When one apocalypse just isn't enough

[sigma7]

Hey, is today not gloomy enough to fit into this morbid week of shuffling-off of various media icons? You know what you need? Early 1980s nuclear armageddon films, in their entirety. Have you not seen The Day After (directed by Nicholas Meyer of Star Treks II and VI) or Threads? The most significant omission from the list I can see is When the Wind Blows, but five outta six ain't bad.

Comments

[rewil.livejournal.com]

I watched "Threads" this past fall. Or, at least tried: I think I got through about 85% before the bleakness got to me. "The Day After" I've seen in its entirety, but only after I moved here so I could happily recognize what was done blown up.

Back to the shuffling-off: I've become fascinated with this video.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

I love armageddon themed stuff :P

[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

Special Bulletin was nightmare fodder for weeks if not months, and perhaps as a consequence, I haven't seen any of the other nuke-o-rama movies on that list.

Normally, I find apocalyptic stories oddly fascinating, but that one, perhaps because of the way it was done to look like a live news broadcast, was ridiculously scary to 12-year-old me.

[aardy.livejournal.com]

One movie I'd add to that list, though it's not truly apocalyptic in scale (and is more about the people & the potential politics than either apocalytic horror or in swaying viewers), is By Dawn's Early Light. (And boy, what a cast that is.)

[samson-of-5.livejournal.com]

Forget 2012 and all that current stuff. The best during and post-armageddon story (of 21st century made stuff) is Jericho. I am hoping that it does get continued before the cast gets too old. I never could catch it on CBS when it was airing, except a bit of one episode which was a clue-revealer of what was going on. I never forgot that, so of course when I found it on CBS.com (which is still there, tho for some reason I think they took off a couple episodes lately) I watched the entire series in one standing. Of course it helped at the time I was out of work therefore had nothing to do besides my body responsibilities. Was the longest show marathon I had ever done. Gerald McRaney was by far my most favorite on the show, being the mayor who managed to keep his sanity when the world around his hometown lost its own.