The Day After Tomorrow
Posted on June 04, 2004 at 11:51 AM EST
Last night I saw The Day After Tomorrow. The trailers did a superb job of making this film appear to be one of the biggest blockbuster movies of the summer by including just about everything good in the movie. The special effects were amazing, but the plot was full of holes. It started out with American cities being demolished far beyond Al Quaida’s wildest dreams then went from one far fetched thing to the next. Listed below are some of the things that really bothered me throughout the movie:
- All of the major disasters, tornados in California, a tidal wave in Manhattan, cantaloupe sized hail in Tokyo, a blizzard in New Delhi, the largest typhoon in the world in Australia, all started occurring simultaneously. If an Ice Age did occur, it would take generations, not hours to develop.
- A Russian freighter managed to find it’s way through the city and stop at the New York Public Library (where the main characters just so happen to be hiding out).
- As the super frigid air rushed down freezing buildings, breaking windows, the characters managed to outrun being frozen to death by just a few feet and ended up hiding from it by closing a wooden door.
- Cell phones, radios, and cable news networks, continue operating despite the fact that the city had been ravaged by a high tidal wave and an ice storm.
- The number one paleo-climatologist in the world, decided to go and reunite with his son rather then help save the world. He decided to walk impossible miles in the middle of a sub-sub-Arctic storm from Philadelphia to New York City to save his son. Why couldn’t he just wait until the storm was over? Did he really think people would be saved just because of his presence in the city? Why would he need to save his son when his son had no problem fighting off rabid wolves and outrunning massive tidal waves and the lethal cold?
One of the most amusing moments in the film was when thousands of Americans were fleeing the invasion from the north and began illegally crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico instead of the other way around. The President then forgives Latin America of all of their debt in exchange to allow Americans over the border.
There’s a political message in the movie which attacks the Bush administration for refusing to reduce greenhouse emissions. For this reason, MoveOn.org, an Internet-based liberal advocacy group, is calling it “the movie the White House doesn’t want you to see”. They are also using the film to help give them a backing in the fight against global warming. It also seemed kind of coincidental that the only villain in the movie is the U.S. Vice President, who strongly resembles Dick Cheney.
The film seems like it was created in part to make the general public think the world is going to end if something isn’t done to stop global warming soon. If you like special effects then this would definitely be a good movie to see on the big screen. Otherwise, I recommend going to see another film such as: The Terminal, Spider-Man 2, or Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and waiting until it comes out on DVD.
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