The Day After Tomorrow
 

OK it is generally agreed that this movie is the definition of mass suckage... but, I have a question for those of you who saw it in the theatre, and those who saw the DVD....

I could SWEAR that when hail was falling in the beginning, and the Asian guy was on the phone before getting smackerood in the head with a hailstone, that in the Theater version, he was talking to a man about something, like a mob deal gone wrong... and in the DVD he is talking to his wife.

Am I confusing it with another movie? I have racked my brains and I am convinced the studio changed and re-recorded the voice-over on the other end of that cell phone convo for the DVD.

Thoughts?

i don't know that i'd call it mass suckage... i thought it was fairly enjoyable, and i've certainly seen worse. as for your question, i can't really help. i never saw the flick in the theaters... sorry!

Actually I remember him talking to his wife on the phone in the theater.......

ditto...i dont remember any other conversation.


as for mass suckage...there were a lot of flaws in the movie but it was okay. i think it was better than armageddon

I was so excited when this movie came out, because I thought it was based on the book. Sadly, it turned out to be a whole different story.

The book is trash, but etertaining trash. Think Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code), but with Nazis and strange decapitations. Everyone I know who has read this book finished it in just a few days, which is saying something since it's nearly 800 pages.

the book that the movie is supposedly based upon is The Coming Global Superstorm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...565588-9851321

When i first saw the title for this movie I thought it was a remake of that made for tv movie during the cold war or whatever called "The Day After" which was a movie they made to scare children about what could happen in the event that a nuclear holocoust(sp?) happened and it showed the effects of what would happen <i>the day after</i> a nuclear bomb had been dropped. It wasn't that though. I actually thought it was pretty damn good I didn't think it sucked at all. I mean it had a few moments here and there that were a little far fetched or inaccurate but for the most part it was exactly what I expected. I hate Jake Gyllenhal though or however you spell it.

Asta!!

grendel is right. the book is co-authored by Art Bell & Whitley Strieber.

as for the movie, it was a fairly entertaining sci-fi flick.

I also agree that the movie really wasnt that bad, I kinda liked watching it.
""I would also say it was better than armageddon.""

The "special features" on the DVD has the scene which you are talking about. The asian guy is talking to the guy that paid the bus driver $200 to get on the bus when the streets were flooding. They were talking about an insider trading deal that was going south.



And chalk me up in the "thinks it didn't suck" column. It wasn't good enough for me to own, but I don't regret having watched it, and it certainly wasn't boring IMO.

I just saw this on a recent flight... I'd have to say it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. It was as enjoyable as any Roland Emmerich film be.

It also has a very pessemistic ending... not the norm for a Hollywood blockbuster.

I've never seen the Special Features on the DVD.. are you saying that the scene I remember is there? I DID see that scene in the theatre though... and I was tripping the other day seeing a different scene on the DVD. Is it possible they cut that scene just for the DVD???

GAAAAAAHH!!!!

ok it didn't suck too bad... it was just so PREACHY and that bugs me.

No, no. It sucked. Really bad. When I saw it, the entire theater was laughing at the "not-supposed-to-be-funny" parts. I mean, Dennis Quaid walks from Philly to NYC in a driving superstorm in less than 2 days. That's hard in good conditions. Easily the stupidist movie of the summer. Dumber than Van Helsing, even. Oh, he was talking to his wife in the theater I saw it in.