[dinopello]

Can't say I recommend this movie,as I fell asleep watching it about 30 minutes in but a lot of the characters seemed familiar to this (and other) sites. It's currently on Netflix so if you have that you can check it out.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')ames and Lily live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community. The unexpected reunion--abundant with revelry and remembrances, generously enhanced by organic wine and weed--is quickly undermined by the slights of the past, the spark of lingering flirtations and the threat of a locally grown new world order. Balancing tense confrontations with slivers of levity, director Denis Henry Hennelly pinpoints a future where ideology explodes into action in every area.

[Sixstrings]

Ha, so funny you posted this Dino, I saw this a week ago.

A little corny, but I enjoyed it, and it had some good moments. It's not so much a "doomer flick" as it is a hipster melodrama with mild doom in the background.

(I mean seriously, it's the End of the World an they are all clean and stylish and fashionable and hipster and drinking red wine and eating arugala with candles lit blah blah, what kinda Doom is that)

[KaiserJeep]

It would take the end of the world (or extreme hunger) to get me to eat arugula.

As for doomer movies, they don't come better than this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Shaved Monkey]

Arugla or wild rocket as we call it (I also grow the civilised one), grows like a weed here all year round,my wife and I love it,parmessan cheese and a simple French mustardardy vinaigrette.
The more you pick it the faster it grows,a doomers dream plant

[sparky]

.
Read " a boy and his dog" at a tender age when violence and sex were sooooo appealing
the final paragraph had Vic having to feed his best friend ( and fighting support ) blood ,
who waited for him in dire circumstances
the girl friend was the only available source of protein ,Vic wasn't hungry but as he said "a boy love his dog"

[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '[')url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2352802/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1]Can't say I recommend this movie,[/url]as I fell asleep watching it about 30 minutes in but a lot of the characters seemed familiar to this (and other) sites. It's currently on Netflix so if you have that you can check it out.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')ames and Lily live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community. The unexpected reunion--abundant with revelry and remembrances, generously enhanced by organic wine and weed--is quickly undermined by the slights of the past, the spark of lingering flirtations and the threat of a locally grown new world order. Balancing tense confrontations with slivers of levity, director Denis Henry Hennelly pinpoints a future where ideology explodes into action in every area.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', 'T')he actors are fine, but the roles they play are a group of idiots. Their top priorities with the exception of the property owner are booze, pot and sex. When the National Guard arrives the Owner is the only one who realizes the gravity of the situation. None of them take being cut off from modern civilization seriously.

[Tanada]

I tried watching this morning, its been in my netflix Que for quite some time. Blech, I just couldn't take it after about 30 minutes. Very disappointing, like Six said, a bunch of trust funders with no sense of how the cold hard real world works, and one of them is supposed to be a convicted felon who served time in prison? Yet he acts even less realistically than the truly sheltered persona's in the movie.

[Subjectivist]

Just watched Its A Disaster, a much better movie IMO. Though I didn't like the false doctrine of the 'Bible Teacher' the movie was well acted and the action/reactions of the cast were realistic for the first few hours following a disaster. These people came across as realistic to me, some were paranoid, some were despondent, some were suicidal, but there was also hope and the will to live.

[Ibon]

No interest to watch this but it is interesting to see this genre of the end of the world being milked by the movie makers. Our poor imperiled planet and the stupid humans that just cant get it right.

Do movie makers mold culture or do they identify the memes and themes in the collective and then go out and make a movie they know will then resonate with what is cooking in the collective soup?

Related to that we all have our internal movies and narratives going on in our minds and I think wisdom sometimes is realizing that these internal narratives we carry around with us are not much different than what we watch projected on the screen.

We are a species that has a tremendous need to bond with the tribe, with the collective, even those of us who proclaim to want nothing to do with our fellow kudzu apes. Many of our internal narratives seem to be dealing with the anxiety that our tribe is a broken mess.

[dinopello]

I tried again to watch Goodbye World last night but I was distracted with work so didn't probably get all the nuances (if there were any). I agree it's less a disaster/doom movie than a modern day "Big Chill" kind of thing where the story is about the reunion of friends that have different perspectives. Some earlier in this thread seemed to object that people wanted to party and have sex - remind me to stay away from your doomstead ! And, arugala is awesome. Overall the movie was pretty dull.

One of the interludes that I did see that I thought summed up the main prepper in the movie is when he asked how the guy had done a magic (card) trick and when the magician wouldn't reveal it the prepper said "if you don't know how the trick is done it's not entertaining, it's just annoying". It seemed to sum up his lack of enjoyment for living, while at the same time he was working the hardest to preserve his life.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'I') tried again to watch Goodbye World last night but I was distracted with work so didn't probably get all the nuances (if there were any). I agree it's less a disaster/doom movie than a modern day "Big Chill" kind of thing where the story is about the reunion of friends that have different perspectives. Some earlier in this thread seemed to object that people wanted to party and have sex - remind me to stay away from your doomstead ! And, arugala is awesome. Overall the movie was pretty dull.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Clean, "vintage" clothes. Fashionable beards. Everyone is way too clean and things are all perfect. That's hipsters on a trust fund, it's not Doom.

[ralfy]

My favorite's The Road (both the novel and the film).

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'M')y favorite's The Road (both the novel and the film).

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'M')y favorite's The Road (both the novel and the film).