how come there aren't any disaster movies about a heatwave?
I think this could be really interesting. What do you guys think?
shareI think probably cause we're already living it. Not on the level of disaster movies.
We get heatwaves so often nowadays which kill a bunch of people world wide each year that I don't think people wanna "relive it" as a movie.
Also, disaster movies just aren't as profitable like they were in the 90s or early 2000s
Yeah it kills 10's of millions each year. Hot weather has really got us all stressed out. Nobody wants to have fun anymore. I've been getting really depressed lately because of the high temps. I was eating potato salad the other night and I just started crying like a newborn baby. It was so fucking hot that day I had to drink water every hour. Do they have support groups for people who have suffered from hot weather?
Then I remembered I'm not a psycho nutcase and it gets hot every summer. So I went about my life like I normally do. It will get hot next summer and all the summers after that. It's not a big deal, if it gets too hot drink some water and go indoors.
There are a bunch of support groups popping up around the world.
But they just tell you to stop being a lil bitch & take a shower. 😆
All jokes aside, I genuinely dislike hot weather. Summer is my least favorite season.
Climate change or not, I hate how freaking hot it's getting each year.
So, I don't think I'd honestly be into movies with the heat as "the villain", ya know?
That's fine... you keep cracking jokes while people are dying from the heat. You heartless bastard!
shareYou got it. You can count on me.
shareCold kills far more people. Life and death are a part of existence. A lot of people die an perfectly beautiful days from a myriad of things like, falling, car crashes, heart attacks, bacterial infections, viral infections, murder, war, natural disasters, and suicide.
This is why we laugh in tragedy and fortune.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/07/19/excessive-summer-heat-can-kill-but-extreme-cold-causes-more-fatalities/
You forgot to mention cancer, it's also one of the leading causes of death. Approximately 10 million people worldwide die every year from cancer.
shareSummers were hotter here when I was a kid in the '80s. I remember going swimming in the local lake at the end of May, and it was very rare for it to be below about 78 degrees in my house in June. This year (as well as most, if not all, years from at least the past quarter century), it was in the low 60s in my house until this recent, short heat wave that ended a couple days ago (which means I've been wearing a fleece jacket in my house for all of May and most of June). Today it's 70 outside and 70 in my house. This is the weather forecast for my area for the next week:
https://i.imgur.com/br0o3bd.png
That is honestly pretty nice.
I'm in the southern hemisphere right now on a trip. It's pretty darn cold & windy eight now. In a good way.
Hoping the summer is cool or at least windy when I get back to the North.