The Day After Tomorrow
I love global disaster flicks and what-if scenarios. This is a good disaster flick. The computer graphics are gorgeous and the action is enough to keep the interest levels up. Nothing like seeing twisters ravage LA, or a tsunami decimate NYC.
Its most frequent criticism is that it is sorely lacking scientific accuracy, but you’d have to be in a real bad mood to rubbish the film completely because of this. Sure, climate change takes years to happen, but that wouldn’t make for a very exciting movie, would it? (Anyway, like any decent scientific-movie-with-a-message, it spawns a lot of magazine articles and web posts from people scrambling to point out the inaccuracies and thus people learn the “truth” anyway.)
From what I understand, it surprised me to discover that technically, we currently are in an ice age. An ice age is a long-term period where there is a decrease in the overall global temperature. Within an ice age, however, there are periods (called glacial periods) where sharper temperature fluctuations cause glaciation – where the polar caps expand over the continental landmasses, like in the movie. We’re in an interglacial period now. The Wikipedia has more info if you’re interested.
4:26pm (GMT +10.00) tomorrow 
Generally a great movie. My ongoing issue with big-scale disaster flicks, though, is how they manage to give main characters a by-the-skin-of-their-teeth way out of something that should have ripped them to shreds. Examples:
* Independence Day – a female character, I forget who, is running away from a massive inferno moving down a tunnel. She steps into an alcove a couple of metres deep, covers her face, and somehow manages to stay there safe as it rages past her.
* Volcano – any number of times when people manage to stand next to, dangle over, run away from, or otherwise come way too close to a lava flow that should have incinerated them miles away. Not to mention walking out of a blown-up building.
* Twister – two people tied to a pipe by a belt are unscratched by a tornado that demolishes the entire building around them.
* And now, The Day After Tomorrow – minus 150F air that superfreezes things in seconds chases people through a building, icicles forming on walls metres behind them; and it’s held back by a wussy little fire that looks like it would go out if you sneezed on it too hard.
My other issue is, of course, that there has to be a rescue mission against all odds and common sense for the main character’s son/daughter/wife/ex-wife/romantic interest, which always manages to drag down the movie’s credibility.
Quick Fuzzy review: It sucked. Big time.
Then again I wasn’t expecting it to be any good; from the makers of ID4 & Godzilla…. As long as a character didn’t reach out from the screen and actually punch me in the brain I was getting what I expected.
However, during the moment shish mentioned above it really did seem awfully close to someone attacking my grey matter with sheer stupidity.
Below! God damn anti-chronological ordering :P
If I’m double posting I may as well toss in some more reasoning for review. I don’t actually want this movie to claim any more of my time than it deserves, so they’ll be in quick dot points:
Bad Things:
The cancer kid.
The wife.
The astronaughts.
Walking in snow covered glass ceiling.
The token asian woman.
Good things:
Reporter getting smooshed by sign.
Black nerd’s “if you can see a bigger nerd” joke.