Comments on: Supercut: Apocalypse

Supercut: Apocalypse

Happy Dave — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:13:40 -0800

The world has ended many times - a supercut of apocalyptic visions.

By: cashman

cashman — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:24:28 -0800

List of films, from the end credits: Terminator 2 I Am Legend The Road The Day After Terminator 3 War of the Worlds Signs Resident Evil: Apocalypse Land of the Dead 28 Weeks Later Knowing Independence Day The Day After Tomorrow Dante's Peak Volcano Dawn of the Dead Deep Impact Cloverfield Contagion Armageddon The Divide 2012 The Core

By: Egg Shen

Egg Shen — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:29:37 -0800

I like to think that if I were standing in the streets of Manhattan and saw a 500 foot tall wave/fireball/alien death ray rushing towards me destroying everything in its path I would spend my final moments looking at its awesomeness rather than pointlessly scurrying to die a few yards away but I suppose that's one of those things where you don't know how you'll behave until it happens. Also [PEDANTRY ALERT] including the two volcano pictures is kind of cheating since they only threaten the death of a city and not the death of the world.

By: jwhite1979

jwhite1979 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:31:13 -0800

Neil deGrasse Tyson talked briefly, but enthusiastically, on his podcast about the physics of that nuclear explosion scene from T2. It's worth checking out.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:38:48 -0800

You say apocalypse Mashup, I see excellent opening titles for a Fallout movie.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:39:07 -0800

I bet we could fill sentences starting from "Neil deGrasse Tyson talked briefly, but enthusiastically...about [fill in black on some take on science that I am super interested in, the more geeky and goofy the better]" forever and never run out of topics. I would enjoy this supercut more if it started out with the T2 nuclear explosion, then showed all the rest, and then ended with Sarah Connor waking up. I mean, running from Terminators and dreaming of nuclear armegeddon is one thing -- but doing all that and dreaming of The Day After Tomorrow and Signs -- that's be a special kind of hell.

By: doublesix

doublesix — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:46:59 -0800

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:01:00 -0800

Good, but would be better without the aliens and zombies and the like

By: unsupervised

unsupervised — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:15:53 -0800

How about a Pomeranian instead?

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:18:31 -0800

Could have used a shot of Donald Sutherland falling into a large cake.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:21:56 -0800

I'm guessing there's not much point in making sure I always have my Swiss Army Knife with me, eh?

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:23:37 -0800

Who doesn't like a dystopia? Phew, katharsis! Oh wait, not really! Tragedy is kathartic.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:47:09 -0800

Ever since watching those planes fly into those buildings almost exactly 11 years ago, I have never been able to understand the attraction of these sorts of movies.

By: kbanas

kbanas — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:50:19 -0800

Ever since watching those planes fly into those buildings almost exactly 11 years ago, I have never been able to understand the attraction of these sorts of movies. Oh my God, I had the exact same reaction, but instead of apocalypse genre movies, I lost all understanding and appreciation for clowns. I mean, fuck clowns! That was nicely edited, that supercut, and it fit my mood, so, hey! Nice post.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:52:03 -0800

Or watch it for real [graphic].

By: orange swan

orange swan — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:55:23 -0800

Ever since watching those planes fly into those buildings almost exactly 11 years ago, I have never been able to understand the attraction of these sorts of movies. I was thinking as I watched how on 9/11, which I "experienced" from an office building in Toronto, how everyone kept saying it "was like a movie". I think most people who actually see something that compares to to these scenarios don't have a vocabulary or a frame of reference for them outside of movies. So yes, there's an element of the surreal to it, and you'd almost feel like looking about for movie cameras. And those who have lived through a comparable experience have no interest in seeing it simulated.

By: emjaybee

emjaybee — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:55:30 -0800

The Day After ruined me for apocalyptic movies because it was so depressing that it pointed out the fakeness of all the more "fun" apocalyptic movies. If civilization falls apart and you survive the initial chaos, you're just cold, filthy, hungry and more than likely, doomed, whether it be at the hands of other violent people or by a virus or an infection that any doctor could treat but instead kills you. Because there ain't no more doctors. I like civilization. It has a/c and good booze and birth control.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:00:24 -0800

Also people trying to outrun Coldness.

By: Kevin Street

Kevin Street — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:00:37 -0800

Oh man, The Day After left my junior high class traumatized, because it seemed so real. And then the paper did an interview with some general who said that, yes, our city probably would be on the Soviet target list, due to all the petrochemical production. Good times.

By: kbanas

kbanas — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:02:07 -0800

The Day After ruined me for apocalyptic movies because it was so depressing that it pointed out the fakeness of all the more "fun" apocalyptic movies. If civilization falls apart and you survive the initial chaos, you're just cold, filthy, hungry and more than likely, doomed, whether it be at the hands of other violent people or by a virus or an infection that any doctor could treat but instead kills you. Because there ain't no more doctors. Yeah, but I don't have to deal with Professor Jackoff's 200GB PST file being corrupted anymore, so I think it's kind of a wash, honestly.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:06:38 -0800

I may have mixed up my apocalypse movies there.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:07:29 -0800

I probably shouldn't have watched that just before bedtime.

By: davebush

davebush — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:09:59 -0800

Now?

By: y2karl

y2karl — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:12:30 -0800

No When Worlds Collide ?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:28:27 -0800

Apocalypse? We've all been there...

By: Purposeful Grimace

Purposeful Grimace — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:44:43 -0800

Huh, so that's what the monster in "Cloverfield" looked like? Glad I didn't waste the seat time on that.

By: One Hand Slowclapping

One Hand Slowclapping — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:47:42 -0800

Why does America always hog the apocalypse?

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:55:36 -0800

Why does America always hog the apocalypse? Try some Time of the Wolf.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:02:11 -0800

no Sodom + Gomorrah?

By: Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:10:07 -0800

Alternate watching plan: Mute it, start at 2:46, and put "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity" on loop play.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:10:26 -0800

Bukkakalypse.

By: potsmokinghippieoverlord

potsmokinghippieoverlord — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:11:58 -0800

How can you have a clip of Volcano without showing Harvey Levin?

By: St. Alia of the Bunnies

St. Alia of the Bunnies — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:14:12 -0800

When the apocalypse really happens, I hope there's a decent soundtrack.

By: a shrill fucking shitstripe

a shrill fucking shitstripe — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:52:17 -0800

You know what? I've had my fucking fill of apocalyptic dread. Fuck that shit. FUCK DOOM. Fuck fear fuck regret. Let's build something. Let's fight for a future that we won't even live in. Let's think about tomorrow with strength in our hearts. Fight fight fight against the dying of the light!

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:05:49 -0800

So. Much. Emmerich.

By: BlueHorse

BlueHorse — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:20:45 -0800

I like civilization. It has a/c and good booze and birth control. And hot showers and clean sheets and books.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:25:49 -0800

Ever since watching those planes fly into those buildings almost exactly 11 years ago, I have never been able to understand the attraction of these sorts of movies. The movie 2012 made me realize that -- after Katrina -- I just can't watch disaster films anymore. At least not the sillier, Irwin Allen-style "rides". There's an earthquake scene in that film where the ground has split open and a subway train full of people rockets out into the void and crashes into the opposite side and explodes. That's where it lost me. At one time I would have giggled at that, and there's a more abstract, action movie fan part of me that enjoyed the audacity and scale of the destruction in that film, but the rest of me just found it deeply unpleasant. So, yeah. Plop me in front of the bloodiest horror and action movies and I'm as happy as a clam. Disaster flicks? No thanks. (The Core gets a pass. That's just silly and fun.)

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:51:55 -0800

That first scene from T2 still chills me to my bones.

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:00:15 -0800

I noticed the quietearth tag just a little bit ago. No earth shattering kaboom - just...eeep Maybe an ice nine tag, too?

By: mazola

mazola — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:05:03 -0800

Insurance would cover this, right?

By: obiwanwasabi

obiwanwasabi — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:15:34 -0800

MANHATTAN BADLY DAMAGED! WORLD ALSO ENDED (PAGE 3 FOR EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS FROM HELEN LEVITT)

By: Stoatfarm

Stoatfarm — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:28:19 -0800

posted by Happy Dave Eponysterical

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:37:17 -0800

Wait...maybe that should be eponylyptical?

By: PHINC

PHINC — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:44:24 -0800

Manhattanolypse.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:32:50 -0800

Oh my God, I had the exact same reaction, but instead of apocalypse genre movies, I lost all understanding and appreciation for clowns. I mean, fuck clowns! I will never underestimate the smug sense of entitlement a seemingly intelligent person has to watch utter crap, and look down on those people who politely express a contrary point of view.

By: pjern

pjern — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:47:22 -0800

No earth shattering kaboom I was promised an earth shattering kaboom!

By: MartinWisse

MartinWisse — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:01:13 -0800

None of these scenes, not even thew nuclear destruction of L. A. or those missiles rising from the grain fields of Kansas are as horrifying as that women pissing herself seeing the mushroom cloud over Sheffield. It's interesting how every single one of those scenes of epic destruction, expect that Terminator II scene at the very beginning, carefully do not show the human damage of such destruction, save for artfully draped, still whole corpses. No torn off limbs, people going mad seeing their loved ones die in front of them, nobody going up like a roman candle, nothing that might take your mind off the spectacle. Not that the teeming masses are shown as anything but a faceless horde of course; as long as the hero finds his wife/son/dog, everything is alright.

By: kbanas

kbanas — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 04:48:05 -0800

I will never underestimate the smug sense of entitlement a seemingly intelligent person has to watch utter crap, and look down on those people who politely express a contrary point of view. Your point of view was that 11 years ago some terrorists flew some planes into a building, so you can't watch Terminator 2 anymore. It's not a contrary point of view - it's a view. Violence happens all the time. Terrorist attacks happen all the time, all over the world. There's a civil war going on in Syria. The USS Cole had its side ripped open and soldiers were killed. A Marine Barracks was blown to shit in Beruit. In Oklahoma City, some grass roots motherfuckers blew up a building. Violence is pervasive and awful. 9/11 was awful, awful, awful - but it was a drop of sand on the beach in the long rap sheet of humanity. We particularly excel and killing each other. I don't understand how you can pick a single thing from that list and say, "Oh ho! I can't watch movies anymore because of that." I just doesn't make sense to me. But, hey, to each their own.

By: kinnakeet

kinnakeet — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:22:33 -0800

The world will keep on ending until studios can no longer make a profit from it. Or it actually ends, whichever comes first. This movie frightened me far, far more than any sci-fi simulation ever could. Especially when my teachers explained that (1) it was pure BS and wouldn't help us, and (2) the same teachers cheerfully explained that Pittsburgh, the nearest city, was high on the list of targets due to its steel production. PS My father was present at the A-bomb tests at Bikini and was able to add his observations to our dinnertable discussions of The Future. Good times.

By: HeroZero

HeroZero — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:25:57 -0800

This supercut highlights the trope of the half-clogged highway: we see scores of cars jammed up on one side trying to escape the city while the hero's car drives back towards the apocalyptic threat on an open road. In the event of armageddon, you'd think they'd figure out how to open up a few lanes on the other side of the highway.

By: angrycat

angrycat — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:28:19 -0800

One thing that I appreciate is that War of the Worlds was supposed to be Spielberg's 9/11 movie and there is something about that scene where people like, wow, freaky lightstorm, wow, cars are off, and then OH SHIT that feels like that morning in the city to me. It's interesting, these 9/11 call-outs. I thought that BSG did them well, but it made me annoyed during The Avengers. And yeah, the woman pissing herself in Threads is scarier then most things I've seen, apocalypse-wise.

By: Beardman

Beardman — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:42:09 -0800

No Threads, no service.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:48:55 -0800

Threads has to be in there somewhere, by far one of the most chilling versions of all hell broke loose that I've seen.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:19:21 -0800

amusing ourselves to death -- didn't somebody write a book about that?

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:39:28 -0800

Lessons Learned: The Firebombing of Tokyo, March 9, 1945 — a local, nuclear-free apocalypse.

By: Chrysostom

Chrysostom — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:54:21 -0800

I just can't enjoy this sort of stuff since I had kids.