Directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Dash Mihok, Dennis Quaid, Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward (add more)
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The Pentagon released a report in February 2004 which was prompted by The Day After Tomorrow. [The report (which dates from October, 2003) was not prompted by the movie, it just describes a severe climate change scenario. See http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html and http://www.ems.org/climate/pentagon_climatechange.pdf.]
Just after the tornado passes through the office where the guy was with the girl, the cleaner looks under the door and there is a very bright light shining through, but in the external shot, we see it is very dark and the sun is shining on the other side of the building. [It only looks bright because he is in the dark and the light is coming through a slit, so it looks much brighter than it really is.]
Corrected by Sereenie
Laura cuts her left leg when the tidal wave hits New York. When the others find out about the wound late in the film the cut is on her right leg. [Laura cuts her right leg - the shot underwater when we see it happen shows her from the back.]
Corrected by STP
Somebody, I think the US president, says that a part of Florida has been flooded but when we get a view from space at the end of the film, Florida is intact. [Most likely there was some unsubstantiated information where there may have been some flooding in Florida but the waters receded quickly and there wasn't the devastation that occurred further north.]
When the wave hits New York and washes around the library building you can see in the bottom right of the shot vehicles being rolled over before wave has even touched them. [They're being pushed by other vehicles caught at the front of the wave, and in turn push other vehicles in front of them.]
Corrected by Xofer
There is no street facing the front of the New York public library as is shown in the movie when the tidal wave is coming down the street to the main entrance. [Incorrect - The NYPL at this location bridges the entire two blocks from 42nd Street down to 40th. 41st Street comes to an end at 5th Avenue right in front of it, then picks up again behind Bryant Park at 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas).]
Corrected by Rooster of Doom
When we see the report from New Delhi we briefly see the Taj Mahal, which i s really located at Agra, which is about 200km from New Delhi. [It is not the Taj Mahal, but a government building in the same style. The Taj Mahal is not situated in a crowded city.]
The characters who remain and get trapped in the New York Public Library, in spite of being largely well-educated, seem hell-bent on using the least effective fuel on hand (the paper of the books). Even if they did have to use that to start the fire, it would make much more sense to burn the wooden chairs, tables, desks, bookshelves, even the carpets for heat - which, additionally, would preserve the valuable book collection. [Varnished wood doesn't burn as well, plus there's a near endless supply of books - not once do they mention that they're running out. The book collection isn't all valuable - no doubt the majority of books were just standard, widely available copies. Wood might technically be a better source of fuel, but the books are plentiful and easy to light, so why not use them? No real reason not to.]
A fire of library books would never stop a deep freeze of -135 from coming into a big room as the group was sleeping in. That room would have been frozen from top to bottom, except for maybe a few feet in and around the fireplace. [First of all the temperature was -150. Also they were huddled around the fire so they would have been in that few feet that was not frozen.]
Dennis Quaid and his companion seem to have no problems staying warm in a tent while preparing to sleep for the night; they are actually shown with removed layers of clothing while in the tent. Yet, the survivors in the library are covered from head to toe in clothing and blankets. [Quaid and his companions are prepared for what they're facing, so what they're wearing will be insulated, thermal, whatever you call it - hence they'll be able to remove their outer layers in the tent - the inner layers are still enough to do the job. The survivors in the library are wearing ordinary everyday clothing, which is much less effective - hence their need for blankets.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
Why would people cross through the river if there are bridges (El Paso, Tx - Juarez, Chih. have around 24 lanes for cars)? If Americans are coming into Mexico illegally by hundreds, they wouldn't have any trouble crossing walking by the car lanes. And, why would there be any Border Patrol officers at the American side when people are crossing southbound, not the other way around? [It is explained in the movie just before the shots of the river crossing that Mexico has closed its borders. This means that the roads/bridges are closed, which is why people are forced to cross over the river, where the Mexicans are unable to stop the sheer weight of numbers getting through.]
In the scene where they are searching for medicine aboard the tanker Sam climbs out of a window and breaks another with a simple hammer. Anyone who has been on a ship know that those water tight windows won't break that easily. [Given the extremely low temperature, it's highly likely that the windows have become extremely brittle and have lost much of their structural integrity.]
When the survivors go to the ship for antibiotics and find the door to the dispensary locked, our hero finds a fire ax, climbs out a window, crawls along a railing, and breaks out a window. Wouldn't it be easier and simpler to use the fire axe on the flimsy dispensary door? [If I recall correctly, the door was a bulkhead door, which is far from flimsy. This is more than likely correct given the nature of dispensaries on ships and elsewhere which are locked from the inside and reinforced to keep the drugs secure.]
At the end of the movie, the President of the United States says, "It is telling that my first address comes to you from foreign soil." The only problem is that the US Embassy in Mexico (and any other foreign country) is considered US soil. That is why they are havens for travellers abroad. [He says "first broadcast from a consulate on foreign soil" so no mistake]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the beginning of the film where the storm starts to really take off, you see buses, cars etc flying around and buildings being destroyed, yet so many people are using their mobile (cell) phones. Strange how despite all this destruction, mobile phone masts are still intact. [In many large cities there are mobile cell phone masts located on a considerable amount of buildings and like TV and radio antennas are secured down to withstand very high winds.]
In the scene where Dennis Quaid drops into the Wendy's he lights various restaurant quality gas burning stove elements. Nothing is flame broiled or pan fried in a Wendy's. Just a flat top grill, deep fat fryers, and a vat to stir the cheese. [I used to work at Wendy's a while ago. I believe they still have a gas stove to cook their chili.]
When Jack enters New York city he walks by the statue of liberty. This is an odd way to enter the city considering the statue of liberty is over the Atlantic (east of New York) and they are coming from the south. [The Statue of Liberty is off the Lower Battery of NYC near Ellis Island. If you fly into NYC from the west, which I have done hundreds of times, you fly over the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. It is not located east of New York.]
How on earth did Dennis Quaid's ice pick not shatter the glass below him when they were on top of the shopping mall? There wasn't enough ice for it to dig in, as proved by the fact that it wipes clean so easily. [Actually, if you looked closer, it seemed to me that the icepick's flat edge part (not the pointy end) latched onto a piece of framing between two sheets of the glass that makes up the roof. So, in essence, that's what's holding the ax in place, the edge of that glass framing.]
The temperature in the eye of the storm(s) is quoted at approx. -150°F (-100°C). The crew of the crashed helicopters (in the UK) froze in seconds. Even at -100°C, it would take several minutes for a naked man to freeze solid, especially with the calm winds in the eye. A man with winter gear (like that crew had) would likely be mobile for hours. [Technically, they only stated that fuel freezes at -150 F, so this may be regarded as the maximum (as in warmest) temperature the helicopters were exposed to. If you look at the speed with which the fuel froze, it must have been much colder than that.]
Through the movie, the storm sucks down "super-cooled air from the upper troposphere." The troposphere is the lowest level in the atmosphere, where we live. The coldest layer is the third, the mesosphere, but this only drops to -90 degrees F; not low enough to freeze any kind of fuel line. ["Fuel line freezing" usually refers to crystals of water ice condensing out of the fuel and forming blockages in the narrow line. This can happen at "normal" freezing temperatures or Prestone wouldn't sell a product (Cold Start) that helps fight it.]
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