Morons, Morons, Morons!

Sorry to make a trend of mine to call people on the internet stupid, but this takes the cake. This is a link to a thread on the IMDB forums for the movie (that I can't wait for) "The Day After Tomorrow" (in which the planet is pretty much destroyed: tornadoes in Los Angeles, floods and an ice age in New York).

Now, the IMDB forums tend to be a place for people with unbelievably low levels of intelligence to hang out and bitch about movies, but even knowing this I'm still shocked by the stupidity talked about here.

It begins with a post complaining about how New York isn't ready for a disaster movie after such a great tragedy. How it's so tasteless to show New York being destroyed by a wave of water after such a horrible disaster has actually happened to the city. Etc, etc, etc. That, I don't mind, in fact I understand that people can be so retarded to feel offended by a Hollywood disaster movie. I understand it, sure, but they're still retarded and need to grow up a little.

(To Quote: I know that everyone in my theater --snip-- was stunned into silence. I don't think you'll find a lot of people in my neighborhood lining up for "The Day After Tomorrow".

That couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the amazing CGI shot of New York being buried under tons of ice and snow is actually so amazing you would be stunned into silence? No, it has to be because everyone is so offended and horrified that Hollywood would make a disaster movie SO SOON (two years! jesus!) after 9/11, duh. Even down here where no one cares about 9/11 anymore, or at least it's not discussed by anyone but the really nutty, the theater still hushes because it's SO BAD ASS LOOKING! It's frightening in a really cool way).

Anyway, regardless of all that, the stupidity doesn't set in until someone says this: I was stunned by the priview too and def. not in a good way. I don't live in NY, but I think this movie is totally unecesary (sp) and will only freak people out. I mean, this IS going to happen one day...why worry about it now with some movie?

HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE!?! The worst part is the fact that everyone agrees! Apparently the large majority of IMDB forum posters believe that one day (probably within their life time, so, say, the next 50 years) tornadoes larger than entire cities (UNPOSSIBLE!) will form in Los Angeles and destory the city, and some how the ice caps will melt instantaneously and flood New York and an ice age will beset the world. (Yet, somehow a few people will survive this dramatic (and that's putting it lightly) change in climate).

Oh, please.

There's a better chance of everything we know about stars to be completely wrong and that our sun will explode and devour the Earth. And that, my friends, is severely unlikely. (Or, much more likely, us running out of fossil fuels and fresh water and dying out due to crying ourselves into dehydration). Anyway, I hope I cleared up some fears people might have about the universe imploding and killing us all by denouncing retards on IMDB.

The thread does turn into people declaring how cool the movie will be. I wonder if anyone has made a connection to The Day After? Hmm... I doubt it. If Cartman crying like a bitch at the end of this Canada episode of South Park was any funnier, I'd probably piss and shit my pants at the same time!!!!!!