And the scene where Boomer (christ, I even remember the name of the dog) jumps into the alcove just as the entire Lincoln Tunnel explodes without even getting singed.
As silly as it is, I'm tensed up anyway shouting "run!!!" to the screen. Good times.
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#20I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 11:59amI read once that they added that scene of the dog being saved after that was the one thing test audiences REALLY would not accept. NYC? Kill'em. The White House? Blow it up. But DON'T KILL THE DOG YOU ALIEN FREAKS!
#21I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 12:03pmOh HELL yea! If the dog wouldn't have made it I would have hated the rest of the movie.
#22I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 12:27pmPoseidon Adventure is my all-time favorite and I agree the "remake" is garbage (as is the campy stage musical spoof). And though many seemed to passionately hate it, Cloverfield quickly shot into my top five upon first viewing. Yes, it had its moments of implausibility (what disaster film doesn't?), but for originality, style, action and effects, I gave it a 9 out of 10.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#23I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 12:39pmMister matt, I agree about CLOVERFIELD. Although, I'm glad I only saw it on DVD - I'm not sure I could have taken all the camera shaking in a theater.
#24I Actually Thought the Godzilla Remake was more Entertaining than TDAT
Posted: 6/19/09 at 12:59pmI did see Coverfield in the theatre and I admit, the shaky cam business made me quite queasy to the point where I was afraid I would have to leave (though my stomach settled about halfway in and then I was fine). But honestly, it was so effective, I think the film would have been greatly diminished without it.
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