The Day After Tomorrow/Wall Banger

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Wall Bangers from The Day After Tomorrow include:

  • It never occurs to the survivors in the library that "maybe that tanker floating outside has supplies we can use" until after one of them gets sick! Also, captive-raised wolves crave human flesh... but only freshly killed human meat. Real Life wolves are smart enough to realise that "Frozen corpses all around" translates to "All You Can Eat Buffet!" And then there's running away from cold. They outran a wave of extreme cold and threw more books on the fireplace so that it wouldn't instantly freeze them to death.
  • Burning books for warmth when they are surrounded by wooden tables, wooden chairs, wooden bookshelves, etc. Books are horrible fuel for a lasting fire; they burn well, but they burn out in a couple of minutes tops.
    • They stacked the to-be-burned books directly in front of the fireplace, between themselves and the fire. That's just dumb—it blocks the heat flow, and if the fire leapt forward (as real ones occasionally try), it would've set the room on fire.
  • We also have the kids looking for a working telephone (and finding it!) and almost completely submerging themselves in water that must be just above freezing with absolutely no ill effects. A continuity error has them all dry one scene later in the exact same clothes. They swam around in near-freezing water and then walked around in sopping wet clothing and yet did not freeze to death.
  • Much of the science is questionable at best.
  • The space station crewmember who at the end said "Wow, the air is so clean!" or something to that effect. Someone should have immediately Dope Slapped the dipshit, or better yet, tossed his ass out the nearest airlock.
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