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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Tomorrow May Never Come, as you'll regret the lost two hours of this crap fest
I'm going to break this down piece by piece as I recall my experience with this film from last night.
Opening Credits: Could barely read them as they were horribly concocted, however, they did bring my only smile of the night to me when I saw Tamlyn Tamita's name warped across the bottom of the screen. Go Laurel Takashima!
Eventually, the first unrealistic event happens, a large chunk of the arctic shelf breaks off, amazingly down the middle of our hero's camp, and only a 4 or 5 feet wide crack is created through there.
You know, scratch it, I don't want to recount this movie. Let me just fill you in on what it is.
It's a rehash of Emmerich's tried and true destroy stuff disaster movies, and he even destroys the same round tower building in LA again, just like in ID4. Unlike ID4, there are no redeeming performances by Will Smith to make this movie bearable.
You will love this movie, however, if you think the U.S. is evil, believe our climate is very fragile, believe that 3rd world nations have it right and we will grovel before them, and believe that it is better to wipe out half the world to have cleaner air.
Emmerich also seems to think that North America only has 2 cities worth caring about being destroyed, NY and LA.
A horrendous 1 out of 10, and 2 hours of your life you will never reclaim.
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
A pilot to a series that looks to need some serious direction.
As a pilot movie goes, it was pretty good. The dialogue was good, and extremely funny in parts, decent effects, and good acting. However, the premise for this show is not nearly has good as Crusade's, and the fact that JMS had to bring in a "bigger, badder" alien race makes me wonder if this should have been made at all. Andreas Katsulas was great as G'Kar as usual, but too many of his lines were re-hashes of some of his best stuff from the original series and seemed liked forced references to remind us that this is a Babylon 5 series. Overall not bad, but needs something more than a new mysterious powerful race to make this show half as good as Crusade, and 1/4 good as Babylon 5.