Sci-fi nonsense.


Here we go again, more rubbish from the American movie disaster club. All the usual ingredients are here, hero scientist, the President of America, a very far fetched pending disaster and those trusty old nuclear bombs. And the ending is always the same, Earth survives to fight yet another disaster.

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So?... you really excpect every movie to be unique? hehe you must hate movies then huh....

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Yeah, why have standards about anything? hehe just smile and nod when crap get shoved in front of you.

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Um this movie was made in Canada, Einstein.

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Yeah, and it really shows doesn't it. US president, US military, US setting, but Canadian actors and producers. Stupid, useless Canada doesn't even have their own culture.

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It was made for the American audience. Americans don't understand real Canadian movies because they use big words and interesting plots.

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"And the ending is always the same, Earth survives to fight yet another disaster."

Right. I'd totally love to see a movie where life as we understand it is completely annihilated. That'd be sweet.

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Im just pissed off that New Zealand was the only country to get fried. What have us kiwis done to deserve that.

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You're getting fried by the grammar police. It's "we Kiwis" as in "what have we done to deserve that."

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Ask the sheep.

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Damn straight, it would be sweet. There was Dr. Strangelove but I would love to see one of these crappy global disaster movies where humanity gets annihilated, just for the hell of it. New Zealand getting flash fried certainly was the comedic highlight of this movie.

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These movies are always fun,and that's what they should be seen as just a fun kill some time sci fi movie.

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Ever heard of Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy? Earth is totally destroyed in that one. :-)

There is a book out called "Solar Flare" that is a great read about what life would be like if somethig like this actually happened. The world has to learn to live without electricity.

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We HAVE had complete destruction of the Earth and disasters not fixed. How about these? ***SPOILERS***
The Quiet Earth
When Worlds Collide~This is being remade.
The Noah (1975)~He's the last person alive.
Titan A.E.~As in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", the planet is rebuilt.
On the Beach~While most of the world is intact, radiation destroys all life.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes~They thought that blowing up Earth would keep the studio bosses from demanding another movie, but it didn't work!

~~MystMoonstruck~~

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In the 10.5 and the sequel the attempt to stop the impending disaster fails in both. California is split in the first; North America is split in the sequel.

There's also the various Living Dead movies. Of course, technically at the end of Night of the Living Dead the undead do not take over, but the desire of sequels made it so.

The world is screwed in Day After Tomorrow.

Earth did not fare too well at the end the Andromeda tv series ...

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There was a sequal to 10.5?! How on earth did I miss that?! What's it called and where can I find it?

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This happens in the movie "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage. The writers may have been inluenced by Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush."

"Well, I dreamed I saw the silversSpace ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun."

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There actually was one Syfy Channel movie where the heroes didn't save the day. I only watched part of it, so I don't know if the Earth was destroyed or all of existence.

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Not fantasy but partial fact of a posible solar storm that caused a Ice Storm that could happen in Canada on a series on Discovery Channel called 'Perfect Disaster'. It told several stories of close true scientific facts of what could happen. Several other stories were told such as a London Flood that could happen if the river Thames overflowed, how a Super Tornado could happen and hit Dallas and a few other disasters. The series was canceled.

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I agree but nobody seems to like my comment!
watch for vipers and poison snakes

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Why would a billionaire drive a Ford Escape?

when i am king, you will be first against the wall


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Not all billionaire's drive Rolls Royce's or Mercedes'.

As for this movie, I quite enjoyed it, and also New Zealand wasn't the only place to be destroyed, the poor North Pole got nuked :-(

And for disaster flicks where mankind gets wiped out, check out Miracle Mile, that is one of my all time greatest movies.

I only axed ya for a smoke - Jack Frost

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In "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", Earth is destroyed.

In "Ice", most of the world is hit with another Ice Age due to one of the sun's blips.

In "When Worlds Collide", Earth is destroyed and only a fraction of the population escapes to be carried to another planet, where who knows how they will manage to fare?!

In "On the Beach", everyone and everything dies as a result of nuclear war. Australia is the final stronghold, but only till radiation spreads there.

In "The Quiet Earth", practically the whole population is wiped out and just might be after a second incident~with perhaps one exception.

"Crack in the World" is quite impressive. Yes, they save the day, but the end event is~well~cool!

There are many apocalyptic movies.

By the way: The one in which the continental United States is split of "10.5: Apocalypse", which also is a TV miniseries. Both are rather impressive, but some scenes in the sequel are very impressive. Check out the opening!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3sWmixQjIs&feature=related

Here's an overlooked one:
Supervolcano (2005 Discovery Channel miniseries)
IMDb synopsis:
Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping "dragon" is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but they are ignored or dismissed as "minor". But when they learn an eruption will happen, panic breaks out through people of the USA and the world. This is a tale told from former Yellowstone scientists, who recall the final days before Yellowstone erupted and everything changed forever.
NOTE: Unlike "Dante's Peak", they DON'T outdrive a pyroclastic flow!
This is a creepy movie, very well-done and showing what truly could happen if that supervolcano beneath Yellowstone ever decides to act up. It would make the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens look feeble! *shiverrrrrr*

~~MystMoonstruck~~

"You're asking me to NUKE the North Pole?!"

That reminds me of "Beginning of the End", when Peter Graves shouts, "You can't drop an atom bomb on Chicago!" (This is to get rid of a bunch of giant grasshoppers, mind you.)

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All this is is a remake of the original "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055608/plotsummary . In that movie, the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire. The Admiral must fight through politics and adversaries to get the submarine to just the right spot to launch a nuclear missile....just in that movie, they weren't going to blow up Santa's factory in the process.

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There's a reason it's called "science fiction" rather than "science fact".

... the hardest thing in this world is to live in it...

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The special effects had me in stitches! This was cheesier than a lump of brie but I quite liked it.

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