Disaster Night

Tonight's marathon deals with the issue of global warming beginning with the critically acclaimed documentary called An Inconvenient Truth, in which Al Gore warns people about the dangers of global warming, followed by the birth of an enormous storm in The Perfect Storm, a Tsunami in The Impossible, and finally Global Warming itself in The Day After Tomorrow. This marathon is staged to represent the birth of global warming through several major forms of storms getting stronger with each movie. We have on our menu for this evening:

An Inconvenient Truth 2006, The Perfect Storm 2000, The Impossible 2012, and The Day After Tomorrow 2004

Not only do the storms build up with each movie, but the dangers of them increase, putting the characters we grow to care about in each movie further at stake. What An Inconvenient Truth does so well is it informs the audience about the rise of global warming, but also making audiences care. You care not just for what Al Gore's saying but also see the frustration in his inability to get people to see the reality in his presentations. An Inconvenient Truth is about the foreshadowing of global warming, the event that's going to change the world for better or worse. The Perfect Storm is the beginning of the actual storm becoming a reality with the Halloween storm of 1991. In this storm, six fisherman are caught in the fight of their life against mother nature. Three hurricanes combine to form one of the greatest storms in recorded history. Their struggle to survive one of nature's most horrifying disasters is one for the books. George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg together make you root for them when battling the storm. The Impossible makes you care about the family caught in the wake of a Tsunami.. Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor give powerful performances. The Impossible not only is a gripping human drama about survival, but has one of the most moving scores of all time. The final film in the marathon The Day After Tomorrow, brings the marathon full circle by making Al Gore's prediction of Global Warming come true.