The Day After Tomorrow

I just clicked on the 'Friends' tab in Netflix, and I couldn't stop laughing once I saw this:



"You two are certainly far from average." I'll take that as a compliment for sure, but what I find shocking is that the average user's average rating is 3.5... meaning that a lot of people thought that The Day After Tomorrow was worthy of more than 3 stars. It was simply awful formulaic Hollywood tripe and yet 'the average user' keeps it in the Netflix Top-100.

Curious, I dug through the user reviews and pulled this quote from OceanBluePearl, the first 5-star rating I could find (most of the reviewers gave it 1-star):

If you are concerned about greenhouse gases and global warming I encourage you to see this film, and to read the best-selling book on which it is based: "The Coming Global Superstorm" by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. This may be the most important film ever produced.

Gimme a break. The most important film ever produced? Has he actually seen the movie? Hah! He also gave Star Trek: Insurrection and Independence Day 5-stars, so he's got no credibility whatsoever.

Another 5-star review comes from GF from State College, PA who writes:

Fantastic, spectacular entertainment. The "science" is risible, but the pace and energy of the plot compensates. At least these people don't deny global warming, even if they hype it beyond even the worst of the worst case scenarios. Great stuff for a slow Saturday night.

Great stuff for a slow Saturday night? Wouldn't drinking yourself to sleep be more fun AND more productive?

I'm sorry for the rant, but I truly believe that The Day After Tomorrow is one of the worst films I've ever seen- right up there with Independence Day, Star Trek: Insurrection, Highlander 2: The Quickening, Signs, and The Core.