the day after tomorrow
it’s always nice to see gyllenhaal — and this time in a big budget hollywood-summer-movie, no less. one problem i have with this movie is its overuse of the Inverse Hero Distance / Disaster Speed Effect. for example: a giant tidal wave is crashing over new york city, moving at seemingly upwards of a hundred miles per hour … but as it gets close to the protagonists, it slows to a crawl, to allow them to get to safety. this is of course standard fare for action movies, but they really ham it up in this one. anyway, this was pretty fun.