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Last night, I kicked back and watched "The Day After Tomorrow", one of those films I didn't get around to seeing back in the day. I like Dennis Quaid, and it also featured Ian Holm, who I've been fond of ever since "From Hell". (I know, an odd character to fall for, right?) And Perry King, who I've not seen in ages, is still looking pretty good.
They showed a "blood in the water" shot of a girl cutting her leg...wolves escaped from the Central Park Zoo. I thought the wolves would end up tracking her down. Instead, the writers gave her blood poisoning, and sicced the wolves on the boys who went searching for antibiotics. So points to the writers for that one.
When Dennis Quaid and his two comrades set off, I had a feeling that the older guy/longtime buddy wasn't gonna make it. ("The sidekick always gets it" school of filmwriting....)
It reminded me of "Independence Day" as far as setting up the disasters went, but I thought it was rather choppy---all that exposition, and then at the end, poof, the storm cleared up. I would've liked to get more of an idea about what the new age was going to be like.
The F/X were very good. Unfortunately, they may have been better than the script, which didn't satisfy me, for some reason. Maybe the lack of character development, the pacing---I haven't quite pinned it down, but it was a little too sober to work as escapism. I grew up on Irwin Allen disaster flicks, so I know it can be done on a grand scale with numerous characters and done better than it was here. (And that was with 70's state of the art F/X, which are a thousand times cheesier than what we have today.)
Grade: B- (Would be a C if not for the sheer coolness of the F/X.)
They showed a "blood in the water" shot of a girl cutting her leg...wolves escaped from the Central Park Zoo. I thought the wolves would end up tracking her down. Instead, the writers gave her blood poisoning, and sicced the wolves on the boys who went searching for antibiotics. So points to the writers for that one.
When Dennis Quaid and his two comrades set off, I had a feeling that the older guy/longtime buddy wasn't gonna make it. ("The sidekick always gets it" school of filmwriting....)
It reminded me of "Independence Day" as far as setting up the disasters went, but I thought it was rather choppy---all that exposition, and then at the end, poof, the storm cleared up. I would've liked to get more of an idea about what the new age was going to be like.
The F/X were very good. Unfortunately, they may have been better than the script, which didn't satisfy me, for some reason. Maybe the lack of character development, the pacing---I haven't quite pinned it down, but it was a little too sober to work as escapism. I grew up on Irwin Allen disaster flicks, so I know it can be done on a grand scale with numerous characters and done better than it was here. (And that was with 70's state of the art F/X, which are a thousand times cheesier than what we have today.)
Grade: B- (Would be a C if not for the sheer coolness of the F/X.)
