tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post8734893793511617857..comments2024-02-11T15:29:31.409-05:00Comments on Richard's Pretension: Apocalyptic DreamsRichard Bellushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-66724198925016716292014-09-08T14:40:05.757-04:002014-09-08T14:40:05.757-04:00There's the old suggestion that if the asteroi...There's the old suggestion that if the asteroid had missed 60m years ago the descendants of the fairly large-brained bipedal dinosaur Troodon formosus might have evolved greater intelligence and then developed a civilization. If there exists an alternate universe in which that happened, I suppose to the denizens of it we really are the Planet of the Apes.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-7634686376349926052014-09-08T12:30:34.967-04:002014-09-08T12:30:34.967-04:00I was recently revisiting the entire "Planet ...I was recently revisiting the entire "Planet of the Apes" saga (gotta blog about it coming up soon). And the earth is destroyed in the second film! I first saw that movie as a young kid and it really freaked me out. You're right, not too often do we see the end of humanity as we know it. But sometimes things just shift a bit. I just read Matheson's "I Am Legend" which I somehow managed never to have seen any film version of. And the ending really surprised me. Life continues on earth, just not the human life we are familiar with. A real surprise, but perhaps closer to what would actually happen. To quote another monster flick, "Life... finds a way." Had to throw in a line from "Jurassic Park". :)Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-5858445247006410352014-08-20T11:14:02.407-04:002014-08-20T11:14:02.407-04:00Roddenberry famously wanted to portray an upbeat f...Roddenberry famously wanted to portray an upbeat future -- to the point that Star Trek scriptwriters struggled since conflict and tragedy are the meat of drama. To the extent that there is life at all after the smash, most post-apocalyptic films are optimistic at their core, despite the losses in The Road and horrible error in The Mist. Beginnings and ends are almost always more interesting than middles, so end-of-the-world flicks catch my attention, too. Besides, the usually portend new beginnings, too.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-43672858687779353702014-08-19T23:39:48.108-04:002014-08-19T23:39:48.108-04:00Wondered if you'd seen Cormac McCarthy's T...Wondered if you'd seen Cormac McCarthy's The Road or Stephen King's The Mist? They both end on a question mark as to how the rest of the world will survive with the Mist ending a little bleaker. A lot of these end of the world films disturb some film fans, but I've always found them somewhat interesting. I heard one SF author say that he wished we'd move away from the dark and gloomy and make more optimistic SF. That would be interesting too. El Voxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05985563041511492981noreply@blogger.com