As I prepare to go see The Day After Tomorrow for the second time this weekend, I just have to look back and laugh at the absurd claims of those who championed this movie as the truth, or what could happen if we don't change the way we utilize the natural resources here on earth. From start to finish, the whole movie is awash in it's own self-indulgence. As the film tries to make a statement, all it does it just become more and more irrelevant. Now don't get me wrong, it's a fun film to see (why else would I be seeing it a second time (yeah, the first theater I saw it in sucked...)), but as some sort of 'horrific future' that we are bringing upon ourselves, please. As mentioned in a previous post, pretty much all of the "scientific" evidence presented in the movie is false, though there are still those out there who think it is the truth.

The Day After Tomorrow is a fun, fictional movie, just like the movie I watched earlier today, Reign of Fire - a movie wherein, a dragon, after being dormant for thousands of years wakes up and procreates and he, along with his offspring, return the world to a dark age. As it goes in the movie, it wasn't natural causes that killed the dinosaurs - it was dragons. After the dragons had ravaged the earth and killed off the dinosaurs, they went into a state of hibernation, waiting for the world to replenish itself - and in 2084, when awakened, they ravaged the earth again. It sounds far-fetched, but what if that could happen? What if there is a dragon, hibernating somewhere, waiting to be awakened who will then spawn and kill almost every living creature on earth? Sound far-fetched? Sound ridiculous? To me, it sounds about as realistic as three "super-storms" being created by a global climate changes spurred on by the diminution of the Atlantic current.

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