S06E09: The Day After Tomorrow

Defector.com's David J. Roth returns to talk about The Day After Tomorrow, which was marketed as an Important Must-See back in 2004, and almost uniformly savaged by critics who seem not to have understood the point of AN ACTION MOVIE. But your commentators all quite enjoy it, despite all the Hollywood Sciencing, the lonesome death of a Law & Order-verse stalwart in a Paramus mall court, direwolf Colorforms, protagonists stopping to look at the special effect that's trying to kill them for a full ten count, and a baffling chapeau choice from our boy DQ. How many actors were asked before Quaid? What exactly happens to the English royal family? And could this movie make Dick Cheney's heart grow one size? Slip into a 78-lb. snowsuit and join us for an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 7.67
QQQ score: 7.17
Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 21

SHOW NOTES

• Follow us on Twitter
• Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
• Ebert's review
• Anthony Lane's for TNY
• David Edelstein's for Slate
• Manohla Dargis's for NYT
• Defector.com
• It's Christmastown
• Don't use an indie ruler to measure an action flick