Personally, I hate it when agendas are pushed in films. As if I'm supposed to give a rat's BUTT WHAT the director of ID4 thinks about Bush's environmental policy.
The reason the film has as much press as it does is BECAUSE of the politics of it. Take away that and this film has as much buzz as, say, Dante's Peak.
I'm still waiting for the first really good disaster movie...
-=Mike
Dude, once again, the idea of any kind of "message" in this didn't occur to me at all. It has a buzz because it's the first big summer film, one that has stuff being destroyed and the things being destroyed happen to be things we all recognize, thus making it more compelling.
Sorry, but I don't go into things looking to see how I can pick their subliminal messages apart, especially mindless disaster films.