The Day After Tomorrow is one of those so-bad-that-it's-good movies that I can't help but watch when I see it on TV. It's on FX at the moment. The science is laughable, the script is pretty bad, and there are wolves! Surprisingly, though, the special effects hold up relatively well, and there are actually good actors in the movie. Jake Gyllenhaall and Emmy Rossum when they can still pass as high school students, Dennis Quaid as a climatologist, Sela Ward as his ex-wife and Jake Gyllenhaal's mom, and Ian Holm as another scientist. Tamyln Tomita also showed up as a NASA hurricane expert. Granted, this movie is not the highlight of any of their careers.
My favorite part is when they were choosing books to burn at the New York Public Library, and a man and a young girl was arguing about whether Nietzsche was worth burning. Then Arjay Smith's character, Brian, said they can stop arguing because there's a whole section of tax law to burn. I can relate to that - tax law is awful. A close second, especially in terms of sheer ridiculousness, is when Dennis Quaid's character saved his colleague by dropping into a Wendy's and turning on the deep fryer. Everything else is freezing, including fuel, but the steel door stops the freezing and the deep fryer still works? Awesome. Oh, and did I mention that Jake and two of his friends tried to get penicillin from a Russian ship that had moved to the middle of the street in Manhattan, and had hungry wolves chasing after them? Like I said, this movie is so ridiculous that it's good.
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