History Film / TheDayAfterTomorrow

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Water is incompressable and has a density almost 800 times that of air. A "flood" the size and velocity of what is depicted hitting New York is called a "tsunami" and not only would have crushed the Statue of Liberty like a beer can but would have done the same to every building in its path, including the wall of the library and not just the ground floor windows.
** Possibly justified in the case of the Library, As the speed of the water seemed to be significantly reduced by having to flow around the many buildings, perhaps the outer regions of manhattan were flattened (hence why we didn't see them in the movie), but by the time it reached the Library it had lost most of its momentum.
*** Creator/RolandEmmerich conceded that the wave would have easily toppled the Statue of Liberty, but chose to have it remain standing in order to illustrate “American values standing up to the forces.” Similarly, none of the buildings in Manhattan get destroyed by the storm surge as a sign of respect for the victims of 9/11, with Emmerich almost shelving the film and giving up on making disaster films entirely after such a tragic ''[[https://screenrant.com/day-after-tomorrow-movie-disaster-buildings-destroy-no-why/amp/ real-life disaster.]]''

** Also, don't American scientists and universities use degrees Celcius to calculate temperature? This is a universal academic standard, even if the rest of the USA uses the Fahrenheit system.

* FromBadToWorse: It's not enough that the ''world is plummeting into an ice age'' and Sam Hall's crew is trapped in a library while the rest of New York City freezes. They've got to deal with escaped wolves from the city zoo, too!

* CutTheSafetyRope: Frank falls through the snow-covered Galleria's skylight and, knowing his friends will fall as well if he doesn't relieve the burden on the rope that links them, cuts it himself and drops to save the others.

''The Day After Tomorrow'' is a 2004 American climate fiction {{disaster|Movie}} film co-written, directed, and produced by Creator/RolandEmmerich, starring Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/IanHolm, Creator/EmmyRossum, and Sela Ward. The film depicts fictional catastrophic climatic effects in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age.

* StrawmanHasaPoint: Dennis Quaid's character shouldn't be believed carte blanche, because the scientific community isn't in agreement with him. Whereas global warming is believed by all scientists, in this universe only one person believes in global warming as Dennis Quaid does. The scientific method is that a lot of scientists have to agree on something through peer review for it to be good policy.

* EvilDetectingDog: The black homeless man's dog is seen barking at the on-floating Russian tanker before it even comes into sight and also at the "killer frost line" approaching the upper library room.

''The Day After Tomorrow'' is a 2004 American climate fiction-{{disaster|Movie}} film co-written, directed, and produced by Creator/RolandEmmerich and starring Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/IanHolm, Creator/EmmyRossum, and Sela Ward. The film depicts fictional catastrophic climatic effects in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age.

At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to rescue his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his friends who are trapped in New York and who have managed to survive not only a massive wave but also drops in temperatures so sudden that they could be killed in seconds.

The film was made in Toronto and Montreal and is the highest-grossing Hollywood film to be made in Canada (if adjusted for inflation). It's also notable in that the [[HollywoodScience "science" used in the film is so inaccurate]] that [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/trivia NASA refused to officially consult with the filmmakers.]]

* BigApplesauce: New York City gets flooded by a tsunami.

** The head librarian ''disappears, with no explanation'' in the end of the movie... unless [[FridgeHorror she was the only one in the library who didn't survive]]. But this could be false as she was obviously seen on J.D.’s left while watching Sam hug his father and when rescued by he helicopters, it can be presumed that she obviously was there but just didn’t appear on camera.

** The Scottish scientists around Professor Rapson are not mentioned again after they gave their last toast.

* Manchester United have ''never'' worn an all-red strip - that's the identifying uniform of arch-rivals Liverpool.

* NaturalDisasterCascade: The ice caps melting triggers this on a global scale due to increased freshwater levels disrupting the North Atlantic current. It causes snow in New Delhi, which escalates into some lovely DisasterMovie scenes invoving hail the size of snowballs breaking skulls, a chain of simultaneous tornadoes tearing apart Los Angeles, and a days-long downpour on New York triggering a GiantWallOfWateryDoom as well as offscreen record-breaking storms. Ultimately, this is the prelude to a GlacialApocalypse, culminating in [[spoiler:three super-cell blizzards blanketing and freezing the entire northern hemisphere, creating a new ice age before the storms disperse]]. This instance doubles as GlobalWarming and GaiasVengeance, with the cataclysm's aftermath being a decrease in the atmosphere's [=CO2=] emissions and a RegionalRedecoration visible from the ISS.

** Celtic are seen wearing blue shirts. As the main colour of their arch rivals Rangers, blue would never appear in any of their kits.

[[caption-width-right:300:''"[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 You maniacs! You froze it stiff!]]"'']]

** Though many of the events depicted in the movie [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2018/04/11/the-climate-change-atlantic-gulf-stream-science-behind-the-day-after-tomorrow-is-coming-true/amp/ are indeed possible]], the speed and intensity at which they occur has been greatly exaggerated for entertainment value, taking something that would occur over decades and centuries and having it happen within ''several days'' instead.

* DeathBySex: Weather guy and the girl he was with while the tornadoes were blowing through LA.

* IdiotBall: Laura demonstrates after Sam almost drowns in freezing waters that she's smart enough to know how to stop Sam from suffering heart failure ([[WorstAid excusing any artistic license, it does seem to work in the movie's setting]]). Which makes it all the more curious; ''what the hell'' was she thinking when she decided to treat a massive gash on her leg that got opened in filth-ridden brown floodwaters like it was nothing more than an arm bruise, even as it should have become increasingly obvious to her that the wound had turned septic?

* IdiotBall: Laura demonstrates after Sam almost drowns in freezing waters that she's smart enough to know how to stop Sam from suffering heart failure (excusing any artistic license). Which makes it all the more curious; ''what the hell'' was she thinking when she decided to treat a massive gash on her leg that got opened in filth-ridden brown floodwaters like it was nothing more than an arm bruise, even as it should have become increasingly obvious to her that the wound had turned septic?

** The love interest Laura. After saving the lives of a foreign couple trapped in a taxi, she goes back to retrieve their lost passports, and promptly needs to be rescued by Sam when a GiantWallOfWateryDoom comes barreling towards them at the same time, almost getting them both killed. What really cements her as this trope is that afterward, Laura [[IdiotBall for some reason]] decided ''not'' to do anything about treating the gash on her leg that had been exposed to filthy floodwaters in New York's streets, causing her to fall into a coma, and forcing three other members of the band of survivors to brave a lethal blizzard and almost get themselves killed ''twice'' over while trying to retrieve life-saving medication for her. If she and Sam stay together after the ending, Sam's parents are probably going to die of a heart attack from watching their son routinely knock on death's door trying to save her life due to her stupidity. ''Slightly'' {{downplayed}} in that she makes herself useful to save Sam's life during the body-warming scene, but beyond that, she doesn't contribute much to the group's survival in ways that the others can't also do inbetween her brushes with death.

* TheLoad: Downplayed version with Jason, who becomes a load to Jack on their way from Washington D.C. to New York, when he falls and needs to be carried for the rest of the journey.

* HollywoodScience: Known for being one of the [[https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/top-10-scientifically-inaccurate-movies-slideshow-903?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADH_J4syoHIsmmPWiy7ACkt4Qh0rEwFVJkryXLL9_wVQ-akLBKrsBOgSlqRFslweDbOd0m_5RCrzEHGRlgbG1OBPVs42WvHEd5kP22dsGSOEO-iLrEBKDD9ujAozQ_1igMz9oZQZ9nJt5kLPpex4Y5M-oVJcfjB_9ZOvGX-vbYDs least scientifically-accurate movies of all time]], ''The Day After Tomorrow'' takes bad movie science to the extreme with its overblown and hyper-accelerated climate change scenario. Though it isn’t nearly as ridiculous as ''Film/TheCore,'' numerous real-life climate scientists have taken the film to task for its countless scientific inaccuracies, while also begrudgingly praising it for being one of the first blockbusters to even ''attempt'' to tackle the issue.

* HollywoodScience: Known for being one of the [[https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/top-10-scientifically-inaccurate-movies-slideshow-903?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADH_J4syoHIsmmPWiy7ACkt4Qh0rEwFVJkryXLL9_wVQ-akLBKrsBOgSlqRFslweDbOd0m_5RCrzEHGRlgbG1OBPVs42WvHEd5kP22dsGSOEO-iLrEBKDD9ujAozQ_1igMz9oZQZ9nJt5kLPpex4Y5M-oVJcfjB_9ZOvGX-vbYDs least scientifically-accurate movies of all time]], ''The Day After Tomorrow'' takes Hollywood Science to the extreme with its overblown and hyper-accelerated climate change scenario. Though it isn’t nearly as ridiculous as ''Film/TheCore,'' numerous real-life climate scientists have taken the film to task for its countless scientific inaccuracies, while also begrudgingly praising it for being one of the first blockbusters to even ''attempt'' to tackle the issue.

** The notorious “super-freeze” scene, where New York City is caught in the eye of the storm and frozen solid, is [[HollywoodScience impossible for a number of reasons]]. The eye of a hurricane is where the storm’s low pressure center is found, and so the air there should actually be ''rising'' and not falling. Also, the lowest temperature in the upper reaches of the troposphere is only -60°F (-51°C), far greater than the -150°F (-101°C) given in the movie. The temperature at which the flash-freezing effect occurs in the film is lower than anything ever recorded on Earth.

''The Day After Tomorrow'' is a 2004 American climate fiction-{{disaster|Movie}} film co-written, directed, and produced by Creator/RolandEmmerich and starring Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/IanHolm, Creator/EmmyRossum, and Sela Ward. The film depicts fictional catastrophic climatic effects in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and leads to a new ice age.

The film was made in Toronto and Montreal and is the highest-grossing Hollywood film to be made in Canada (if adjusted for inflation). It's also notable in that the "science" used in the film is so inaccurate that [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/trivia NASA refused to officially consult with the filmmakers.]]

** The notorious “super-freeze” scene, where New York City is caught in the eye of the storm and frozen solid, is impossible for a number of reasons. The eye of a hurricane is where the storm’s low pressure center is found, and so the air there should actually be ''rising'' and not falling. Also, the lowest temperature in the upper reaches of the troposphere is only -60°F (-51°C), far greater than the -150°F (-101°C) given in the movie. The temperature at which the flash-freezing effect occurs in the film is lower than anything ever recorded on Earth.