The $ 552.6 million epic in Dennis Quaid, he called “the mother of all disaster films” is a streaming smash in America

Dennis Quaid Don’t joke when he called The day after “The mother of all disaster films.” Two decades after melting the box office records for the first time, Roland Emmerich Catastrophe Epic Catastrophe takes over the United States again – this time on Hulu. Originally released in 2004, The day after played quid as climatologist Jack Hall and a young Jake Gyllenhaal Like his son Sam. History? An extreme vision of climate change, where the melting of polar ice triggers a new ice age that sweeps the planet with storms, flash gel and tidal waves the size of Manhattan skyscrapers. Emmerich and screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff did not hold back – and the public either.

With a budget of $ 125 million, the film continued to win land $ 555 million worldwideincluding $ 186 million American theaters and another $ 369 million overseas. The opening of the Memorial Day weekend transported $ 68.7 millionAlmost 37% of its final national count. He finished as The eighth most profitable film in the United States for 2004and still holds a place among the TOP 100 LIGUSE LIEST ACTION MOLTORS OF ALL TESTSSitting just above Armageddon And a hair below Mission: Impossible – dead calculation.

However, despite its enormous success with the public at the time – and its streaming resurgence now – the criticisms were not exactly on board. The day after currently holds a rotten 45% of criticisms mark on rotten tomatoeswith the public only slightly warmer to 50%. A critic called him “a ridiculous popcorn thriller filled with awkward dialogue”, which, honestly, seems to have helped his cult attraction with hindsight.

What does Dennis Quaid say on “The day after tomorrow”?

Quaid himself leaned in the genre show. Promote the film in 2004, he told CBS ‘ The first show“This film is the mother of all disaster films, really. It is every disaster film that you saw in one. I have been a big fan since I was a child, since Earthquake And Imposing inferno. “”

While some used the film as a political cake – in particular with regard to environmental policy at the time – Quaid insisted that it was not: “It aims in fact to be entertained,” he said. “It goes beyond politics.”

And it clearly does exactly that. In the current streaming cycle, The day after is again trendy, finding a new generation of viewers who, ironically, were not even born when Manhattan was struck by a tsunami on the big screen. It may be the growing relevance of climate anxiety. It is perhaps the charm of the disaster film “So-Bad-Ite’s-Good”. Or maybe Quaid was right from the start.

The day after is currently streaming on Hulu in the United States