[frankthetank]

Maybe this is why all the Will Smith bashing lately?

Link to trailer
http://www.movieweb.com/video/V07F8bhptvCDFO



I believe the time period here is 2012, but "everyone" has been dead for 3 years now, so the gas prices are for 2009. Probably not far from reality?

[I_Like_Plants]

Actors themselves, if they're good, have to be able to put themselves in someone else's shoes. This is a very rare trait in America, and actors and writers are about the only people capable of doing it. When they do, they're often demonized because 99.99% of Americans are not capable of comprehending the act of playing "devil's advocate" or or taking someone else's place.

Actors call this the Stanislavsky Method, it was invented in the 30s.

It could not be invented today, actors without these 1930s tools would be only capable of AmericaThink(tm) and make Ahnold look like a mastor of wit and subtlety.

Now, since writers and actors, the better ones, are capable of this, yeah, they're capable of looking at the PO situation and not taking years or a lifetime to digest it.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', '
')I believe the time period here is 2012, but "everyone" has been dead for 3 years now, so the gas prices are for 2009. Probably not far from reality?

[I_Like_Plants]

Kurt Vonnegut in his book Galapagos, comes up with a virus that feeds on human egg cells, thus, worldwide sterility. That's the most humane method, and maybe if we're lucky someone in some lab is working on that.

Will Smith was in I, Robot and is a notorious techie. Maybe he's followed the technocopian trail where it leads, which is, Where the hell are we going to get all the energy needed for a Jetsons future from? Where do we get our energy NOW from? Oil, ok, research that... uh-oh.....

At least if he hates robots like his character does in I, Robot, he'll be relieved to see we're not headed for that future.

[Twilight]

Is that Will Smith teeing off from the Intrepid?

I think that's as far from reality as it is possible to get. Right up there with the Independence Day aliens running Unix. I might still catch it though.

[da23]

hope this isn't against any rules but here's will smith anyway......


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[Mechler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', '
')I believe the time period here is 2012, but "everyone" has been dead for 3 years now, so the gas prices are for 2009. Probably not far from reality?

[I_Like_Plants]

It turns out the book it's based on was written over 50 years ago, which backs up my theory that the original thinking peaked in the US about that long ago.

It was eerie back in my bookselling days, coming across a fairly complete Signet Science Library, a series of little paperbacks, that were published from right after WWII up into the late 50s. Most of the stuff talked about was stuff they're still talking about in Scientific American and on TV as being brand new.

And the best book about 'net culture and the eventual shutdown of the 'net is The Machine Stops, written in the late 1800s I think.

[frankthetank]

That could be it. In a panic situation i'm sure the shelves would empty pretty fast along with people hoarding gasoline (increasing prices). Although this "mutation" seemed to happen pretty quick???(the bitten dog?)

Still neat to see in a big movie. The life he lives in 2012 by himself consists of hunting wild game in the city from the window of a Mustang and taking canned goods from apartments!

[WildRose]

The way it played in the movie, it appeared that not many people took their cars, so many cars were abandoned in the streets. That was eerie, all the scenes with the cars sitting where they were last parked (or abandoned) and the weeds coming up through the cracks in the roads. The birds still sang though.

[kam3Oen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he way it played in the movie, it appeared that not many people took their cars, so many cars were abandoned in the streets.

[mmasters]

While everyone's distracted with the apocolyptic concept of 2012, mayan calendars and free-for-all doom, in 2012 the NWO will most likely be fully realized.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kam3Oen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he way it played in the movie, it appeared that not many people took their cars, so many cars were abandoned in the streets.

[frankthetank]

Subliminally putting it into the masses minds???

[Stratovarius]

Great movie. Somewhat underrated I think due to so many negative reviews.

I think it was only natural for the writers to put such a huge spike on that gasoline price sign since they shot down the bridges and anything going in or out of the city was heavily regulated. Naturally the supplies were very limited and several million people needed gas.

Although I'm still surprised that it didn't say something like 1.50-2.00/gallon.

[perdition79]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'A')nd the best book about 'net culture and the eventual shutdown of the 'net is The Machine Stops, written in the late 1800s I think.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'S')ubliminally putting it into the masses minds???

[Ang]

Just saw the movie last night and I have a few questions.

1. How is it there was still electricity?
2. How were the zombies smart enough to lay a trap and use his friend, the mannequin, but not smart enough to track him down in three years?
3. If the bridges were blown up to keep people on the island, how did Anna drive away in his car at the end of the movie?

and finally

4. How did they keep the zombies out of the safe zone? (Oh wait a minute, maybe the big fence was electrified from the same random source?)

Inquiring minds want to know!!

[Stratovarius]

Good questions ang.

1. Dunno, perhaps the the dude had his own generator?
2. I asked this and honestly this was the only part of the movie where I lost that nice trance-like state when I'm watching a good movie and I go, "Oh yeah, I'm watching a movie." I think it was just a hollywood filler unfortunately.
3. Maybe she used a ferry.
4. What safe zone?

[Ang]

I thought I saw generators somewhere...wouldn't those make a lot of racket for the zombies to hear?

I thought about the ferry!!

You know, the Jeffersonian utopia at the end, in Vermont. It was a pretty huge area to defend. Maybe the smell of the maples masked the scent of all that zombie kibble!!