the wrong words to the wrong melody...
"i am just nothing bound by other peoples opinions"
--- ennui
I'm not normally one to criticize but i have just wasted a few hours of my life watching an extremely crap film... "The Day After Tomorrow" actually could have been a really good film, it had a good basis for an idea - borrowed of course from many-a science fiction novel, but never the less a good story idea.
Basically the dialog, over Americanizations, sugarcoating, and effects were all ridiculous. The script felt like the screenplay writer had spent all his time writing the proper script, only to have then lost his only copy in one of his own unfeasibly tricky situations, and spent one evening rewriting it from memory...
I think my favourite thing about this whole film were the scenes with Ian Holm and his two side kicks, but maybe that's because they were overly English. And the scene (which i don't think i have seen happen in a film before) where Jake Gyllenhaal tries to stop people from leaving the library and everyone ignores him and instead automatedly follows the "Guy in Charge"... Other scences were just too cringeworthy to mention.
This film basically has no depth - from a subject that should show human beings at the very edge of their character and substance - it shows shadows of imagined stereotypical people who seem to all be written in to effect the story rather than the story to effect them. A film that tries to be something but fails miserably... imo they should have got Ridley Scott or Terry Gilliam to do it...
my rating: -150° below zero (and no that doesn't mean its cool)
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