Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Love and Monsters (2021) in Movies
May 10, 2021
Dylan O'Brien plays a perfect down-on-his-luck, sort of loser who everyone can relate to, and makes for a hugely likable lead. The story of Joel and his dog, Boy, wondering a post apocalyptic, monster-infested America is an engaging one, full of decent set pieces, great CG work, and colourful characters. It almost feels like a family friendly version of The Last of Us, which is absolutely fine with me whilst we wait for the HBO series to land. It's certainly the closest thing we have to a Fallout movie. The pacing is spot on, with plenty of funny moments (and a sharp script), a good dose of heartwarming inner turmoil, and well placed moments of peril, ensuring that proceedings never become boring.
Love and Monsters is a blast. I have everything crossed that it will get a sequel!
Book Divas (227 KP) rated Dark Tomorrow in Books
Jul 12, 2019
The author's worldbuilding is so realistic that you are immediately transported into the middle of this post-apocalyptic world that has been decimated by a virus and you can practically hear the ever-present crows.
Sawyer, Sara, and Mason are truly a force to be reckoned with as we learn of their heartaches and witness how strong they are to endure the harshness and perils of the world. All the characters, from the good to the bad are strong and well developed.
The author has written this in such a way that you often feel like it could really happen. This action-packed powerhouse of a story will keep you on the edge of your seat and I highly recommend it
Green Utopias: Environmental Hope Before and After Nature
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Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the...
Z.O.N.A Project X
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Z.O.N.A Project X - first person shooter based in a post-apocalyptic world. Action of the game...
Orleans
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First came the storms. Then came the Fever. And the Wall. After a string of devastating hurricanes...
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The Misadventures of Two Reluctant Zombie Hunters: Hospitals are Hell
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Follow our not so reluctant Zombie Hunters on an irreverent and satirical romp through the Zombie...
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Time Carnage
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Time Carnage is a frantic VR survival shooter for PSVR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Travel through...
David McK (3868 KP) rated Waterworld (1995) in Movies
Jun 21, 2022
Then he had the one-two misfore of this (at one point, the most expensive flop ever made, I believe) and 'The Postman'.
Both are set in a post-apocalyptic future: here, one where the world has flooded 'due to the melting of the ice shelves' (don't even), with 'dry land' now virtually a myth and where gangs of bikers roam the outlands on custom-built vehicles in search of fuel ...
Sorry, sorry, that's Mad Max.
But you can definitely see the similarities: swap the bikers for jet ski's, replace the loner character played by Mel Gibson for one played by with Kevin Costner and you're virtually there!
Add a bit of Dennis Hopper to completely ham it up, a soupcon of mystery around The Mariner and his mutation, and a search for the mysterious Dryland and there you have it ...
Not as bad as it's made out to be, but nor is it brilliant by any stretch of the imagination
David McK (3868 KP) rated Bird Box (2018) in Movies
Aug 23, 2020 (Updated Jan 17, 2023)
Starring Sandra Bullock, this was sold on the (strong) imagery of a blindfolded woman leading two equally blindfolded children through a river journey - the film, later, makes it clear that this is because a mysterious entity has decimated the population, driving whoever sees it (we don't) mad and causing them to commit suicide.
The film is actually told in both the 'now' of the journey and '5 year previously' (when this first started happening), with Sandra Bullock's character of Malorie heavily pregnant and trapped in a house with other survivors - we know, of course (they're not in the 'now'!) that they're all going to be bumped off one by one, but the suspense is in the how and when.
The ending also, apparently, is a lot less dark that the book on which it is based, and I still have little idea why the film is even called Bird Box!