“The Day After Tomorrow”
Chronicling what would happen if the northern half of the United States were to freeze over, “The Day After Tomorrow” offers vintage Jake Gyllenhaal as well as a peek into the lives of some people who are much colder than we are. Emmy Rossum’s character gets a nasty gash on her upper thigh when walking through freezing cold water to find refuge in the New York Public Library, and proceeds to almost die because there’s no immediate access to antibiotics in the next ice age. This movie is known to prevent complaining about the wind tunnel for at least four to six hours after viewing.
“Hot Tub Time Machine”
John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and that guy who played Dale on “Greek” star in this tale of four guys who accidentally get time traveled back to 1986 in a time machine (the title is masterfully subtle). The movie offers liquored–up and raunchy comedy during a ski resort’s “Winterfest”—from misguided hook–ups to drinking too much—and is fairly representative of the types of shenanigans Penn students were up to on their snow day off. Whether we were getting white girl wasted on wine in our highrise apartments or swinging from the moose ears at Castle’s impromptu day parties, “Hot Tub Time Machine” has a p(l)ot for each of our snow day shenanigans.
