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So what's your nomination for the best disaster movie? Inspired by watching The Day After Tomorrow and Dawn of the Dead (2004) back to back earlier.

I always like stuff where you get an emergency broadcast etc just before the world goes belly up. The better ones I always think are ones where we don't overcome. The disaster does befall us. Look at Dawn of The Dead - there's next to no explanation and the ending hardly solves all the problems.

So, what have you got?

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CarloOos

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The stand?  I dunno, the book does it better than anything else...  I am sure it has been televised though not sure how effectively.

It was well acted, but the early 90's production values let it down. Cheesy music and effects. A pretty faithful adaption otherwise, though.

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When The Wind Blows. The only cartoon to ever make Hairy Jesus weep real man tears.

The original Dawn of The Dead is also a classic - the new one has zombies that can leg it around too fast - the point of zombies is that they are a plague that is relentless and, although slow and easy to kill when they are alone, en mass they are unstoppable.

Other classics are Threads (as mentioned) and 28 Days Later.

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28 Days Later is very good. Especially troubling are the scenes quite early on with the main character wandering around an empty London, with no idea wha's happened.

And Shaun Of The Dead! Not only a great comedy, but it is scary in parts. And has a couple of very emotional bits.

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When The Wind Blows. The only cartoon to ever make Hairy Jesus weep real man tears.

The original Dawn of The Dead is also a classic - the new one has zombies that can leg it around too fast - the point of zombies is that they are a plague that is relentless and, although slow and easy to kill when they are alone, en mass they are unstoppable.

Other classics are Threads (as mentioned) and 28 Days Later.

But the zombies in 28 Days Later are athletes too!

Tough question, and one that I may have to return to later but right now all I can think of is the Dawn of the Dead remake.

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I thought 28 Days Later had a great opening 45 minutes and then fell apart as soon as they left London. Create a nation of killing machines and spend the last 45 mins showing how people are the real killing machines :P

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I thought 28 Days Later had a great opening 45 minutes and then fell apart as soon as they left London. Create a nation of killing machines and spend the last 45 mins showing how people are the real killing machines  :unsure:

I thought that was quite good.

I didn't like the film as such but I did find the behavior of the un-infected soldiers at the end disturbing, more so than those that were infected.

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The Terminator movies. Theyre all so bleak and , even though 3 is utter shite, it's saving grace is that it ends proving the war against the machines is inevitable.

Yeah, but the whole theme of the first two was that there's no fate but the fate we make for ourselves, whilst the running theme of the third was: It's Destiny, You're Fucked.

Do you not see how T3 makes a mockery of the series?

Fun action flick, though.

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It's not a great movie, but I thought Fail Safe was interesting. It is a TV special which was acted live on air.

It's set during the cold war, in the 60's IIRC. Due to fancy new computer fail safes failing, nuclear bombers are sent to Moscow. Naturally, the Russians say that if a bomb is dropped, they will retaliate.

The US desperatly try to stop the bombers, but fail. A bomb is dropped on Moscow. In order to prevent retaliation, the US president has to agree to nuke New York with one of his own bombs.

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Threads it is, frankly. But just to add something new, Day the Earth Stood Still. It's the calmness in his threat at the end that's so great. There's no hint of earth offering any kind of retalitation - just sort this out, or we're going to fuck you over. Marvellous.

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Night of the Comet was a great one, the characters were a wacky choice with two valley girls taking the front. And the typical set of shade wearing punk baddies in pursuit.

*CLICK*"Wasn't that a scary noise?"

I remember a couple of years ago, there was a fairly crap TV series called "Not With A Bang" where just about everyone just disappeared, leaving a few people to wonder what the hell happened. It was a sitcom IIRC. I always thought that it was a kinda interesting concept. Sounds quite similar to the afore mentioned "The Quiet Earth"

edit: found it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles...299002362.shtml

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Yeah, but the whole theme of the first two was that there's no fate but the fate we make for ourselves, whilst the running theme of the third was: It's Destiny, You're Fucked.

Do you not see how T3 makes a mockery of the series?

Fun action flick, though.

That was the theme of T2, but was it also the theme of T1? I thought the whole 'I'm going to send you back in time to be my father so I can be born to send you back' thing kinda jarred with that. :) The three films all had different messages to me. T1 was that fate will make things happen in spite of interferance. T2 was we can take our destiny into our own hands. T3 was that we can only delay the inevitable, and in doing so we can make things worse.

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The Day The Earth Caught Fire is fantastic. Old, black and white, and bobbins effects, but utterly gripping. And a proper cliffhanger ending too.

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I would vote for Threads.

For that final freeze frame of the girl screaming her lungs out after having just taken a look at at what she has given birth to.

Can't get the image out of my head now.

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