Well, we had The Day After Tomorrow (one could argue whether or not that was a good Ragnarok, of course), and the forthcoming 2012. (Does Roland Emmerich have some sort of unhealthy fetish with destroying world landmarks in his movies, by the way?)
I watched the end of Special Bulletin on the link you provided, just to see the freak-out level of the journalists. The young lady reporter on the yacht, utterly destroyed, largely incoherent, wondering whether or not she's about to die of radiation poisoning... the anchorwoman struggling to hold it together, the elder anchorman impotently saying "Is there -- something -- we can do?" Not to mention the realization that the reporter who just got rescued is now vapor... Those were bone-chilling to me then, and still powerful now.
Especially when, just recently, I saw a recording of Cronkite informing the country of the breaking news that President Kennedy had been killed in Dallas.
Have you ever read The Stand by Steven King? He has a couple of good scenes of media trying to cover the apocalypse against government wishes buried in the other 1300 pages.
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I watched the end of Special Bulletin on the link you provided, just to see the freak-out level of the journalists. The young lady reporter on the yacht, utterly destroyed, largely incoherent, wondering whether or not she's about to die of radiation poisoning... the anchorwoman struggling to hold it together, the elder anchorman impotently saying "Is there -- something -- we can do?" Not to mention the realization that the reporter who just got rescued is now vapor... Those were bone-chilling to me then, and still powerful now.
Especially when, just recently, I saw a recording of Cronkite informing the country of the breaking news that President Kennedy had been killed in Dallas.
Have you ever read The Stand by Steven King? He has a couple of good scenes of media trying to cover the apocalypse against government wishes buried in the other 1300 pages.