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Big Movie WEEKEND!

As it was Memorial Day weekend, you like me were probably thinking... which movie should I attend?

I decided it had to be The Day After Tomorrow. Why?

Well, firstly, when deciding Saturday Night I liked being able to say "I'm seeing the Day after Tomorrow the day after tomorrow."

Secondly, cause it's the movie everyone thought would be the big summer movie. Course, we were wrong it's going to be Shrek 2.

But mostly, I went for mindless popcorn fun. Pretty much what I was expecting was a movie with amazing visual effects and very little plot. And, that's pretty much what I got. No plot and effects that blow you away. Stunning.

My only real problem with the movie besides lack of a real plot was how American-centric it was. No Vancover getting vanquished by volumes of snow. No pics of Parliment paralyzed by pounds of permafrost. Not even any representations of Russia ruined by weather. All New York and Cali... even Chicago didn't get a nod and it's got the tallest building in the US.

(And sorry about the alliterations I got carried away.)

But, oddly enough, guess what was kind of pinging in the back of my head. 9/11.

Because when my sister called and woke me up to tell me craziness was occurring I turned on the Tv I thought I was watching Independence Day.

Same writers/ directors as TDAT. So then it was life imitating art. These amazing structures we though would be there forever gone. And now it's a movie where every structure we've come to rely on is blown away or frozen over. I wonder who else was in the audience with a slight uncomfortable twinge in the back of their head going... should I being enjoying this spectacle?

In the end the answer is yes. Everyone who is born starts by knocking things over and applauding it. Disaster and choas is something everyone enjoys. It's why you can't look away at an accident.

But even simpler than that is... it's a release. It isn't real. And the ability to seperate real life and fiction is what seperates us from the apes and the whales and the bananas.

Go see it. Don't look for story just look for earth taking itself back and teaching man a lesson.

Even if the movie does beat that message like a dead horse.

Posted by matty at June 1, 2004 03:48 PM