Troy 'n' Day After Tomorrow
We spent the day watching DVDs... finally got to see The Day After Tomorrow. Now I see what people meant when they said the movie was a big "Cheney is a ****" statement. A little heavy on the evil mean fossil fuels schpiel and as was debated, the physics is utterly implausible, and the story a little anticlimactic, really, but still a worthwhile watch, especially for the special effects. Disaster movies rock, and this one doesn't disappoint, but it's always depressing that half the people in disaster movies get snuffed.
Speaking of snuffed, we watched Troy as well. Honour in battle my ass. If I was Hector I'd have told Achilles to shove his revenge where the sun don't shine and told my archers to rain down seven kinds of misery on Achilles while he was poncing about in front of the city gates. There was one downside to an otherwise intriguing plot: since everybody knows the story, you spend the first half of the movie thinking "so when they gonna build the horse, dammit," and when they finally do, it's also a bit anticlimactic. But, a good story, and much helped by the running commentary of a fiance who's been studying this stuff the whole year.
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