The only part of The Day After Tomorrow that I like hearing about is when the tornado rips through Hollywood.
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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Never mind the politics, it's a funny movie. It's science fiction, the key word is fiction.
I'm not even convinced it was made as propaganda, though the 'rats are using it that way.