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'Doomsday' is a Stereotypical Post-Apocalyptic Prison World

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2008-01-16 18:11:43 by HASH0x8af1000 in I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
...apocalyptic society imaginable instead of, say, finding a way out of their pen. And when the virus shows up in the outside world, it again seems unlikely that a shapely young lady in gym spandex is the best candidate to enter the quarantined zone--its inhabitants now a violent tribe, equal parts Mad Max and Gwar tribute band--to bring back...
 
 
 
 
 
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Doomsday: The Ultimate Gaggle of Post-Apocalyptic Tropes

2008-02-08 13:14:45 by Editor in SciFi Scanner
 
The trailer for Neil Marshall's next film, Doomsday, was undeniably awesome. But the plot was clearly a mash-up of 28 Days Later and The Road Warrior: scarcely a single element failed to be a groan-worthy cliche of the post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi
 
 
 
 
 
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REVIEW: Wastelands: Stories of Life After the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams

2008-01-03 00:29:28 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...apocalyptic stories MY REVIEW PROS : 19 stories good or better stories, 6 of them excellent CONS : The Gene Wolfe story escapes my meager brain BOTTOM LINE : More entertaining than the average "Best of" annual anthology Wastelands: Stories of Life After the Apocalypse offers a great selection of end-of-the-world stories proving that stories...
 
 
 
 
 
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Roland Emmerich To Bring Us 2012

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2008-02-20 21:10:17 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...apocalyptic genre in an upcoming film titled 2012. We get the scoop from ropeofsilicon Roland brought you Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow and his apocolyptic end times features arent over yet as he is now shopping around a film called 2012, a film described only as an apocalyptic spec script written by Emmerich and Harald Kloser....
 
 
 
 
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: The Road Warrior (1982)

2008-06-06 06:03:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...apocalyptic efforts The Road Warrior opens with an evocative and tightly-edited black-and-white montage. A voice-over narration accompanies the fleeting but memorable documentary images (stock footage), which depict our twentieth-century "oil culture" as two "mighty warrior tribes" go to war to control the dwindling resource. The montage...
 
 
 
 
 
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I Am Legend

2007-12-16 22:25:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Adventure Written by Richard Matheson in 1954, I Am Legend was a harrowing tale of survival pitting the last human alive against the horde of bloodthirsty vampires who had taken control of Earth. The books hero, Robert Neville, relied on a combination of garlic, mirrors, stakes, sunlight and crosses to keep the cannibals...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sergio Martino's 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983) Review

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2007-12-27 22:24:00 by herman in The Bloody Italiana Blog
...apocalyptic sci-fi action thriller 2019: After the Fall of New York Its hard to know where to begin to write about a film such as this one in a way that doesn't make it sound inept. Okay lets try The world goes to war. There is a nuclear showdown and pretty much all is in ruins. The American resistance called the Confederacy has shifted to...
 
 
 
 
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: The Illustrated Man (1969)

2008-06-22 06:33:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...apocalyptic dream. They had a vision that this is the last day of the world and that the human race will die during the night. To spare the children a possibly painful doomsday, this cabal of men has decided to put the children "to sleep" (using pills to be administered at bed time...). Bloom's character protests that " our children are...
 
 
 
 
 
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LIMITS OF VISION: SOUTHLAND TALES and TRANSFORMERS

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2007-11-19 19:03:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...apocalyptic freaky self-expression, where all the elements of the end of the world gather for the big bang. (The world ends not with a whimper, but a bang, goes the oft-repeated turn of phrase which is meant to be grimly funny, but just sounds leaden coming out of Timberlakes mouth). But despite Kellys every-shot-a-new-cameo approach (Cheri...