The Day After Tomorrow review (spoilers safe under cut!)

The Mercury News review was right.

"We've reached critical desalinization point!" is a really funny line.

This movie was full of lots of funny stuff. Some of it was very deliberately meant to be funny (hablo Espagnol, anyone?) and some of it wasn't quite meant to be, like the line above.

Things I loved:

-The so-blatant-in-your-face idea that "global warming will kill us all, the end, no sorry will make it better, we fucked up and destroyed the world," message. It was so blatant it was cheeky in a cute way.

-The cheeky-in-a-cute-way humor

-The decent acting

-the fact that the emotional parts were well done and sad, but thankfully I never felt like I was going to start crying over it.

-Jake G. with his soulful eyes that I'm so crushing on even now. He's not conventionally attractive and sometimes his chin looks way too round, but he's got that great smile and those BIG BROWN EYES that turn a girl into a puddle of schmoopy-goo. Pretty... ::fans self::

-Dennis Quaid. I just like the guy. He's like Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman that way. I just like him. I like his voice and his grin and his stage presence. And he makes cheesy lines into emotive ones.

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Things I didn't like:

Not much. Um... the shaky science? The cuts back to the scientists in Scotland, maybe. But really, there's not much here that I don't like. The movie is so inoffensive that there's nothing I could get riled up about. Even the science, shaky though it was, was cool in an unintentionally funny way.

The title, I guess, I would change. The title doesn't have much to do with the film at all. My suggestion: The Last Front. It brings to mind a) weather fronts, b) a battle front as if to denote the battle between mankind and nature as is the main conflict here; c) the finality of the situation and the apocalypse factor.


Overall:

I'm kinda crushing on this movie. I want to watch it again. It's incredibly rewatchable. It's a popcorn movie in the best form: good dialogue, characters I like and care about, cool disasters, people reacting in a smart way instead of a really imbecilic way (I'm looking at you, Jodie Foster, lighting propane above your head in Panic Room when propane fucking sinks it doesn't float above the air you moron writers), and funny lines and acts of heroism and sad sacrifices.

And the political tongue-in-cheek jokes. The Bush/Cheney jokes.

Mostly I love this movie because I spent the whole thing biting my lip in worry, or snickering in suppressed giggles. I didn't really have _any_ other emotional reactions-- I was jumping back and forth between one or the other of those two emotions and that was it through the whole movie.

Mostly, for all it's cheeky/campyness, this movie NEVER really annoyed me. That's quite an acomplishment actually. I give it a thumbs up.


Besides... it's not very often when I can go to an end-of-the-world disaster movie where millions of people die, and yet walk out giggling and grinning a dopey grin. That has to say something.

Hellsing smut fic. And I'm NOT talking about the Hugh Jackman movie.

So someone held a contest at some point for Alucard/Integra smutfics. Since I've never read good Hellsing smut before in my life, I'm kinda jazzed. The first one I read was pretty damn hot. and slightly icky. Which is no surprise because Alucard is pretty icky.

Here's the full list of entries. Vampire smut galore. Have fun!

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::watches clip from circe_tigana's journal that links to someone else's journal of Johnny Depp accepting MTV movie awards::

Plastic sword! ::snickers::

Damn, I should have watched that when it aired.

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::Watches clip of MTV opening with the gayness poster::

I heart :heart: Peter Jackson so much.
::collapses laughing::

These bad fansubs make Lieutenant Colonel Hughes cry.

My episode downloads of FMA #13 and 14 aren't working!

::cries:: This means I can't rewatch the episode with the contest between Roy and Edward! Dammit, that was the funny episode.

And now episode 15 is skipping all over the place like crazy. FUCK! I really wanted to be able to rewatch 13-15 before moving onto the new eps... god knows if THEY'LL be skipping too. Damn damn damn.

::curses:: And I downloaded the 26 eps as a package so it's not like I can just redownload those two eps... unless it's on Kazaa which is unlikely... crap.

edit: 17 and 18 skipped so much they were practically unwatchable. Damn damn damn damn. All those hours downloading. I feel so betrayed.

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( Naruto 87 )

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Isn't it funny that Firefly is going the opposite way of Buffy the Vampire in terms of production?

Buffy failed miserably as a movie, and so they made it a tv show.

Firefly was cancelled before it had a chance to catch an audience, and so they're making it into a movie.

Has anyone said,

"Mr. Whedon, have you ever wondered if there was something a little off about the way you go through the showbiz process? You sure are setting up a bizarre pattern here. You should look into that."