Well that was bad

[inulro]

The Day After Tomorrow.

Bo-ring. I blame Jason for its appearance on our rental list. It's not even funny for all the wrong reasons like Independence Day, nor does it have the potential to spawn another Mars Attacks.

Comments

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

I quite liked it. Most apocalyse films have dodgy premisees, this was done on a larger scale and therefore the premise was dodgy on a larger scale.

The point of the film was "how people would cope if..." and not "this is what will happen unless...". If you're watching it as an environmental scientist then yeah, it's easy to pick holes. Viewed as a drama about a large scale civil emergency, though, it is a pretty good film.

It's well acted. The characters are believable and react believably to an unbelievable situation. Okay, so it's no Soylent Green, but for an apocalypse movie, it has better production values than so-called classics such as Logan's Run and far better acting than cult favourites such as Omega Man.

Believable actions in the face on unlikely situations is what apocalpse movies are all about; the lives of everyday people, some of whom turn into heroes, some of whom turn into cowards, in the face of a near-future emergency where the extremes or exaggerated extensions of worst-case scenarios are happening.

I thought it was a good value-for-money movie. It's not a must-see, but for DVD rental is warrants a solid 6 or 7 out of ten.