The Day After Tomorrow WOW!!!!!

[Slosh]

It soon becomes evident that nature has taken matters in her own hands and that within days mankind will be faced with a new ice age.

I know this is just a silly-ass disaster film (and I haven't seen it) but I'd like to point out that we're currently in an ice age (albeit a relatively mild one that is seasonal).

[madmax1]

I loved this movie. Cause i love all these blow'em up movies thats why i bought my speakers and sub for!! Anyway you guys are just like my wife saying (that couldnt really happen) AND THAT RUINS THE WHOLE MOVIE FOR ME! I know this stuff couldnt happen thats why its a movie!!! Oh well had to throw in my two cents!

[Kam]

T, T2, Abyss, Aliens, Total Recall, Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Innerspace, Planet of the Apes, Empire Strikes back, Donnie Darko... all of them couldn't really happen yet are great movies, imo. There's a difference between saying something couldn't really happen in a movie, vs. a movie that is just plain bad because they don't take a few moments to research WHY it could/couldn't really happen, and then give an explanation as to why it does. hell, loony tunes has more inspiration behind it than most "blow 'em up movies." just cuz stuff has to blow up, doesn't mean there has to be 0 story. the two weren't mutually exclusive before, quite the opposite. epic stories and huge action were hand in hand at one time, its just been recently that a disconnect has happenned.
just my 2 cents
peace
k2

[agidol]

As I indicated in my previous comments, for the most part I have no problem with scentific truth (or lack there of) behind the movie. My complaints are "mostly" around ridiculous storyline around human drama (nothing to do with blow em up effect or questionable science ) What I am saying is other science fantasies like Lord of the rings or Star Wars had reasonable storyline but this movie tries to create a totally forced human drama between father and son by having the father go on a rescue which is not even a rescue. I know we are not watching an Oscar movie but please..this irrational behavior is totally duh... Even silly movies like Independence Day had a good reason why Will Smith had to fly to alien mothership: to save the world... I would have loved this movie if they just kept on showing effects (no science explanation needed here) and not wasting 3/4 of film on nonsense.

[Lexmark3200]

Nonsense....hmmmm......and what of Dennis Quaid's acting in this? I cannot think of a better explanation of his atrocious acting job other than nonsense.....

Still made a good DVD though and I applaud 20th Century Fox getting behind Digital Theater Systems (DTS) for their semi-standard title releases. "Man On Fire" was another recently launched Fox DVD with a fantastic DTS track, and I now have Day After Tomorrow and the aforementioned Man On Fire in my collection; the studio also did a mediocre job on the "Predator Collectors Edition" DTS remaster.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Nonsense....hmmmm......and what of Dennis Quaid's acting in this? I cannot think of a better explanation of his atrocious acting job other than nonsense.....

Still made a good DVD though and I applaud 20th Century Fox getting behind Digital Theater Systems (DTS) for their semi-standard title releases. "Man On Fire" was another recently launched Fox DVD with a fantastic DTS track, and I now have Day After Tomorrow and the aforementioned Man On Fire in my collection; the studio also did a mediocre job on the "Predator Collectors Edition" DTS remaster.

Lexmark,
There is no such thing as a Dts remaster. Dts is just an audio carrier. Remastering is done BEFORE encoding to Dts. All Dts does is make sure that quality is transferred from the master, to you speakers through a VERY narrow pipeline(why its lossy) Unless the audio engineers touch up the output of each encoding format, the same information is encoded into both. It is up to the codec to deliver the information intact and without to many losses. From my experience using Dts and DD, Dts does a phenominal job of delivering the printmaster output to your decoder. When full bit rate Dts is used, it us transparent to the original printmaster. Dolby Digital is also a great encode/decode system, however in my experience it has pre-echo problems, audible crossblending of the channels from bit pooling, degradation in the audio when all channels are loaded(bit sharing between channels) a collaspe of the center channel in relation to the other channels, and a degedation of the overall soundfield and imaging. All of these problems can be corrected(and usually are) in post production which is why dolby digital sounds as good as it does.

[Lexmark3200]

Lexmark,
There is no such thing as a Dts remaster. Dts is just an audio carrier. Remastering is done BEFORE encoding to Dts. All Dts does is make sure that quality is transferred from the master, to you speakers through a VERY narrow pipeline(why its lossy) Unless the audio engineers touch up the output of each encoding format, the same information is encoded into both. It is up to the codec to deliver the information intact and without to many losses. From my experience using Dts and DD, Dts does a phenominal job of delivering the printmaster output to your decoder. When full bit rate Dts is used, it us transparent to the original printmaster. Dolby Digital is also a great encode/decode system, however in my experience it has pre-echo problems, audible crossblending of the channels from bit pooling, degradation in the audio when all channels are loaded(bit sharing between channels) a collaspe of the center channel in relation to the other channels, and a degedation of the overall soundfield and imaging. All of these problems can be corrected(and usually are) in post production which is why dolby digital sounds as good as it does.

From what I understand, PREDATOR was remastered in DTS from its original stems, for the Collectors Edition and prior-to-that edition, and the results, as others have found that I have discussed this with, were less than stellar and extremely uneven. Interestingly enough, I watched Day After Tomorrow again tonight (no pun or comedy intended here) with another HT enthusiast friend, and we had the DTS mix turned way beyond what I have been watching this DVD at since I owned it, in regard to the volume on my receiver....the results were that the mix, as I always thought, was forceful and encompassing, but the DTS effect starts out slow --- as were my sentiments on The Perfect Storm DVD, as you probably remember --- and build toward the middle half to end of the film; from the middle on, the surround action on Fox's DTS mix of "Day After Tomorrow" takes a new life as compared to the beginning, but as you explained once, this seems to be a snowballing effect as big budget action films such as this begin with somewhat shallow surround mixes and then build for finales. The effects were startling at times, depending where I turned the volume up to on my system, on Day After Tomorrow, and at times, we just seemed right in the middle of this somewhat smooth sounding mix.

[r3Wind]

Nonsense....hmmmm......and what of Dennis Quaid's acting in this? I cannot think of a better explanation of his atrocious acting job other than nonsense.....

It could've been worse, at least it wasn't Bill Paxton...

[Lexmark3200]

It could've been worse, at least it wasn't Bill Paxton...

Hahhahahahahha.....true....remember Paxton in "Commando" as the army radio guy? LOL.