Sadly, very boring. Almost fell asleep twice. *minor spoilers*

Rating: 5/10 (29 May 2004)

***** very minor spoilers below *****
I enjoyed Stargate. I enjoyed ID4. I even liked Godzilla. Yes, I am here to tell you that I found all three Emmerich directed films listed above entertaining. Many would strongly argue that none of those films were entertaining. Nonetheless I had a great time watching them and I could watch them again.
Along comes The Day After Tomorrow, a snooze-fest of epic proportions, parading the worst cliches of the disaster movie genre, sloppy and sappy and downright idiotic towards the end. I was so disappointed. Fortunately I saw the film with a rambunctious enough crowd, which provided a great MST3K atmosphere complete with people hollering at the screen, whooping and even standing up cheering when Laura hugged Sam to "warm him up with her body heat". The entire theatre lost it and was laughing for a good minute.

I understand that films like TDAT are not supposed to be taken seriously, but lines such as "it's pulling down super cool air from the upper troposphere" would trigger howling laughter in even the laziest of brains. And worst of all, the film was boring. The spectacle isn't that awe-inspiring anymore, we've seen most of this before.

Spectacular FX have become commonplace. It's time to start taking screenwriting seriously again. I mean REAL seriously. I don't need to plunk down $8.00 to fall asleep. I can easily fall asleep for free. Shame on Emmerich for being such a lazy bum.