Reply #17: It may be, arguably, the first liberal blockbuster.

[FunBobbyMucha]

ID4 and its ilk, even MIB, drive home a subtle, sometimes tongue-in-cheek agenda that has served the right well and suggested that the ridiculous military build-up is justifiable (ID4 even references the 400 dollar hammers!). Now the same team has made a film that apparently says to the El Rushbo crowd "No such thing as global warming, huh? Take a look at this." I suppose you could say that Deep Impact and Armageddon did that to a degree, but in both films it was the almighty Department of Defense (and NASA) that saved (sort of) the day. It sounds like TDAT suggests that the Green Agenda is the only defense against this particular threat.

And for the record, i hate every movie listed above, and Armageddon, and more or less Deep Impact. Stargate was horrid, imho.