Why the hate?

I agree! Way underrrated. There are so many great little details too, like the plans for communities to have their own individual less robust "arks", which might actually have worked in some areas.

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I think 6.0 is terribly low too, but I will admit that pretty much every scene with Elijah Wood after the initial outdoor discovery scene was stupid. A lot of the complaints I've seen and heard revolve around those, especially the silly "go back to get her, actually get there in time, grab that handy motorcycle, find the minivan in the miles-long haystack and outrun that pesky tidal wave" sequence. That's probably where a lot of hate comes from, because other than those scenes (they really were terrible) you've got a very good movie here. I enjoyed it despite the writers' best efforts to get Elijah Wood to ruin it.

Watched it from beginning to end for the first time last night. I actually liked it, even though It's 15 yrs old, it was pretty foreshadowing... Funny how they had a black president.

Leoni was terrible. She couldn't even pretend to be a reporter. They would never let someone with such a boring personality anchor the desk.

I agree.. This move is way underrated. I love it more the more I watch it..

I gave it a 6 for the following reasons:

Disjointed editing throughout. The film could have really used an extra 30 minutes, which I imagine it originally had.

The love stuff should have been all there or not there at all, this falls under the editing.

Incredibly hectic timeline that skipped so much, anything could have happened. Seems like every other scene weeks, a month, or a year had passed. This was especially obvious with the space scenes. So this is another editing snafu.

Further, still, is that there was no expository on where the comet was in space and how far the Messiah had traveled, etc. etc. This went deep and caused a general "oh don't think about it too much" sort of message to be placed on the viewer.

Improbable verging on impossible physics. See my other post on here discussing that. There is no sound in space, for one. But that's minor compared to lots of ridiculous events that occurred.

Then there was the anchor's acting. Could have lit her on fire it was such dry wood. Additionally, NASA would never allow a team to go up that had so much potential for hard drama. All the egos and stuff would have never been allowed. This also kinda falls into the acting department, because it just wasn't realistic--it's more character portrayal, though.

It also got a lot wrong about society. No world would be that civil no matter what the president said. Yes, there was some unrest in the film, but it wasn't at the level it would be at in real life.

Then, there's the geography of the earth. All wrong. No mountains on the east coast, so the love story would have had a much different end in real life.

Finally, for a story that emphasizes relationships, it just had way too many people to flesh out within the two hours it allotted. It had X-Men 3 syndrome, along with a million other films that were plagued with overstocking on the actors.

But, all in all, it wasn't a bad film, it was good. But good is 6/10, so there you have it.

It's not worth hating, but 6/10 is still clearly too much for this seriously hokey tearjerker of a blockbuster where typically underdeveloped, uninteresting characters deliver typically bland, witless lines of dialogue and, as ever, the sweeping orchestral music rises higher than the killer waves to accentuate the already overripe melodrama. These kinds of movies are always so tedious cuz no one ever says or does anything unexpected, that would catch one off guard, always opting for the obvious. And, bearing all that in mind, the movie also fails to redeem itself through spectacle for there's fairly little of that as well as action in general. No real suspense or a palpable sense of doom & disarray. Just a cute, by-the-numbers Hollywood popcorn movie.



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Cause it was a crappy movie, and featured a terrible "acting" from a terrible actress, Tia Lenone. How she gets parts is beyond me. She must have photos.





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