I finally watched it

OLKMED · Post by **OLKMED** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:57 am

After many months (or so it seems, i'm not actually sure how long it's been) of thinking "this movie is gonna suck butt, i'm not gonna watch it because it will be a horrible, horrible disaster movie (I never was a fan of disaster movies anyway), and despite it looking pretty it will be horribly directed and will have a story that may leave me in tears or asleep"

The CGI was really neat, i liked the way all the frost formed on everything absorbing the moisture in the air. I didn't much care for the wolves though, i don't think living things ever look quite right (i'm mostly thinking of the excorcist beginnings movie, i haven't seen many other living things depicted with cgi)

the disaster with the fronts changing and earth going into an ice age is based on a real theory (an instructor from iowa state came and talked to us about it once) and it's pretty neat how they based that on something real, but the rest of the story seemed lame to me.

There were so many times i didn't know what to think, they're in a flood, is the water cold? why is he shivering and why isn't she? why did they say the temp would lower this at this speed and then when 3 minutes went by they still weren't frozen? did they ever give that one girl a shot to make her all better? how much time did all this take?

there were so many things the director did horribly (in my opinion), but the effects were really amazing. If i were an actor or a director i'd be pretty embarassed to have this one on my resume. I really wanted to be proven wrong and find out this was really a decent movie, but that didn't happen.

if anyone has anything to say in the defence of the movie i'd be glad to hear it

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Delvok · Post by **Delvok** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:11 pm

I thought it was an alright movie, except for the slow parts, but the effects we're truly amazing, and that's what's the movie's all about.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:45 pm

I find it was ok but could have been better. The wolves part was kind of out of the way, not sure why they had to add that in there, I guess in hopes to add more action, but why would there be wolves on a boat anyway? LOL

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 4:14 am

I just watched it a few minutes ago. The wolves had escaped from the zoo, now why they would have the instinct and what not to escape and not get the hell out of there I have no bloody clue. And yes CG has come a long way to make things almost look photorealistic, but those wolves were bloody horrible. - horrible - they would look great in a video game or cg movie, but put in a live action moive, you're just left going "wtf is that?".

All in all though, the movie wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. That said it was nothing to write home about either. The story was passable, but I spent most of my time waiting for the next bit of disaster footage or frozen citiscape. Actually if you just ditched everything else you'd cut the film down to under a half hour and it would be bloody awesome. Heh I still love that scene where the news reporter gets cremed by that sign in the LA tornado bit. I guess it was supposeed to be shocking, but I laughed my butt off

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Delvok · Post by **Delvok** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:17 am

Delvok wrote: I thought it was an alright movie, except for the slow parts, but the effects we're truly amazing, and that's what's the movie's all about.

What the...?? I think i missed that part, what happened?

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:46 pm

The special effects were the only thing in the entire film giving it any kind of redeeming value. But those alone make it a decent $1 DVD rental/DVD rental copy on local computer.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:20 pm

1$???

Oh..... I see.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:09 pm

Cisco_Kid wrote: The special effects were the only thing in the entire film giving it any kind of redeeming value. But those alone make it a decent $1 DVD rental/DVD rental copy on local computer.

Yes. And as the horse has been beaten to near-death already, I'd like to give the coup de grace in saying that the wolves were one of least forgiveable parts of that movie. Why fake wolves? Why fake looking fake wolves? .... Suspense so contrived it hurts to think about it.

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