'Daylight', ridiculous or great?

[puar]

Long, long ago (96) someone thought it would be a good idea to create a movie based in the Holland Tunnel with a bunch of events leading up to a massive chemical explosion, leaving people dead, injured and stuck in a fiery, toxic film. All hope is lost, or is it? Of course you can't have an awful disaster movie in the mid 90's without Sylvester Stallone, whose character just happened to be an ex emergency services head, disgraced enough to be someone's limo driver... yada, yada, yada I'm sure you can figure out the ending.

I remember seeing it back in 1996 and despising it's awfulness. Comcast tricked me into seeing it again by incorrectly listing another movie and showing this instead.

Now I ask you, FOT, what were your thoughts on this movie film?

[Wes]

I want to take some time to think about my answer before I vote in the poll proper, but I will say for now that Daylight is a good bad Stallone movie, but there are other, better worse Stallone movies that I would recommend to people before Daylight if those people were looking to watch a good bad Stallone movie.

It wouldn't even be the first movie I'd recommend in the more specific subgenre of Sylvester Stallone Plays A Disgraced Skilled Professional Who Must Re-Enter Service In His Area Of Employment To Save Lives films.

Admittedly, I haven't watched Daylight in a few years, so perhaps a new viewing would cause me to move it up in both the Good Bad Stallone and Disgraced Skilled Professional Stallone lists (I have made re-adjustments on similar Swayze-centric lists in the past).

I'd be willing to watch the movie again in order to take some notes if you were looking for a more in-depth discussion.

[buffcoat]

It wouldn't even be the first movie I'd recommend in the more specific subgenre of Sylvester Stallone Plays A Disgraced Skilled Professional Who Must Re-Enter Service In His Area Of Employment To Save Lives films.

Ooh, ooh, I know this one:  Over the Top, right?

[Wes]

I wouldn't include Over The Top in that category. Lincoln Hawk may not have been an ideal father or husband, but his skills as a self-employed truck driver and semi-professional arm wrestler were never really in question.

[WhoWantsPie]

Demolition Man has certainly got to be in the running. Disgraced police officer unfrozen in the future to stop blonde Wesley Snipes, using his own brand of justice that, while unorthodox in his time, is positively alien to the hyper-PC denizens of tomorrow.

[mokin]

Not only was Wesley Snipes blond, he had David Bowie eyes.

[buffcoat]

I wouldn't include Over The Top in that category. Lincoln Hawk may not have been an ideal father or husband, but his skills as a self-employed truck driver and semi-professional arm wrestler were never really in question.

I humorlessly stand by my statement.

[Namey]

I saw Daylight in the theater when I was barely a teenager. I think it was actually a very effective film, in that it made me feel trapped in a darkened structure wondering when death would come. And upon escaping, I did in fact have a rapturous new appreciation for daylight.

All I have to say about Demolition Man is, "In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell."