Thank you for detouring from the video to give me an update on the guy that Dick Cheney shot lmao

This is the film that constantly reruns on HBO. Not sure if it still does but it's incredible how much of a favorite it is for a lot of stations back in the day

I always got hung up on the fact that crossing the border from texas to mexico magically went from glacier to tropical. as if the two weren't literally right next to each other.

I always remember the library half. Especially the part where they are deciding what books to burn, and piling up the "boring" books on GIANT OAK TABLES.

In Day after Tomorrow, the most unrealistic part is the politician admitting he was wrong. 2012 goes even further in fantasy, with politicians who believe the scientists before the disaster start, and actively act to help humanity survive.

As a fellow Texan, I can confirm that the plot of this movie is exactly what happens every February.

Honestly, I would 100% watch a Roland Emmerich where evil alien muffins take over the world, only to be stopped by some random guy who has a degree in baking science and no other qualifications

When I first saw this movie that seen where the pilot freezes solid was deeply disturbing to me, and still is. The idea of just freezing solid like that is terrifying

This was recently on again and I caught a bit of it, and it's kind of hilarious how much emphasis they put on NY flooding but after the big flood scene, we never see any actual dead people in the water. For a MASSIVE DISASTER movie it felt hilariously clean for the most part. It's like they were too scared to actually show people dying, and left it to frozen bodies.

I watched the commentary for 2012 and it was at the grocery store scene. Emmerich was talking about how the character says "I feel like something is pulling us apart" and then the earthquakes and literally pulls them apart. He said some people didn't like it but he thought it was funny so he kept it in, and that told me everything I needed to know about him.

I'm surprised there's no mention of Emmerich's motif of bad fathers in all his disaster movies. Even Moonfall

I kind of love hearing that another person out there was scared shitless of tornadoes as a kid and that somehow led them to being obsessed with the weather. I was exactly the same I had tons of books, would look up stuff online, watch videos. I even went to this weeklong camp thing hosted by my dads workplace one summer that was themed around weather stuff. Always figured that because I was so scared of extreme weather I thought that learning about it would ease my fears.

For some reason, seeing the helicopters fly to NYC & seeing hundreds of survivors (most completely unaware of the instafreeze that was coming for them) on top of the skyscrapers was my favorite ending of any disaster movie. It showed that the library holdout was happening in literally millions of buildings around the nation & world, with complete strangers coming together to help each other out despite the chaos & confusion they just experienced; and despite having zero exposition or plot armor handed to them, still managed to survive the worst that nature threw at them. It really gave me hope in humanity’s capability to endure.

As far as 2000’s disaster movies go, Day After Tomorrow actually holds up rather well, especially compared to its contemporaries. Hell, it even does it job better than most 2010’s disaster movies which is just… kinda sad when you think about it.

My Grandma watched this movie multiple times and had a really good time with it on each run. She loved catastrophe flicks in general. God, I miss her.

Genuinely loved this movie and Independence Day as a kid. Watched them every summer at my grandparents' house growing up.

The more Cody talks about his favorite things from his childhood, the more I am convinced we lived the same life. If he does a video on monster trucks it will be confirmed

My favorite fact about The Day After Tomorrow is that at some point during production the screenplay for the film leaked, and the guys making South Park got ahold of it and thought it was so hilariously stupid that they had the idea of making a Thunderbirds-like version of it with puppets and release it on the exact same day as the Roland Emmerich film, which would've probably been a troll of astronomical proportions that few could recover from. Unfortunately there were obvious rights issues so they turned that idea into a pseudo Thunderbirds reboot, but as a send-off to the Roland Emmerich/Jerry Bruckheimer type of blockbusters, the final result being Team America: World Police.

As one of the five people who saw Disney’s Strange World, I appreciate that somebody involved with that movie was clearly a big fan of this movie since it also stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid.

I'd love if you could do one of these for "Contagion" (relate it back to the COVID pandemic and how everyone in that movie is too damn competent), and "The Core", probably the only movie that can rival the Day After Tomorrow as my guilty pleasure disaster-flick

Fun fact, the guy who wrote the book version claimed to had been abducted by aliens.

Update: found it, here is a link to a youtube community post: kzfaq.infoUgkxqkGQel0x_CDFQMz45cGR4vpaRjKJbed3?si=2IJX3hsYK2nGhaBB Every time you see a snowstorm, its actually my dad shooting a snow cannon in the face of the actors. My dad was a special effect assistant. Wish i could share a picture in the comments of my dad grinning with the huge cannon in his hand. Always found that kinda cool.

The scene where they get medical supplies on the ship where the wolves attacked them took me out of the movie so hard. The wolves just so happened to be the only animals that escaped in some magical way that never is explained, and they end up on the ship during the exact 10 minutes the protagonists are in there. Also, when they encounter them, the wolves go absolutely batshit insane in some sort of rabies driven rampage which is not actual wolf behaviour, generally they are pretty timid. It just felt like such a forced action scene just to have some obstacle our main characters could overcome, but most of all it just does not fit in at all; the entire movie is building up to this storm and wether or not they will survive it, but then suddenly 3 random wolves decide to ruin this guy's day because fuck em

14:00 yeah sure. Dude would be like: "We found out that the iraqis did it. They broke the weather"

I will never forget how my acting teacher heared students talk about moonfall to then just casually drop that he went to school with Emerich and is still friends with him.

This movie terrified me as a kid. I remember seeing a black cloud in the sky from a factory & starting to have a panic attack in the backseat

"Liquid Cheney" damn, that one got me good and i laughed harder than I'd like to admit

I loved that movie as a child, it was my favorite for a few solid years and I would constantly rewatch my VHS copy

Oddly enough, the most memorable moment in that movie for me is the library scenes. The dude being absolutely against burning the books, getting pissed when they even think of burning the Gutenberg Bible, literally sitting there protecting the bible.

Okay, can we just agree that homeless dude and his border collie are the real MVPs?

Took a direct hit from the strongest part of an EF4 tornado two years ago in a place not really known for tornados. Still homeless, actually. Indeed, the last EF4 in the state was a decade earlier but at least it was in a rural area. Never really cared about them before that but my town is still ruined by it. Hearing a weather alert sends chills down my spine now. Saw another KZfaqr casually ignoring an air raid siren (used as tornado alerts in most towns like mine) and it made me uneasy even though I behaved much the same way that night.

This is one of those movies I cherish because it's something my dad and I always watch together. Even when I'm playing a game, he comes up to tell me "hey Day After Tomorrow is on" and I always put down whatever I'm doing. The movie is silly, but I believe that is the films strength. It's also a time capsule to simpler times when movies were more about experiences (both dumb and fun) and not about building cinematic universes that are the equivalent of Chinese food where it's great for 2hrs but you'll forget it the next day. Glad someone else shares the same admiration towards this film

The thing with the Bible guy saying he’s protecting it because the written word is mankind’s greatest achievement always sticks with me because it’s something that could so easily be cut without impacting the rest of the movie. Especially when it’s just a couple of minor characters. But the sincerity in the writing and delivery gets me.

"Unlike everyone else, Dennis Quaid knows what an Ice Age is. He saw the entire series. They made way too many sequels."😂😂😂

The soundtrack to Day After Tomorrow really is a standout, and doesn’t get enough credit. I’m not familiar with the composer so I’m not surprised he hasn’t been able to create anything as memorable.

I was always fascinated and terrified as kid by the fuel lines in the helicopter freezing instantly. I couldn’t comprehend any environment being that cold.

The weird thing about this movie is how I remember watching the DVD menu and how it would have all these news reports on the menu with increasing dread in each broadcast, and then it ends with a guy getting killed by a falling icicle. I honestly remember the menu more than the actual movie.

This movie literally started my career in VFX, I think I was around seven years old and I saw a behind-the-scenes and the guy was rendering out the tidal wave scene on that kind of looks like mine.

"Solid C plus student, real prime youtuber material. " You just made my day.

I remember watching this in High School. Living in Canada, a particular chunk of the movie was... memorable. Afterward, our Teacher asked for our thoughts. One dude said the thing we were all thinking: "If this ever happens, we are @#$%!"

“People screaming on a sunny day because there’s no rain.” I mean, that was pretty much a good chunk of the first season of Clarkson’s Farm. Pretty entertaining tbh.

There was an entire sub-plot cut from this film too. Remember Taka, the guy who gets killed during the Tokyo hail storm? The phone call he gets in the original scene wasn't from his wife, but from a NYC stock broker as the FTC is cracking down on their insider trading scheme and Taka dies before he can get things covered up. That NYC stock broker is trying to weasel his way out of accountability and is the only one celebrating when the weather disasters take the focus off of him. He and his buddies trudge through the flooded streets of New York, where the board an out of service bus, that gets swept up in the tidal wave and eventually crushed under that Russian cargo ship. So yeah, whole sub-plot about insider trading and securities fraud being more important than the climate, until it isn't.

Twister absolutely terrified me. Somehow every time I watched it (as a child) the local tornado siren would do a "test." I'd already lost a house at that age (to weather; lightning strike, fire) so I guess I'm just now realizing the impact it had. geez.

I remember the hype this movie had. There was an elaborate trailer for The Day After Tomorrow before The Secret Window. And another one before Ban Helsing. I remember the audience going, Woah!” At the sight of Manhattan covered in a glacier. The opening day showing was a packed house too. Last day of school 8th grade 2004. I hate nostalgia 🙃

I think it's kind of fascinating how the media we consume as children can contribute to the phobias we develop later on. Like, using a personal example, I've developed a crippling phobia of most arthropods in general as a result of two particular scenes from very different things I saw as a kid, the first being from _Walking With Beasts_ where a newly hatched bird was eaten alive by giant ants and the second being a scene from _RL Stein's The Haunting Hour_ where a child was eaten alive in his bed by cockroaches. So it's nice to hear someone other than me developed a phobia thanks to the influence of a piece of media they saw.

I feel like you could make a global warming miniseries taking place over decades, with an individual “once in a lifetime disaster” in each episode.

My family and I will often watch day after tomorrow and 2012 as a weekend disaster fest. We’ve watched both like 6 times over the years because they are incredibly fun to watch. Sure, they’re not the best, but they’re close to my heart because of the time I get to spend with my family having fun.

One of my favorite childhood movies, I used to watch the shit out of this one

This was the one DVD my school had on hand growing up, so any free peruod we'd watch this. But because our classes were only 40 minutes, we'd only watch the first half. The good half. The bit where the choppers freeze mid air always stuck with me, that was cool as hell

The flood scene was terrifying as a kid for me. Imagining yourself in that situation but the scene that really got me was the one with the helicopter pilots that froze in seconds. Having lived in Alaska when I watched this movie, it was a really scary possible reality as a kid. XD

If I may make a disaster movie recommendation for a future video: the 1997 Volcano was one I really enjoyed. Also, the one thing that always stuck in my mind about this movie was: what's going on at the equator during all this? Like, there's no way it's still the new Ice Age in the tropics, or even the sub-tropics, even if the Gulf Stream and other ocean currents were disrupted enough to stop entirely and even if there were arctic anti-hurricanes that got stronger with cold.

i’m so glad u included the shot of the british guy on the chopper freezing solid bc that’s the part that scared the shit out of 10yo me

I have to stress how much I love your way of approaching movies. You aren't mean spirited or vindictive as if the movie or director personally assaulted you in an alley; you just kinda casually poke fun at the film while talking about who made it and their thought process.

'When you are scared of something you are also almost fascinated by it too' This explains a lot of my fear of the ocean and seas I grew up swimming a lot and I kept seeing these very big and scary fish and other sea creatures on the tv and I would hesitate to go to sea but everytime I keep coming back to sea and those documentary videos and still having problem sleeping just imagining those things.

Cody, the more I watch your content the more I'm convinced we had the ssme childhood. Will always enjoy your stuff, love the new channel ❤

8:16 I mean, that’d be cool

I must say, this movie started my trend of listening to disaster movie soundtracks, specifically the tracks that play during the disaster scenes. It was a weird obsession, listening to how composers convey tension and destruction through music. I found some good melodies among them, this movie include. Others would be Armageddon, which has a recurring doomy gloomy leitmotif for the asteroid, and Twister which has choirs singing when the tornado is onscreen to really make them feel like the fingers of God.

I actually enjoy the movie. The characters may not be memorable, but I keep coming back to this film for the disaster scenes. They are INTENSE. You actually see people die.

Man, I actually loved this movie. A lot of what you said from your childhood rang true for me too (down to the fear of twisters). I was obsessed with this flick. I had it on vhs and watched it just as often as my Star Wars trilogy and Indiana Jones trilogy. I’m glad to hear someone give it some love.

Liquid Cheney got a loud, bark-like chuckle out of me while I'm at work. Thanks a lot.

11:37 As an Irish man living in Ireland, I approve of this joke

9:10 "Liquid Cheney" Oh my Lord, Cody, I am HOWLING

I love how i was just recommended this movie and you have my exact obsession with this movie and fear of tornados

8:16 Thank you so much for pointing that out man, I know it is a little thing but it makes me happy that finally someone realized a false representation of us. A lot of people still believe we are Ottomans same as those from the beginning of 20th century. I was surprised you knew about this stuff.

As a German, the title the day after tomorrow will always be funny to me. The day after tomorrow has its own name, Übermorgen ("Over"-tomorrow) it also works the same way with yesterday, vorgestern ("pre"-yesterday ). The terms are both used like you’d use the regular tomorrow and yesterday in terms of frequency so this title just sounds something like "the day that comes after the current day" or something goofy like that even though it’s how you’d normally call it in English

"Is this how honor students hook up?" Yes. As a former quiz bowl team captain, yes it is.

Looking forward hopefully to a video about the film Twister in anticipation of the sequel. That's the film in my childhood that really really gave me the tornado terror.

This was also a childhood favorite

As a former honors student who lived overseas and traveled a lot for school trips, yes. They were primarily attended because you wanted to get with someone else on the trip. Little strange? Sure, but it worked.

Ok , semi serius note : from a thematic pov the second half is pretty good , Mostly because it's strangers helping each other when shit hit the fan , We need more of this nowadays i think , I also remember two caracter moments : The homeless guy that suggested to burn books and use them as insulation from the cold , And the librarian that hangs on to the first printed bible , despite him not being a beliver , just because he thinks it's important to preserve it ... It's kinda like cast away in wich tom hanks saves the package with the wings to have somenthing tonlive for , It's a bit of a teater to show what humans do to survive and keep being humans ... So yeah surprisingly this movie has a bit of a heart/somenthing to say , It's likely incidental but eh , let's not beat emmerich too hard ...

9:22 omg I’d love to watch any movie where you can re-edit the sound affects. Like having Patrick going “wee-whoo” in a disaster movie is just fantastic.

We watched this movie every year in all of my history classes. This movie and braveheart. Every single year.

13:18 “is the economy one of them? What countries are left for us to invade?”

I actually did take a class from a paleoclimatologist once. He wasn't supposed to be there. The guy who was supposed to teach the atmospheric science 101 class at my college went missing all of a sudden so they had to pull this grumpy computational climate modeler guy out of the basement and force him to teach the entry level class. He was super angry about this and got his revenge by making this 101 "rocks for jocks" blowoff course incredibly intense and difficult, which I thought was awesome, although I also almost flunked. Anyway he did talk a lot about global warming, and he *did* talk about hypercanes as a historical thing that could happen again. He never got into the north atlantic current thing, this was like 2003 so maybe if this had happened two years later he would have been fielding all these questions about The Day After Tomorrow. He mainly seemed concerned with farmland, like he said all the good arable land spots on earth is going to move around by hundreds of miles and there will be wars in places where suddenly entire countries can't grow food and suddenly their neighbors can, and what he called "feedback mechanisms", stuff like how there's a bunch of methane trapped in the arctic permafrost and so if the globe warms up too much the permafrost melts and releases the methane and warms things up even more. He said there were positive and negative feedback mechanisms, negative mechanisms that force the earth to stay at a particular point in the climate configuration space so that things can get jostled around a bit and they just return to normal on their own, and positive mechanisms that if you move *too* far away from the stable point they suddenly grab you like a conveyor belt and start moving you further and further away from the stable point. He described climate like this big N-dimensional map with a handful of stable equilibria, and as long as you're near a stable equilibrium you stay there but if you move too far away suddenly you get lurched to a new stable equilibrium and then you can't get out again. So at least one real paleoclimatologist around 2003 really did take seriously, and tell to just literally anyone who would listen to him for more than ten minutes, that it actually is possible for global warming to unpredictably lurch us into some completely new New Normal, much quicker than we expect, and lock us there. But I don't think he meant "a week", I think he meant like, "fast on geological time". He also did seem convinced the hypercane thing could happen, like, hurricanes that cover a third of the globe. He said it just has to get hot enough, and it's gotten hot enough before. It does have to get *pretty* hot, I think the going theory is that historical hypercanes would have been caused by the heat of a meteor impact. He also didn't suggest a hypercane could cause an ice age or whatever. The thing that concerned him about the hypercane is that it can, his words, "create its own fuel". Apparently storm systems are giant machines made of parcels of warm and cold air, and they consume warm air in the areas they're moving into and poop it out as cold rain. Normal storms eventually run out of warm air to eat but apparently hypercanes are so big they can get into a configuration where the hypercane somehow causes the earth to *create* new warm air for the hypercane to eat and the hypercane just *doesn't end*, paleoclimatology dude seemed to think it could it last for hundreds of years maybe. I just wanted to share that in case it comforts you

Oh man, thanks for reminding me of the blizzard that hit Texas like 2-3 years ago before I moved. That crap shut down the state entirely lol

I have to agree with you, I was an adult when this movie came out, and it stills scares me to this day. Honestly, I worry it's not quite as far-fetched as scientists and our own optimism might think. I sometimes wonder if the expert's models and predictions account for exponential and cascading negative effects that could compound on each other and make it far more of a rapid onset and apocalyptic scenario.

I think I read somewhere that Trey Park and Matt Stone (the creators of South Park) were able to get a ahold of this movies script before it hit theaters. They wanted to quickly make it into a film like Team America and release it before the actual movie. The only thing that stopped them were their lawyers and warnings of massive lawsuits.

I love this channel for talking about irrelevant movies that everyone watched but no one remembers. It fills the void in my soul

You saying you were a kid when this came out made me feel old ngl. Was my ex's favourite film by a mile so it played in our house a LOT back then, so often that if I never see it again it'll be too soon.

The Deadliest Warrior meme is so freaking niche

That bit about being terrified yet fascinated by weather really hit home. I was PETRIFIED of tornadoes, yet did everything I could to learn more about them.

I love this movie

I have a fond memory about this movie; my family caught the last half on TV one day, and we decided to rent it from the local Blockbuster and watch it fully. Problem was, we all forgot the proper name. We ended up picking up The Day After. We sat through an entire nuclear holocaust movie, thinking “oh, the part we saw on TV will probably come next”.

For what it is, it's a great popcorn film and one of the best of it's genre. Watched it opening weekend at my local theatre with my ex and have loved it ever since. Now it's 20 years old from a era that was just one and done films and moved on, unlike today Hollywood would try turn this into some "weatherverse" franchise. It's Roland's 2nd best film he directed after the mighty Stargate of course.

13:25 “So we’re told” *Dick Cheney appears on screen as if to say the president got shot too*

I remember learning about The Day After Tomorrow years ago through one of the tornado books in my elementary school's library. For the longest time I genuinely thought the movie was some campy drama film that just happened to have a tornado scene in it, and I was pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong when I finally got the chance to watch it.

You're commentary is golden! Thank you for the laughs!

my dog was deeply disturbed by your whistling. I enjoyed it, myself

This movie always makes me feel cozy, the perfect movie to watch while a fire blazes away in the fireplace.

7:48 Ice Age... We still are in an ice age.

I love all of these so much, I think I've seen all of the essays on the channel 3 times. I remember the initial launch video and I'm glad this is still going as strong as Alt History.

“Aggressively 2004” is the most spot on description of this movie and the bush presidency

I love how you found the perfect excuse to use that out of context Deadliest Warrior scene again Comedy gold

Funny thing. The two arguing about the book is one of the few things I remember about this movie. Along with one of the survivors going for help being frozen in their sleep.

The tinfoil hat cinematic universe is my new phrase. Perfect lmao

As someone who only encountered tornados in the movies, as a kid I loved watching some tornado hunters show on Discovery + this movie many many times. And for a long time I had nightmares about tornados, seeing how the clouds were forming above and just slowly starting to suck stuff into itself. But then eventually I noticed a weird thing. If I didn't look at it, it wouldn't affect the environment, as if it wouldn't render in my dreams. Good times.

9:57 Yeah, pretty much. In my experience, there's a subset of girls that are attractive and smart, but were bullied for being "nerds" and possibly weren't attractive when they were younger, so the jocks were out of the question, and they wanted someone roughly as smart as they are, but also relatively attractive. It's weird shit.

13:38 like NO POLITICIAN EVER WILL

I watched the shit out of this movie as a teen. Still love how schlock it is.

1:09 bruh I'm not alone!!!!!!!! I never understood why the movie twister messed me up so bad as a kid. Like I still have the recurring nightmare of running from a mega storm to this day.