You mean, they’re ex-wolves? Do they offer reparative therapy to wolves and evangelize them to see the light?
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My theory on the wolves is that they were originally a couple of unusually intelligent abominable snowmen who were displaced by the sudden ice shift and went on a trek seeking revenge on the evil humans who somehow had caused the global catastrophe. By the time they reached New York, though, the special effects budget was drastically cut and they ended up being a couple of mangy looking wolves who escaped from the zoo.
The wolves were definitely the worst part of that film.
I liked it, in a cheesy, end of the world kind of way. I also am a sucker for Dennis Quaid AND Jake Gyllenhall, so whaddayagonnado?
The kid with cancer was to give the Mom (Sela Ward) something to do that was heroic, like Dad and Kid.
Let me be the first in this thread to channel Abe Simpson: “I’m cold…and there are wolves after me.”
The wolves were dumb and unnecessary, but I loved the movie. Of course, it was nothing more than I expected: a disaster flick with cool (no pun intended) special effects and the bare minimum plot needed to go from scene to scene. I love stories where the plot revolves around the logistics of surviving under adverse conditions and I always wonder how I would handle it in the same situation.
They confused wolves with our native Bronx coyotes.
Yeah, but that wasn’t this movie.
It was so incredibly cold that a city full of ocean water froze solid instantly - and how do they survive this incredible unprecedented extreme? By wrapping up in blankets and sitting in front of the fireplace.
For one livejournaler’s humorous and internet-speak-heavy take on the movie read The Day After Tomorrow in Fifteen Minutes, in which she comments on the wolves’ disappearance:
“OMG the plot points have escaped!”
I think the best indication that The Day After had the “suck” knob turned all the way up (It goes to eleven) is that when Trey Parker and Matt Stone considered making a parody of it with marionettes that they couldn’t make the movie more unintentionally hilarious than it already was. The wolves looked about as realistic as the wolves in Ice Age.
Was I the only one who noticed that the ice-beast of Hoth that tried to make a snack young Skywalker looked a hell of a lot like Bumbles from Rudoph the Red Nosed Reindeer?
Never mind all that; how did the wolves escape the zoo in the first place? “Uh, that’s funny, how weird, gee, there use ta be wolves in this cage.”
Having just watched this painfully bad movie, I propose a nerd drinking game where you drink a shot every time something scientifically implausible happens, drink two shots when the action is unbelievably stupid, and three shots when “scientists,” “professors,” and “high school geniuses” do something dumb.
“Uh, it’s -150F outside. Let’s put three men in a pickup truck and drive to New York to rescue my son. We can always strap him to the roof for the ride home. As for his little school friends, screw 'em.”
“Uh, it’s -150F outside. Liquid fuel freezes in the line at this temperature. Good thing the stove still works in this fast food joint.”
“Uh, it’s -150F outside. Let’s sit in a great big room with huge windows and not create a smaller area and insulate it with all these rugs and books.”
“Uh, it’s -150F outside. Let’s go climb around on metal in our bare hands. Oh, and breathe heavily after chasing wolves. I hear that’s salutary for lung function.”
The three men in a pickup truck is another one I didn’t understand. Why exactly were there three of them? Or maybe I should start with why was he going in the first place? What exactly was he hoping to accomplish there? Then why did the other two come along? It didn’t seem like they could do anything he couldn’t. Sure, one of them says something about the main scientist not being able to navigate, but I have a feeling that someone as visionary and smart as the main guy could get a simple GPS device to work. And then the third guy just came along so he wouldn’t seem like a wuss. Then one dies, and the other one almost dies… So much unnecessary stuff.
I only remember one thing. When the guy cut his own rope to save everyone else, I laughed so hard, I was afraid someone would think I was crying over his death. And what was with this scientist and his “love interest”? I don’t remember them sharing more than three words, but when he got into the truck to go north they made google eyes at each other.