Hello Sam,

Last Saturday my wife and I were looking through shelves of rental videos trying to find a movie both of us would to watch that evening. We ended up renting two movies, one for my wife and one for me – compromise being better than divorce…
My wife chose ‘Hildago’. I, not being at all interested in seeing a ‘poorly reviewed film about some horse race’, as I put it at the time, opted for “The Day After Tomorrow” because I generally like ‘disaster’ movies and this one had received some fairly good reviews (My wife is not keen on disaster movies – ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ put her off such films [and boats in general] for life).
Well, guess who ended up quite enjoying ‘Hildago’, but was gravely disappointed by ‘The Day After Tomorrow’?
Yep, yours truly…

‘Hildago’ is not a great film, but at least it has some spirit and character, which is more than I can say about the dismal ‘The Day After Tomorrow’.
My enduring memories of TDAT are the scenes set in a New York public library. The world’s weather has gone totally insane, New York is devastated by a massive flood and then frozen over, civilization is on the verge of total destruction, and there are a large group of disparate people inside the library behaving like they were at an airport and had just learned that their flight was going to be ten minutes late! It was quite simply unbelievable.
The closest the film got to portraying real human behaviour was in the sequences involving the three men stranded in the Scottish Weather Station.

Its time 'Hollywood' learned that special effects are no longer the ‘stars’ of a film.

Alex