The Reel Rejects - THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:07 this week's videos are brought to you by Rocket Money a personal finance app that I've been using since way before we partnered with them more on them soon Aaron any final thoughts before we get into the day after tomorrow on Saturday I'm ready to see some stuff get messed up in a disaster movie day after tomorrow

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Starting point is 00:01:51 and look cool and sexy at the same time. Erron! What did you think about the day after tomorrow? The day after tomorrow, it was, you know, a turn off your brain, semi kind of movie. It was cool. You know, I thought the visuals were really great. You know, he does a really good job of establishing scope and catastrophe. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:02:15 And, you know, it succeeded on those levels. I think that the acting was really good. You know, some of the score was really great in it. Yep. You know, I think that there was a lot. lot of I think I would say that the characters

Starting point is 00:02:32 for the most part were decent you know I think I never fully like latched on the way I wanted to with these characters in their hearts but I definitely related to their struggles you know it's not an easy thing obviously

Starting point is 00:02:47 to go through a global catastrophe and you know the coming of the second ice age and you know for these characters to find adversity or to fight adversity and to be able to find refuge in that I thought it was very cool yeah yeah did it all make sense not really but you know it's not supposed to it's supposed to just show what would happen in the event of something so heinous going down on earth yeah yeah no and I agree

Starting point is 00:03:18 with you there like it was grounded in terms of the like if the situation did arise I thought like the film did a good job painting that picture like how would we react as a civilization to that fact you know and i thought the film did a good job of doing that i agree with you roland emrick if you've watched any of his other films uh stargate independence day uh even the godzilla 98 film uh and 2012 as well i'd say he does a great job of really establishing scope and i loved a lot of the cinematography some really uh amazing shots but yeah in regards to the characters um i really like jake jillen hall in this film i thought he did a great job I don't think they explained enough that Dennis Quate's character was in love with his job, although I understand, like, you know, what he was doing and, you know, I totally get where his character was coming from in terms of, like, it was very important to him.

Starting point is 00:04:15 And, you know, also, too, he was the man who discovered, like, that we were on the, you know, a catastrophe, we were about to, you know, there was a catastrophe about to happen. We were about to turn into Krypton, if you will, almost, you know, in terms of we were. absorbing our natural resources and was going to be too much for the earth. So in terms of that, yeah, it was Buddha the dog. So, yeah, no, I mean, I get it. He was doing something important. And I do like that. At least we were going with the redemption arc that he was trying to make up for, you know, his mistakes. I do like that. Like I said, just nitpicky think. I just one time was enough. And I don't mind a line or so of that, but just the amount of times that they kept, I get it. I know I'm not the smartest. you know, tool in the shed, I acknowledge that there were so many damn times that they kept on saying

Starting point is 00:05:03 that this man is not there for his family. I got it. I really, I understood it. Having said that, I liked all the acting across the board. I really like the chemistry as well between Jake Gyllenhawnall and Emmy Rossum. I thought their interactions were great. I like that they didn't, it didn't feel forced their relationship. I like that they took their time with that. I missed all the catastrophes and all the crazy shit that was happening. I like that they took their time with that. We got to get that first scene on the airplane with them where, you know, we get into an

Starting point is 00:05:33 uncomfortable situation. You know, Jake Jelinehal's character has this fear of flying. And I thought that was a really cute moment where he was grabbing her hand. And, you know, I thought that was a good way of establishing some chemistry between the two of them. And then we get the whole thing too. I really did

Starting point is 00:05:49 also like that scene in the car with Dennis Quaid and Jake Jillenhow, just establishing how smart he is. Because it's just giving us some foreshadowing of how they're going to survive with Jake Gyllenhawn the whole group of people how they're going to survive showing how intuitive how intelligent he is like he's smarter than the teachers like this is why I failed because I didn't come up with the whatever he said I didn't tell the or show the teacher how I came up with the answers so I thought they did a good job of just establishing you know his

Starting point is 00:06:17 intuitiveness his intelligence I like that but I really like again I say for me personally he stood out for me I like this performance is this his greatest performance I I don't know. Again, it's a very schlocky type of film, but amidst all the schlockiness, I liked his character stood out to me personally the most. His performance stood out to me. Not that I have any complaints about like any acting. I didn't really feel like when I was watching like... A Lucas film. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, it's 20th Century Fox and 20th Century Fox did at least the first six. Well, they might have done... No, no, Disney was episode seven. So they did the first six Star Wars was 20th Century Fox.

Starting point is 00:06:55 I guess that makes sense. But yeah, no, I mean, and like, I agree with what you said. I think there was only one shot where we kind of really just complained a little bit about the, again, it's 2004. It's a little bit dated where some of the helicopter before they froze. It was just a little bit kind of obvious. It was CGI. But overall, I thought the visuals pretty much stood the tested time for the most part. What did you feel about the visuals overall?

Starting point is 00:07:20 I thought the visuals were great. You know, I thought their representation of showing how fast this storm can really do. turn and yeah the effects of the the ice and how it consumes things but that was really uh spectacular also the the water overcoming the city and the storm there yeah great stuff really great stuff is is there any particular visuals that like is that would you say the the water over new york city uh just like getting to the statue of liberty coming over the buildings and all that would you say that and then maybe the building's freezing what would you say the visual that like stood out to you like for me

Starting point is 00:07:57 those were all great I love them I don't know like the tornadoes in LA seeing that just that was wild to me that one stood out for me the most but is there any particular one or would you say it was that one

Starting point is 00:08:09 I'll say the first one that comes to my head is probably the one where the helicopters and the fuel freezes immediately and the guy goes outside and his face just turns to ice immediately like I felt like that was something that established the stakes of how fast this could happen for sure

Starting point is 00:08:23 but then I felt like nothing else in the movie really followed up to that level of quickness. Fair, fair. So it kind of just contradicted what they had set up prior. Yeah, and to your point, too, they did show a little earlier, like with the torrent. I mean, they only showed it once, but with the tornadoes happening in L.A., we saw with that storm, like, you know, the guy got crushed by the Porsche, buildings were being taken

Starting point is 00:08:41 out. You saw the weather guy get smashed by a sign and stuff like that. But then I thought the comment you made was so hysterical and accurate. Like, they kind of used the snow and the freezing kind of as like a monster, if you will. And I thought that was actually very clever on your. and that you don't always say clever stuff. But in that moment, I thought that was extremely, yeah, that was well put. I was like, hey, it's got a good point there.

Starting point is 00:09:03 That is kind of the monster, if you will. I mean, even though it's the weather and all that. But still, I actually, I was like, yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, the way that they portrayed it did feel like, you know, haunting or like kaiju-esque, you know, with the level of destruction in which that it was putting on display. Yeah, yeah, just want to stop it. Yeah. but yeah no I also thought that was so interesting too

Starting point is 00:09:28 with drawing that line and then like hey we've got to all go south and now into Mexico and it was just a reversal because usually like people are trying to get into here to immigrate into our state or into our country rather and it's like no no no we've got to go here to survive that was quite the reversal I don't know I found that fascinating like in this type of dire situation of life and death

Starting point is 00:09:53 Yeah, I thought it was interesting how we see in this movie that the, what he considered to be the third world were very like open and welcoming to helping America kind of find refuge. I thought I was like, okay, that's interesting. Yeah. And also too, as we usually see in these disaster type movies, we saw the bureaucracy at work. We saw the vice president not taking our heroine seriously. And again, I understand like, hey, it's a. a crazy-ass situation you've got so many different types of people probably in your ear like no listen to this no listen to that but that vice president who became the president like yeah at the end he

Starting point is 00:10:34 seemed to have a more clear head and all that but still like he cost a lot of people their lives and i i i don't care like if he was a better man at the end or if he was now ready to become a leader and be a better and be a president but like he just put so I mean he cost so many people their lives and he just pissed me the hell off I hate that character so much

Starting point is 00:10:57 yeah he's kind of he's kind of garbage but in his decision making I thought it was kind of lame we didn't see the president die it kind of happened off screen I was like oh he just in his old office in the next scene yeah they didn't make it in the storm yeah what you're not going to show us that

Starting point is 00:11:11 okay yeah yeah and obviously too we know why he waited it out he was waiting to hear back about his wife and that you know what it was because as we were going over this movie right like we watched that that was entertaining from a spatical standpoint but i never found myself pulled into the movie and i feel like it had its attention spread across too thinly because it wanted to be a movie that displayed disaster will also wanting to inform us as to why that's happening we also wanted to give us a scope of different people over this setting and i feel like if it was more focused in on like a set group of characters going through this experience i feel

Starting point is 00:11:46 feel like it would have been overall a more satisfying experience for me. I don't know if you felt that way, but, you know, how you said that they kind of beat over the head, the experience between the dad and the son. Maybe if the dad had, the son had some feelings about that and he's trying to come into his own. Yeah, I think he was like, maybe their journey's kind of parallel. Again, without going into spoilers, I think, again, just my subjective opinion. We're in the preview part.

Starting point is 00:12:12 We got it on spoilers. Well, no, no, no, I'm talking about spoilers for independence. Oh, gotcha, got you. don't want because you haven't seen that right right right right i think everything you just said again my subjective opinion if you guys disagree that's cool um i think and everything you just said independence day nailed that a lot better because again without spoiling uh that film you know had all the the uh you know the film the world is going to end type of stuff um you know disaster world type of end stuff and then doing all the stuff like

Starting point is 00:12:41 with the family connections and all that getting us invested but i think they nailed that a lot more tighter than this film did while still being entertaining at the same time. And again, I still found myself entertained in this film and still appreciating the scope and a lot of the performances as well. But I was not as emotionally invested in the characters and like the family dynamics and stuff like that. Again, I still liked the groups that we were with, the groups of people, but I just wasn't as pulled in as I was. And I know you can't relate because you haven't seen the movie, but I was not as pulled in as I was with. like independency and again I'm going to make the the comparison it's it's a rolling emmerc film

Starting point is 00:13:20 it's the same shit sorry um but I would say independency in my opinion did a lot better job with everything you just mentioned okay so um we definitely got to get I mean what are we at now we're at June 20th we should already had you on independent say for July 4th but um well there's always next year right yeah yeah but um yeah no I definitely want you to see that movie and react to that one that's I love that movie I always watch there's two movies I always watched, or at least I have to watch one on July 4th. It's, uh, Independence Day and a movie that was released 49 years ago today. Whoa. Do you know, dun and then and dun dun dun dun dun dun than Jaws. 40 years ago today. That's insane. June 20th, 1975. Wow. Yes. I have to watch

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Starting point is 00:16:14 I don't know a ton about climate change and all that, but I'm sure most of it was probably just schlocky ridiculousness. I still had fun and was enjoyable. I would have liked to have gotten way more invested in it. I still think Jake Jellenhall gave a, from what the film was asking of me to believe in all that stuff, I still thought Jake Jellon Hall gave a standout performance in consideration of what we were watching.

Starting point is 00:16:37 I enjoyed him. I mean, yeah. And I enjoyed a lot of the other performances, too. It's just, again, he stood out to me. I like the chemistry between him and Emmy Rossum. I was on board for that. And again, the visuals, for the most part, really impressive, especially in 2004. And I just thought just the notion of all this happening is scary as hell, of course.

Starting point is 00:16:56 Yeah. Do you have any final thoughts before I get into the trivia? No. No, I thought it was fun overall. And, yeah, it'd be fun to see something like this in 40X. 4DX We got to have all the weather Feeling like

Starting point is 00:17:11 Freezing a bunch of here Really Really feeling this effect Okay let's see Really quick Before I get into the trivia Aaron Out of 10 What do you think this film got

Starting point is 00:17:25 On IMDB Average rating Out of 10 Day after tomorrow I'm gonna guess 6.4 Is that right? Oh, so close.

Starting point is 00:17:40 Oh, so close. We got to play this game from now and every time before we get into trivia. When you said that, I was like, can you see through the damn screen? It's 6.5 if you haven't already looked, but he was extremely freaking close. I don't know how you did that. That was impressive. I could see you get. Yeah, I could see you getting right around there.

Starting point is 00:17:58 Okay, so 20th Century Fox invited a group of scientists to preview this film to test their reactions to the science used in it, none of the scientists were impressed with what they saw in the film, although most conceded that the film was enjoyable nonsense. I mean, is that not what we talked about? It's like, it's schlocky fun, right? That's what's, I mean, that's how the film was presented. Yeah. It's a Roland Emmerick film. You know what you're getting yourself into. And I was again, like I pointed out a few moments ago, I don't know a ton about climate change and all that, but I do know it probably sounded ridiculous. I mean, so, but again.

Starting point is 00:18:38 It did. Yeah. I did indeed. But I'm glad to hear that I was, you know, justified on what I just said. The consultation by NASA scientists was requested before the filming of this movie, but NASA stated that the events in this movie were too ridiculous actually to occur and denied the request. NASA sent a memo to all of its employees saying that they were not like. allowed to comment on the likelihood of the events portrayed, but later rescinded this restriction.

Starting point is 00:19:09 Okay. Like, this is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. I'm sure a lot. Science did not mess with this movie. Yeah, I'm sure, again, scientists and people just, anybody who knows any of this stuff, just watch the movie, like, all right, I'm just shutting my brain off. It's like when you watch a movie and someone says that Joaquin Phoenix can hit a ball 507 feet,

Starting point is 00:19:27 you just shut your brain off and say, okay, how many videos have I sent you about guys hitting balls? You send me quite a few. And do you see really quick, can you acknowledge how hard it is to hit a ball that far? It is indeed very hard to hit a ball that far. Thank you, Aaron. Confirm. I'm liking that you're backing me on this. The river crossing scene was filmed on the U.S. Mexico border.

Starting point is 00:19:48 The extras really were crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico. Holy shit. Oh, okay. All right. Facts about the Yoda name tag thing. Oh, I will look into that one sec. on the shot that shows the front of the library lamps are seen instead of the iconic lions according to a new york city public library employee the studio didn't want to pay the fees for filming the stat the statues that are a trademark of the institution and therefore only took advantage of the public area rights of filming roland emrick started writing the screenplay for this while he was filming the patriot he stopped after nine eleven thinking a disaster movie was inappropriate after such a

Starting point is 00:20:31 cataclysmic real-life event, understandable. I'm just looking to see anything on Yoda. Let's see. South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone managed to get their hands on a copy of this film's script during its pre-production. The two planned to secretly shoot the same movie with puppets instead of actors, word for word,

Starting point is 00:20:52 and release it on the exact same day. The duo abandoned these plans after their lawyer convinced them that such a movie would never get released. Oh, my God, that would have been hysterical if you did that. I wish they would have, too. Oh, my God, just to see what would have happened. DVD sales for this film brought in an extra $110 million in revenue. Wow.

Starting point is 00:21:15 Jeez, that's before streaming, right? I'm surprised so many people own this movie. That's nuts. The highest grossing movie to be made in Canada. I can believe that. This movie was originally scripted with Sam and his friends as 11-year-olds. Writer and director Roland Emrich changed them to high school students for Jake Gyllenhaal, who Emmerich had seen in October Sky.

Starting point is 00:21:36 I really liked that movie. Emric asked, can Jake Gyllenhaal play a 17-year-old? Yes, I'm glad you changed it. Oh, Kirsten Dunst, standing behind Sam near his elbow with her sweater pulled over her nose and mouth when Sam calls his father to tell him the sewer has backed up into the school. Oh, snap. I mean, they were dating at the time. Makes sense.

Starting point is 00:21:57 Yeah. see according to roland emmerick emmy rossom gave jake jillenhaal a deep french kiss during their first read together damn okay congrats emmy i'm i'm looking for yoda i'm looking for yoda it's okay it's not in there yes i am looking i am looking i am looking where are you jota use the force where's yoda it's okay we can forgive it uh i'm not seeing anything yep we know he directed another similar disaster film 2012 we know did you ever see 2012 uh no actually oh i guess we'll have to get errand on 2012 yes that one i did see because i was working at hollywood video at the time so all right

Starting point is 00:22:44 i'm not seeing anything in yota but i'll read like one or two spoilers okay the u.s army loaned several u.h 60 black hawk helicopters for the rescue scene at the end prompting the Canadian authorities to reassure the people of Montreal that they weren't being invaded by the United States. It's hysterical. I'll do one more and we'll call it. Let's see. Damn, these are long. Oh my goodness gracious. Let's do this one. This is the shortest one I could find of these spoilers. The eye of the storm is meant to draw supercooled air from the upper troposphere and is stated for being the reason people are instantly frozen. The air temperature in the upper troposphere is around minus 57 degrees Celsius, minus 71 degrees Fahrenheit. Even at the

Starting point is 00:23:34 most extreme, it does not fall below negative 80 degrees Celsius, negative 100 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, people do not instantly freeze and nor do buildings. Amiqon in Siberian Russia holds the record for the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth where it drop to negative 71.6 degrees Celsius, negative 97 degrees Fahrenheit. Yet nobody was killed by that cold snap. In order to instantly freeze, you would need a medium that has great heat transference and air doesn't. They science the shit out of this movie, Aaron. It's not real.

Starting point is 00:24:09 It's just a monster like Aaron said. Anyways, Aaron, any final thoughts before we get out of here? No, no. It was a fun 2000-sloky film. Yes. No, that's all I guess for. Exactly. Well, anyways, you guys let us know, is this your favorite role in Emmerick film?

Starting point is 00:24:27 For me, I would probably still go with. I do love the Patriot Independence Day, and I love Stargate. So I'd probably say it's probably in the realm of one of those three films. But again, this was a fun, like you said, fun schlocky film. I really enjoyed Jacob Gyllenhaal a lot in this film. But let us know your thoughts about this film in the comments below. We appreciate it. And yeah, we shall see you guys on the next one, maybe the day after tomorrow.

Starting point is 00:24:51 tomorrow. We shall see. But on bomch. Later guys.

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The Reel Rejects - THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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