The Day After Tomorrow (3 .2 of 5)
Roland Emmerich has always impressed me. Starting with the delightful turn for Van Damme in Universal Soldier, a true popcorn epic with the great ID4 and a slight hiccup (only because he was in a no win situation with purists and Star wars geeks just looking for a mistake) with Godzilla. He keeps the epic form here and the smaller story at the same time with this film. The effects were fun to watch and the staging in New York was great. The LA tornados were good but the NY wave seemed on par with the sub-par-Deep Impact-. The acting was straight and clean but nothing to care about. No storylines took the forefront so no emotions were conveyed. All the characters could have been played by anybody-.sooooo it was light popcorn fun that turns a little preachy at times. P.S. if someone can explain how a troposphere funnel can create-150 degrees without friction-.I would like to know.
Political Side Note: Some Earth groups (and the boob of the month–Algore-) are renting out theaters to bring awareness to Global warming-and while referenced in the film as a cause. Human caused global warming could never cause a storm attack of that speed. We would have to have a huge chemical imbalance in the earth-s atmosphere to cause a storm of that magnitude. The chemical imbalance of the earth is caused by dioxins creating an extra atmosphere-not the depletion of one. The first Ice age of record was caused by an over production of oxygen, due to the overgrowth of plants, creating a lens like atmosphere. This scorched the equatorial regions and raised the temperatures till the lens was burned away-once burned away the cooling trend started at a rapid rate (about 5 degrees every 100 years or so). The film explains the desalinization of the oceans as the culprit of the storms. While this can only be done a 10-20 degree shift over 100 years we have only gone 2 degrees out of cycle in the last 5000 years (and that was blamed on solar flares during the dark ages). The films dynamic message might solidify the-Earthies- and may pull a few uneducated fence sitters to their side, but read the history books people: Ice ages have happened before-and A/C units and Gasoline had nothing to do with it. Los Angeles had haze and smog 300 years before the first automobile. Don-t let this stop you from finding new resources for energy-but come on people, don’t destroy economies over it either.