The Day After Tomorrow

Over the course of the day I watched this movie.  Standard disaster fare, no worse or better than all the others really.  There's always something in these movies that bugs me and keeps me from liking it -- in The Day After Tomorrow the fact that Dennis Quaid was risking life and limb to get his son, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, felt wrong to me.  Jake was playing a 17 year old, but he was 24 at the time and looked every bit the 24 year old.  If the kid was ten or something I'd understand the trek -- but it was nonsensical.  I especially don't understand Sela Ward not objecting to Quaid going on the death journey.  Jake is a man, for Godsake.  He doesn't need to be rescued.