Reality Check: Dancing the Apocalypso | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in January 1st, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Apocalyptic World, civilization, Cormac Mccarthy, Decade, Denzel Washington, Doomsday, End Of Days, Excuse, Father And Son, Fight Scenes, Foreign Policy, Himalayas, Humankind, Mad Max, Micro View, Passionate Belief, Reality Check, Religious Believers, Roland Emmerich, World Share

Millions of religious believers around the world share a passionate belief in the coming of doomsday — and that means that the End of Days will remain a factor in politics at least until, well, the end of humankind.
As a year and a decade draw to a close, it seems to be an appropriate moment [...]

Movie Review – ‘The Road’ – From Cormac McCarthy, Father and Son Bond After Disaster – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in November 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Off-Topic, Adult Guardian, Cataclysm, Charlize Theron, civilization, Cormac Mccarthy, Despair, Drift, Father And Son, Flashbacks, Movie Review, Multiplex, Nationwide, Nuclear Disaster, Nuclear War, Nytimes, Sunlight, terror, Viggo Mortensen, Violence, Young Actor

The father and son, played by Viggo Mortensen and a wonderfully sensitive young actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee, drift through a world ruined by an unspecified cataclysm. A few flashbacks of ease and sunlight conjure the time before, when there was a mother on the scene, glowingly incarnated by Charlize Theron. Then something happened — Nuclear [...]

‘2012′ and ‘The Road’ lead doom boom on screen

Posted by Matt in November 5th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, War, Adversity, Cannibals, Comet, Cormac Mccarthy, Doom Boom, Explosions, fallout-shelter, Father And Son, Getting Out Of Debt, Holocaust, Newcomer, Nuclear Holocaust, Nuclear War, Pay Attention, Pulitzer Prize, Saving Money, Smit, TheRoad, Thieves, Viggo Mortensen, Wasteland

Reading “The Road” was seriously depressing, and convinced me that one should never ride out a nuclear war. There are just too many unknowns awaiting after the dust has cleared.
The lesson I learned from “The Road” is that it is better to be smart and flee America before the war hits rather than trying to [...]