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I stumbled onto this while trying to find something that was similar to other shows that I do like, such as Carnivale, which is also an apocalyptic tale with overt religious content.
Although set in an apocalyptic future, this movie has everything 70s stamped all over it (made in 1971) including some laughable jive talk from Heston "come on, baby" but all the better for it as this was the decade of heightened paranoia, rebellion and cult factions.
This film captures all those elements despite its apocalyptic setting.
A 1970's Australian angst-crash apocalyptic pre-"Mad Max" delight, highlighting the dangers of insularity and resistance to outsiders (even the U.S-style corporation cabriolet kids at the beginning) in the midst of economic low times.
I was intrigued by the storyline, as I was surfing the cable channel late one night; an apocalyptic tale of two lovers trying to escape to Antarctica to avoid a nuclear holocaust!
This storyline might have worked better if the film was twice as long, and with some deux ex machina like a talking laptop hotlined to heaven, to make those details apparent, and loaded with a lot of SciFi apocalyptic or doomsday CGI effects, but making the flick twice as long, would have made this movie too long, commercially, for the mainstream audience's attention span, it wouldn't have sold.
The movie is set in a post apocalyptic earth where oil is a natural resource is fought over by tribes of humans.
This picture is nowhere near as rancid as "Space Mutiny", which will cause psychological damage without the superb MST3K treatment, but "The Apocalypse" can have effects with apocalyptic results on the human psyche.
But the late 80's were full of apocalyptic nuclear holocaust movies and this was the only one that stayed with me.
Also, I found the post apocalyptic society presented in the movie very believable, complete with cultural references to the "before-time".
Rather, here is an apocalyptic tale of a city divided, destroyed, and replaced by raging infernos, man-made volcanoes, plains turned to deserts and forests subsumed by lakes of oil.
Personally, I am a fan of apocalyptic fiction and thoughts of what would happen if the bombs really dropped.
I do not take an apocalyptic view of what recently happened – tragic though it is for the bereaved families.
To be sure, Russian President Vladimir Putin is not Hitler, Russia is not Nazi Germany (or the Soviet Union, for that matter), and the world does not face the same apocalyptic scenario that unfolded in 1939.
This year’s record-breaking drought in the Marshall Islands, apocalyptic storms in the Caribbean, and devastating floods in Bangladesh and the US demonstrate this.
First came the apocalyptic collapse of fascism as Hitler took Germany with him into a collective suicide.
More disturbing to them is his apocalyptic conviction regarding the imminent advent of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, whose appearance is believed to lead to the destruction of the world and the end of time.
Beyond subjugating those in the caliphate, exterminating the Shia, and gaining custodianship of Islam's holy cities in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic State ultimately embraces an apocalyptic vision, to be realized through a sectarian totalitarianism that embodies divine revelation – and thus envisions no compromise or competition.
I grew up with Malthus’s ideas brought up-to-date in apocalyptic books like The Population Bomb .
On the contrary: The canny leaders of ISIS also rely on an apocalyptic “us or them” view of the world.
An apocalyptic scenario in the making?
After two world wars, countless civil wars, brutal dictatorships, mass expulsions of populations, and the horrors of the Holocaust and Hiroshima, “never again” was not just a slogan: the alternative was too apocalyptic to contemplate.
Apocalyptic prophecies and the raucous festivities accompanying them are indisputably alluring.
While such an apocalyptic scenario is unlikely to occur, it cannot be ruled out, especially given that a cyber conflict, unlike most conventional military conflicts, can be initiated unintentionally, taking even the party responsible by surprise.
While Ahmedinejad’s apocalyptic vision makes it difficult for westerners to deal with him, Khamenei does not want to stumble into a military confrontation with the West, which would destabilize Iran and possibly lead to the regime’s downfall.
Fed up with apocalyptic predictions, people wanted a miracle in Copenhagen.
Apocalyptic fears are stoked.
Apocalyptic fiction writers may one day be proved correct.
As the IPCC emphasizes, climate change is a problem; but the report contains none of the media’s typical apocalyptic scenarios, no alarmism, and no demands from natural scientists to cut emissions by X% or to lavish subsidies on solar panels.
As the crackdown following those heady weeks of free expression and assembly came to its apocalyptic end on the night of June 3-4, Zhao vanished, sucked down the Party’s memory hole into which so many other leaders have vanished since China’s “socialist liberation.”
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