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Commentary | The Day After Tomorrow
🕑 Added 2025-04-04 22:00:07 +0000 UTCThey better not kill that homeless guy...
Roland Emmerich is known for blowing up various famous landmarks around the world (mostly in the US and mostly in Washington DC) but do you remember that time he tried to blow up... Jake Gyllenhaal?! Or freeze him to death or make him get eaten by wolves or whatever. That's right, today is actually The Day After Tomorrow!!!
Rizzo & Benji of The Pink Popcast are back to join me on the edge of my seat as Dennis Quaid drags a borderline corpse across the planet so he can save Bubble Boy and Christine from Phantom of the Opera and one of Mary-Kate and Ashley's boys from the storm of the century.
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Pretty Much It
That actually sounds awesome haha
Nick Bogardus
Hey, it's my favorite terrible disaster movie! My earth science teacher in high school played this movie for the class. Not because it's a good movie, but because it's so scientifically inaccurate that it's actually good learning material. Every 10 minutes or so, he'd stop the movie and say "let me tell you why THAT is the dumbest thing you'll see today". It was a fun class.
Ryan
I feel like this movie's biggest impact was codifying the cliche of the "littlest cancer patient," a character who exists to be put in danger for cheap suspense even though it's obvious the whole time there's no way in hell the story would actually kill them off. The trope had existed long before, of course, but that line some some review I forget the source of "Yeah right, like you'd really kill the littlest cancer patient" really seemed to resonate with people.
