Rewatching The Day After Tomorrow 😇
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Such a good movie
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1996-2006 was a very special era in Hollywood film-making
This was 2004 but nobody appears to use the internet
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I like these movies for the same reason I like USA’s blue sky TV which came a few years later. Even with disaster movies, they had a sort of sunny idealism to them.
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Dennis Quaid and Sam Neill will be recognized as the actual important mainstream stars of the era. The seem like B-listers, but they worked the biggest movies in the hybrid era when movies were getting bigger than stars. They knew how to play second fiddle to the true star: FX
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It is no accident that War of the Worlds (2005) is the only Tom Cruise movie I actually like.
Some movies that belong aesthetically in the era, like 2012 (2009) and World War Z (2013) bled into the next era (extended universes)
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These were the last movies that believed in the actual world enough to tell stories about it, as opposed to an adjacent fantasy world
Harry Potter movies were interesting because they spanned the 2 eras aesthetically a bit
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Sometimes I feel I’m the only fan of these things. Everybody else is all about prestige TV. I’m all about summer blockbusters and USA blue sky
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Middlebrow “Blue Sky” USA Network shows ~2006-14 are an Age of Innocence preceding the Great Weirding.
Psych (2006-14), White Collar (2009-14), Burn Notice (2007-13).
Charming recession escapism. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Netwo"Characters_Welcome",_the_"blue_sky"_era_(2005–2016)
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I’d like an unexpected ice age right about now
Also like the cliche shots like ISS. These movies liked to do unironic overview effect shit.
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And a President giving a speech and usually something like a homeless guy with a dog who makes it, as in this one
Neat bookends, innocent “we’re all in this together” vibe
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Have u watched Edge of Tomorrow? By far the best “video game movie” and it’s based on a comic not a video game
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