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- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 03/15/2008, -0/+31Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!
- DeskFlyer, on 03/15/2008, -0/+25Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?
- Xondar, on 03/15/2008, -0/+21"7. A giant apocalyptic rabbit in Donnie Darko"
What? Did they even watch this movie?
Every time this movie blog appears on Digg I get the feeling these guys just don't know what they're talking about... - TecK415, on 03/15/2008, -0/+21What about Children of Men? I thought they had a great concept.
This site is terrible. - StaticThunder, on 03/15/2008, -1/+19I don't really think any of these are all that good as doomsday scenarios, and I'm sure they are not the sine qua non in terms of movies.
Soylent Green. A Boy and His Dog. The Day After Tomorrow. Twelve Monkeys. Omega Man? Akira? Day of the Triffids? Logan's Run? Damnation Alley? Mad Max?
The ones given are in fact some of the worst cinematic doomsday movies. The only ones that have any right to be up there is When Worlds Collide and Dr. Strangelove. - nicholasdog, on 03/15/2008, -4/+20Just so long as Will Smith is not saving the world I am OK with it.
- prompel, on 03/15/2008, -0/+15Plan 9 had a plot?
- foolawrence, on 03/15/2008, -0/+13Nothing beats the Farnsworth Parabox IMO
- timbobaggins, on 03/15/2008, -0/+12Well, they were rejected from film school...
- Soyea, on 03/15/2008, -0/+11#4 4. Nuclear war in Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Should have been #1
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+11mein fuhrer! i can walk!!
- foolawrence, on 03/15/2008, -0/+11Mr. President, we must not allow... a mine shaft gap!
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+6I think Planet of the Apes should be in the list. The original one only.
- Pillage, on 03/15/2008, -0/+6I love women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.
- panpizza15, on 03/15/2008, -2/+7No Stay-Puff Marshmellow Man?
- StaticThunder, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5What I haven't seen done in a movie is a plausible Grey Goo scenario. Lexx sort of did with the arms. Just imagine guys standing at the edge of a city trying to hold back the encroaching tide of nanomachines with flamethowers while the last remnants of humanity try to get off the planet which is being turned at an exponential rate into microscopic machines. It'd have people getting eaten alive, chopping off their own legs to try to get away from the goo.
On the other hand, its basically the Blob but on a global scale. - StaticThunder, on 03/15/2008, -0/+4I'm biased towards movies that manage to make a point without special effects. The Day After Tomorrow was only included in my list because its the first one to even talk about an ice-age catastrophe. But even it was over the top and didn't examine the true human cost, instead making it into an adventure movie.
Soylent Green on the other hand really made you think about the food supply and overpopulation and was just chilling. - Xondar, on 03/15/2008, -0/+4They should be rejected from ever blogging about movies too.
- MrSalty, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3Don't you have a 9/11 Truth rally to go to somewhere?
- passiveconsumer, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3I feel the same way. Once I realized "Dr. Strangelove" wasn't #1, I figured they didn't know wtf they were talking about. How can they even mention it without giving props to the lunacy of HOW the nuclear war was started? Seriously? And the "Donnie Darko" I watched numerous times didn't have Frank the bunny predicting the end of the world.
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3Who else was sweating when that U.S. spy satellite came back the other week....
- x0epyon0x, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3What a terribly ill-conceived list.
10. Sunshine
9. The Day the Earth Stood Still
8. 12 Monkeys
7. Deep Impact
6. The Day After Tomorrow
5. 28 Days Later...
4. THX-1138
3. Mad Max
2. Dr. Strangelove
1. The Terminator - surKaz, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3+1 to you, sir.. Some of those movies you mention seem pretty good , albeit old. but still good. Time to educate my self on film history.
- nascentia, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2No Skynet? No fate but what we make!
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2i'd avoid new york for the time being just incase
- Cornrider, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2George W gets all the economy stimulation check requests and detonates nuclear heads throughout the world before anyone receives a dime. He ends up the only survivor in bed with a zoo of inflatable dolls and tons of Vaseline.
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2Kevin Bacon?
- spammvp, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2im going to see the writer of the screenplay tomorrow
- vspazv, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2The Time Machine. The moon breaks up due to a mining accident. In addition to fragments hitting Earth causing large amounts of destruction it would destroy weather patterns and get rid of high/low tide levels.
Thats assuming the whole thing doesn't just slam into Earth knocking it out of orbit. - Pillage, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2Futurama for the win.
- Pillage, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2What about Keanu Reeves?
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2agreed...LOVE that film.
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -1/+2thanks for reminding. impeach bush rally is next week around the country.
- lolwutpear, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1What about saving bacon, is that still ok?
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Wow... it's pretty clear that not enough time was put into this list.
- MalDON, on 03/15/2008, -1/+2I think number one should be "Invasion by Daleks"
- yujie, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1What bout Akira or Appleseed?
- graemee, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Gozer: The Choice is made!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa! Ho! Ho! Whoa-oa!
Gozer: The Traveller has come!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Nobody choosed anything!
[turns to Egon]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Did you choose anything?
Dr. Egon Spengler: No.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Winston] Did YOU?
Winston Zeddemore: My mind is totally blank.
Dr. Peter Venkman: *I* didn't choose anything...
[long pause, Peter, Egon and Winston all look at Ray]
Dr Ray Stantz: I couldn't help it. It just popped in there.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [angrily] What? *What* "just popped in there?"
Dr Ray Stantz: I... I... I tried to think...
Dr. Egon Spengler: LOOK!
[they all look over one side of the roof]
Dr Ray Stantz: No! It CAN'T be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it?
Dr Ray Stantz: It CAN'T be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you DO, Ray?
Winston Zeddemore: Oh, *****!
[they all see a giant cubic white head topped with a sailor hat, Peter looks at Ray]
Dr Ray Stantz: [somberly] It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. - IgWannA, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1exactly what i was thinking. it is simply the most perfect ridiculous-but-plausible doomsday scenario ever, and one of the best films of all time.
- Trevordtodd, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Eros tells the humans that his people first came to Earth to talk and to ask for their aid, but the humans wouldn't listen to their messages. According to Eros, the humans will eventually discover the "solarbonite," a bomb that has the effect of exploding "sunlight molecules." Eros explains that a solarbonite explosion would destroy everything the sunlight touches, causing a chain reaction that would eventually destroy the entire universe."If you have the solarbonite, you have nothing!"
- cudnthinkovasn, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1YES
- TecK415, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Awesome, do you write? I just finished writing a screenplay. Well, not really finished, I'm rewriting,
- 1Static1, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1The giant apocalyptic rabbit in Donnie Darko, brilliant!
- Chiko, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Thank you for reminding me of Day of the Triffids. I love the book.
- inactive, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1you forgot Planet of the APES ~!!
and
War of the WORLDS - Pillage, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1I'd say Battle for the Planet of the Apes, since it's the one where the world is finally blown up.
- santiago1, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1 I agree, your list fits the title credential much better! The article was more like" top 10 space-themed Earth-is-in-danger" movies.
I mean, how much more doomsday can you get than Mad Max?! - mnchrist, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1Zombies walking the earth for no reason in "Dawn of the Dead"-wtf? that almost sounds a bit too Huxleyian and realistic to me. It sounds like the Hillary/Obama/McCain sheeple.
- Cornrider, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Get Juan Gimenez, Moebius, Enki Bilal, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri and Dan O'Bannon involved and it will for sure kick serious ass.
- rexblade, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Holy ***** i agree with Static for once maybe it is the end of the world.
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