The shizzle be all frizzle!

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2004)

SPOILERS - Another dumb movie. Director Roland Emmerich claims that he knows about all of the implausabilites which provided the story line, but that they were necessary for dramatic effect. Anybody can write a script like that. It takes talent to tell a story within the confines of reality, even if it's to take place in outer space with Imperial Storm Troopers. It's OK if Imperial Storm Troopers can shoot hand-held laser weapons, but we'd all cry "foul" if they were able to take a direct hit without injury. Here's a movie where 10,000+ years of climate change occurs in weeks without justifiable cause. Silly, silly, silly. Buildings freeze solid in seconds, yet Dennis Quaid can WALK 200 miles because he has a really good parka. People are freezing their butts off in the street while only two stand around the barrel fire keeping warm. The vice-president and government cannot be convinced that anything serious is happening in the world because they apparently have no access to CNN. And on and on. Rant follows.
I was dragged to see this by the girlfriend. On September 11, I watched 3000 real people die by a horrible terrorist event. Why do we need to have disaster movies made at all? Do we all feel better seeing films where people deal with terrible problems just so we can say, "Whew, glad that wasn't us!" I said that when the towers collapsed, when the Pentagon was hit, and when the plane crashed in PA. Go see comedies and laugh. There is no glory in dramatized disaster. There is no glory in death. There is no glory in war. It is juvenile to think that death, disaster, disease, or any pain and suffering is anything but horrible. Ask anyone who's been in the infantry in the army how fun it is to be in a firefight. Reality is far more tangible than dramatized terror. Try watching the news or read some articles on real science, instead of paying for the ignorant gruel served up by Hollywood, as I did today.
Rant over, for now.