Yeah, I loved that movie when I was a kid. In the mid 90s to early 00s there was no shortage of movies where a team of scrappy underdogs were tasked to stop a world ending event.
3 large hurricanes bring such cold that it flash freezes on contact. Survivors hide in a library and have to burn all the books to fend of the flash freezing. Effed up symbolism right there. Love those movies.
I loved that scene (in Day after Tomorrow), they're arguing along the lines of "no you can't burn Shakespeare it's a crime against humanity" or something, then in comes a supporting character wheeling in a ton of tax law books, which of course nobody had any problem burning.
Batman, and superheroes in general, have always been a bit of campy fun. The target audience was children, like the comic books they were based on. It wasn't until The Dark Knight that anyone took Batman seriously. That really seemed to break the seal on the "gritty, realistic superhero" genre. The trouble with that is that in the real world, the existence of superheros would be horrifying (an observation satisfyingly deconstructed by The Boys). Perhaps we can overlook that for a movie or two, for the novelty, but after a decade and a half of wall to wall "gritty, realistic" media depicting violent anarchistic ubermensch as the good guys, one has to wonder if this is entirely healthy.