The Day After Tomorrow!

Arjay Smith, Emmy Rossum, and Jake Gyllenhaal in The Day After Tomorrow! ... I am by no means a film snob and like my movies in all shapes and sizes. I did my ...

The voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences must have a bias against the spectacle in cinema. It shows that even with a ludicrous narrative of an instantaneous ice age, audiences can't turn away from a [good disaster flick](https://www.slashfilm.com/1091970/underrated-disaster-movies-that-deserve-a-watch/), especially ones that look like "The Day After Tomorrow." "We'd have to get clearances to get on a first floor, a middle floor, up on the rooftop," Goulekas said. That just sort of encapsulates the absurdity of what movies are and how you desperately need your imagination in order to make these things work." Although "The Day After Tomorrow" won a BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award for Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects, it wasn't nominated for an Oscar. The process allowed them to digitally re-create New York City [down to the inch](http://www.phase9.tv/moviefeatures/dayaftertomorrowq&a-rolandemmerich&markgordon.shtml), and then use CGI to coat it with ice. And when I read there was a ship coming down Fifth Avenue, I was just like, 'How the hell are we gonna do this?' That was daunting stuff back then. Much of the credit goes to the visual effects team and VFX supervisor Karen Goulekas. When asked to turn NYC into a post-apocalyptic, frost-bitten wasteland, Goulekas questioned if she had the tools to do it. On the other end of the spectrum, Cecil B. "The Day After Tomorrow" is a great-looking film and when you view it today, it might surprise you that it was made in 2004. I did my graduate research on Scorsese, and yet I host a B-movie podcast.