Last updated on 2012-04-22, by Tony

Four Disaster Movies To Watch On Earth Day

Earth Day is an annual day on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s natural environment. As environment issue is attached with more and more importance, environment protection becomes a hot issue in the worldwide.

From Kyoto Protocol to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, people are trying their best to protect the environment. The Tsunami is India, the earthquake in China and the tsunami in Fukushima all have witness the world’s grief.

Based on people’s worry about the uncertain future, more and more movies related to the natural disasters are made to warn us how serious environment issue can be. This post will show you four disaster movies to watch on Earth Day.

1. 2012

As one of the most anticipated movies in 2009, 2012 doesn’t disappoint those who have waited for it. In this movie, you can see all the disasters you can figure out: flood, earthquake and eruption of the volcano.

The exhausted resources and the worsening environment both contribute to the fury of Mother Earth. As a consequence, it brings the disasters like earthquake and flood to the world in the movie which menaces the survival of human beings.

The movie successfully attracts people with its special effects and name, which is coincidently coordinate with the date of Armageddon predicted by mayan thousand years ago. Maybe that’s why it can get $65 million box office recipients.

2. The Day After Tomorrow

When the Earth punishes people for their foolish behavior towards environment with freezing cold, how are people supposed to survival? In the movie, we see nothing but ice and snow. In the new Ice Age, every step you make in the outside is a challenge to Death. All those things contribute to its $68 million performance in box office.

The director just wants to warn people the serious situation we are facing at present. As is predicted, the increasing green house effect caused by the emission of carbon-dioxide will lead to the melt of icebergs. As a consequence, the sea level will rise and the coming of Ice Age is no longer a science fiction.

3. The Core

This time, Mother Earth chooses a silent way to revenge human beings in the movie: stop working. When the Earth refuses to move, what will happen to the world? The movie tells us that not only the direction sense of birds will gone, but also the lives of those heart-disease patients equipped with pace maker.

In order to make the Earth move again, detonating the nuclear bomb in the core is a necessity. New and unique as the plot is, the movie sees a bad performance in box office.

4. Artificial Intelligence

Actually, this movie is more a scientific movie than a disaster movie. However, the movie also shows us a world with worsening environment and exhausted resource. The high technology leads to the destruction of natural balance. Consequently, human beings are extinct in the end of the movie.

Unlike the above three, human are not that fortune. The environment becomes so badly in the Earth where no one can survive except robots. When human becomes yesterday and is studied by robots just as we have done to the mammoth, it is really scaring.

All in all, watching those four movies on Earth Day can help you to enhance the awareness of environment protection. If you want to watch them with The new iPad, you can buy those DVDs and then convert those DVDs to mp4 format for The new iPad with DVD Ripper.