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This largely apolitical girl I've fallen for with a thunk that could be heard in the next country convinced me to see Day After Tomorrow with her. I didn't like the idea because I didn't like the film's politics, and I don't like seeing thousands of people die, even in a movie. But of course it was with Her, and so I did.

It was the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen. There were plot holes you could drive a truck through; of course going out was suicidal, and the temperature was dropping by "ten degrees a second", and yet people went out and survived anyway. Sheesh. If the temperature was dropping 10 degrees a second, everyone in the movie would have been dead within a minute! Argh!

It was rather interesting, though, that it was a feel-good movie that in the end played all the death and destruction for laughs. Weird. I don't get it. I suppose it makes it watchable - as I told Her at the end of the movie, "It wasn't nearly as harrowing as I would have thought". But my moral sense hated that. Geez.

Thoughts?

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I haven't seen the film and don't know that I will. In order to enjoy it, I think I'd have to go in with the mindset that it's a comedy.

I guess the good thing about it is that the plot and science is so absurd that many environmentalists are worried that the movie's political message will backfire.

I've not seen the movie, and don't plan to see it. That said, I think this movie is one of those movies that is unintentionally funny. If you have ever seen Exorcist II: The Heretic, you'll know what I mean. It was made as an election-year movie, and has all of the earmarks of one. It speaks volumes that it was heavily touted in the media, before the premiere, and endorse by Algore.

I have only seen the ads on TV, don't plan to see the movie, but would like to see your comments on the "flood" scenes. The twenty-story high waves coming around the corners of New York skyscrapers seemed eerily similar to the waves of smoke and debris that hit New Yorkers on Sep 11, 2001.

Since it is INNNSENNsitive to show video of the real 9/11,(At least that is what the controllers of TV-footage have told us!), I think this moviemaker is mocking Americans during these scenes. How did they affect you seeing it on a big screen?

SPOILER ALERT for Day After Tomorrow (skip it if you care to see it)

I hated the movie, too. A similar situation forced me into it, too. Effects were funny, not good (look, we cut-and-pasted hurricanes over the globe), the movie was so preachy and anti-Republican and...Dennis Quaid? What has he EVER done worth watching? And watching him act the part of a scientist was just comedy.

But the temperature dropping 'ten degrees a second' was not nearly as funny as the 'eye' in the cold 'hurricane' that instantly froze you solid...that chase scene with the freezing in the public library, that SLAYED me.

"HURRY--we have to get the doors shut so that we don't instantly freeze to death because of the freezy effect--throw another book on the fire, quick!"

What an awful, awful joke of a movie.

The worst part? When the storm 'cleared' over Europe and the U.S. The 'aerial' shots of a snowy white Europe, including an obvious boot of Italy--when the 'super Ice Age' they'd imposed on the word would have included AN ICE SHELF around the continent. Freeze the harbor of New York in, odds are pretty good Italy's a long white oddity, not a boot.

Other crap: myriad non-frozen New Yorkers running to the top of every skyscraper (Look, Ma, thank God we stayed on the top floor and kept our fireplace on, too, instead of getting caught by the superfast freezy streaks!). The helicopters landing in the middle of the ocean INSTEAD OF THE HUNDREDS OF HELIPADS IN NYC. Oh, and let's not forget THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE BEING UNAFFECTED.

That movie just made me think how much I need to watch Miller's Crossing again and skip mega-super-blockbuster crap.