09-16-2009, 12:52 PM
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#61 | | Firearm Aficionado
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There've been a lot of good book references posted, how about a few more movies?
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09-19-2009, 04:28 PM
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#62 | | Firearm Zealot
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Two new post SHTF movies coming out.
The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, and Mila Kunis - America 30 years after nuclear war.
The Road with Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall
After a series of natural disasters, A family struggles to travel south to warmer climates before winter sets in.
Carriers about a massive outbreak of mutated Bird Flu
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09-19-2009, 05:11 PM
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#63 | | Firearm Zealot
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Thanks tacav... i new about the first two but not the third one...
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09-19-2009, 07:44 PM
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#64 | | Firearm Enthusiast
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Eh, Book of Eli looks like a movie adaptation of the video game Fallout 3, which I did not like....
The Road looks interesting but I'm not really a fan of TEOTWAWKI movies anyways. SHTF is more interesting, TEOTWAWKI is just depressing most of the time.
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09-22-2009, 10:09 PM
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#65 | | Firearm Zealot
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The "Eli" movie looks good, I like D Wash, he always puts out a great performance.
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09-25-2009, 01:26 AM
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#66 | | Firearm Enthusiast
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Anyone going to go see Zombieland with Woody Harrilson?
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09-26-2009, 02:45 PM
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#67 | | Firearm Enthusiast
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| Panic In Year Zero
I just recently saw the movie "Panic In Year Zero" again. (The first time was on late night TV back in the '60s.) I picked it up on DVD along with Vincent Price in "The Last Man On Earth".
It's really a lot better than I recalled, or would have thought from the reviews. Allowing for some anachronistic elements it still seems a pretty good depiction of post apocalypse conditions. Several points it raises include psychological problems among the survivors (particularly re-orientation to the changed circumstances), breakdown of law enforcement, and the need for advanced preparation. They are fortunate enough to be out of the city, and smart enough to reach a small town before the mob. Even then they have problems getting the supplies and arms they want.
It's an interesting exercise to watch a film like this and spot what they could have done better.
Robert
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10-01-2009, 04:31 PM
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#68 | | Firearm Zealot
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Well if I got watch something like that it might as well be entertaining
Ive seen allot the most entertaining was a damn cartoon.
As I watching this cartoon I thought ther's allot of thinking went into this flik.
hell its entertaining.
Anime movie series .................The Desert Punk.............He's my kind of guy!
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10-06-2009, 02:57 PM
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#69 | | Firearm Aficionado
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pope130  | I just recently saw the movie "Panic In Year Zero" again. (The first time was on late night TV back in the '60s.) I picked it up on DVD along with Vincent Price in "The Last Man On Earth".
Robert | Yeah, I found it at Wal Mart not long ago for $5 and it was well worth it. Its one of those movies I like to drop in when my few Liberal friends are around.
LOL....
John Ringo has a new book in paperback now called The Last Centurion that is okay. Not exactly Lucifer's Hammer or Farnham's Freehold stuff, but enjoyable.
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08-31-2010, 12:59 PM
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#70 | | Registered User
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Hello everyone. I wanted to let you all know that there is a new podcast on iTunes that covers TEOTWAWKI movies. It's called "Duck and Cover". Each week we cover a movie that is in this genre. From end of the world, zombies, apocaolypse type movies, we cover it all.
As of this posting, we have covered The Day After, Terminator, Waterworld, 2012, Resident Evil and The Postman. We have reviews coming soon of movies like The Book of Eli, The Road, Zombieland, and many others. We are also looking to do a review of Resident Evil: Afterlife later this month.
Please head over to our website, duckandcoverpodcast.com and take a listen. You can leave comments on the podcasts there and, if you like the podacst, there is a link to iTunes so you can subscribe. We would also love to have you give us a review on iTunes.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post.
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08-31-2010, 01:35 PM
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#71 | | Resident Curmudgeon
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Just reread this thread. I was surprised to see that no one mentioned Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky.
Long story short: Earth has the ability to fold space and make it possible to walk through a Gate on Earth and end up on another world. The future for the ambitious is in Outsystem Studies - in essence, a combination of survival on any world under any conditions crossed with how to be the Wagonmaster of a wagon train of pioneers.
Six groups of between 30 and 50 high school and college kids each are being dropped, one person at a time, on an unidentified world rather like Central Africa to do their Solo Survival Test. Duration is to be not less than 2 days nor more than 10, according to the testing board. But a star goes nova and screws up the Gates. Thus, roughly 300 adolescents and very young adults are stranded on an unknown world with nothing more than they packed in with them on their backs and in their brains. How will they survive, and what sort of a culture will they evolve?
I'm fond of this one because unlike many popular post-apocalyptic stories, the kids are stranded with NO organic societal structure. However, unlike many of the post-SHTF stories, these kids were prepared and equipped for short term survival - the immediate SHTF, if you will. What makes it a good read is their evolution from survival teams or gangs into an ordered and orderly culture, and how they evolve from the former to the latter state.
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