Chiasmus cult cinema trailers - "Day after tommorow" (2004). *These will be ongoing posts, courtesy of the A.Glass DVD collection. As I offer via Chiasmus Cult trailers, my summarized overviews*

So, if you see masses of birds going in one direction, should you be concerned?  "The Day After Tomorrow"  written and directed by Roland Emmerich, a German born director, who assisted in bringing the bigger budget action flicks to the screen starting with the  "Universal Soldier" (1992), but became noted as a 'doomsday mega-destruction' director with the blockbuster "Independence Day" (1996).   Solidifying him via Hollywood's palatable epic blockbuster hype, when the early 2000s brought in the plethora of end-of-the-world flicks and with special effects getting better and better thanks to CGI.  Why have a handful of cars and an apartment block blow up? When you can obliterate a whole city.  In this case, freezing it.  The Day After Tomorrow, is essentially a Climate Change awareness movie, ramped up to the extreme, as the rough-around-the-edges paleoclimatologist "Jack Hall", played by Dennis Quaid, whilst studying ice core samples in Antarctica and nearly falling into a massive chasm in the process, hence starting off the Hour and Twenty Four minutes of climate change mayhem.   Later stressing to a UN Conference on the environment, that a climate shift is on the way, due to human induced climate change, and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is heating up, that will lead to the next ice age within the next 100 years. "The Day After Tomorrow" hyperreal, is indeed beyond reality, with the time frame for a global disaster is quickly shortened to seven to ten days, while massive city destructive events after event unfolds, until the big freeze envelops all of Northern America, and freezing all of New York City (Hollywood's favorite city to be destroyed over and over).  The movie when it was released was critiqued for overly trivialising Climate Change solely for entertainment purposes, rather than the seriousness of the issue of human industries altering the climate, for the worst.  And it is just that, entertainment, but also one of the better doomsday movies from the 2000s.

Some movie trivia: "The Day After Tomorrow" was based off a co-authored book, "The Coming Global Superstorm" (1999) witten by the late Art Bell who passed away in 2018.  Renown for his late night radio counterculture conspiracy theories born out of the 1970s, which leaned towards the Left rather than the current array of digitized Far Right ensembles.

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