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{{quote|''"This movie is to climate science as ''[[Frankenstein]]'' is to transplant surgery."''|'''[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/6e52157aaf63775f William Hyde]''' }}
{{quote|''"White-Hot Liberal Porn!"''|[[
In the beginning, there is an attempt to document global warming by removing an ice core from the Antarctic. This is made considerably more difficult when the ice shelf collapses under the scientists involved.
A climate summit is held in India. The vice-president (who may not be named "Dick Cheney", but have no doubt of his identity) announces nothing needs to be done. When the conference ends, ''it is snowing''. (Normally, that region of India has a temperature of about 100 °
The lead scientist involved in the Antarctic expedition, Jack Hall, is considered kooky because he is a paleoclimatologist. He doesn't get along with authorities, and his relationship with his equally genius son could be better.
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The genius son Sam Hall is going to NYC for a knowledge decathlon and to try to bond with the girl he joined the knowledge decathlon team for. He's afraid of flying, and this flight doesn't go smoothly. It is one of the last flights at NYC's latitude that goes at all.
In Scotland, another group of scientists is measuring ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic. They aren't paying incredibly close attention when things first go
After tornadoes hit LA, America takes this weather thing seriously. Only one weather model seems to have any real predictive power. Unfortunately, it was made by the paleoclimatologist to deal with weather patterns at the start of the last [[Ice Age]], and it wasn't supposed to run anywhere near as fast as the current weather system is running.
Yes. Global warming has triggered an instant Ice Age. The [[Disaster Movie]] equivalent of [[Hilarity Ensues]].
Not to be confused with the novel ''[[Sixth Column (novel)|Sixth Column]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], which was reissued under this title during the 1970s.
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* [[Alternate DVD Commentary]]: This has a [[
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The Japanese version gets a theme song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB8XvmdSmec "More Than a Million Miles"] by a band called...[[Similarly Named Works|Day After Tomorrow]].
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 0 on a large scale, but the [[Inferred Holocaust]] pushes it close to Class 1.
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* [[British Royal Family]]: Apparently all killed; frozen to death.
** Interestingly enough, Roland Emmerich's next big disaster film explicitly shows them surviving.
* [[Head
* [[A Crack in
** In the first minutes, a science station has been set up on the Antarctic ice shelf. A crack in the snow appears. Moments later, a crevasse divides the camp in two.
** Later, a sled is sucked into a hole that appears in the snow. Moments later it's revealed that it's actually {{spoiler|not a crevasse but a hole in the glass roof of a shopping mall buried in the snow!}}
* [[Dead Line News]]: A reporter in Los Angeles is hit by a billboard. Also, a guy who's in the middle of it is in his car and gets crushed by a flying bus, and the scene is caught on video. Ironically, the commentator from the helicopter says "I hope no one was in that car!"
* [[Death
* [[Deleted Scene]]: Enough to make a second movie. Three main storylines were cut and one of them included a cameo by Alan Ruck.
* [[Divorce Is Temporary]]: Jack and Lucy are broken up at the beginning due to Jack's work taking him away from the family. But he realizes how much he's missed and after risking his life to save his son from frozen New York, he and Lucy move toward reconciling.
* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud|Do Not Follow The Funnel Cloud In A Helicopter From One Block Away]]
* [[Downer Ending]]: A substantial portion of the world's population has been wiped out, most of the planet's fertile farmland is coated in ice, ''Europe, Russia, Canada, and the United States are uninhabitable wastelands'', and [[Humans Are
* [[Dramatic Landfall Shot]]
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]
* [[
* [[Green Aesop]] / [[Space Whale Aesop]]: Although Emmerich [[Word of God|was not aiming for a scientifically accurate depiction of climate change]], the attitude and actions of Dick Cheney [[Expy]] Vice President Becker ''were'' intended to be a criticism of the Bush Administration's policies. Giving Becker the moment to apologize to the world for being wrong at the end of the movie is likely why he avoided a [[Karmic Death]] much earlier.
* [[Ignored Expert]]: Jack Hall. After a freak disaster has just removed Los Angeles from the face of the Earth, the one scientist in the government who's even willing to venture a ''guess'' as to what's going on still has to beg for computer time in order to confirm his theory. You would ''think'' that after the vaporization of LA, the government would also be interested in confirming the only available theory as to how and why ... [[Strawman Political|but they're just so unreasonable, somehow]], and [[Conflict Ball|refuse out of nowhere]].
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]
* [[It Got Worse]]: It's not enough that the ''world is plummeting into an ice age'' and they're trapped in a library of death as the entire city perishes in the
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The theme when Jake Gyllenhall and his buddies go inside the Russian ship to look for medicines sounds exactly like the main theme from "Panic Room"
* [[Karma Houdini]]: The Dick Cheney [[Expy]] Vice President tries to shut down any attempt to handle the crisis intelligently long past the point where he should have learned to shut up. See a [[Karmic Death]] coming? Nope. Instead, he gets a [[Field Promotion]] when the more reasonable president [[Too Dumb to Live|eschews his fleet of helicopters, drives south in a motorcade onto already packed roads instead]], and dies in the storm.
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** Also, the cop who {{spoiler|leads most of the survivors out of the safe library, in hope of being found by rescue teams. There are no rescue teams. The policeman's and the other survivors' frozen bodies are found later on.}}
* [[Red Shirt Reporter]]: Features a reporter giving up-to-the-minute reports on the tornadoes rampaging through downtown Los Angeles. He ends up flattened by flying debris, of course.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: J.D. is initially set up as one and seems to be getting in the way of Sam getting with Laura. However, this is suddenly dropped not long afterwards, and J.D. switches to being a [[Shipper
* [[Run for
* [[Scenery Gorn]]
* [[Serkis Folk]]
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** Don't forget Japan getting a patented [[Death From Above]] in the form of MASSIVE hail.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Also, a bad case of [[The Worm Guy]].
* [[Very Loosely Based
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* [[Black Comedy]]:
{{quote|''Hollywood, it's Armageddon here in Hollywood.
* [[Running Gag|Running Gags]]▼
''Apocalyptic hijinks here in L.A,
''But it's a swell day,
''More fun than the [[Academy Award]]s...''}}
** Various comments on how STUPID the characters are.
** Mocking how pandering this is to the liberal mindset.
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** The various names for "Dick Cheney"
** Jokes about Ian Holm's other roles in other movies.
* [[Shout
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