It was on TV last night. What can I say? I wouldn’t recommend renting or buying this on DVD. It’s just another crisis film with some mediocre acting. The aspect I liked best was the science of it…some insight as to how an Ice Age might begin and how global warming might hasten it. But so much of this was exaggerated (Dennis Quaid trekking to NYC on snowshoes?), it was difficult to know where the science ended and the fiction began.

Ok, I realise it’s kind of crap, but it freaked the ** out of me, but what was even more scary and surreal was what fox did to it. During the end credits, they start showing the fallout of the storm and fires in new jersey and promoting as the exciting ‘day after tomorrow’. What is scary is that the lines between fiction and news as getting so blurred that people are becoming immune to feeling other people’s pain. We didn’t see a single person die in this movie on screen, yet billions of people would have died in reality, and yet we all celebrate because the statue of liberty looks pretty and donnie darko got the girl and saved her from a fate worse than septicaemia.

I think that it’s good that climate change is getting mainstream attention, and that it was inevitable that they would bollocks it up, but with climate science being as uncertain as it is, it’s hard to say whether the science behind it was implausible, less than most science fiction movies.

I am afraid whenever I watch fox that I have walked into an alternative orwellian reality.