Above and beyond back room boy

Above and beyond back room boy

What put me in such a frame of mind? Watching Life After People. An interesting viewing companion to I Am Legend is Life without People, the documentary that proved a considerable success for the History Channel in January It makes a fun compare-and-contrast. The documentary painstakingly illustrates that after were not part of the equation, Earth wins. the filmmakers certainly convinced me that a humanity-free Earth is not a place Id want to be. People is a spooky, post-apocalyptic model of the end of the world as we know it kinda like a sneak peek at the final chapter of a book well never finish. Life After People is an intellectual feast for the eyes that utilizes both attuned scientific draw and amazing special effects to create a one-of-a-kind viewing experience. 2008 AE Television Networks. All Rights Reserved. Art and Design 2008 AE Television Networks. All Rights Reserved. Marketed and distributed in the by New Video. Blu-ray Single 95 SRP Right click on images to download hi-res files. 2011 New Video Group, Inc. All rights reserved. A sinister cabal of superior writers. The Day After Tomorrow is supposed to scare you into thinking the world could plunge into a massive, deadly winter sometime around, well, the day after tomorrow. It doesn t. Instead, audiences are given a ridiculous, hilarious, campy tale of a father looking for his son amidst the worst storm mankind has ever experienced. Wisely spacing out the key moments of destruction, Day After does a fine job of keeping audiences in their seats for at least 60 minutes. The CGI here is generally unforgettable, producing sights that most of the 70s disaster films tried so hard to produce with their limited resources. Never has worldwide devastation been shown in such a form. Sadly, once everything calms down and Dennis Quaid begins his trek from Pennsylvania to New York on foot to rescue his child, the movie becomes absurd. Swallowing some of the slapped together science is expected, but above and beyond back room boy this intrepid group comes across body after body frozen to death and they seem to have little trouble surviving, it s flat out stupid. Worse, there is little reason for him to even make the journey. He really has to figure his extremely intelligent kid is smart enough to start a fire. The best above and beyond back room boy writers could come up with is a meager promise made during a phone call that Quaid swears to keep. This is a ridiculous attempt at adding depth to shallow characters. Logic is also at a premium. In a scene in which Sam Jake Gyllenhaal makes an attempt to secure penicillin from a ship that above and beyond back room boy rolled into the middle of the street conveniently just outside the library where they are trapped due to the tidal wave, where the water is frozen completely solid, all of the liquid medications are not. It is entirely baffling how Jack manages to contact the president in the end.