As it happens, i really enjoyed Stargate and Independence Day. As high-budget action-packed fantasy/adventures movies, they were entertaining and interesting to watch. In fact, i was great fan of those kinds of movies made back in early and mid-90s. On the other hand, The Day After Tommorrow didn't work for a number of reasons. For one, i can't help thinking that the movie actually took itself seriously, making many noticable references to science, scientists and politics. Secondly, it seemed as though Emmerich wanted to create a movie about natural disasters and nature going wild, but felt the average tornado, hurricane or snowstorm wasn't enough, so he threw in all sorts of unrealistic phenonmena which probably wouldn't occur on Jupiter! The movie didn't work for me because it utilised a kind of fantasy that i've never heard of: super-weather as opposed to more familiar stuff like aliens invading, travelling through space warps, or antedeluvian civilisations!


Dar