Hi,
I personally like to watch these kind of stuff....about the earth, the sea, the tornado, storm etc., but not in a movie but prefer watch it as a documentary shown in Discovery Channel. Reason: Very Simple the documentaries are more realistic and the movies are overhyped where the protagonist tries to change the World and the basic rules of the nature. Still I convinced myself to go for the movie because my colleagues had already booked my tickets and I did not want to dissappoint them.
The movie starts with the protagonist Dennis Quaid, playing a hunky paleoclimatologist, solemnly warns that a massive storm unleashed by global warming is going to plunge the Northern Hemisphere into a new Ice Age ? within days! ? the real experts nudge each other and snicker. The movie is all about the nature creating a havoc in the United States of America specially in the entire northern hemisphere. Jack Hall’s son Sam is detained in New York because of the flooding...where he takes refuge in a library alongwith some more people. The movie is picturised excellently.
The photography is stunning...scenes like the HOLLYWOOD logo getting blown off by the tornado....the flooding and its havoc. I personally feel that this movie is a bit overdone (pardon me if I am ignorant of the facts). Though I do take into cognizance of climate change which is happening gradually and eventually change the face of the planet.... I cannot digest is helicopters freeze midair and the Atlantic Ocean swamps Manhattan.
There is a ’’small kernel’’ of scientific truth in the movie’s plot, which blames melting polar ice caps for disrupting ocean currents that warm the northern latitudes. Another thing I fail to understand is that what makes Jack goes to save his son Sam in the adverse of climate when the whole of the Nothern Hemisphere is full of snow. I am not sure what would Jack done even he manages to reach New York risking his own life.....but thankfully for Jack, Sam and the audience by the time he makes to New York (walking on the snow), the catastrophe is all over with the sun shining.
The conclusion is that there is very little reality in the USD 125 mln special effects extravaganza. Though the underlying message and the spirit of the movie are realistic the extent of the devastation is quite unrealistic especially tornado hitting Los Angeles, hail in Tokyo and snow storms in our own New Delhi, simultaneously. In my opinion director Roland Emmerich has ?okie dokie? film to his name as compared to his previous hits like the Godzilla and the Independence Day.
Please do RRC.
Vijay