I just rented and tried to watch "Day After Tomorrow".
3 attempts, I just couldn't do it. I love corny disaster movies, but the whole premise (and the acting) was SO BAD, it wasn't even comical after awhile.
What's scarier still. is that there are those who actually believe this crap. Intelligent, powerful people whose hatred of capitalism allows them to be taken in by such tripe.
Get this, the professor of the environmental science class actually encouraged us to watch that movie! He said it was very close to what is going to happen in the next few years. (Sort of a real life Chicken Little)
I saw it on the big screen this past summer, and found it really cool to watch -- notwithstanding that the plot and characters were all stupid. I thought it was a hoot.
Meteor has been running on the cable channels and I've caught it a number of times. The acting is bad too, I'm not sure about the premise, but I love to watch that movie.
I have no interest whatsoever in trying to watch the Day After Tomorrow, mostly because I haven't liked any of that directors other movies but also, actors today just don't have the gravitas of Karl Maldon and Sean Connery working together. And Brian Keith, I think his name is, the guy from Family Affair is in there too. And Martin Landau in a thankless role.
Oh, and, damned! I can't remember her name, Robert Wagner's wife, the girl from Rebel w/o a Cause. Anyway, the cast is great.
Still, Meteor is little more then Soviet agitprop, but at least it manages to be entertaining.
Now the Poseidon Adventure, that's probably the greatest disaster movie of all time.