Vice President Becker: I don't accept that abandoning half of the country is necessary!
Tom Gomez: Maybe if you'd listened to him sooner, it wouldn't be.
Vice President Becker: Bullshit! It's easy for him to suggest this plan. He's safely here in Washington.
Tom Gomez: His son is in Manhattan. I just thought you should know that before you start questioning his motives.
When we get to the public library the first time there is a shot from behind the homeless guy - he has his hand on a cart. When it cuts to a front shot his hand is off the cart. See more...
Many of the scenes we see of the numerous hurricanes are stock footage of Hurricane Andrew and Hugo, names of deadly hurricanes of the last 15 years. See more...
Directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Dash Mihok, Dennis Quaid, Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller
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In Tokyo, you see a man with his phone, talking to his wife. The hail starts falling and he makes a run for it, he falls and his hands are empty. But in the close up, you see a phone in his hand. [Frame by frame, you can see that the phone is in his hands, but due to poor lighting it only looks like part of his hand.]
The giant tanker which comes up 5th Avenue could not have made it that far. There is no way for the ship to enter Manhattan and get to an avenue without making some sort of turn, or crashing into a building for that matter. And it's keel was so close to the road so it didn't float over buildings. The wave couldn't have carried it in either since the wave wasn't even higher than the Statue of Liberty. [The water was half frozen while the ship was floating in. That would have slowed down the ship so it would not have crashed into the buildings and directed it in different directions through the city. And making turns, it might of scraped and destroyed sides of buildings which we did not see.]
In the scene where the Porsche is crushed, the driver is seen starting the car with his right hand. As far as I know, Porsches all have their ignition switches on the left-hand side. [No they don't, some older Porsches have it on the right.]
In the shot where we see the frozen Statue of Liberty, horizontal ice picks are visible all over the statue. Ice picks don't form horizontally as any wind strong enough to shape water in that manner would simply blow it away. [This sort of ice formation is called rime ice. It can be formed in the lightest of winds as long as it's cold. An ice crystal forms on the surface of the object creating a super-cooled surface for a second. Moisture from the air forms ice on that. Wind blows more moisture onto the tip, subsequently freezing. These formations can grow to many feet in length. Try http://www.mountwashington.com/pictures/rime.html]
A first aid station on a ship, like the one Sam was trying to open, should not be locked. First aid stations are designed to be as accessible as possible. [This is not a first aid station, it's an infirmary, which contains much more than what's needed to provide first aid. You wouldn't want the whole crew of the ship to have access to powerful, dangerous and possibly lethal material (if not used properly).]
Corrected by Sereenie
At the beginning of the film, when Jack almost falls in the crack, he saves himself with the pick. Although he saved himself, the pick isn't strong enough to support Jack's weight. And even if it could, the pick would fall, since the ice was falling to pieces. Also, you can see that one of Jack's friends slightly hits the pick when pushing him up. Also, you can see that the pick's metal end is carved perfectly to cut the ice, when supporting Jack's weight. [It's an ice axe. It's designed for climbing ice. I've been ice climbing for years on these things, they can hold your weight. Even rotten, shattered ice can be climbed if you know what you're doing.]
In the scene where helicopters approach LA, (when the city is hit by the tornadoes) one can see a string of pearls of rear lights of cars on their way into the city, whereas just a few cars leave the city. [In the movie it states that the tornadoes developed very suddenly in the city. The normal, horrendous, L.A. rush hour traffic is stuck on the road into town.]
In the scene at the end of the movie, after the storm has passed, and we are viewing the world from space you can see the coastline of America, surely if the coastline had been consumed by the rising oceans and then frozen it would not be visible. [Not very much of the coastline would have been consumed, seeing as how the ocean only rose by about 50 feet at the most.]
How could the wolves survive after the tidal wave? They appear in the snow as if they were in a high place in that moment. [There is no way of telling where the wolves were during the flood. They were shown to have escaped from the zoo but we are not told where this is. They may have been scavenging on the top of the Empire State building for all we know.]
The International Space Station is shown orbiting form east to west. It actually goes in the other direction. [The way the camera pans in, it gives the impression that it is travelling from east to west even though when all the scenes show them looking from inside the station the motion indicates it is correctly travelling west to east.]
New York is flooded with a tidal wave, yet just several hundred miles down the coast, Washington DC, which is not much above sea level, is not flooded at all, as the president is still in his office just before the major snow storm. A major tidal change of that size would equalize: water would flow to lower levels near DC. [There is a large chunk of Maryland and the entire state of Delaware located to the east of D.C. If a tidal wave came ashore, this land mass probably absorbed most of it. The narrow Chesapeake Bay may have flooded part of D.C., but not enough to do any real damage.]
In the scene where the tornadoes are hitting Los Angeles, the helicopters could not have possibly flown by the tornadoes because the wind from the tornadoes would have either vacuumed the helicopters in or pushed them away. [Not necessarily. Several times I have seen video taken from helicopters shooting tornadoes from the air, go to weather.com to see this. From what the movie shows the helicopters have adequate distance to not get knocked down.]
Throughout the movie, there is constant emphasis on how much snow had fallen (15 feet in Europe, the library is nearly buried, etc.). Yet, at the end of the movie, the military rescue helicopter (which must weigh tons) is able to land on top of NY Harbor without any difficulty. [Due to the cold temperatures the snow would be hard and tightly packed, not the loose powder that things sink in. The snow was stable enough to handle a soft balanced landing.]
Isn't it unusual that radio stations were still up and running even after the disasters? [No, radio stations can have their own power generators and may be on high ground to increase transmission range but this would also protect them from the flooding. Where I live we had a massive flood and the radio station moved it's broadcasts from downtown to the mountain where the transmitter is located.]
When some people are burning books in the library, one man is adamantly protecting a Gutenberg Bible. Considering how rare and valuable Gutenberg Bibles are, it would not have been on the shelf or even readily accessible. Likely it would be locked in a safe or at least a showcase. Considering the shortage of time to collect fuel and the plethora of books available, I doubt they would break into a locked container to get another bit of fuel. [He was the head librarian, and as such would have access to the safe/showcase. And he would want to keep the Gutenberg as close as possible to protect it.]
Corrected by Twotall
The whole of New York was covered in several feet of snow but in the scene where they walked over the building with the glass roof and it cracked, only about two inches of snow had fallen on the roof. [This is entirely possible, considering that there was a blizzard - meaning high winds as well as snow. Likely, as it was an exposed surface, much of the snow would have blown right off of it, resulting in there being only a couple of inches covering it.]
In the scene where they are searching the ship that just floated up a street in New York for medicine they find the first aid cabin. Every bottle of medicine is still upright, which could not occur if the ship just went through a 40-60' tsunami. [First, ships' medicines are normally stored in shallow trays designed to keep them upright. Since the more a ship rocks, the more likely injuries tend to occur, and it would do no good if the medicines were damaged as a result. Second, a properly ballast ship would ride a swell - even a large one - relatively upright. Note that the tables, chairs and ketchup bottles were also upright.]
When New York City is in the eye of the storm, we see the Empire State Building freezing from the top down. However, when the characters are running back to the fire place in the library, the frost is following them lengthways through the corridors. [It's all down to airflow - the cold is coming from the upper atmosphere, so the Empire State Building would freeze from the top down. The interior of the library, however, would freeze in the manner depicted as the cold air flowed (horizontally) down the corridors, away from the windows and doors.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When the pilot from the downed helicopter freezes, the skin on his face kind of shrinks inward. However, when you see the frozen bodies of the policeman and the other people who left the library, they are perfect frozen replicas, some with round cheeks, etc. [The helicopter flies into the eye of the storm where the temperature falls rapidly, which makes the pilots skin shrink inwards (he's instantly frozen, like the fuel was). This is different to the frozen people who left the library. They died due to hypothermia and not the sudden freezing which the pilot suffered (the eye of the storm hadn't reached New York when we are shown the people who left the library, it reaches it much later in the film).]
When the 'eye of the super-cell' hits New York, wee see the buildings start to freeze, including a shot where the spire of the Empire State building falls off. Later, when Jack and Jason are entering the city (after the storm has cleared), there is a wide shot of the city where you can see the Empire State building completely intact. [The top of the Empire State Building is not shown falling off - just freezing over in the extreme cold.]
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