TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Final Verdict:  Prometheustupid.  On so many levels.

Indeed.

[Syt]

50 years ago today U-2 planes discovered Soviet missiles on Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis began.

SF Debris chose the anniversary to review The Day After. It's been, oh, 25 or so years since I first saw it on German tv, but it's still one serious downer of a movie for me. The same year we read at school The Last Children of Schewenborn about the post-nuclear aftermath in a small village in Germany, not to mention that Chernobyl had blown up a year or so before.

The town I grew up in had a storage of of nuclear artillery grenades, guarded by an American detachment. At the time, it was not so much a question whether or not there would be a nuclear war, but rather when - combined with a big likelihood that we had a big bulls-eye painted onto our heads, which was oddly comforting.

Of course the movie Threads is rather worse than TDA.

[Ed Anger]

I always liked Panic in Year Zero for my nuclear war movie needs.

[Liep]

Season 3 of the Killing is really, really good.

[Eddie Teach]

Season 3 of the Killing is really, really good.

Seemed they had everything tied together so nicely at end of 2 though. 

[CountDeMoney]

Season 3 of the Killing is really, really good.

Seemed they had everything tied together so nicely at end of 2 though. 

He's talking about the Euro version.  Ours is over.

[CountDeMoney]

Final Verdict:  Prometheustupid.  On so many levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0

I asked the exact same questions this morning, and the only brain I melted was my own.

[Eddie Teach]

He's talking about the Euro version.  Ours is over.

Figured as much. Sigh.

[FunkMonk]

Final Verdict:  Prometheustupid.  On so many levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0

[Ideologue]

50 years ago today U-2 planes discovered Soviet missiles on Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis began.

SF Debris chose the anniversary to review The Day After. It's been, oh, 25 or so years since I first saw it on German tv, but it's still one serious downer of a movie for me.

How come most stories that involve an element of nuclear war either take place during and immediately afterwards, like The Day After, or so distant from the event that the choice of nuclear war as the disaster that devastated humanity is incidental and chosen only for its pathos as a self-inflicted wound?  I'm at a loss to think of many stories that occur in the mid-term aftermath.  I'm also at a loss to think of a single one that mentions "Brazil" or "Indonesia."  Albeit a few, mostly Mad Max movies, that mention Australia, which rapidly collapses into total anarchy following a nuclear exchange in the northern hemisphere for reasons.  Other than Mad Max, the only stories that occur to me involving nuclear war that take place in the rebuilding period are V For Vendetta, which barring the cartoonish features of the British government established early on in its serialization and impossible to shake off later, feels basically plausible, and arguably Ghost in the Shell, which I say barely counts because 1)iirc you never see what the involved countries look like and 2)it uses magic nanotechnology to deal with the issue of fallout, and honestly I dunno if I've ever seen a story that needed a nuclear war in its backstory less than GitS.

Edit: oh, and I guess there's Star Trek: First Contact, where a guy builds a fucking spaceship with about a dozen assistants in his back yard, so I'm not counting it as a serious meditation on the effects of nuclear war.

[Ed Anger]

Fuck the third world.

[Neil]

Why would anyone mention Brazil or Indonesia?  Civilization is built around the northern hemisphere.  If something happened to us, any southerners who survived the aftereffects would go back to cannibalism in the jungle.

[HVC]

Guess Rick doesn't like peaches.

[Count]

The Thick Of It, a fantastic British satire about politics, is back and it is spectacular. Also check out the related film, In The Loop.

[katmai]

New Walking Dead Woooo!