The Day After Tomorrow is so bad!

[Matt]

I have to agree! This movie was the worst! The best parts were the previews!

[Lee]

Donnie Dark....I mean Jake Gyllenhall getting chased by the freeze. Great cinema moment.

[Eirik]

This movie is alarmist nonsense inspired by Chicken Littles who think they can predict another ice age based on 40-50 years of data on a planet millions of years old.  That said, sometimes movies outlive their contemporary messages and become famous (or infamous) in their own right.  Breaker Morant is an example -- when it came out it was obviously a commentary on the Vietnam War.  Almost 30 years later and removed from its context, it stands out as a genuinely great military drama in its own right.  

I think the Day After Tomorrow may -- fifty years from now when the Chicken Littles have moved onto another flavor of the month -- stand out as a bizarre and uproarious slice of early 21st Century radicalism.  The most ingenius part of the marketing for this film was the way they got Dennis Quaid (a moderately respected actor I think it's fair to say) to actually go on TV talk shows and, as preposterous FX laden scenes of the planet getting flash-frozen are played, actually say that "This could really happen and probably will happen in our life times."  

That, ladies and gentlemen, is entertainment!

[onionhead]

Where is George Pal when you need him?

[ulthar]

I found The Day After Tomorrow to be very bad, but very entertaining.  We enjoyed giving it the MST3000 treatment throughout.

My biggest problem with it was when I went to listen to the commentary on the DVD and it was loaded with foul language.  There was no point in that, and in my opinion, lowered my opinion of the work as a whole.  So, you take a mildly entertaining, alarmist disaster pic, full of cheese, over-drama and bad acting and demean it to toilet trash with adolescent eff words where they really aren't needed.  Great.

I'll never buy it because of that.

[Matt]

My biggest problem with it was when I went to listen to the commentary on the DVD and it was loaded with foul language. There was no point in that, and in my opinion, lowered my opinion of the work as a whole. So, you take a mildly entertaining, alarmist disaster pic, full of cheese, over-drama and bad acting and demean it to toilet trash with adolescent eff words where they really aren't needed. Great.



Ill have to agree! Thats the problem I have with that HBO series "Deadwood" Thats all its about is saying about 4 cusswords! Over and Over!

[Eirik]

"Ill have to agree! Thats the problem I have with that HBO series "Deadwood" Thats all its about is saying about 4 cusswords! Over and Over!"

No kidding!  If I want to sit around and listen to a bunch of guys in cowboy hats call each other "c**ksucker," I'll go to country-western night at Secrets.