Niklas Salmose’s paper “The Apocalyptic Sublime: Narrating Environmental Disaster” observes that the concept of the anthropocene has uprooted the traditional dichotomy between nature and culture, subject and object, and that it has also proven difficult to both understand the anthropocene and to represent it in narrative. While Hollywood spectacle adventure like The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and 2012 (2009) attempt to evoke what could be described as an apocalyptic sublime, this paper argues that the use of this apocalyptic sublime as a narrative technique diminishes the true anthropocene impact of the apocalyptic block-buster films to instead re-establish the American subject as one of individual agency.