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Saturday Evening Movie Thread: Miracle Mile [moviegique]
I posted my last thread (Poor Things) from my daughter's wedding reception, after which I immediately got on a plane to Florida to finish book three without distractions (almost done!) And I haven't seen a movie in three weeks!
The last movie I saw was "The Iron Claw" which is a fine drama. Some of you pointed out that it isn't very on-the-mark, to which I can only say, that's probably =why= it's a fine family film. Before that was "Anselm", Win Wenders 3D documentary-thing which is quite good. It plays a lot with the whole concept of narratives. At 90 minutes, it doesn't overstay its welcome and is refreshing and nice to look at. But I got to thinking about a bit I used to do on my blog before I split movies from random thoughts called "Manic Monday Apocalypso". Every so often I would look at a movie or TV show or current event in the light of The Apocalypse. It was kind of fun and/or horrifying because you realized people today DO live in post-apocalyptical scenarios, we just don't think of them that way. A review from 2009: "Miracle Mile:
Here's a kind of obscure movie that wasn't out long enough for me to see back in the '80s. It perfectly captures the Reagan-era atomic annihilation paranoia which, interestingly enough, seemed to peak at the end of the Cold War.
The press reveled in presenting Reagan as an amiable dunce with an itchy trigger finger which, curiously, never took effect. They and their Democratic masters called him the Teflon President. They tried to smear him and were frustrated by their failure. (It is hard to understand, really, the Press spoke with one voice back then that can scarcely be imagined now. But the economy was going gangbusters and that pretty much determines popular success or failure, I think.) This had two effects. One was, they perhaps bizarrely gave Reagan a kind of credibility with the Communists that scared them into bankrupting themselves. But the more obvious one was that they scared the bejeesus out of the West, giving rise to apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic narratives like at no other time in history. Possibly at a time when they were least like to happen. So let us look at this 1988—no, really, the wall would come down the next year—nuclear war film, which stars a bunch of TV luminaries, like Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Denise Crosby and Mykelti Williamson, as well as cult favorites O-lan Jones, John Agar and Jenette Goldstein, to say nothing of a cameo by actor/director Peter Berg.
The story goes that trombonist Harry (Edwards) and waitress Julie (Winningham) meet each other at the museum, but due to a stray cigarette and some sleepy pills, Anthony ends up missing a late-night date with her. This puts him at his date location at 4:00AM in the heart of the Miracle Mile district. While waiting outside Johnny's Diner, the phone rings, but it's not Julie, it's some guy in a nuclear silo trying to reach his dad. He's distraught because, apparently, he's been ordered to launch. Now, Anthony has about an hour and fifteen minutes to live, and he ends up trying to convince others in the coffee shop that it's for real, and they've got to get out of the city. But as they're in progress, he decides he has to get off—he has to go get Julie. So it's sort of a surreal love story.
Why the movie works (for me) is the surreality that attends this adventure. The love-at-first-sight-turning-to-boning-on-second-date. The bird that carts off the cigarette. The possums that fall from the tree. The transvestite. The 1988 cell phone. The cop covered in gasoline who shoots her gun. The old couple that refuses to talk to each other till the day they die. The helipad search for vitamins. The eerily lit all-night gym. The rioting. The elevator make-out. All in an area I had lived in for a couple of years. Not Miracle Mile—I didn't have that kind of money. But I knew Johnnies. (I didn't eat there; I was more a Norm's guy. But I'm pretty sure that they didn't have the Bob's Big Boy-style giant dude with twirling hamburgers.) The Fairfax district (where the museum is) still looks basically the same, and I visit the museum and other sights occasionally. So there's a little of the Volcano-type thing that appeals to me, too. Some people just think it's all stupid. I don't know: None of us really knows how we or anyone else would act in that circumstance. I think a little weirdness is in order, frankly. Some say this movie was originally meant to be part of "The Twilight Zone" movie which, I suppose, wouldn't have fit any better or worse than John Landis' entry, though Vic Morrow might still be alive. If there's a moral to this week's entry, it's that a lot of people, even into 1988, months before the wall came down, thought the end was nigh. In the next few years, nuclear apocalypse movies would take a big hit. (Even though an unstable Russia may have been far more dangerous than a decaying USSR.) Now, while people still worry about nuclear bombs, they worry a lot less about total nuclear annihilation. Which goes to show you that sometimes it really is darkest before the dawn.
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And here's my own treatment for an apocalyptic flick:
Manic Monday Apocalypso: The Star-Spangled BunkerA crazed squad of mujaheddin infiltrate nuclear silos over the world and start a nuclear holocaust. The shattered remnants of the world's societies struggle for survival, still fending off squadrons of fanatical muslims trying to bring about the End Times and the 12th Imam, and look like they're going down for good. America has a secret weapon, though: Operation Cheops. Hidden in an underground bunker and using ancient Egyptian technology, the Presidents of the United States have been preserved, only to be awoken in the event of America's collapse. Thrill! As Generals Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower gather the greatest army of survivors, pure-blooded and mutant under the command of George Washingon! Swoon! To the impassioned cries for liberty and unity from Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt! Gasp! At the secret ops conducted under the aegis of Richard M. Nixon and William Howard Taft! You'll be on the edge of your seat when John Adams resolves to put these Barbary Pirates down once and for all! Or you would be if this were a real movie and I weren't just making it up as I typed.
Let's talk about post-apocalypsos in the comments! Favorite movies? Characaters? Fashion choices? Rides?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Ciampino - pronounciations at February 03, 2024 07:30 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 07:31 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Ciampino - bioscope = movie = film at February 03, 2024 07:33 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 07:33 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Paco at February 03, 2024 07:35 PM (njExo)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2024 07:35 PM (fwDg9)
1988. Ronald Reagan was president in 1988. Hollywood didn't care much for RR at the time.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 07:36 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 03, 2024 07:41 PM (X9alN)
Very deep.
Posted by: RI Red at February 03, 2024 07:41 PM (cGD0I)
Doomed!
Terrorists have planted nasty bombs (nuclear, biological, whatever) and five locations around Atlanta, but they've given authorities an out.
There's a map tattooed on Stacey Abrams that pinpoint the bombs' locations. However, it will require a thorough search of her jiggly and folded acreage to find it. And time is running out!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2024 07:42 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Dave at February 03, 2024 07:42 PM (nLwaa)
Posted by: Ben Had
I kinda liked E3. Not sure I ever saw E2. The Sicilian village was great looking.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 07:43 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 03, 2024 07:44 PM (MeG8a)
If Trump was President we would be in 3 or 4 wars by now !!!!
We dodged a Depleted Uranium Bullet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 03, 2024 07:44 PM (15lwl)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2024 07:45 PM (fwDg9)
In "The White Pill" Michael Malice wrote that Reagan confessed he would not have ordered a nuclear counterstrike under any condition--and same with the Russian guy. (Either Gorbachev or the PM.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 07:45 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 03, 2024 07:46 PM (X9alN)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 03, 2024 07:44 PM (MeG8a)
If I recall, Reagan was still registered as a Democrat at the time.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 07:47 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 07:47 PM (qpLSv)
Doomed!
Terrorists have planted nasty bombs (nuclear, biological, whatever) and five locations around Atlanta, but they've given authorities an out.
There's a map tattooed on Stacey Abrams that pinpoint the bombs' locations. However, it will require a thorough search of her jiggly and folded acreage to find it. And time is running out!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2024 07:42 PM (xG4kz)
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There's a way out, discovered in the nick of time. SA has been sitting on that couch for ever and the map has copied itself to the fabric of the couch. The hero sees it when Stacey uncovers it by leaning forwards to snatch another jelly donut.
Posted by: Ciampino - bioscope = movie at February 03, 2024 07:47 PM (qfLjt)
E2 was better than E1, as I recall. I have not seen E3.
Speaking of "The Equalizer", I watched "Breaker Morant" for the first time is a very long time about a month ago. Great drama and acting by the principals playing the three defendants and the actor who played their defense attorney.
The execution of Morant and Handcock was breathtakingly violent, but kept to the spirit of the film. The taunts of the soon-to-be executed prisoners were spot on.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2024 07:49 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Ben Had
I usually pick up on twists like that but totally missed it in this one. But at the end when they tie it together with the photo it was great.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 07:49 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 07:49 PM (8T+Dq)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 03, 2024 07:50 PM (as3uC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 07:50 PM (rfv9/)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2024 07:51 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I thought it was great until the very end when the producers made clear the King James Bible was just one of many other religious texts. Other than that, I love that movie. Fen, have you seen Nefarious?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 07:51 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 07:53 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 07:53 PM (rj6Yv)
I rewatched it recently. Stark and spare but very good.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 03, 2024 07:54 PM (MeG8a)
Wow, that's a wormy as you can get.
|| Saw Miracle Mile back in the day. Remember it as a pretty good film with a Repoman vibe.
There was some real energy in the low-budget indies during the VCR boom. A lot of the movies weren't great, but they were =something=.
|| A couple of years later Wim Wenders came out with Until the End of the World,
I actually haven't seen that. I realize at this late date (watching "Anselm") that "Wings of Desire" is the only other movie of his I've seen.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 07:54 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: DaveA at February 03, 2024 07:54 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 07:49 PM (8T+Dq)
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I have seen this, confirmed by my kids, but I have no recollection of the plot. I do remember that it was a very good film.
Posted by: Ciampino - bioscope = film at February 03, 2024 07:55 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 07:55 PM (rj6Yv)
It makes The Seventh Seal sound like a rom-com. It makes Enemy at the Gates seem to have a point.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2024 07:56 PM (D7oie)
Night of the Comet, 1984
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2024 07:56 PM (fwDg9)
I did a whole bunch of Apocalyptic movie/TV reviews back in the day.
There've probably been some good ones in the past 15 years that I've missed.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 07:57 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: things that make you go hmm at February 03, 2024 07:57 PM (ZnrCl)
Posted by: Kindltot
I watched it about two weeks ago. I'm still trying to make up my mind if I liked it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 07:57 PM (qpLSv)
I guess I missed that part of the movie. I mean it went over my head. I just thought Eli's devotion to it and his memorization of the KJV was commendable so it was a knightly quest as well as a post apocalyptic landscape I have not seen "Nefarious" Please tell me about it
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 07:57 PM (8T+Dq)
minus color's G is even scarier.
The lumbering slow walk and then tail whip!!
Posted by: DaveA at February 03, 2024 07:58 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: things that make you go hmm
In Book of Eli, there was a little old couple that were cannibals.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 07:59 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 03, 2024 08:00 PM (QwWES)
Posted by: Blutarski
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From a Harlan Ellison novella.
"She asked me if I knew what love is. I know what love is. A boy loves his dog."
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 03, 2024 08:00 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 07:53 PM (rj6Yv)
Reagan saw it first. On October 10, 1983 at Camp David. Per his diaries.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:00 PM (9isyS)
Very good example of what I'm talking about.
It's not a great movie. It may not even be a good movie, depending on how you want to define it.
But I watched it the other day and it was really enjoyable. Who puts a dress-up montage in a post-apocalyptic movie? Thom Eberhart, that's who.
Also, Kelli Maroney was super-sweet to me at the Drive-In Mutant Jamboree Convention in Memphis.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:00 PM (k4dou)
An apocalyptic B-movie in NYC or other big city and I believe Max Von Sydow was in it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 03, 2024 08:00 PM (2fIO4)
Posted by: DaveA at February 03, 2024 08:01 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2024 08:02 PM (63Dwl)
Assorted canned goods.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:02 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: things that make you go hmm at February 03, 2024 07:57 PM (ZnrCl)
In "Mad Max 2", Max was eating canned dog food.
Dinki Di Meat & Vegies. One "g". In case of lawsuits.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2024 08:02 PM (R/m4+)
I have the soundtrack. Some great tracks on it. Like Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “I’ll love you til the end of the world”. Which is almost as weird as the movie although probably easier to follow.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2024 08:02 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: things that make you go hmm at February 03, 2024 08:02 PM (ZnrCl)
Posted by: Pierce Thotbottom at February 03, 2024 08:03 PM (VK0q7)
1988. Ronald Reagan was president in 1988. Hollywood didn't care much for RR at the time.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 07:36 PM (rj6Yv)
The Soviet Union was collapsing and no one knew if they would go out quietly or try one last war to get the peoples behind them. The rebellion in Estonia had Russian tank units and KGB units rallying to break it, and in England they had a "credible rumor" that the IRA had gotten chemical weapons from the Russians to use.
If I understand it the reason the East German wall came down was because one of the German Politiburo guys misspoke as to whether exit visas were going to be neded to cross the border, and the commander of the guards on the wall decided he didn't want to shoot a lot of East Germans who were protesting after running off to get drunk in west Germany.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2024 08:03 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:03 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 03, 2024 08:04 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Maybe the other religious texts just stuck in my craw and I'm all wet about it.
But I think you'd find satisfaction with Nefarious: A fancy psychiatrist is called to an Oklahoma penitentiary to assess whether a man scheduled for execution is insane or faking. Turns out he's possessed by a demon who turns the psych's world upside down. I'm surprised how much I liked it and how much it shook me up. A lot of explanation for free will from the demon's point of view.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 08:04 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 03, 2024 08:04 PM (VK0q7)
Recently watched Once, Begin Again, Lucky Them and Going the Distance.
Going the Distance was really good but the theme was just ancillary . It was a very funny romcom.
Once was very good about a struggling musician.
Begin Again was by the same guy who did Once but it was girl woke.
Lucky Them was also not all that music themed like I thought it would be but again very interesting and I liked it. Might not be everyone’s cup of tea though.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:04 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Jamaica at February 03, 2024 08:04 PM (Eeb9P)
Post-apocalypse? I kinda like the Mad Max movies for that (the first 3; I'll skip Fury Roiad).
Events Leading Up To the Apocalypse? Dr. Strangelove. Fail-Safe. Day the Earth Caught Fire.
Absolutely Ridiculous Spew Beer Out Your Nose On The Screen Apocalypse Movie? Crack in the World.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 08:05 PM (a/4+U)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:05 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 08:06 PM (rfv9/)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 03, 2024 08:06 PM (2fIO4)
Yes. One of the greatest stories in human history.
East Germans had gone over the border for the night, and they weren't going to be allowed back in. They had children, families, their whole lives.
A giant, fortified wall, brought down by the mere idea that it wasn't as permanent as had previously been stated.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:06 PM (k4dou)
Thanks. It sounds very interesting.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 08:07 PM (8T+Dq)
I want my apocalypse now!
Posted by: Jamaica
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Tom Petty played himself in the post-apocalypse "The Postman."
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 03, 2024 08:07 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: things that make you go hmm at February 03, 2024 08:07 PM (ZnrCl)
Classic MST3K.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!)
MST3K has a lot of apocalypse movies: Robot Monster, Teenage Caveman, City Limits.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 08:07 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 03, 2024 08:07 PM (QwWES)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:08 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2024 08:03 PM (D7oie)
The regulations were to take effect the next day. Gunter Schabowski said, however, at a press conference, when he read out the double speak regulation, that it would take effect “sofort” (immediately). The Western media began broadcasting it as if the Wall had come down. The reaction wasn’t immediate, but eventually enough people started jamming the border crossings to cause a commotion. The border guards didn’t know what the hell was going on, until finally the order was given to allow the people to pass through. I recommend Frederick Taylor’s book on the Berlin Wall.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:08 PM (9isyS)
Classic MST3K.
Posted by: moviegique
Speaking of which...
City Limits
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088925
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2024 08:09 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
It's on Prime if you have that. No swearing or blood. Just horror of where we are.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 08:09 PM (qpLSv)
It starred Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson.
I think Robert Pattinson should have gotten an acting award . I take back all the bad things I said about him because of the Twilight movies.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:09 PM (MNhXM)
I love the concept of someone making a Wim Wenders film more marketable.
Wait...287 minutes? Oy.
|| How about When Worlds Collide?
Actually one of my favorites. I saw it on a double-bill with "War of the Worlds" (also apocalyptic) and preferred it (at the time).
The book is excellent. The sequel, intriguingly, is awful because it's mired down in pre-WWII politics.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:10 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:11 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 08:11 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 03, 2024 08:12 PM (VK0q7)
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Never saw the Twilight flicks, but in the last few years Pattinson has become one of my favorite actors. Loved him in "The Batman" and "Tenet".
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 03, 2024 08:12 PM (5YmYl)
There is a lot of post apocalyptic science fiction that praises the abundance of food and lodging after 90+% of the world has died. Really treats it as if it’s a good thing that the population has been drastically reduced.
Margaret St. Clair‘s Sign of the Labrys comes to mind.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2024 08:12 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2024 08:13 PM (fwDg9)
My understanding was that the regulations were to take effect -- at some future unspecified time.
The Soviets were pushing the whole glasnost thing but the East Germans were hard-liners compared to them. They loved their little police state and were not planning to open up even a little!
So, as a sop, they told the guy it was "maybe coming some time in the future" and he was never supposed to even address it. But he got muddled and read it out loud.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:13 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 03, 2024 08:13 PM (X9alN)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 03, 2024 08:13 PM (81pQp)
There's a map tattooed on Stacey Abrams that pinpoint the bombs' locations. However, it will require a thorough search of her jiggly and folded acreage to find it. And time is running out!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2024 07:42 PM (xG4kz)
We'll have to split up. OK, Shaggy, you and Scooby use the flashlight and do a slow, thorough search of Stacy Abrams skin. Daphne, Velma, and I will search in the back of the van.
Posted by: Fred at February 03, 2024 08:13 PM (z+89e)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 08:14 PM (a/4+U)
you see (what I think are) weird incidental homages to it so many places; the THX sound system is one, I seem to remember a flash of it in a Pinky & the Brain episode, there are more ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 03, 2024 08:14 PM (QwWES)
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Well, technically, "The Terminator" is a PRE-apocalyptic movie.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 03, 2024 08:14 PM (5YmYl)
Won the Oscar, I believe, for foreign language film.
Because the Academy was going, "See, this is Bush!"
In case the under almost-29 crowd thought Republican Derangement Syndrome was a new thing.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:14 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: things that make you go hmm at February 03, 2024 08:07 PM (ZnrCl)
I saw a short film one time that most canned goods, if properly canned and stored away from heat, will last a good 30 years, give or take. Taste can be affected by the metal a bit, but otherwise good to go. Bulging, smell and off color and all three are what to look for.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2024 08:14 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 03, 2024 08:15 PM (z+89e)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:15 PM (9isyS)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
You're talking about Furry Road, aren't you?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 08:16 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 03, 2024 08:17 PM (4p0Xq)
Well. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure I want to watch a movie right now about how horrifying everything is. I can get that from real life. I probably need something more uplifting. It does sound like a powerful film however but I'd have to get Prime.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 08:17 PM (8T+Dq)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 08:17 PM (a/4+U)
Heaven forbid a bunch of English kids could be... oh... damn... WHITE.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 03, 2024 08:18 PM (xaFKb)
Episode one with subtitles
https://youtu.be/1wtGLc_Fvf0?si=K_eNln50MwE8Ek4Y
Trailer for the movie - without English subtitles
https://youtu.be/eaHYgSCgUnw?si=B1z9jYNFDXPtJnZe
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2024 08:18 PM (D7oie)
The Soviets were pushing the whole glasnost thing but the East Germans were hard-liners compared to them. They loved their little police state and were not planning to open up even a little!
So, as a sop, they told the guy it was "maybe coming some time in the future" and he was never supposed to even address it. But he got muddled and read it out loud.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:13 PM (k4dou)
Again, I heartily recommend Frederick Taylor’s “Berlin Wall: A World Divided 1961-1989.” Among other things, it has the actual travel regulations printed on one page. And he explains that press conference in excruciating detail. If anyone wants to read about the division of Berlin or if you have an interest in that time, I cannot recommend that book enough.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:18 PM (9isyS)
Maybe the band was playing songs he didn't like.😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 08:20 PM (8T+Dq)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars
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Follow the seams.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 03, 2024 08:20 PM (PGosw)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 03, 2024 08:20 PM (QwWES)
Subsidies from the hair coloring/gel salvage teams.
Posted by: DaveA at February 03, 2024 08:20 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 03, 2024 08:20 PM (5YmYl)
I finally got around to watching the Vincent Price version of Omega Man, Last Man on Earth. Sometime in April or May 2020. Very strange watching it then, because unlike the Heston film most of it takes place before the post-apocalypse, while the plague is coming in from China (or wherever) and everyone is panicking.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2024 08:20 PM (EXyHK)
Won the Oscar, I believe, for foreign language film.
Because the Academy was going, "See, this is Bush!"
In case the under almost-29 crowd thought Republican Derangement Syndrome was a new thing.
Posted by: moviegique
The Academy is closer to the East German belief system than Bush ever was.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:20 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2024 08:21 PM (sNc8Y)
I can't imagine much of anyone wanting to see this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 08:21 PM (8T+Dq)
A documentary on him worth a look.
http://tinyurl.com/2cu6xazd
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:21 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
You're talking about Furry Road, aren't you?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 08:16 PM (qpLSv)
Never heard of it. : o )
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:22 PM (9isyS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2024 08:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 08:22 PM (8T+Dq)
I loved Omega Man when I was a kid. Maybe it holds up, I dunno…
But as part of the Charlton Heston apocalypse trio (Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green) the other two, it was my fave.
I recently rewatched original Rollerball. Not apocalyptic as much as dystopian, but I was surprised at how well it held up.
Posted by: MarkW at February 03, 2024 08:22 PM (bvk2q)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2024 08:23 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: things that make you go hmm at February 03, 2024 07:57
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They saved seeds, they have bountiful fruit and nut harvests from their hydroponic gardens. The sheep in the pasture give wool and the cows give milk.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 03, 2024 08:23 PM (PGosw)
Brilliant.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:23 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Goldsmith at February 03, 2024 08:24 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Goldsmith
James Coburn will have none of that!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 08:24 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:25 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2024 08:25 PM (63Dwl)
Why sleep in the bathtub when you can build a zombie proof room. Why go out under armed?
Opening with him hunting big game with an M4 took me right out.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:25 PM (MNhXM)
That was it. IIRC, there wasn't actually an apocalypse but his parents took him into the shelter because they thought there was about to be one. Good premise.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2024 08:25 PM (sNc8Y)
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I mean, I literally pushed a button on a screen, but I guess I'm a monster.
||What was the one with Brendan Fraser where he's a guy who's lived his whole life in a fallout bunker and then comes out as an adult?
"Blast from the Past" -- underrated, and raises the question: ARE we living in a post-apocalyptic nightmare?
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:26 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 08:17 PM
The salmon mousse....
Posted by: A Mr. Death, here about the reaping at February 03, 2024 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)
On the Beach
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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It looks good in the movies but unless you like grit don't try it.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 03, 2024 08:26 PM (PGosw)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 08:26 PM (rj6Yv)
It helps that James Caan was one of the coolest actors ever. It is a damn good movie though and it does hold up.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:27 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:20 PM (v9vY1)
So is our media. There are old broadcasts of Aktuelle Kamera on YouTube. That was the East German news broadcast. The key I got from watching them was not that they necessarily changed anything, but that they left so much about what was going on on the world completely out. They simply ignored much of what was actually happening.
Much as our media does today. (Have you been hearing about the farmer’s protests going on in Europe, for instance?)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:27 PM (9isyS)
The is no reason any of the Sandman/Runner thing exists at all.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 03, 2024 08:28 PM (z+89e)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 03, 2024 08:15 PM
Some fashions are just timeless.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 03, 2024 08:28 PM (Wnv9h)
Think I saw that documentary on him a while back.
When I was a kid some of the books on space in and beyond the solar system had Bonestell paintings for illustrations. Shortly after Sputnik went up, there was a series of bubble-gum cards devoted to outer space and a lot of 'em were from Bonestell's work. Quite a few Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction covers too, I think. To this day, my mental picture of what things look like out there is drawn from Bonestell and not the actual photos being sent back by spacecraft.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 08:28 PM (a/4+U)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 03, 2024 08:29 PM (CHHv1)
Brilliant.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:23 PM (v9vY1)
The Berlin Wall will be standing in 50 or 100 years.
Posted by: Erich Honecker, January 1989 at February 03, 2024 08:29 PM (9isyS)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:27 PM (9isyS)
Was that your column that I read this morning?
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 08:30 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:31 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:27 PM (v9vY1)
Concur. I thought he was great in "The Killer Elite" among his other roles.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2024 08:33 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 03, 2024 08:33 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:27 PM --------------
Like; What happened to that war between Venezuela and Guyana?
Posted by: Braenyard at February 03, 2024 08:33 PM (PGosw)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:33 PM (9isyS)
Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2024 08:33 PM (NxC5+)
Nah; You'd only be a monster if you had instructed the DJ or band to turn on some multi colored strobe lights and you danced by yourself in some even more awful rendition of John Travolta in " Saturday Night Fever."
Congratulation to your daughter and her husband and God bless them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 08:33 PM (8T+Dq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 08:34 PM (rfv9/)
Old people are ugly.
|| This is the film that has his "93 degrees" speech.
Turns up in one of his "October Country" stories.
There wasn't a lot of A/C in Los Angeles back then. =P
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:34 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Erich Honecker, January 1989 at February 03, 2024 08:29 PM (9isyS)
LOL. The beginning of the End started with the moment a Polish pope returned to his homeland. The Soviets tried to kill him for that.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 08:34 PM (rj6Yv)
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Posted by: Braenyard at February 03, 2024 08:35 PM (PGosw)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 03, 2024 08:14 PM (5YmYl)
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Terminator: Salvation would be the post-apocalyptic movie in the franchise, I suppose.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2024 08:35 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: pawn at February 03, 2024 08:35 PM (QB+5g)
Well, shit.
|| Congratulation to your daughter and her husband and God bless them.
Thanks! I should wish them a Happy Third Anniversary!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:35 PM (k4dou)
He was good as the bad guy in Flesh and Blood.
Meg Ryan at her cutest.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:35 PM (MNhXM)
Bonestell also did a lot of future stuff Disney tv show.
Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2024 08:36 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Tuna at February 03, 2024 08:36 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2024 08:36 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:36 PM (9isyS)
Yes, I stumbled across my review for that in my research. I can never remember which of the sequels I've seen. I have that problem with Resident Evil, too.
Move Title: Random Cool Sounding Word
It just doesn't stick in the old cranium.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:37 PM (k4dou)
It's been three years. Time flies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2024 08:38 PM (8T+Dq)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2024 08:36 PM (fwDg9)
I know, right?
https://www.scifibabes.co.uk/1970s.html
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:38 PM (9isyS)
The is no reason any of the Sandman/Runner thing exists at all.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 03, 2024 08:28 PM (z+89e)
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A lot of dystopian stories tend to fall apart when examined closely.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2024 08:39 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2024 08:41 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: thing that make you go hmm at February 03, 2024 08:41 PM (ZnrCl)
Meg Ryan at her cutest.
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Except that wasn't Caan & Ryan, it was Hauer & Jennifer Jason-Leigh.
Then I realized you meant "Flesh and Bone".
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:41 PM (k4dou)
Move Title: Random Cool Sounding Word
It just doesn't stick in the old cranium.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:37 PM (k4dou)
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Resident Evil is another franchise where the dystopian world doesn't make sense. How does the Umbrella Corporation still have nigh-infinite resources when the rest of world is dust and ash? (And zombies?). I mainly watch those movies just to see how bad they are. (they are terrible for the most part)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2024 08:41 PM (BpYfr)
How could I not know an actor with a porn name in legit movies?
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:42 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
Loved the opening with BOC, Don't Fear the Reaper playing in the background.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:43 PM (v9vY1)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:41 PM (k4do
Thanks for the correction . And by the way , Flesh and Blood has a high rotten tomatoes rating but I really disliked it.
Flesh and Bone not very high rating and I liked it.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:44 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 08:45 PM (X0I7i)
Well, okay, it should be their third hebdomadariversary, and since the groom is a Latin teacher, I'll give that a try.
|| A lot of dystopian stories tend to fall apart when examined closely.
Virtually all, as do virtually all post-apocalyptic stories.
What irritated me about "The Road" as I read it was: This is no more accurate than "Damnation Alley" and literally anti-fun to read.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:45 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 03, 2024 08:43 PM (v9vY1)
YES!!!
Part 2 opened with Crowded House “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” Genius music selections.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:45 PM (9isyS)
The Rover is good because it follows what probably would occur.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:46 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 08:46 PM (rfv9/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 08:46 PM (rfv9/)
Hah . You had to do that on purpose. That was Flesh and Blood
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:47 PM (MNhXM)
Utter gibberish. That franchise may trump "Friday the 13th" for least coherent. (Every F13 movie invalidates the last one, and must be written and directed by people who did not watch any of the previous entries.)
How does the Umbrella Corp do its staffing? one wonders. What, now that the world is destroyed, is their motivation for anything? Why are they still making bioweapons when everyone is already dead?
Milla's cute, tho'.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:48 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 08:49 PM (9isyS)
Flesh + Blood was Verhoeven's first English language/Hollywood film I believe. It's very Verhoeven and has the sort-of confused/murky morality that is, I think, his hallmark. ("Robocop", "Starship Troopers", "Black Book", etc.)
It's fine to not like it. It's weird and discomfiting.
|| The Rover is good because it follows what probably would occur.
I'LL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT! (Probably, some day.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:52 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2024 08:21 PM (sNc8Y)
Blast From The Past. I have the DVD.
Pretty much portrays the paranoia I grew up with throughout the 50's. The day of the Cuban missile crisis, I was in the 8th grade. None of us kids were sure we'd see our parents again. As the deadline approached, the teachers were all in the hallways talking to each other, scare as we were. Being about 20 miles (as the crow flies) from NY city, we knew we'd be in the blast range.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 08:52 PM (iODuv)
Anyone?
Posted by: pawn at February 03, 2024 08:54 PM (QB+5g)
"Breaker Morant" is one of the best war movies, ever. The direction and acting are excellent, and the script is outstanding. It was one of the first features by the Australian director Bruce Beresford, who later won the Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy". His film "Blackrobe", which is set in 18th-century Canada, is harrowing but riveting.
As for recent movies, the last I saw in a theater was "Godzilla Minus One", which I really liked. It's a kaiju movie, but at its hear it's also a war movie: like "Breaker Morant", it's about what war does to people, both combatants and civilians. Highly recommended.
Posted by: Nemo at February 03, 2024 08:55 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 08:57 PM (a/4+U)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 07:53 PM (qpLSv)
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Is this the Eloi/Morlocks (my very small younger daughter called them Doorlocks) modernized edition and minus the time machine? I have read the book but not seen the film. Is it true to the novelette?
Posted by: Ciampino - Love good SF, no fantasy or magic at February 03, 2024 08:58 PM (qfLjt)
https://youtu.be/CeHf7UhHpmE
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 03, 2024 08:58 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Nemo at February 03, 2024 08:55 PM (S6ArX)
Terrific movie! Saw it twice, in fact. What struck me was the audience remained in their seats during the credit roll, even though the credits were in Japanese. It was, as if, everyone was trying to absorb what they had just seen. Going to get the Blu Ray for sure.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 08:58 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 03, 2024 08:58 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 08:57 PM (a/4+U)
Situated between NYC and DC, we knew we were screwed.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 08:59 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 03, 2024 08:59 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 09:00 PM (9isyS)
Posted by: Wenda at February 03, 2024 09:00 PM (wJ0Sm)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 09:00 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 09:01 PM (iODuv)
>Gigantic line of methamphetamine *snorts*
Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 03, 2024 09:02 PM (EEgXH)
https://youtu.be/BvFu7Z5cc88?si=KSwxqlkZxlDyIugL
Threads in High Def
You're welcome horde.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:04 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 09:05 PM (rfv9/)
================Pretty much portrays the paranoia I grew up with throughout the 50's. The day of the Cuban missile crisis, I was in the 8th grade. None of us kids were sure we'd see our parents again. As the deadline approached, the teachers were all in the hallways talking to each other, scare as we were. Being about 20 miles (as the crow flies) from NY city, we knew we'd be in the blast range.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 08:52 PM (iODuv)
My mother, who just turned 75, recounts a similar experience as a kid. She grew up in Port Arthur, Texas, right near the refineries. If the Soviets attacked that entire area would put a biblical apocalypse to shame. Anyway, she says that period was absolutely terrifying.
Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2024 09:06 PM (Z5FYL)
He was in the first Top Gun as Maverick's bestie. Also, was the lead actor on the series "ER"
Posted by: Tuna at February 03, 2024 09:06 PM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Snake Plissken at February 03, 2024 09:07 PM (EEgXH)
Posted by: Tuna at February 03, 2024 09:06 PM (oaGWv)
And he was a Nerd!! NERD!!
Posted by: Ogre at February 03, 2024 09:07 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 09:07 PM (rj6Yv)
Threads in High Def
You're welcome horde.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:04 PM (X0I7i)
Thanks. I was just ready to pull the tape from my collection and watch it. The movie is done in typical British style. Nearly documentary. Still packs a wallop.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 09:08 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2024 09:08 PM (NxC5+)
No Blade of Grass - 1970
An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066154
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2024 09:08 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2024 09:06 PM (Z5FYL)
Port Arthur, huh?
Posted by: San Antonio at February 03, 2024 09:08 PM (9isyS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 09:08 PM (rfv9/)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 08:26 PM (rj6Yv)
I don’t if you would check out YouTube they have several, one about his early life and the other when he was Pope. they look like TV movies, and I think Poland did a movie.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at February 03, 2024 09:08 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2024 09:06 PM (Z5FYL)
Twenty miles from Detroit for me. Back when Detroit deserved to be in the Top Five list.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 09:09 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 08:26 PM (k4dou)
From the evidence shown on Shorpy.com, the answer is "yes"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2024 09:10 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Robert
I grew up in Midland/Odessa. The word was if it came to it the Ruskies had targeted the petrochemical complexes in the area. I had nightmares of falling nuclear weapons. Vividly.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 03, 2024 09:11 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 09:01 PM (iODuv)
Always have a 3 year supply of food and tell no one!!
Pretend you are working for food like everyone else.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:11 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 09:12 PM (9isyS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 09:08 PM (rfv9/)
The beginning is good but it turned absurd.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:12 PM (MNhXM)
It and The Day After are both comedies, and "The 8th Day" is retarded.
Essentially post-apocalyptic fiction errs invariably either by overstating the impact via "muh nihilism" or pretending it is nihilistic and showing survival in situations that would preclude it.
Mankind would go on, people within 36 miles of a flash would probably not.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:13 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 09:14 PM (9isyS)
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:14 PM (MNhXM)
Essentially post-apocalyptic fiction errs invariably either by overstating the impact via "muh nihilism" or pretending it is nihilistic and showing survival in situations that would preclude it.
Mankind would go on, people within 36 miles of a flash would probably not.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:13 PM (X0I7i)
How old are you?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 09:15 PM (iODuv)
They will die, too, and they will spend eternity in Hell.
Anyway, The Last Day was touching, and had people acting in vile and noble ways as the sun burns the world.
Will try the find Miracle Mile. Revelations is a hit for a reason.
Posted by: Jimmy McNulty at February 03, 2024 09:15 PM (BJgzI)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 03, 2024 09:15 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at February 03, 2024 09:16 PM (dKiJG)
Not sure you could get away with it even if you were cautious. "Hey, how come that guy looks like he's eating a little better than we are? Let's follow him..."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 09:17 PM (a/4+U)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 09:14 PM (9isyS)
ACME?
Posted by: The Coyote at February 03, 2024 09:17 PM (bo7UB)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto
The next son of a bitch that says he thought I was dead I'm gonna shoot.
Posted by: Big Jake McCandles at February 03, 2024 09:17 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2024 09:17 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: San Antonio
I grew up 2 miles from Randolph AFB, the home of Air Training Command and Military Personnel Command. Then Lackland, Kelly and Ft. Sam Houston all strategically important and all within blast radius. I don't recall actual anxiety about it but it was pretty much assumed that when the first nuke flew it was KYAGB time.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2024 09:18 PM (sNc8Y)
Not for me when I was in third grade and my parents were helpfully explaining everything happening.
Last year I kicked around an idea for my history class: show the class the scene from Dr. Strangelove where Slim Pickens jumps on the bomb. Tell the class “that’s what you grandparents grew up with; this is what your parents grew up with” then show them the bombing scene from The Day After.
Then I realized I’d have to watch that five times in a day. I quickly abandoned the idea.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 09:19 PM (9isyS)
Pretend you are working for food like everyone else.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:11 PM (MNhXM)
spread out your purchases both by stores and in time.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2024 09:19 PM (D7oie)
51, I spent the entirety of the cold war I could at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
I read up on it, if the flash hit and I was visiting Troy to see mom's people depending on the prevailing winds and whether or not they targeted the tank plant up in Lima earnestly I would live.
Otherwise with good dice, and not being in Wright State's tunnels I would probably be dead within 96 hours tops.
If I was visiting my best friend who lived within spitting distance of the airfield I would be vaporized.
Why do you ask?
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:19 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 07:33 PM (rj6Yv)
... starring Apocalypse Elton John!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 03, 2024 09:20 PM (llON8)
They are like that can of freeze dried food that has reached its 25 year recommended shelf life. Still probably okay but you will only find out if you use it.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:20 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 09:20 PM (rfv9/)
I got in trouble in the 6th grade for laughing out loud at the doctor surviving in the Day After.
Was sent to the office, the hard ass principal was going to tear into me until I explained my reasoning....he had me read Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic and write a report on one story from each instead of paddling me.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:22 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: ACME Munitions Corp. at February 03, 2024 09:22 PM (bo7UB)
Posted by: Snake Plissken at February 03, 2024 09:22 PM (EEgXH)
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:23 PM (MNhXM)
I read up on it, if the flash hit and I was visiting Troy to see mom's people depending on the prevailing winds and whether or not they targeted the tank plant up in Lima earnestly I would live.
Otherwise with good dice, and not being in Wright State's tunnels I would probably be dead within 96 hours tops.
If I was visiting my best friend who lived within spitting distance of the airfield I would be vaporized.
Why do you ask?
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:19 PM (X0I7i)
LOL. We grew up in the same part of Ohio at the same time. I lived in Kettering and near Centerville. Visited the AF Museum several times.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2024 09:23 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2024 09:23 PM (rfv9/)
https://youtu.be/UjeJyqhOhew?si=KTpjwDolUgiSWZf1
Miracle Mile- LA gets hotter
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:24 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2024 09:25 PM (D7oie)
It starred Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson.
I think Robert Pattinson should have gotten an acting award . I take back all the bad things I said about him because of the Twilight movies.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 08:09 PM (MNhXM)
Pattinson is underrated indeed. He stole Tenet from John David Washington - and I liked Washington in that movie. Haven't seen The Batman, however.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 03, 2024 09:25 PM (BJd6+)
Studies show that even the worst fallout is down to a safe level after two weeks.
Also, the Russkies talked big, but frankly, I think they were short of know how. I mean, you just couldn't expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a nuclear device like some of our boys did.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2024 09:26 PM (R/m4+)
I read up on it, if the flash hit and I was visiting Troy to see mom's people depending on the prevailing winds and whether or not they targeted the tank plant up in Lima earnestly I would live.
Otherwise with good dice, and not being in Wright State's tunnels I would probably be dead within 96 hours tops.
If I was visiting my best friend who lived within spitting distance of the airfield I would be vaporized.
Why do you ask?
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:19 PM (X0I7i)
Just asking. Figured you weren't very young. I turn 77 in June. Grew up about 8 miles from the Nike missile base in Old Bridge NJ. By the time the Cuban Missile crisis reared its head, we kids were in full "paranoia mode". My time in the service, Army (drafted 1967) was spent in the Signal Corp. My electronics background kept me stateside.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 09:27 PM (iODuv)
If it is any consolation my "beloved" Skyhawks were jobbing to the Western Ohio League with aplomb.
School did a lot better prior to unifying when the Flyers taught the Vikings how to get high enough to be skyhawks...
I miss home, wife and I plan to move there to die at some point in the near future....we have been on the road too long.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:27 PM (X0I7i)
Anthony Edwards, heartthrob of "E.R.", co-star of "Top Gun".
And he's not meant to be an action hero.
But he's had a career.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 09:28 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:28 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Gen. Buck Turgidson at February 03, 2024 09:28 PM (qpLSv)
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And just think what it would do to climate change!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 03, 2024 09:29 PM (FVME7)
It's all good, words cannot express the mad respect I have for the people who manned the force during the cold war.
I read a lot, and my home life was bad enough I wargamed threats as second nature.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:29 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 09:29 PM (a/4+U)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2024 09:30 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2024 09:25 PM (D7oie)
I liked it a lot. Fun movie.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:31 PM (MNhXM)
It is the difference in artillery doctrine writ large frankly.
The United States understood artillery like no other force on the planet in WW2, time on target was a wonderful thing.
Ivan not being sophisticated in fire control or targeting just had more tubes than God and would blow the unholy hell out of wherever the shells landed.
Same thing roughly with nukes.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:31 PM (X0I7i)
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 03, 2024 09:31 PM (FVME7)
The is no reason any of the Sandman/Runner thing exists at all.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 03, 2024 08:28 PM (z+89e)
Why don't you Trust The EXPERTS! who designed this perfect society?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 03, 2024 09:31 PM (llON8)
Why does the leather studded clothing industry always survive the apocalypse?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here
It is a necessary adjunct to the manufacturers of gimp suits, that's why.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2024 09:32 PM (xG4kz)
I actually knew some of the bit characters and extras (younger, good-looking kids working as waiter and trying to make it big in L.A.) -- we were going to school together to learn how to fly helicopters (Robinson R-22s) out of the Long Beach airport.
[And I think that the The Star-Spangled Bunker concept would be a fun one! Especially if the first thing they all did was knife-to-death Clinton, Obama, and Biden a la Caesar ...]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 03, 2024 09:33 PM (WlJra)
Had work mate who was an Air Force brat. He said his dad was already in the air when the Russians backed down. He remembers feeling that he was never going to see him again.
Posted by: Tuna at February 03, 2024 09:33 PM (oaGWv)
The is no reason any of the Sandman/Runner thing exists at all.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 03, 2024 08:28 PM (z+89e
Reminded me of Children of Men. Can’t decide whether I liked that one. That’s a 50/50 movie for me
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:34 PM (MNhXM)
MiladyJo and I quite consciously rejected the fear-mongering and put our faith in God that the world wasn't about to end, and decided to demonstrate that confidence by having another child. God said, ok, then and gave us twins!
My eldest brother [rip] had friends who were extras in one those post-apocalytic movies filmed in Lawrence, KS. They played dead bodies strewn in the streets....
🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - Reagan, when the Wall fell! at February 03, 2024 09:35 PM (9O6qm)
A.K.A. “The Day After - The Series” (well, I’m sorry, but of all the places, it was set in KANSAS!!!)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 03, 2024 09:36 PM (9isyS)
I read a lot, and my home life was bad enough I wargamed threats as second nature.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:29 PM (X0I7i)
It's amazing that all these years later I can still remember the look of shear terror on the faces of my 8th grade classmates on the day the Cuban Missile crisis reached the boiling point. Etched in my brain forever. And in those days, the schools did not have a TV in the classrooms or in the school, period. I had brought my Zenith transistor radio to school that day so I could keep up with the latest news. Still have that radio.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2024 09:36 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2024 09:30 PM (fwDg9)
Yes it is and I’ve seen it twice just to give it another chance because I thought I might have missed something the first time.
I’m a glutton for punishment.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:36 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2024 09:37 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:37 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:31 PM (X0I7i)
Concur. I have a neighbor nearby who is 90 years old and a retired cannon cocker with the US Army. He can still call and plot fire mission in seconds explaining it as he talks to me. He said the US Army was second to none at the end of WW2 in putting rounds down range and on target. He told me in Germany right after the war when he was there that there were untouched German bunkers everywhere with weapons, ammo and food. Nice fella. Retired as a Colonel I believe.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2024 09:38 PM (R/m4+)
Fun trivia - almost all of that was filmed in Fort Worth, Texas. The city scenes were filmed in the about to be opened Hulen Mall, which I have been to many times. And of course at the end they walk up out of the Water Gardens.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 03, 2024 09:38 PM (q3gwH)
Alas Babylon-audiobook
https://youtu.be/O-l2o9PPaUw?si=vVnsFSmbcOdhNUz8
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2024 09:39 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2024 09:37 PM (SYTee)
Reminded me of Babylon AD with Vin Diesel.
One of my guilty pleasure movies.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 03, 2024 09:41 PM (MNhXM)
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In Wild In the Streets, there put everybody over 30 in concentration camps and kept them dosed on LSD.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 03, 2024 09:48 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 03, 2024 09:49 PM (k6uu5)
The Twilight Zone episode "The Shelter."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 03, 2024 09:50 PM (a/4+U)
Posted by: Ciampino - I loved all the 1950s films of A-bomb generated monsters at February 03, 2024 09:50 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 03, 2024 09:54 PM (qfwwg)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 03, 2024 09:55 PM (/HDaX)
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There's a way out, discovered in the nick of time. SA has been sitting on that couch for ever and the map has copied itself to the fabric of the couch. The hero sees it when Stacey uncovers it by leaning forwards to snatch another jelly donut.
Posted by: Ciampino - bioscope = movie at February 03, 2024 07:47 PM (qfLjt)
Please. Can we not use the words "snatch" and "Stacey Abrams" in the same sentence?
Posted by: BillyD at February 03, 2024 09:59 PM (F6Xpw)
I found it singularly dumb on the surface.
People can't have children...so the youth are running wild, unemployed and...wut?
That's contradictory right there. If people couldn't have children, in ten years, they'd be spoiled rotten, they'd be increasingly lured to more and more lucrative jobs.
Twenty years would be...just nothing like the movie portrays.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 10:00 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2024 08:21 PM (sNc8Y)
And Christopher Walken as the dad. I remember the movie, but not the title. And, yeah, it was a pretty good movie.
Posted by: BillyD at February 03, 2024 10:10 PM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at February 03, 2024 10:11 PM (k4dou)
Posted by: pawn at February 03, 2024 10:12 PM (QB+5g)
The is no reason any of the Sandman/Runner thing exists at all.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 03, 2024 08:28 PM (z+89e)
I thought the place was run by a council of degenerate Biden clones who terminated their meat puppets at 30 because they had peaked out by then.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 03, 2024 10:31 PM (cOq4q)
Bob Hauk: There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board.
Snake Plissken: The president of what?
Posted by: GEN Jack D. Ripper at February 03, 2024 10:37 PM (8y+Bg)
Great script starters can be found in Isaiah 14, Jeremiah 50-51, Daniel 9, Revelation 18...all referencing a future fabulous country that enjoys tremendous wealth, vast knowledge and accomplishment, people from multiple cultures inhabiting beautiful dwellings, everyone full of food and pride and enjoying every sort of invention never before seen in human history.
However, things take an unexpected turn when this mysterious country (having devolved into a corrupt government, bribed judges, false teachers) becomes over-run by vast numbers of armed, foreign warriors marching against the unsuspecting citizens.
Then, fiery missiles appear from the North, leaving behind pillars of smoke and ruined cities, people flee under rocks and into caves for escape, hunger and disease stalk the few survivors, water becomes blood-like and unable to support sea-life, the sun, moon and stars are obscured from earth's view, angry people shake their fists at G-d.
That's just the first few chapters of what could be the next blockbuster. Movie, I mean.
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Posted by: dunces at February 03, 2024 11:01 PM (NqD7z)
There was an old guy who supposedly memorized all Shakespeare’s plays. He was a friend of the guy who built the Crazy Horse monument in S. Dakota. Also hard to imagine. The plays and the monument.
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