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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6435107" data-attributes="member: 177">The difference is this:  2012 is based in prophecy hokum, and packs its bad science off into one early statement ("The neutrinos are mutating!") and then gets on with destroying the world as an unrepentant action disaster movie with things blowing up.  It isn't a smart movie, by any means, but even the title tells you you aren't supposed to take it seriously.  Just relax, and accept the genre, and roll with it."The Day After Tomorrow", instead, bases itself in currently relevant ecological issues, and it gets them wrong.  And then every step of the way, each new effect, is a new piece of bad science - they cannot keep the action rolling without bringing up new ways in which they are wrong.  On top of that, the characters make bad decisions even considering the facts as they themselves know them.  Thus, "The Day After Tomorrow" is worse because in order to keep the roller coaster rolling, they have to repeatedly double-down on the stupid.</blockquote>