The Day After Tomorrow

Sometimes I just wish that the world wasn't so interconnected all the time. For example--The Day After Tomorrow is going to be a crappy Roland Emerich big budget, no story, summer blockbuster of a movie with epic special effects in the place of decently developed characters. People will see it because it looks somewhat interesting. It will open at number one, linger in the top 5 for a week or two ten quickly fall off the charts and out of mind. If the world wasn't so connected, that would be the long and short of the whole dumb movie story. But things are connected, and politics get involved. Now, instead of letting the movie slip in and out of the public consciousness within a 3 or 4 week period, I have to hear all the political hype surrounding the picture for months before, and probably months afterward. Democrats (Moveon.org) are saying this is "the picture the White House doesn't want you to see-- go see this film". The film's producer, is being pleasantly ambiguous about the film's intentions, though some have reported Jeffery Godsick (VP of Publicity, FOX) as saying "the real power of this film is to raise consciousness about the issue of global warming." Everything would just be so much more pleasant if a movie producer had one goal, and he stated that goal outright--and the people going to see the film had one thing in mind. If it's a political film let people think politics, if it's entertainment, let them be entertained, if it's art, let them experience it as such. It just gets ugly when everyone wants to co-opt whatever looks to be the next thing to push their agenda further. On another note, I doubt democrats are going to have much luck with TDAT, the film looks like a real stinker, so chuck full of obvious psuedo-science even the simplest of voting citizens should be able to write at least the movie off as ridiculous.