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The Day After Tomorrow: Cool Disaster Movie
Movie review of the 2004 disaster film by Roland Emmerich; The Day After Tomorrow. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Writer/Director Roland Emmerich loves his effects (10.000 BC, Godzilla) and disaster stories (counting alien invasion as a disaster: Independence Day). I was reluctant to see 2012 but then I realized this guy is behind the camera and I decided to give it a shot after seeing The Day After Tomorrow. I always appreciate the director more when he writes his own stories. I just find it more personal. And more effective.
The Day After Tomorrow also stars actors I really love: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Stella Ward (her most remarkable role is to me as Stacey in House- after all, not many gals realla have made an impact on Gregory House’s life). Also fun to see Emmy Rossum going for a regular guy (Gyllenhaal) than hanging around with a Phantom (although who could blame her? Gerard Butler was playing the phantom in Phantom of The Opera).
The Plot:
Climatologist Jack Hall (Quaid) was guessing that the world would face a dramatic climate change in the future but he was shocked to realize that it was already happening. Vice President did not take Jack’s findings seriously but the weather itself was proving Jack right. The North America was facing an ice age and unfortunately Jack’s son (Gyllenhaal) had already gone there to attend an event. The weather gets worse and worse, the temperature drops drastically. Now Jack realizes his only option is to go to New York and try to save his son himself…
Yes, you are going to see lots of heroic actions both from Jack (being a father and all), his son (his love interest needs some saving) and well, a very concerned and selfless President. But it is all OK. Without some amount of clichés, displays of human affection and concerns, this movie wouldn’t work. These “old-fashioned” elements provide a nice contrast to the good effects and the monstrous climate. Jack has to race against time and nature. You have many internal and external conflicts and the movie is entertaining. OK, maybe it is bad of me to enjoy such “disaster”, but there is a reason the movie is effective. Climate is already changing. Movies like this are good because they make us fear, think and encourage us to take some measures. While it will probably not top your favorite movie lists, it is bound to give you a good time. But please watch it on a screen as big as possible. The better your screen, the more this movie will suck you in.
Writer/Director Roland Emmerich loves his effects (10.000 BC, Godzilla) and disaster stories (counting alien invasion as a disaster: Independence Day). I was reluctant to see 2012 but then I realized this guy is behind the camera and I decided to give it a shot after seeing The Day After Tomorrow. I always appreciate the director more when he writes his own stories. I just find it more personal. And more effective.
The Day After Tomorrow also stars actors I really love: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Stella Ward (her most remarkable role is to me as Stacey in House- after all, not many gals realla have made an impact on Gregory House’s life). Also fun to see Emmy Rossum going for a regular guy (Gyllenhaal) than hanging around with a Phantom (although who could blame her? Gerard Butler was playing the phantom in Phantom of The Opera).
The Plot:
Climatologist Jack Hall (Quaid) was guessing that the world would face a dramatic climate change in the future but he was shocked to realize that it was already happening. Vice President did not take Jack’s findings seriously but the weather itself was proving Jack right. The North America was facing an ice age and unfortunately Jack’s son (Gyllenhaal) had already gone there to attend an event. The weather gets worse and worse, the temperature drops drastically. Now Jack realizes his only option is to go to New York and try to save his son himself…
Yes, you are going to see lots of heroic actions both from Jack (being a father and all), his son (his love interest needs some saving) and well, a very concerned and selfless President. But it is all OK. Without some amount of clichés, displays of human affection and concerns, this movie wouldn’t work. These “old-fashioned” elements provide a nice contrast to the good effects and the monstrous climate. Jack has to race against time and nature. You have many internal and external conflicts and the movie is entertaining. OK, maybe it is bad of me to enjoy such “disaster”, but there is a reason the movie is effective. Climate is already changing. Movies like this are good because they make us fear, think and encourage us to take some measures. While it will probably not top your favorite movie lists, it is bound to give you a good time. But please watch it on a screen as big as possible. The better your screen, the more this movie will suck you in.
Not a bad film and an important message, but for me they went a bit over the top at times- funny how these things only seem to effect the major cities of the world!!
I know!! It also didn’t seem to hurt the non-English speakers… : )
But it is Roland Emmerich for you. He lives to make over the top movies. He made Godzilla, for crying out loud!!! : )
Great review! I have watched this film a couple of times and think it is very good. You have to take it a little tongue in cheek but hey, it’s a film, it doesn’t have to be perfect!
yep. plus, it never hurt to watch dennis quaid and jake gyllenhaal together;)
and loving the stars never hurt the movie experience;)