I'm Cold, and There Are Wolves After Me

In disaster movies, we expect our heroes to face all manner of obstacles. If it's a sinking ship, you're gonna have flooding, freezing, dangerous debris. If it's a burning building, you're gonna see flames, smoke, falling structures. Either might explore obstacles in the form of human weakness or selfishness. But for the most part, we want the obstacles -- all of them -- to be the direct result of the initial disaster.

Which is why the wolf sequence in The Day After Tomorrow feels so lame. Here we've got climate going haywire, killing millions, burying major cities... but we're going to watch a couple of kids getting chased by CG wolves on a boat.

The wolves feel tacked-on and strain credibility. They're bordering on Kim Bauer's foot getting caught in the cougar trap. Just what are the odds?

Imagine there was a sequence in Inconvenient Truth about how maybe we'll all also be in danger of hungry, roaming wolves when the climate shit goes down. (There isn't, is there?)

I know it was tough, Day After Tomorrow -- how can you continue to up the stakes when your disaster, your antagonist, is basically winter? I wish you'd turned your attention inward, to human conflict in that library, instead of throwing wolves at the problem.