Rewatch: The Day After Tomorrow

I watched this movie on DVD again this past week. Man, is this movie amazing. The effects are startling, with incredible photo realism. There are scenes that are CG shots that I never guess where (or were 100% CG when I thought they might only be partial). This is according to the 2nd disk in the 2-Disk version of the DVD release.

The acting is great, the story is engaging. They built suspense and tension masterfully. It is definitely an "edge of your seat" flick. I remember how I felt when I first saw it in the cinema. Watching it again at home had the same effect. I give this movie 4 our of 5 stars.

It is interesting how much of that movie no longer seems fiction. Obviously the "super freeze", as the movie makers admitted, is pure fiction. But the other stuff?? At the time I thought, "I wonder if this would happen?" Now, the stuff in that movie almost seems not to far from being front page news. This winter has been the strangest here in North America. Places that don't get snow have gotten blasted with it. Places that usually get a lot of snow (like where I am) has barely gotten any.

Will we, as a society, realize what we are doing and take serious action? Governments seem to bicker more about how they can get out of doing what they need to do rather than doing what they should to push things in the direction it needs to. I wish we as individuals could change things with our buying habits, but it is clear that the biggest issue isn't automobiles. It is industry. I read that there are countries with industries that (Korea, I think) do more far more to cause global warming in a short period (a month?) than all of the cars in all of North America do in an entire year. This is disturbing.

Definitely, this movie hits it where it is true. And shows how reluctant humans are to face the facts until it is too late. This is true even in the spiritual world. If you want to consider this, too, check out my blog The True Way.