The Sinking of Japan

The Sinking of Japan is a disaster movie that combines several other disaster movies like Independence Day (and I forget the rest because they all have the same plot to me -- the world is ending and a small group of heroes save the planet).

It's not exactly an appropriate movie to watch ne when I'm going to Japan in a few weeks. But I thought it was an interesting movie, after all, it topped the boxoffice in Korea (I wonder how it fared in Japan) when it opened.

This review is how I exactly feel.

The movie was hilarious although it didn't mean to. It wanted to be an all-out drama but the sappiness of it all was just absurd.

An example: while everything else was falling apart, the heroine tells the hero: "Make love to me." The hero moves away from her and replies: "I can't right now." And I go, at least one of them hasn't lost his mind.

But then again, just as the hero leaves for his mankind-saving mission, the heroine arrives, slow motion ne, and a sappy love song plays in the background. DN commented, "it's like an MTV." It seemed that we were the only ones laughing and making side comments in the theater. And at one point I felt that I must have been too used to watching DVDs at home and making comments all the time that I forgot many times that I was in a theater with strangers around me engrossed in this disastrous movie.

When finally the movie was over (two hours), DN said: "that was a long movie."

Hai, it felt like a lifetime.

You gotta watch this to see how bad it is.