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timepiececlockThe 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.
- the female scientist from NASA, whose flirtation was thankfully downplaid. We need more chicks from NASA in movies.
- the young guy getting slapped upside the head after introducing himself. No words, yet one of the funniest moments in the film.
-"I'm the president of the electronics club, the math club, and the chess club. If there's a bigger geek in this room please bring him over."
- the female redhead who argued about Niche in the library. ::snicker::
If there's one person in this movie that was me, it was her. I am that girl. Which means sadly I'm not the girl who Jake G. is crushing on. ::cries::
- the librarian's reaction to the fireplace, "You can't burn books!" Right there with you babe. Right there with you.
-"There's a whole section of tax law down here we can burn!" ::snert:: ::laugh::
-the fact that they resisted the urge to turn the rich kid into an asshole. Thank god; I hate it when movie people feel the need to add a completely unnecessarily mean character just to heighten tension. Thankfully these writers realized that there was plenty of tension already from the fact that there's a friggin apocalypse outside.
-wolves. they were kinda pointless, but hey I like wolves. ::shrug::
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.
"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.
- the female scientist from NASA, whose flirtation was thankfully downplaid. We need more chicks from NASA in movies.
- the young guy getting slapped upside the head after introducing himself. No words, yet one of the funniest moments in the film.
-"I'm the president of the electronics club, the math club, and the chess club. If there's a bigger geek in this room please bring him over."
- the female redhead who argued about Niche in the library. ::snicker::
If there's one person in this movie that was me, it was her. I am that girl. Which means sadly I'm not the girl who Jake G. is crushing on. ::cries::
- the librarian's reaction to the fireplace, "You can't burn books!" Right there with you babe. Right there with you.
-"There's a whole section of tax law down here we can burn!" ::snert:: ::laugh::
-the fact that they resisted the urge to turn the rich kid into an asshole. Thank god; I hate it when movie people feel the need to add a completely unnecessarily mean character just to heighten tension. Thankfully these writers realized that there was plenty of tension already from the fact that there's a friggin apocalypse outside.
-wolves. they were kinda pointless, but hey I like wolves. ::shrug::
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.
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Date: 2004-06-12 01:19 am (UTC)Like all the movues that particular man does, it's a lot more annoying when your English. And I don't understand the president's deal with mexico. I mean how on earth was he plannign on enforcing there national debt anyway, since he no longer had a country, neither did anyone else in the developed world really!
Still at least they killed the royal family!
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Date: 2004-06-12 01:25 am (UTC)Neither did I, but I didn't care. That was the one of the funniest things in the whole damn movie.
it's a lot more annoying when your English.
Why? The people who got mocked the most were the Americans. What bugged you?
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Date: 2004-06-12 01:35 am (UTC)It's a bit too much flag waving for me. Perhaps not as much so as say Independence day, but it's still there.
Yes the US government start off as the bad guys.
But the very idea the president could float that deal to mexico is based on some assumption of US superority, even the face of it's landmass beign under ice. Otherwise why would Mexico accept? They'd be like "Screw you and your now fast frozen millitary superpower!".
But somehow the good old USA surrvives even though the early part of the movie implied it was there fault to begin with (as if no one else n the world burns foissil fuels. Really!).
By the by, in Empire there is a nice interview with Mr Emmerich (or however yhe gentlemens name is spelt) where he reveas the UK got it bad in that movie because we didn't liek the Patriot. Hmm. Can't imagine why!
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Date: 2004-06-12 01:45 am (UTC)Otherwise why would Mexico accept?
I thought the speech at the end was sort of the countries like Mexico saying
"We accept and let you in because even though you regard us as inferior, we're mugger bigger persons at heart than you are and so you should swallow your pride and we'll gloat as we help you out."
I kinda see that flag waviness with the choppers at the end, but that flag waviness also was kinda the apocalyptic part. I mean the flag froze over. Everything was frozen and that was all very symbolic. Actually, I thought the flag-waviness was more Western-oriented in general than American-oriented. Most of the time that governments were discussed they always brought up the other governments as well, except when it got down to just events in the US that the story followed.
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Date: 2004-06-12 04:17 am (UTC)Mostly I love this movie because I spent the whole thing biting my lip in worry, or snickering in suppressed giggles.
I wasn't biting my lip, but instead made a hole in the seat with my nails.
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Date: 2004-06-12 10:05 am (UTC)