"The Day After Tomorrow" - An Environmental Disaster Movie

[La_Serpiente]

OK, we all know how important Global Warming is. Desafortunadamente, George Bush does not realize this.

However there will be a movie coming out next spring called "The Day After Tomorrow". It is about the end of the world due to the effects of Global Warming. A Huge Chunk of ice breaks off the coast of Antartica and the sea level rises. The Pacific island nations are submerged. What also happens is that the climiate changes. An F-5 Tornado rips through L.A., a massive hailstorm pounds down on Tokyo, and a massive flood hits New York City.

Do I think this movie is appropriate? I do. It is about time American start opening their eyes up to the environment because if we do not do anything soon, we will all be screwed. I also like it because it comes out during an election year.

To me, the real Weapons of Mass Destruction is Global Warming.

Here is a clip of the new movie:

The Day After Tomorrow

Although it may be unrealistic, it would not be foolish to say that some natural disaster will happen if we do not do something soon.

[J B]

1. You know, some natural disaster will happen even if you

are doing something...

[ShaneGR]

2. Sweet, hopefully there will be a lot of movies about our subjects

Trust me, it is GOOD having Hollywood as our ally.

[david_vincent]

3. Seems to me that the sea level is already rising

and nations like Vanuatu and Kiribati have been screaming at the top of their lungs, which I guess isn't loud enough to reach Canberra, let alone Washington.
I'm with you on this one. Environmental problems are not going to wait for us to get our collective act together. I'm almost looking forward to seeing a huge hurricane run smack dab over Houston.
It's a little curious that Hollywood turned to other options (death-by-asteroid, death-by-volcano) first, before making something like this. You'd think this subject would've been made into a movie earlier.

[hatrack]

4. I may be on drugs, but wasn't there a TV movie on this?

Ten years ago or so, and heaven help me, but it might have starred Craig T. Nelson (!).

On the other hand, considering that the last few Hollywood disaster movies starred such luminaries as Tia Leone and Ben Affleck, this might actually be pretty cool.

God knows it can't be worse than "Armageddon"!

[FireHeart]

5. You weren't on drugs :)

Yes, there was. When a huge Cat 5 hurricane struck the Louisana coast. Their home (Nelson's) was destroyed and they went inland to find shelter and work. The movie started off well enough, but it was over 3 hours and bogged down considerably in the last 2 hours.

Still...it did attribute the disaster to enviromental factors. Global warming was the main issue.

[MojoKrunch]

6. I didn't get that it was caused by "global warming".

But just it happened "every 10,000 years" or some such nonsense.

I saw it as something to appeal to the End Times/Rapture christians out there.

//Do I think this movie is appropriate? I do. It is about time American start opening their eyes up to the environment because if we do not do anything soon, we will all be screwed.//
I don't disagree with the idea of a movie warning of global warming as a theme.
But I didn't get that this was it.

//I also like it because it comes out during an election year.//
Just seemed ultra-silly and sensationalistic to me.
But then I know that "weather conditions" aren't 10,000 year cyclical like that.

Just nonsense.

The least they could have done was tie it into some feasible astronomical/geological phenomenon... solar flares, planetary polarity shift, hell even "planet X" woulda worked.

"Every 10,000 years" just sounded to... biblical for some reason.
Coinciding with the real flood the Old World "great flood" myths are built on?

Dunno... but as much as I hate evoking silly supernatural causes for events, I hate bad science even more.

Mojo

[Hep]

7. The Day After tomorrow?

Was this name lifted from the popular 80's miniseries The Day After?