I've seen the film you're talking about, and i must say that whereas i agree that it is better to watch films without preconceived notions, The Day After Tomorrow validated every one i had and knew about. I didn't read any reviews before seeing the film at the cinema, but i knew about the criticism which, at that time, was more to do with the politics than the science. The latter however was really what put me off. Nevermind the cliches, and the glaring political references, but even if you can stand the bad science which went completely nuts at times, the film itself was horrendously difficult to take seriously! The science wasn't the problem at all given that all sci-fi has poor science. It was how science was represented. The fact that the film made references to professionals, geologists, surgeons, careers, exams (a character getting an E for being too clever!), scientific funding, the vice president's lack of scientific knowledge etc. show that science or education WAS important! It would've been a brilliant film if these explicit references weren't made, but the film obviously wanted to make a statement on this. Fine...only that it was a very bad one indeed. Nearly everything was bogus....much more than your average disaster movie. What's worse is that scifi fans are no arts grads....they know a hell of a lot of science and they happen to be the majority audience.....A film which fails to address these things, which really has nothing to do with science or politics, is asking to be flamed bigtime.



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