Feb 12 2009
The Day After Tomorrow–Ridiculous, Yet Entertaining?
So, the other day I was watching the 2004 disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, and I realized a couple of things.
While I do like Dennis Quaid–that movie was pretty bad. I don’t like Jake Gyllenhaal at all, but he was just as good in the film, I guess, as the others. The movie is one I enjoy because it’s got a cool theme, and entertains me. The Entertainment factor comes from the fact that while the graphics are not that great–you’re dealing with end of the age as we know it themes here!!–I loved the concept of global warming making the ice caps melt suddenly, so rapidly, that everything would freeze over in the top half of the world, and create a new Ice Age.
Mainly I think I watch it thinking–man, it’d be cool to be the kids in that library! I love the cold, and think trying to survive would be awesome! But of course, if truth be told–it’s not THAT entertaining, because in real life, if something ever happened that fast–no one would’ve survived. Which brings me to another aspect of why the movie is bad…
Goofing That Badly…
If you look at this link, HERE, you’ll be able to see a great list of mistakes in the movie that are not really all that hidden. In fact, I love looking at messups, and finding glitches in movies. But these are doozys. I think when you’re dealing with a disaster movie, if you make such blatant errors of any sort of judgement–the film is bound to fail.
The Internet Movie Database is where the list comes from, and I had a ball reading the messups–most of which I was able to find myself. I mean–when you hear that it’s so freezing, the oil in a helicopter pipeline froze instantly, then someone opens the door of the helicopter, and does NOT freeze (or, rather, is not already frozen!!)–you wonder!
There were a slew of disaster movies that all came out around the same time–this one just failed to check its facts, methinks. I enjoy the movie every once in a while, cause I still think it’d be cool to base-camp in the NYC Library…but sadly, I think I’d end up dead–just cause of real life.
