I can live with imaginary science, and rearranging the geography of New York. (Not to mention apparently raising the ISS up to about five thousand miles.)
It’s just the stupid, hackneyed plot, the cliched, one-dimensional characters and the clumsy dialogue. It’s as if the Emmerich brothers have watched a lot of movies, but never paid any attention to actual life. Like in Independence Day; never mind all the bad science, what bugged me was that the characters didn’t seem to have normal human thoughts and emotions.
What these guys are good at, though, is bringing archetypal science fiction images to the screen. I went to this movie because I wanted to see Manhattan frozen in an Ice Age, and that’s what I got.
For a really super-fun happy-time Ice Age movie, check out Quintet. Breathes there the man who can sit through Quintet without once checking his watch? I doubt it.
TDAT would have been one of my favorite movies ever, were it not for two scenes:
the CGI timberwolves. Cmon, it’s just TOO big of a coincidence that they would show up on a boat a mile away from the zoo at the exact same time they try to board it. They were acting so crazy in the zoo that 3 days later they would have been 100 miles away.
and the god-friggin-awful “OMG WE HAVE TO OUTRUN THE DOOM-ICE” scene in the library.
not that I can’t deal with it, but I also didn’t like how inconsistant the snow fall was. Sometimes it was 1 story up, sometimes it was 10.
aside from that, it’s a very fun, cool movie. Stupid, but fun.
and yes, the first time I saw this movie was a couple weeks ago on Blu-Ray. During that massive rainstorm that hit NYC about a month ago (yes, it was planned out this way).
Thanks! Thought there was something off there; I should have looked it up.
Now that I have. . . ah, crap. Roland Emmerich is directing 2012, apparently based on that Mayan calendar bullshit, and then a remake of Fantastic Voyage. Too bad; that could have been a good movie.