We saw this disaster movie to beat all disaster movies yesterday at the discount theater. Remember, on Tuesdays it's 75 cents.
Besides, I love these movies.
We laughed throughout most of the almost three hours. Because it was silly. Everything in the world gets destroyed.
In one review they said that it looked like it was directed by five 12 year old boys!
Also the plot line was as crazy as all disaster movies are. John Cusack is the guy who, against all odds, saves his family (except, of course, for his wife's new husband.) The guy in charge of the world is bad. A young American scientist and his friend in India are the only ones in the world who know what's happening!
The dialogue is silly. A guy in the supermarket complains to his wife that he feels like something is pulling them apart. At that precise time an earthquake splits the market, coming right down their isle.
But my favorite silly disaster movie dialogue was spoken by Dennis Quaid in "The Day After Tomorrow." By the way, in this movie Dennis is the only one in the world who knows what's happening. He tells the president that the lower half of the United States needs to be evacuated to Mexico at once. When the president asks about what's to happen to the upper half of the U.S. Dennis says (with a seriously straight face)
"They're doomed."
I love these disaster movies because they're a total break from reality. What fun!
But then this morning I awoke to news radio telling me that Washington D.C. is in for yet another giant snow storm - there was an overnight earthquake north of Chicago - and tonight it will freeze in Orlando.
What the....?????
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