Sunshine is a sci-fi space end of world - done by the same guys at 28 Days Later.
Well it has about a total of maybe two minutes of the apocalypse stuff. The rest is is spaceship thriller before it switches genres again. The spaceship thriller part is really good though.
I just watched "The Day After" and "Threads" a week go. Holy moly, you Cold War guys had to live with some dark stuff. I have had nightmares about that last scene in Threads for the past 3 days. I can't imagine living in a time when that whole "population revert to medieval levels" thing was a possibility.
Also "the divide" from 2010, after 1 viewing not sure what to think other than its gross, some very pervy stuff, and also WTF with some of the plot. Still its truly post apocolyptic, its newer and for most of us die hard fans of this genre we should watch it just to say we did.
the divide looks awesome, will definitely check it out sometime
I just watched "The Day After" and "Threads" a week go. Holy moly, you Cold War guys had to live with some dark stuff. I have had nightmares about that last scene in Threads for the past 3 days. I can't imagine living in a time when that whole "population revert to medieval levels" thing was a possibility.
While I didn't live during the Cuban Missile crisis which is considered to be the closest we came to a nuclear war, with nuclear war shots loaded and ready to use, we were educated that MAD was a umbrella that kept war at bay.
In a lot of ways when they talked about the reduction of nuclear arms under the treaties that the Russians and American's signed it had the fear that at some point it would make a nuclear war winnable.
You can understand why the Russians had a massive fear of RR's star wars initiative because it did the same thing, there was a very real fear that they could win a first strike if the thing ever worked.
We used to watch the nuclear clock and there were a few times when it was listed at 1 minute to midnight.
In the 50's it was perpetually at one minute to midnight for multiple years.
Right now the clock is set at its lowest point since the late 80's at about 5 minutes to midnight
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Actually I couldn't sleep last night (no surprise) and I watched the movie Carriers with Chris Pine.
It was about two brothers and their girlfriend fleeing from a pandemic that was basically exterminating all of humanity.
It was exceptionally well done, and very sad.
They encounter a little girl who is sick and her father who is desperate to got to a CDC station for a rumored cure.
Eventually they heartlessly abandon the father and the little girl in a town to die and you hear the little girl singing Itsy Bitsy spider through her mask as they watch the car drive off in the distance.
If you see it on T.V. I would really recommend it, it isn't a zombie apocalypse move, its a tragic survival movie where every main character slowly loses his or her humanity.
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Oh no no no. The Postman is every bit as bad (probably worse) than Waterworld. At least the concept for Waterworld was sort of decent, but The Postman was beyond brutal. Please do yourself a favor and avoid it like the plague; it's also quite long if I remember right.
Waterworld was a pretty cool overall concept, but the story was corny.
I do think it gets a bit of a bad rap. At the time, it was a huge flop based on the cost to make the film and how much it grossed. The budget was massive and the film itself was on the lower end of average in my opinion. Not as bad as people make it out to be if you don't consider the financial aspect, but it should have been so much better.
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Great thread! Watched The Road and Jericho on Netflix after recommendations in this thread. The Road was very well done, very dark movie. Polished off Jericho last night, really left me wanting more. Seems I'm not the only one either: Jericho Season 3
I'm guessing that fell through, no news since May/12. Too bad.
Thor, you recommended The Divide and now I'll never be the same. That was was the single most disturbing movie I've ever seen.
It was like an XXXXXXXXX rated version of Lord of the Flies, but in a post-apocalyptic, bottle setting.
Everyone, take my advice. Don't watch The Divide, unless you want to permanently ruin any innocence you think you don't have.
lol yeah, after the movie was over I was utterly stunned at the whole thing. I had no idea how to react to it, other then I felt dirty and a bit violated.
Actually I couldn't sleep last night (no surprise) and I watched the movie Carriers with Chris Pine.
It was about two brothers and their girlfriend fleeing from a pandemic that was basically exterminating all of humanity.
It was exceptionally well done, and very sad.
They encounter a little girl who is sick and her father who is desperate to got to a CDC station for a rumored cure.
Eventually they heartlessly abandon the father and the little girl in a town to die and you hear the little girl singing Itsy Bitsy spider through her mask as they watch the car drive off in the distance.
If you see it on T.V. I would really recommend it, it isn't a zombie apocalypse move, its a tragic survival movie where every main character slowly loses his or her humanity.
Just watched it last night, great movie. Thanks cap!
Now keep em coming, even if its foreign language I want to see it.
I just finished reading The Stand by Stephen King and discovered that there is a mini series based on it. Worth watching?
The TV one from the mid-90s?
It was pretty critically aclaimed when it came out. From what I remember, I was really excited the first few episodes, but then it trailed off a bit. It had great production (for its day) and cast for a television series.
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