The Day After Tomorrow

Personally I thought this movie was very well done, despite the fact that it was ludicrous in hypothesizing that what will probably take a millenia to pass could happen in the space of a week. In fact, one of my buddies who workds for a disaster recovery corporation told me that all the techies were given the day off and told to go see the movie . . . since it IS in their particular pervue, you realize. He tells me that he was in the theatre with about 75 guys from India all yelling, "Dat is Boo-sheet!! Dat is such boo-sheet!!" for two and a half hours straight.

Other than that technical comment I figure that for your standard Man vs. Nature movie this one was very well done. You have your characters fighting the elements; you have your people who want to hold tight vs. your people who want to try to walk out of the danger. You've got your hero who crosses six states covered in a solid sheet of ice to find out if his son is alive or not. You've got your magnificent views of incredible damage.

Also, you that the humour element: That of tens of thousands of US citizens flooding south across the Rio Grande, until Mexico closes the borders! (Everyone should get a kick out of that!)

Basically, the writing of the movie is fairly well-done for the genre: it focuses on the humanity and having to face sudden hardships, however it takes care not to point out the complete weaknesses of the slovenly character of your average US citizen - I personally think that not all of them would be so heroic. In addition, the writing does slightly over-emphasize the stance of the current (and former) US administrations who are willfully destroying the environment without the slightest care of the future ramifications. In that aspect, it's a little overdone: I cringed with the VP openly apologized tearfully on what was left of television.

Other than that, it was a fairly entertaining movie, and not at all an afternoon wasted.


VG