Re: Apocalypse films

From: Jack Sargeant (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 16:17:47 PST


The Day After (TV show)
The Omega Man
The Day After Tomorrow
Phase 4
The War Game
Logan's Run
Planet of the Apes
Escape From The Planet of the Apes
Armageddon
Dawn of the Dean
Day of the Dead
Diary of the Dead
Mad Max 2
War is Menstrual Envy
The Earth Dies Screaming
Terminator 2
Terminator 3
La Jetee
I Am Legend
Night of the Comment
Day of the Triffids
ZPG
Dr Strangelove

and don't forget all those wacky Christian movies like Left Behind (?) and
so on about life post rapture!

has anybody seen a preview of John Hillcoat's adaptation of THE ROAD yet?
I imagine it will be pretty definitive in terms of apocalypse movies.

Jack

> You should give the citation on that post-script. It's a paraphrase,
> but a close one: Slavoj Zizek himself paraphrasing Fredric Jameson in
> the introductory essay to Mapping Ideology ("The Spectre of Ideology").
>
> ...
> R.
>
> On Jan 20, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Francisco Torres wrote:
>
>> Some faves of mine...
>>
>> Idaho Transfer
>> Phase 4
>> Omega Man
>> When Worlds Collide
>>
>> PS-
>> Amazing how it is easier for most people to imagine the end of the
>> world than to imagine the end of Capitalism.
>>
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