Favourite end of the world movie.

[brandx]

Just saw The American Blackout 2013 National Geographic(on YouTube). It was really good. It reminded me of the situation I was in when I worked in Florida for one winter. I felt uneasy the whole time because I had no way to survive other than what came in on a Walmart or Publix truck. Couldn't wait to get out of there. Most people have very little in the way of extra food or water, and if you depend on the infrastructure you are just out of luck. Lots of people are going to die sooner than they expect to.

 

[brandx]

Some woman on the radio made a good point the other day. If you or I were to drag our children on foot out into the Mojave Desert with insufficient water and no food, we'd be charged with child endangerment and have the children taken away from us.

That is an excellent point!

 

[brandx]

I really disagree with our policies of seperating children from their parents, but--in fairness--your point about child abuse is one that I hadn't considered, and it makes sense.

Even so, I think it's awful that the Border Patrol is taking babies away from their mothers while they're nursing.

We aren't Nazis in this country, and while the illegals are criminals and should be treated as such, I don't think that concentration camps and institutional brutality are the answer.

Still...I do agree that bringing your child through a desert for several days or weeks without resources does constitute child endangerment.

It is child neglect as well. There would be multiple charges on an American Parent doing the same thing.

 

[brandx]

Here's another movie I had forgotten about. It was a little strange as you didn't really know what the object was or what the characters were trying to accomplish and the father did some things that didn't make sense though he seemed sensible. The movie was "The Road" 2009. I haven't seen it since it first came out.

 

[Doreena]

I wish they would make this a movie: https://www.amazon.com/77-Days-Sept...=1530561195&sr=8-2&keywords=days+in+september

Then, could you call the Expanse a post apocalyptic movie/tv series? I absolutely love that show!


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[Maverick]

Good documentaries, food for thought.

Ran Out of Oil HD: National Geographic


When the earth stops spinning: National Geographic Aftermath S01E04

 

[WilliamShatner]

Here's another movie I had forgotten about. It was a little strange as you didn't really know what the object was or what the characters were trying to accomplish and the father did some things that didn't make sense though he seemed sensible. The movie was "The Road" 2009. I haven't seen it since it first came out.

good film but so so bleak!

 

[WilliamShatner]

Wow. I have missed so many of these replies!

Sorry guys and thanks for contributing to the thread, I am going to be watching disaster movies for quite a while...

 

[brandx]

I wish they would make this a movie: https://www.amazon.com/77-Days-Sept...=1530561195&sr=8-2&keywords=days+in+september

Then, could you call the Expanse a post apocalyptic movie/tv series? I absolutely love that show!


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I gonna read it. sounds like a good one. Can't do much in this heat anyway. That reminds me of another movie I saw many years ago about a terrible heatwave. people gone nuts and dogs running rampant eating -people. LOL, a baby was born and they needed a way to cool it, some dude driving around in his car staying cool with the ac on, he wouldn't help anyone. I think they may have finally convinced him to help the newborn, I remember them drinking out of a culvert. Anyone remember this one, it could have been back in the 1980's.

 

[Doreena]

I gonna read it. sounds like a good one. Can't do much in this heat anyway. That reminds me of another movie I saw many years ago about a terrible heatwave. people gone nuts and dogs running rampant eating -people. LOL, a baby was born and they needed a way to cool it, some dude driving around in his car staying cool with the ac on, he wouldn't help anyone. I think they may have finally convinced him to help the newborn, I remember them drinking out of a culvert. Anyone remember this one, it could have been back in the 1980's.

Kinda sounds like something Philip Jose Farmer would write!


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[lonewolf]

I always liked the "Survivors" series on BBC in the 70s- not the highly p.c. remake.
it sort of made sense, unlike stuff like the "walking dead".

 

[Maverick]

A movie that touches on many things we discuss here like, bugging out, gathering supplies, storing and burying caches, self defense, raiding parties, the unprepared from the city traveling to small rural towns, nuclear war etc... this movie has it all. I just wish it was longer and a modern movie made. Granted it's dated (1962) but a good preppers flick and relevant today

Panic in the year zero (1962)

or watch it here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21x586

 

[brandx]

A movie that touches on many things we discuss here like, bugging out, gathering supplies, storing and burying caches, self defense, raiding parties, the unprepared from the city traveling to small rural towns, nuclear war etc... this movie has it all. I just wish it was longer and a modern movie made. Granted it's dated (1962) but a good preppers flick and relevant today

Panic in the year zero (1962)

or watch it here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21x586

I will thanks. I am reading 77 Days in September now, 1/3rd way through. good stuff.

 

[user 7704]

I was up at 3:30 am so I started watching the tv show How The World Will End. This episode was covering pandemics. It airs on American Hero Channel.

 

[Silent Earth]

On NETFLIX now a good movie HOW IT ENDS, and SERIES called The Colony ( a bit like falling Skies but better acting)

 

[user 7704]

Colony was on USA network. Didn't last. Maybe two seasons.

I liked The Last Ship.

 

[Maverick]

On NETFLIX now a good movie HOW IT ENDS, and SERIES called The Colony ( a bit like falling Skies but better acting)

I watched it Friday (how it ends), it is a good, ending was odd making me think it’s a pilot. For a while there early in the movie I was getting pissed but it turned out pretty good.

 

[user 7704]

I can't do Netflix or any such services because I have to use satellite and the speed is too slow. I am very happy with my Directv though.

 

[brandx]

I was up at 3:30 am so I started watching the tv show How The World Will End. This episode was covering pandemics. It airs on American Hero Channel.

I did a paper on how a pandemic starts, including tracking across the world. There is so much world wide travel that it doesn't take long for something to get from a remote village on the other side of the globe to middle America. If the contaminant is especially virulent is goes rather quickly. My grandfather survived the Spanish Flu in 1917, he was so ill he had to stay in France. It was hard on him to stay behind when he wanted to be with comrades who didn't fare as badly. He went over on a wooden ship and there were many burials at sea, many men did not make it. Terrible. He didn't talk about it much, all that death.

 

[brandx]

Finished 77 days in September, ordered used a Daunting Days of Winter. One thing I thought was plain dumb in the book 77 was that they were hauling water from a mile away to pour down the toilet instead of building latrines. The book ranged over about a 3 month time period starting from the incident of the EMP. Now that it is winter coming on, I am interested in what they will do to stay warm in Montana, so far they haven't done anything but turn on a propane fireplace. LOL

 

[Doreena]

Finished 77 days in September, ordered used a Daunting Days of Winter. One thing I thought was plain dumb in the book 77 was that they were hauling water from a mile away to pour down the toilet instead of building latrines. The book ranged over about a 3 month time period starting from the incident of the EMP. Now that it is winter coming on, I am interested in what they will do to stay warm in Montana, so far they haven't done anything but turn on a propane fireplace. LOL

Hope you aren’t disappointed, it isn’t as good as the first one. When you get done we can compare notes. Been thinking about Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out lately. Of course, that is unfortunately not fiction, but those two books really got me thinking about our vulnerability.


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[brandx]

Hope you aren’t disappointed, it isn’t as good as the first one. When you get done we can compare notes. Been thinking about Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out lately. Of course, that is unfortunately not fiction, but those two books really got me thinking about our vulnerability.


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Yea, I hadn't put my get home bag back in the vehicle after doing inventory. I certainly did after reading 77 days. Whew that was close! LOL.
OK, yea we can compare and discuss. sounds good.

 

[Maverick]

reading about 77 days, it's kinda between Jericho series and How it Ends movie

 

[brandx]

Hope you aren’t disappointed, it isn’t as good as the first one. When you get done we can compare notes. Been thinking about Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out lately. Of course, that is unfortunately not fiction, but those two books really got me thinking about our vulnerability.


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Just finished Daunting Days of Winter. I felt it was good just not quite as exciting as the beginning of the realization of the EMP, the start of the mess. One thing I noticed was simple typos, can't help but notice it. In any case, I wanted to slap Jennifer a few times, I mean get a grip, you are going to kill yourself because you think that maybe your husband slept with another woman. Ridiculous, written by a man. LOL. Some people will cope better than others I guess. I think the books bring out things that people make mistakes in doing, such as taking a chance on the weather, not having your gun fully loaded at all times, being less than diligent, leaving your animal tethered in bear country defenseless. If something ever happens, I am keeping my gun, a back up gun and a back up for my back up. Being too careful is not a possibility and once you screw up it could be the end of you. It also points out how evil some people can be, it is easy to forget that people have an evil streak in them. A sociopath on the loose doing whatever they feel inclined to do without constraint is frightening. The second book looks at fortification and defense, brought up many good talking points. AND, a lack of axes was a big problem in their community. I have several hatchets but only one axe. The prepper saying, "One is none and two is one" is good to go by. Think I will scrounge up another axe somewhere. One must have hand tools, gardening tools, ways to cut and shape wood, etc. Everybody should have a wood stove, not a fireplace. I have a wood stove in the garage not hooked up, it has been there 2 years and I don't plan on using it unless. In addition, I was surprised they were still hauling water to flush toilets, really?

 

[Doreena]

Just finished Daunting Days of Winter. I felt it was good just not quite as exciting as the beginning of the realization of the EMP, the start of the mess. One thing I noticed was simple typos, can't help but notice it. In any case, I wanted to slap Jennifer a few times, I mean get a grip, you are going to kill yourself because you think that maybe your husband slept with another woman. Ridiculous, written by a man. LOL. Some people will cope better than others I guess. I think the books bring out things that people make mistakes in doing, such as taking a chance on the weather, not having your gun fully loaded at all times, being less than diligent, leaving your animal tethered in bear country defenseless. If something ever happens, I am keeping my gun, a back up gun and a back up for my back up. Being too careful is not a possibility and once you screw up it could be the end of you. It also points out how evil some people can be, it is easy to forget that people have an evil streak in them. A sociopath on the loose doing whatever they feel inclined to do without constraint is frightening. The second book looks at fortification and defense, brought up many good talking points. AND, a lack of axes was a big problem in their community. I have several hatchets but only one axe. The prepper saying, "One is none and two is one" is good to go by. Think I will scrounge up another axe somewhere. One must have hand tools, gardening tools, ways to cut and shape wood, etc. Everybody should have a wood stove, not a fireplace. I have a wood stove in the garage not hooked up, it has been there 2 years and I don't plan on using it unless. In addition, I was surprised they were still hauling water to flush toilets, really?

Yes, I did think that some of the characterizations in this book were a bit lacking, but there was still some good info there. Good point about the ax.

You may like this series, it is pretty gritty but also has some good information... https://www.amazon.com/Second-After...qid=1532104375&sr=8-1&keywords=1+second+after


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[brandx]

Oh yea, I am reading that now. I like gritty.

 

[Doreena]

Oh yea, I am reading that now. I like gritty.

Some things got to me. Ok, I hate to admit it, but it made me shed a tear.


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[brandx]

I have read the nursing home scene, very realistic. But, no tears. It is hard for people to understand that medical persons are just people. Most will go home to their families, that is where the higher duty is. I can't wait to settle in tonight to start reading again.
Don't worry about crying, not everyone is as unsympathetic as I am. LOL

 

[Doreena]

I have read the nursing home scene, very realistic. But, no tears. It is hard for people to understand that medical persons are just people. Most will go home to their families, that is where the higher duty is. I can't wait to settle in tonight to start reading again.
Don't worry about crying, not everyone is as unsympathetic as I am. LOL

Nah, it had to do with their dogs....might have been in the 2nd book. There are 3.


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[Gazrok]

Always liked that nuclear one, The Day After.
Probably the best way to illustrate what we grew up thinking could happen at any moment.