Posted on 11/23/2012 7:29:56 PM PST by EveningStar
If some fringe theorists have their way, Earth has just over a month to live...
While rumors fly online about the Dec. 21 date, Mayan apocalypse believers are hardly the first to imagine the world ending. Here are some of the inventive and terrifying post-apocalyptic futures ever portrayed in literature and film...
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I always enjoyed “The Omega Man” with Charlton Heston.
Now I regret pinging you.
;D
Metro: 2033 is one of those moody Russian horror/survival shooters that came out in 2010. I picked up a copy for fro about $6, and it’s a very good deal for that. The theme is that after a devastating nuclear war in 2012, the last known groups of humanity are those who happened to be in the Moscow Metro system. A system that also doubled as one of the largest Cold War era bomb shelters.
It’s actually very, very well done. Some genuinely scary moments in it. Highly recommended, especially for the price. If THQ, the game developer company, survives its financial woes, they plan to release Metro: Last Light this March. I think I’ll buy it.
Hahahahahahaha...more depressing than The Piano or The Hours?
My brother and I both got shanghaied to see it, and later as we talked, I said "Man, when that woman gets dragged down by that piano at the end of the rope, I just wanted to pump my fist and say "Thank GOD!"
My brother said "Yeah! It was like in that movie The Hours when the woman committed suicide by drowning herself and bumped on down the stream, I wanted to jump out of my seat and go "YES!"
Heh, my other brother had even worse. He had to go see "Autumn in New York" with his wife!
/evil grin
I used to have dreams of being in my suburban neighborhood and looking at the sky with others watching a few contrails heading UP into the sky and wondering what they were. Then more heading UP. Then realized that they were our nuclear ballistic missiles heading out.
And then realizing that we only had a few more minutes before THEIRS started coming DOWN.
The dreams always ended before they did.
Although that may be wishful thinking. Our world looks like it will not end with a bang, but a whimper.
Remember that one woman who ran out into the ocean to save her children?
She stopped. You could see the desperation and realization in her body language, even at that distance. Even from behind.
And then she was no more.
Hahahaha..I gotta admit, the concept of having a telepathic, sarcastic, cynical dog whose job it was to smell out the disguised women in exchange for food was a unique and innovative concept!
Wow. Yes. I remember...if I recall, there was a perceptible sagging of her shoulders.
I never had those dreams. Thank God.
Yeah. Even now just thinking about it I have tears running down my face.
‘course it is pretty much how I feel about the election...
I found the movie “On The Beach (1959)” very depressing, to the point it gave me nightmares.
“I never had those dreams. Thank God.”
Yeah - your Tsunami one is soooooo much nicer! ;)
My one daughter has “zombie” dreams all the time now (she LOVES that show “The Walking Dead”). She even enjoys the dreams in some weird way and likes to talk about them in the morning. Strange girl.
I told her that the CDC has an official Zombie Preparation Website and her eyes got big (she’s 15). Then explained that no - they aren’t worried about zombies - just a way to “sell” being prepared.
The dog stole that show.
:)
They forgot Al Gores Undeniable Spoof. But then nobody really believes it.
LOL..a nuclear exchange is pushed pretty far down in my brain.
Funny...I never thought in a million years I would find the Zombie genre interesting, but I randomly stumbled on to “The Walking Dead” on Netflix and just watched all of em...:)
One of the alleged purposes of all the “everyone dies” nuclear war movies was to get the US to abandon civil defense measures, something that was very successful in retrospect...
Ok, thanks. I’ll check it out.
I thought “On the Beach” was surprisingly hopeful in the face of certain death.
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