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For those who’ve seen Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, its terrifying opening scene of a tsunami rising up and decimating a seaside resort seemed to play out all over again in news footage from Japan. Warner Bros is releasing the Matt Damon-starrer on DVD tomorrow, but the Associated Press reports from Tokyo that the film is being pulled from the rest of its theatrical run in Japan. It opened last month on 180 screens. The AP quotes Warner Entertainment Japan official Satoru Otani saying that showing the film at this point was “not appropriate.” The move seems wise, as Hereafter would certainly be the last thing a traumatized country would want to see at this point in time.
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The movie was amazing, just saw it last night. But Warner’s caution is definetely appropriate. The opening sequence is completely realistic and terrifying.
I had forgotten about this movie (for so many reasons) – glad to see some caution here. That opening is rather chilling.
Its the only reason it got nominated for visual effects.
Clint Eastwood is the greatest film maker. As for him being an actor, “For a Few More Dollars” is still the greatest of all time.
I’m watching the news about the power plants and etc. and some dumb news reporters with no common sense are saying how we can advise Japan on this. They are talking like Japan is Vietnam or some second rate country. HELLOOOO, Japan is more advanced than the United States of America!!!! Even your standard nerdy 15 year old playing Japan’s Sony Playstation 3 knows that.
There nuclear plants are more advanced, there buildings are built safer than ours. They are the one’s that should be advising us. Those dumb news anchors should be fired for not having common sense.
My heart and prayers go out to the Japanese since they are a country that is about traditional honor and loyalty. When this country is about The Jersey Shore. They are good people that don’t need our advice, however they do need our help.
Ok hot shot. I lived in Japan for 5 years and have been through countless earthquakes there. To which dumb news reporters were you referring? The ones in Japan or others?
Do you even know how to speak Japanese?
Would you also learn to spell correctly? “There nuclear plants…” shoud be “Their nuclear plants…” and “there buildings” should be “their buildings….” And why should I respect your comments since you don’t know English or how to use it correctly?
This is not about a movie. This is about people. Lots of dead people, mostly drowned in the tsunami. Do you know what tsunami is? Same thing as tidal wave.
You have to be there and you have to live there. I lived in Fukuoka and Misawa. If you haven’t don’t be so presumptuous as to determine what “advice” the Japanese require. At this point, they require all they can get. Unless of course you’re willing to go over and help.
I applaud the decision to remove the movie……but I have friends there so I’m a bit prejudiced.
Pete
umm Pete, I think you misread the first post. The writer was simply stating how great Japan is and annoyed by the American reporters for making Japan seem like a third world country when it is more advanced then the USA….
wow you really should read things clearly first before attacking someone. You came across as kind of ignorant by tearing someone apart for no reason. You basically went on a rant about what this guy wrote when clearly his view point is the same as yours. Everyone’s emotions are high right now, but seriously not sure how you got offended on this one. Apparently you just want to be mad and get defensive about nothing.
How in the world would you be offended when he ended the comments with “My heart and prayers go out to the Japanese since they are a country that is about traditional honor and loyalty. When this country is about The Jersey Shore. They are good people that don’t need our advice, however they do need our help.”
Seriously, did you even read it or only read one line super fast? Lets just chill out a bit.
“Captain common sense” was obviously responding to the horror and emotions, while simultaneously commenting on the “third world” thread, etc…. which is why some have challenged him/her for the grammatical error “there vs their”.
While I hate spelling and grammatical errors, I think that the Captain’s heart is in the right place! (or is that the write place? wink)
They’re saving Japan from this dud…
yes, Japan has been through enough. No need to put them through this crapfest, too.
Good move by the studio. At such a time, this shows the sensitivity of the studio execs of the current nature. Kudos.
Like anyone would have seen it anyway…sure.
yeah, like they care, wanna save some money.
Like Warner gives a shit. Obviously they couldn’t not pull it and it was ending its theatrical run anyway. If anything, this is just smart and timely advertising for the DVD release under false pretense of sensitivity.
The studio should have pulled the movie immediately.
Not waited 3 days to figure out how to spin it.
Shame on Warner Bros for not acting faster.
Actually we plan to use the real life tsunami to sell the tsunami in Hereafter with a new ad campaign “inspired by real life events” this is how we sold “Casablanca” we made it seem like it was based on what was really going on in the world back then.
Please don’t use Casablanca and Hereafter in the same sentence.
Love this movie
Thats really annoying. I saw Hearafter and it sucked, but I wanted to see Aftershocks. Why not let us decide what we want to see?
I guess I have to pirate it, At least Japan internet is fast.