tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796818.post-1133238271474883302005-11-28T22:16:00.000-06:002005-11-28T22:24:31.490-06:00So I finally saw the Day After Tomorrow, and I'm royally disappointed. I had heard a lot of hype about the side-slapping silliness, the "eco-comedy," so I had my hopes set high. Not so much. The Core is way, way better. If you want a pointlessly grandiose disaster movie, rent the Core. The only adjective that fits this one is "overwrought." From the very first frame, just trumped up emotion which amazingly stays absolutely steady throughout the movie -- "my dad didn't pick me up at the airport, so I'm sulky," "they were mean to me at a UN conference, so I'm sulky," "all of New York is destroyed before my eyes and I spend a week starving in a flash-freezing library -- sulk." No sense of perspective here. And movie science is notoriously bad, but still. Little details people -- the National Weather Service issues a tornado watch/warning, not an individual news station. And no matter how brightly colored the blobs on the radar are, it's not the <em>color</em> that signifies the presence of a tornado, it's the <em>shape</em> of the clouds. And I don't care how spiteful the Atlantic Ocean is feeling, weather simply cannot spring up faster than our ability to detect it. And whaddup with that bizarre speech at the end on how we've always looked down on the Third World b/c we were so blind but after our glacial smackdown, we've been humbled and learned our lesson and love our third rate neighbors? It took itself too seriously to be as good as the Core. It's not worth the late fees I have to pay for it. I so should have rented the Core. :(Deonnoreply@blogger.com