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The Day After Tomorrow

Tuesday, 27 July 2004 ‡ 17:35

Since i had not read anything detailed about this film, i was expecting this to be a fairly interesting disaster film, concentrating more about 'The Day After Tomorrow' in the sense that a major portion of the film was going to depict events after the tragedy.

With a very good start to the film and some interesting facts, the film rapidly slowed to a very boring pace and a major portion of the film concentrating on 'The Day'.

Pathetic symbolism used in American disaster films, of how America can survive anything, the Statue of Liberty, in this film, buried up to her neck in snow, copied from Planet of the Apes?.

It was refreshing to see fairly new young actors in major roles in a big film. I think that if the film concentrated less on happily ever after and maybe depicted a more terrible event and perhaps concentrated more on 'The Day After Tomorrow' this could have been a very interesting film.

I wanted to see complete disaster and destruction, i wanted to see the majority of the worlds population destroyed, i wanted to see survivors coping without modern technologies.

I was expecting to see a view of might happen, what could be, how people would cope without the every day objects they use without a moments thought.

My opinion, this could have been a great film, but it turned out to be just ok.

Labels: dennis quaid, emmy rossum, jake gyllenhaal

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