A train wreck..

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 2004)

SPOILERS I'm guessing that my summary line (sentence above) kind of says what i'm going to say in my comment, though i hope people will sit down and read my opinion anyway..
I had actually none anticipations for the film, i only went because my friend loves disaster movies. At first i was pleasantly surprised that the whole plot was about global heating, a subject i've been worrying about for some time now. i think it is nice, no great actually, that someone has tried to tell the world what an important issue global heating really is. something has to draw the publics attention to it as it may pose a risqué on our kin some hundreds of years from now..but no matter how good the though behind the movie was, it could not hide the fact that is was a lousy film..plain and simple.
I have hundreds of reasons for why "The day after tomorrow" sucked, but i'm guessing i don't have room to write them all.. first of all, it was a typical American movie..i love America, don't get me wrong, but wasn't it a bit weird that we heard nothing at all from the rest of the world..it was all about how America handled the challenge of a world entering the ice age... we heard nothing from Russia, china or even canada! we saw seconds of images from japan, and a whole damn movie about America!
It was a total clishè that the father found the son at last.. but to me it was just stupid! i would never let my father go through such a big risqué that the father character in the movie went through, and it even turned out (surprise surprise) that the son didn't even need his father to come!!!! and the scene about the wolves...PLEASE! how stupid and totally innecessary was that?! OK, so four/five wolves suddenly escape from a zoo or something, find the three guys that was in a boat looking for medicine for a girl who got blood infection from cutting herself on a taxi when she was trying to reach a bag that wasn't even hers, and the guy (sam) decides to lure the wolves away (of course, who wouldn't?..haha, like everyone on earth!) from his friends by jumping trough some window and make the wolves run after him....puh.. i have to catch my breath! that whole scene was not necessary, complicated and not to mention totally fake!
And then (surprise surprise again!) sam falls in love during the movie.. who couldn't have guessed that would happen? haha! so we have a disaster movie with love, drama, animals, intrigue and lots of comical moments brought together and blended into one, massive, mess of a movie! The film was totally predictable and it had a lousy title because no one knows what "the day after tomorrow" has to do with global heating. half of the people that have seen it barley know that it was about global heating, and not about a gigantic wave crushing the us!!! it is hysterical really, how newspapers where all over it, and asking scientists about the film etc. etc... my mother who works on things like that had several calls from newspapers asking all sorts of questions..one question was even "is the continental plates going to break" (or something like that)
after seeing this train wreck of a movie, nothing has changed..i am so annoyed and sad about the fact that the public remain the same, our society remains like it is, inconsiderate towärds our nature and our world as well as other human beings. i had hoped that this film would open our eyes, and make us realize what we're doing, we're not only destroying our planet, but also dooming our grandchildren or even further away generations to an almost certain death, and a new ice age. i had hoped that "the day after tomorrow" would be stunning. the moment i realized what the plot was, i prayed that it would be a knock out, and would stun people and help them see the situation in a different light..i am disappointed. not only did they manage to make a idiotic movie, they also took away the possibility that someone else will make a new movie about global heating, no one wants to be a copy cat about movies, do they?
so there it is, in a short version, why i though of "The day after tomorrow" as a train wreck of a movie, and a disaster made to annoy and sadden me. i think that the plot was excellent, but no matter ow excellent, it can not make up for the fact that THE FILM SUCKED.