The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 124m
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward
Synopsis:
A climatologist specializing in ice cores and hunches hits something big when the piece of Antarctica he is drilling breaks away from the main ice pack, and before long the ocean temperature is plummeting in the North Atlantic (?) with catastrophic results across the hemisphere.
Review:
One suspects climate change could only be peddled to the American audience on the back of a hyperbolic piece of mayhem such as this, but it's an immensely enjoyable ride and will go down in the history books for bringing the issue onto the big screen. Cannily it begins with a real piece of science and goes on from there, with the usual baleful, ignored warnings, ominous incidents and full-blown disaster catching everyone with their pants down. Why have one twister in L.A. when you can have several, why one deadly freeze hurricane when you can have three? And why not raise sea levels fifteen metres and flood Manhattan? Oh, well.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 124m
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward
Synopsis:
A climatologist specializing in ice cores and hunches hits something big when the piece of Antarctica he is drilling breaks away from the main ice pack, and before long the ocean temperature is plummeting in the North Atlantic (?) with catastrophic results across the hemisphere.
Review:
One suspects climate change could only be peddled to the American audience on the back of a hyperbolic piece of mayhem such as this, but it's an immensely enjoyable ride and will go down in the history books for bringing the issue onto the big screen. Cannily it begins with a real piece of science and goes on from there, with the usual baleful, ignored warnings, ominous incidents and full-blown disaster catching everyone with their pants down. Why have one twister in L.A. when you can have several, why one deadly freeze hurricane when you can have three? And why not raise sea levels fifteen metres and flood Manhattan? Oh, well.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 124m
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward
Synopsis:
A climatologist specializing in ice cores and hunches hits something big when the piece of Antarctica he is drilling breaks away from the main ice pack, and before long the ocean temperature is plummeting in the North Atlantic (?) with catastrophic results across the hemisphere.
Review:
One suspects climate change could only be peddled to the American audience on the back of a hyperbolic piece of mayhem such as this, but it's an immensely enjoyable ride and will go down in the history books for bringing the issue onto the big screen. Cannily it begins with a real piece of science and goes on from there, with the usual baleful, ignored warnings, ominous incidents and full-blown disaster catching everyone with their pants down. Why have one twister in L.A. when you can have several, why one deadly freeze hurricane when you can have three? And why not raise sea levels fifteen metres and flood Manhattan? Oh, well.