the day after tomorrow or war of the worlds? |
| *anubis* |
 Jul 19 2005, 01:36 PM
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okay. so i saw TDAT last summer and completely hated it. because i thought it was unrealistic.
but then i saw WOTW this summer and realized that, after seeing pure shit, that TDAT was actually a pretty good movie  so then i watched TDAT again recently---and realized that "wow.. if you ignore some of the unrealistic parts (wolves, fireplace), it's actually a pretty good movie." war of the worlds was just. shit. is there any other word that can explain it? it just kinda... dragged and.... dragged and ended on a happy-lovey-dovey note. "yay we're all alive and back!" and can anybody explain the whole "i have to do this, dad" part. WTF? but TDAT did end on a semi-happy note too, but most of the people still died. only the SURVIVORS survived. and when it ended, it didn't recess back to how things were before. it changed things permanently. not like in WOTW where... basically one day they're here attacking. and then they all die. the end? wtf. so yeah. what do you think?
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Jul 19 2005, 01:37 PM
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 show me a garden thats bursting to life  Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
Ok So really you are asking me to make a choice between Jake Gyllenhall or Tom Cruise. *sigh* Jake's younger.
Dude. You are completely wrong about both movies. Day After Tomorrow - Completely realistic. They had some scientist on one of the talk shows and he said that it COULD TOTALLY HAPPEN. The idiots died cause they went out INTO THE STORM WHEN HE [JG's character, Sam i think?] SAID DONT! War of the Worlds- Yes Robbie was a complete teenager and was an utter idiot but still. It's realistic. Aliens couldn't handle our atmosphere. THey ate our food, drank our water, and DIED FROM IT. Obviously their planet was DIFFERENT from ours. Why do our spacemen wear those suits? Cause we can't handle the atmosphere on other planets so...the aliens are the same. Geesus. I so wanna be a lawyer. |
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| *anubis* |
Jul 19 2005, 01:40 PM
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QUOTE(sprinkle-the-stars @ Jul 19 2005, 12:37 PM) Dude. You are completely wrong about both movies.  uhh... how?  everything i said was opinionated. how could that have been wrong? |
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Jul 19 2005, 01:41 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
Course it's opiniated. I just felt like saying that you're wrong and your mind isn't open enough to think things through. I edited it the post above as well.
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Jul 19 2005, 01:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 2,087 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 36,491 |
i havent read all the posts yet ^ but i will later on. but i honestly have to say i prefer the day after tomorrow. the war of the worlds would have been WAY better if there was some more of an explanation and i better way for the aliens to go away... cause honestly with our generation today, that was a bit STRETCHED For our minds haha
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| *anubis* |
Jul 19 2005, 01:44 PM
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QUOTE(sprinkle-the-stars @ Jul 19 2005, 12:37 PM) Day After Tomorrow - Completely realistic. They had some scientist on one of the talk shows and he said that it COULD TOTALLY HAPPEN. The idiots died cause they went out INTO THE STORM WHEN HE [JG's character, Sam i think?] SAID DONT! ...i said the unrealistic parts about it were the WOLVES (how could they have lived?) and the fireplace (at -150, there's no way a PAPER-burning fire could survive). nothing about the frozen people. at all. they deserved to die. maybe you should read more carefully next time, yes? and yeah. they did say it could happen. but not within the time frame of what the movie set. it happened in within like a week in the movie. in reality, they say, if it happens, it would take at least hundreds to thousands of years. |
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Jul 19 2005, 01:48 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
God, now I feel like this should go in the debate forum.
Aren't there tons of wolves up north? They're furry, can handle cold tempurates. the paper burning thing? Sure if they kept the firing going. We always start our fired with paper. QUOTE in reality, they say, if it happens, it would take at least hundreds to thousands of years. The whole thing started cause of global warming. What is it that all the politicians are bitching about everytime you turn on the news? Other than Karl Rove or something else... Global warming. *gasp* How ironic.. |
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Jul 19 2005, 01:48 PM
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i like WOWs better did u know it first started as a radio show and the people thought it was real and went into a state of panic , and then the made a movie of it in the 70s and now this one its basicly saying that are planet was different than theres there immune system couldnt handle all of our germs and bacteria so they died
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| *anubis* |
Jul 19 2005, 01:55 PM
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QUOTE(sprinkle-the-stars @ Jul 19 2005, 12:48 PM) Aren't there tons of wolves up north? They're furry, can handle cold tempurates. lol! so... wolves can handle -150 degrees? hmm... i didn't know that. i thought only penguins, polar bears, and puffins could survive such extremes. QUOTE the paper burning thing? Sure if they kept the firing going. We always start our fired with paper. lol. at -150? you gotta be kidding me, right? hmm.. lemme find a citation. QUOTE 3) No fire burning on paper only could have survive a drop of temperature to -150c. source
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Jul 19 2005, 01:58 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
well how is it that my fires stay fire-y then?
QUOTE lol! so... wolves can handle -150 degrees? hmm... i didn't know that. i thought only penguins, polar bears, and puffins could survive such extremes. where are you getting the constant 150 degrees? |
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Jul 19 2005, 01:59 PM
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QUOTE(sprinkle-the-stars @ Jul 19 2005, 1:58 PM) well how is it that my fires stay fire-y then? ...because your fire isn't undergoing -150 degrees of outside temperature! durr!  QUOTE where are you getting the constant 150 degrees? they tell you in the movie. maybe you should take biology or chemistry. then you'd know a paper fire can't withstand a -150 outside temp |
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Jul 19 2005, 02:02 PM
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The Day After Tomorrow sucked.
First of all, completely unrealistic script. Total world destruction in a few weeks due to global warming? Yeah, right. Global warming is bad, but not that bad. Secondly, the script sucked. The acting sucked. 'Nough said. The only good thing about the movie was Emmy Rossum. I haven't seen War of the Worlds but it's got to be better than The Day After Tomorrow. The only disaster movie that was worse that The Day After Tomorrow were the Airport movies, and they were made in the 70's when everything was cheesey, so it's excusable. |
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Jul 19 2005, 02:10 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
wait wait...NEGATIVE 150? God. Are we talking about 150 or NEGATIVE 150?
the acting did suck in TDAT, I will say that. Wasn't the best of Jake's movies. |
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Jul 19 2005, 02:11 PM
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I've never seen any of them..but i gotta go with day after tomorrow
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Jul 19 2005, 02:13 PM
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QUOTE(sprinkle-the-stars @ Jul 19 2005, 1:10 PM) wait wait...NEGATIVE 150? God. Are we talking about 150 or NEGATIVE 150? lol! yeah. negative. which is why i have that little "-" before it. haven't you seen the movie? they were freezing to death... not burning to death.
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Jul 19 2005, 02:19 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
yes i've seen the movie but in your posts there weren't the little '-' thing. or I judt didn't see them. I'm not wearing my glasses. god i'm so stupid.
give me a few minutes to rethink this through. and i OWN the movie |
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| *anubis* |
Jul 19 2005, 02:23 PM
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QUOTE(sprinkle-the-stars @ Jul 19 2005, 1:19 PM) or I judt didn't see them. I'm not wearing my glasses. god i'm so stupid. no need to feel dumb. you are entitled your own opinion and i am mine  and yeah... i've got the movie too. and i'm just starting to read the book. just to fill in some plot holes.
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Jul 19 2005, 02:30 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
wait. There's a book? yesh..
but i'm going to fast forward to the parts you're talking about and try to understand about what the heck you're talking about. I'm still confused. There's a book? My gosh. I gotta catch up |
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Jul 19 2005, 02:32 PM
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QUOTE(anubis @ Jul 19 2005, 2:44 PM) ...i said the unrealistic parts about it were the WOLVES (how could they have lived?) and the fireplace (at -150, there's no way a PAPER-burning fire could survive). nothing about the frozen people. at all. they deserved to die. maybe you should read more carefully next time, yes? and yeah. they did say it could happen. but not within the time frame of what the movie set. it happened in within like a week in the movie. in reality, they say, if it happens, it would take at least hundreds to thousands of years. dude lol u hate movies for stupid reasons. its like u try to find something wrong with them. but i liked both movies the ending was a little dry in WOTW but it still kept me interested and entertained for the whole movie. besides the BOOK ended that way. what do ya want Speilburg to do? lolDay after tommorrow was a good movie also it had a better ending but for some reason i still like them equally. WOTW gave u butterflies in ur stomache. |
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| *anubis* |
Jul 19 2005, 02:33 PM
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QUOTE(sprinkle-the-stars @ Jul 19 2005, 1:30 PM) but i'm going to fast forward to the parts you're talking about and try to understand about what the heck you're talking about. I'm still confused. lol. you don't have to watch the movie and stuff just because of a few minor points we were arguing over
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Jul 19 2005, 02:39 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
War of the Worlds scared the shit outta me. The ending was dry. My dad said they should have just ended it with Tom Cruise and Dakota standing, in the middle of the redness and they just zoom the camera out to the little ants..they screwed up with the ending. There is NO WAY the mom of the kids, like their area was untouched. It's just COME ON! they were all over the world but not in Boston, uh ok. NOT. I hated the ending. Robbie should have been vaporized.
oh i was just going to FF to the parts we talked about. The wolves thing, now that I think about it doesn't make much sense. How cold does new york get and how cold is the storm? extremely cold..that's all i remember..but they do have fur.. |
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Jul 19 2005, 02:53 PM
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Both of you two are extremely stupid. There I said it.
WotW was a much better movie than The Day After Tomorrow, case and point. I don't remember much of TDAT but I do remember a part where they are running away from the COLD. They were literally running away from the COLD. They were running in a hallway and everything behind them was freezing up and they were looking back at it saying "OH MY GOD THE COLD". And to make things worse, they STOPPED the cold from reaching them by going into a room and slamming the door shut. I don't think I have to explain anymore why TDAT was a stupid ass movie. |
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Jul 19 2005, 03:04 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
*sigh* Yes another reason I get to bitch.
Ok. They were running away from THE EYE OF THE STORM. There were like these giant Ice storms that were like hurricane's on land. The EYE was the COLDEST PART and THAT WAS WHY they were running. They didn't stop it by the door. YES they shut the door but it still came in and covered the walls. My god. You can join the party of stupid people. :D |
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Jul 19 2005, 03:07 PM
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 *GASP* A ROCK! Group: Member Posts: 291 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 167,837 |
day after tommorow cause it doesnt hav tom cruise in it.. (yea i kno ITS THE DUMBEST reason but tom cruise to me trys to be all nice (yes i kno he donates money to africa and other places, its jus that he looks so fake...)and all that crap)
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Jul 19 2005, 03:11 PM
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QUOTE(sprinkle-the-stars @ Jul 19 2005, 4:04 PM) *sigh* Yes another reason I get to bitch. Ok. They were running away from THE EYE OF THE STORM. There were like these giant Ice storms that were like hurricane's on land. The EYE was the COLDEST PART and THAT WAS WHY they were running. They didn't stop it by the door. YES they shut the door but it still came in and covered the walls. My god. You can join the party of stupid people. :D lol sry i have to spam but i have to acknowledge that that was funny  loli never knew how many people dont listen to whats happening in movies. lol |
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