In The Crow (2024), the filmmakers purposefully used bad CGI so as to show the audience that this time around they didn’t risk killing their main actor with practical effects

In The Day After Tomorrow, Gyllenhaal’s character says they have to get to higher ground. But instead of taking shelter inside one of the many skyscrapers that dot Manhattan, he goes to the public library. This is because he used his Donnie Darko powers to see they’d need to burn books to stay warm.