Ouch ..! worse & better than we thought it'd be

Rating: Null/10 (25 May 2004)

As You would expect a spectacular movie that You can afterwards just call "cheezy and cheep" you can really be surprised, cause this movie is neat and serious - and amazing in both ways (positive-negative). You can simply throw out your old skills of disaster -movies, it is not any more a bruncha black & white guys that warn everybody, and later save a lot of people and in the end save the world .. It's not anymore the old routine that in the beginning you see a miserable death (like in Volcano) as a DEMO, and later they dance on the edge of the blade i.e. run on thin ice, but in the end nice and happy people can burst their champagne out of the bottle at the headquarter .. No, it's not that .. Also, it's not that kinda "scenario", in which you see big movie - that would prevent you from ever taking it seriously that the movie was about.. This movie is made in a very clear cut way, there's no blur about Kyoto, or the Gulf Stream, or the melting Ice, and the canoe situation about our climate, that now it's bouncing but once (pretty soon) it can flop over and that cold be fatal. There's no smudge in the view of how a possible ice-age would hit - I mean thru centuries, years, months - or just days .. all in all it gives you a pretty clear view on what is possible to happen - due to being absent from Kyoto. This scientific sharpness gave the right for Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff to deal with this subject and this sharpness also makes the movie's way really high up to the greatest films like Terminator 1-2. and Titanic.
There could have been very cheesy scenes and very blurry messages and very cheap dramas but it turned out just as the total opposite. It is an amazing movie - with a very serious content. I mean the movie NET was also serious, and the Insider also. But this one is just - I mean it opens a total new culture right now ..
The only thing that is ever smooth & cheezy in this movie is that in this plot the White House is the last to find out about what's happening and US has to ask favor from (former) 3rd world countries .. I mean what if White House finds out (as they already did) about this threat? Will they go to Kyoto and cut down exhaust fumes? Or just find some new home like the American Indians'. I mean just or unjust we are speaking of the military superpower that can take down whole countries if they want. So, I mean, if someone finds it cheezy that US finds out last about Ice age in this movie should consider buying ticket for other genre - like war :(
Armageddon or Independence Day or Volcano and the Core are very weak but could be called "nice" or funny movies, but the Day After Tomorrow is a great cutting edge film. It is just much better than you possibly would have expected. But that thing that happens in it is just way worse.