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Warriors of the wasteland: Post-apocalypse movies

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Saturday, January 30, 2010 8:04 PM


Why not just use this handy-dandy reference chart, then ?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ApocalypseHow

One thing that never fails to amuse me is winding up people like VHEMT who always seem to be calling for a Class One.

"If it's so bloody important to you, why are you still sucking air, ya friggin hypocrite ?"

-F

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Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:56 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
It gets us into an existential question, though, doesn't it?

Does the devastation have to be GLOBAL, or can it be localized, say, to one country?

Technically, it means there's nowhere that's better than where you are, in a general sense. Hidden sanctuaries do not figure into the "apocalypse" label, IMO. So, if America was wiped out, but all other countries remained reasonably habitable & functioning, no apocalypse.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:57 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
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Warriors of the wasteland: Post-apocalypse movies




And, of course, the simplest, easiest disqualification of all, that everyone seems to have overlooked, is that Dark Angel wasn't a movie, but rather a TV series.


LOL, and there IS that.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:02 PM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Why not just use this handy-dandy reference chart, then ?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ApocalypseHow


The end of the movie "Supernova"

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leaves us just a few decades until the created event leads the entire universe into the next Big Bang.
Now, THAT'S ARMAGEDDON!




The pocksecliptic Chrisisall

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Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:30 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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n.
2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.


This is my understanding of the word, Mike.
So I'd label Dark Angel Post-major-economic-event, but not post-apocalypse.


The laughing Chrisisall


Using that, any film set after August 6th 1945 qualifies. Not total, but devastation was certainly great.
The origin of the word apocalypse had no reference to "nuclear" anything.
Nobody says Red Dawn? They had nukes.

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Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:32 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I'd label Dark Angel Post-major-economic-event, but not post-apocalypse.

Hear Hear

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Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:38 AM

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
had no reference to "nuclear" anything.

I'll be your Huckleapocalypse.


The Holliday Chrisisall

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Saturday, February 6, 2010 9:27 PM

Just got my paws on Doomsday.

Never seen, but I hear it's so bad it's great!
I'll let ya know...


The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, February 7, 2010 7:20 AM

Seen Legion?
More verge-of-the-apocalypse, and Gabriel is played by another Dark Angel alum.

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Sunday, February 7, 2010 11:20 AM

What I appreciate about Mila Kunis is that she is slowly building up to superstardom, not in the Miley Cyrus/Lyndsey Lohan/Megan Fox kind of way, but more in the Scarlett Johanson way. Small to medium roles building upon her acting rather than purely on her looks.

Imagine this young woman got a part opposite Denzel. She's definitely on her way. Loved her in Sarah Marshall (she outshined Kristen Bell).
She's quite the looker, love those eyes.


Okay, enough drooling.


SGG

Tawabawho?

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