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Saw it tonight on my friend's home theater system.Above par diaster movie, acting was OK, it's nice to see the kid from Donnie Darko in another movie, as I liked him in Darko. As usually in any movie, but especially disaster movies, science and common sense take a back seat to make the movie interesting. The bash you in the face environmentalism is grating sometimes, and many characters are cliche, but it's still fun to look at. The effects were pretty cool, except for the cheesy CGI animals. Tip for effects guys: don't have a real dog in one scene and a CGI one in another.
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Being a Sci-fi buff, I don't mind science taking a back seat if the movie is decent, and is consistant with itself. It was CGI for its own sake, and most of it was really bad-the dogs is a perfect example. Much like Sky Captain, it gave me a headache. As you said, common sense took a back seat.
The acting was OK, but the characters were rather one demensional, and 30 minutes into the movie, I found myself wishing they would all die.
I've seen some bad movies in my time, but I consider this definitely on my top 10 worst list.
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...The director was disappointed at how calm the wolves were; Emmerich wanted them to snarl and fight with each other, but the wrangler said that they would not behave that way since they were from the same pack.
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I was disappointed at how fake they looked.
Unfortunately, improving them wouldn't have hlped the movie any.
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