Apocalyptic, Doomsday Themes in Recent Films and TV Shows....

[JewishbyChoice]

It's interesting how much the theme of end times is reflected in what is being produced in today's film and television:

TV show "Jerico"
Will Smith's "I Am Legend" movie
Will Smith's "Independence Day"
Will Smith's "I Robot"
Horror film "Cloverfield"
Doomsday documentary on The National Geographic Channel "Six Degrees"
TV show "Lost"
"Waterworld"
"Dark City"
"End of Days"
"The Matrix"
Bruce Willis' "Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard part 4)"
Bruce Willis' "Armageddon"
Arnold Schwarzenegger's "End of Days"
film "The Day After Tomorrow"
spooky remake of "War of the Worlds" directed by Steven Spielberg with Tom Cruise
film "Deep Impact"
film "Tank Girl"
Showtime cable television series "Jeremiah"
film "Resident Evil: Extinction"
film "Children of Men"
film "28 Days Later"
film "28 Weeks Later" (sequel to "28 Days Later")
film "Ever Since the World Ended"
film "Twelve Monkeys"
film "The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell"
film "Appleseed"
film "Time of the Wolf"
film "Equilibrium"
film "On the Beach"

And that is not to mention all the books and video games with the theme. I find it extremely fascinating and was wondering what your thoughts are on the subject. I just watched the Bruce Willis film "Live Free or Die Hard" with my brother and it really rattled his cage. I have been talking to my brother about the subject lately and he says that it scares him.

[Victor]

Cool Post Jewish By Choice!

Here's some more stuff:

Shows on TV that are like obsessed with End of The World and Apocalyptic Destruction by like everything:

Mega Disasters
Perfect Storms
Super Comets
Ultimate Tsunami's

You name it,

Then there's shows with Title's like "The Anti-Christ" "Road To Armageddon" "Rapture, or The Rapture"

Maranatha!

[Victor]

There is a show on The History Channel as I type this called:

Mega Disasters: The impact of a major earthquake in Los Angeles

[seekingtruth1]

Well I think its on purpose to get the world prepped for whats coming. I think there is alot af conspiring behind teh scenes....

It's interesting how much the theme of end times is reflected in what is being produced in today's film and television:

TV show "Jerico"
Will Smith's "I Am Legend" movie
Will Smith's "Independence Day"
Will Smith's "I Robot"
Horror film "Cloverfield"
Doomsday documentary on The National Geographic Channel "Six Degrees"
TV show "Lost"
"Waterworld"
"Dark City"
"End of Days"
"The Matrix"
Bruce Willis' "Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard part 4)"
Bruce Willis' "Armageddon"
Arnold Schwarzenegger's "End of Days"
film "The Day After Tomorrow"
spooky remake of "War of the Worlds" directed by Steven Spielberg with Tom Cruise
film "Deep Impact"
film "Tank Girl"
Showtime cable television series "Jeremiah"
film "Resident Evil: Extinction"
film "Children of Men"
film "28 Days Later"
film "28 Weeks Later" (sequel to "28 Days Later")
film "Ever Since the World Ended"
film "Twelve Monkeys"
film "The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell"
film "Appleseed"
film "Time of the Wolf"
film "Equilibrium"
film "On the Beach"

And that is not to mention all the books and video games with the theme. I find it extremely fascinating and was wondering what your thoughts are on the subject. I just watched the Bruce Willis film "Live Free or Die Hard" with my brother and it really rattled his cage. I have been talking to my brother about the subject lately and he says that it scares him.

[In His Service]

But, all of these films are so understating the destruction that will come to the unrepentant world stated in the Bible.

[Glory]

On ABC's Nightline last week, they were talking about the Rapture!

[seekingtruth1]

On ABC's Nightline last week, they were talking about the Rapture!

Well what did they say about it pray tell! Im so curious! Dont YOU go to BED!

[AnnOdom44]

This is off-topic, but have you noticed the increase in the number of shows about the paranormal? And the History Channel has been having a lot of programs about UFO's. Just de-sensitizing the general public I guess
Texas Mimi

[Glory]

Well what did they say about it pray tell! Im so curious! Dont YOU go to BED!

I'm sorry, I did go to bed.

There was some guy on who doesn't believe in the rapture, and the host of nightline was asking, "You really don't believe that christians are going to suddenly disappear from the earth?" I can't remember the guys name! I'm sure it's on ABC's website for Nightline. I think it was last Friday night when it was on. Yes, I'm sure it was aired on Friday because my son had just gone home when I walked in and saw it on.

[lostsheep]

This is off-topic, but have you noticed the increase in the number of shows about the paranormal? And the History Channel has been having a lot of programs about UFO's. Just de-sensitizing the general public I guess
Texas Mimi

I don't think it is off subject at all.
This is all part of Satan's great lie. ALL OF IT!
I just makes sense that the enemy's plan is to deceive the world in EVERY way.
When destruction does come, everyone will think it is global warming or some other cazy theory.
It is unbelieveable to see scripture unfold in front of our eyes. We are witnessing the beginning of the great lie.

[yeshuasavedme]

Desensitization to make the abnormal look normal and therefore acceptable.

[Geyatahi]

There is a show on The History Channel as I type this called:

Mega Disasters: The impact of a major earthquake in Los Angeles

I saw that last night and the one before that on the History channel was about comets and how they killed the dinosaurs and how it could happen again and that reminds me last night my daughters friend came over and she told me that 30 minutes prior to her arrival she saw a big BLUE shooting star (not the normal color) and it was the same size of a street light and this accured after the storms went thru in Monroe NC ( skies were clear) never heard of this before: idunno,when she asked I told anything is possible with God.

Geyatahi

[Sharon]

Hollywood should be making a movie soon how a black president messes up the U.S. by letting Iran or the Al Queda take over Iraq and he stops making missiles and then the U.S. is overtaken by the terrorists. Oh, so real and scary.

[LoveforChrist]

Hollywood should be making a movie soon how a black president messes up the U.S. by letting Iran or the Al Queda take over Iraq and he stops making missiles and then the U.S. is overtaken by the terrorists. Oh, so real and scary.

I think you should choose your words wisely. It isn't a color thing. It is the prince of air - we do not war against flesh and blood. If hate is what you are going to do then maybe this isn't the correct place for you to be.

[Theresa]

I think you should choose your words wisely. It isn't a color thing. It is the prince of air - we do not war against flesh and blood. If hate is what you are going to do then maybe this isn't the correct place for you to be.

I have a feeling that Sharon was trying to refer to Obama without directly naming him, rather than painting all potential black presidents as bad.

[JewishbyChoice]

Cool Post Jewish By Choice!

Here's some more stuff:

Shows on TV that are like obsessed with End of The World and Apocalyptic Destruction by like everything:

Mega Disasters
Perfect Storms
Super Comets
Ultimate Tsunami's

You name it,

Then there's shows with Title's like "The Anti-Christ" "Road To Armageddon" "Rapture, or The Rapture"

Maranatha!

Here's some more multimedia info:

The 2004-2007 series The Uglies Trilogy: Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and the companion novel, Extras by Scott Westerfeld, which takes place in a future civilization that arose after our current civilization collapsed because of an engineered bacterium that attacked not people, but oil, changing its chemical composition so that it exploded on contact with oxygen

The 2007 novel Plague Year by Jeff Carlson (slated to be a trilogy)

The Trilogy including Monster Island (2006), Monster Nation (2006), and Monster Planet (2007), by David Wellington

The 2007 novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

The 2004 novel Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

The 1993 novel Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Ayreon series of concept albums depicts the end of life on Earth in 2084 due to, among other factors, a catastrophic nuclear war.

The Horses, poem by Edwin Muir. Deals with society's regression to pre Industrial Revolution conditions in the wake of a nuclear war

# Your Attention Please, poem by Peter Porter, written in the style of a radio broadcast warning of an impending nuclear attack

Manga series Battle Angel Alita contains post-apocalyptic elements, and takes place in a highly futuristic dystopian world.

Comic series 'The Last American, originally from Marvel in 1990/1991, re-released by Com.X

Webcomic Post-Nuke, taking place during a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter

Games

* Auto Assault While seemingly caused by Aliens it is infact Human mistakes, breakdown and war that forges Auto Assault's apocalyptic world. Similar to the Command & Conquer series where an Alien event is the catalyst needed to start decline.
* KKnD series
* Gamma World from TSR, Inc., the makers of Dungeons & Dragons
* Fallout series
* Land of Devastation (a BBS Door)
* Operation Overkill (a BBS Door)
* Wasteland
* Neuroshima from Portal Publishing
* The Morrow Project from Timeline Ltd
* Twilight: 2000 from Game Designer's Workshop, set in a world where a Sino-Russian war degenerates into a limited nuclear conflict that eventually drags in Europe and America.
* Rifts, in which a nuclear exchange triggers the return of Ley Lines and Interdimensional Rifts or portals. These Ley Lines and Portals subsequently cause several natural and supernatural disasters.
* Warzone 2100
* S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
* Aftermath! from Fantasy Games Unlimited.
* Half-Life
* The computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri tells of a ship leaving Earth on the eve of WWIII to found a new colony orbiting Alpha Centauri
* The Command & Conquer series of games features several worldwide conflicts in the Tiberian (GDI vs. Brotherhood of Nod), Red Alert (Soviets vs. Allies), and Generals (USA vs. GLA vs. China) series. The Tiberian series in particular is noted for the continuing decay of Earth by the alien "Tiberium" crystals which spread across the surface and render much of the planet uninhabitable; a setting which, thus far, has become more serious with each subsequent game of the timeline.
* World in Conflict takes place in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union mounts a land invasion of the United States.
* Post Apocalyptic Hero a genre book for Hero System 5th Edition Revised.
* Darwin's World a d20 role-playing game from Impressions
* Crystalis from SNK
* Homeworld- a small human civilization on the desert planet of Kharak on the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy is brought to the brink of extinction for violating a forgotten 5000-year old treaty forbidding them from developing hyperspace technology. The survivors, however, are fortunate to have the use of the recently-completed Mothership- a large colony vessel meant to take them back to their ancient and forgotten homeworld near the center of the galaxy, Hiigara. The game was succeeded by sequels Homeworld: Cataclysm and Homeworld 2.

Novels:

* 2001. Project Phoenix: Dead Rising by Darrin Brent Patterson.
* 2003. Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana by Robert J. Szmidt
* 2003. The City of Ember and its sequel, The People of Sparks, and prequel, The Prophet of Yonwood, by Jeanne DuPrau
* 2004. Cowl by Neal Asher.
* 2004. Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson
* 2004. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell contains one of six novellas set in a post-apocalyptic future.
* 2005. The Empire of Texas by Rodger Olsen is about a post-apocalyptic United States
* 2005. Deadlands by Scott A. Johnson
* 2006. The Road (novel) by Cormac McCarthy. A father and son's post-apocalyptic tale of survival.
* 2006. The Book of Dave by Will Self. Split between modern London and post-apocalyptic London where a new society and religion is based on the legacy of a cab driver.
* 2007. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
* 2007. The Oblivion Society by Marcus Alexander Hart

The Sun's expansion

* The 1912 novel The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, in which the Sun burns out and the last of humanity is sheltered in an arcology from the hostile environment and the creatures adapted for it.
* The 1971 short story Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven.
* The 1976 novel A World Out of Time by Larry Niven
* The episode "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars," of J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5
* The episode "The End of the World," of the television series Doctor Who
* The novel Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke in which the last survivors of Earth arrive at a distant colony unexpectedly.

* The comic series Just a Pilgrim by Garth Ennis
* The video game "Tetris Worlds"
* The poem "Darkness (poem)" by Lord Byron describes the end of life on earth after the sun's extinction.
* The movie "Last Night (film)" by Don McKellar, which follows the lives of several individuals as they cope with their final six hours on Earth before the apparent incineration of the Earth by the sun (the cause of the apocalypse is never directly stated).
* The short story "Finis" by Frank Lillie Pollock where a second sun's light incinerates the Earth.
* The 2007 movie, Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle. The film follows a spaceship crew in the year 2057 who are tasked with reigniting Earth's dying sun.


Social & Economic Collapse:

# The 1990 novel Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson. A man and a wolf band together to survive in an America devastated by financial collapse.
# The 1998 novel Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles[1] (the editor of SurvivalBlog) is a novel about a full-scale socio-economic collapse.
# The video game Deus Ex: Invisible War. After total global economic collapse (an event known simply as 'The Collapse'), all religion is collected into one, which is in conflict with the new world order. Throughout the game, the player can choose to be on either side, affecting the game's outcome.

Unspecified phenomena:

# The 1994 novel Vanishing Point by Michaela Roessner. Life in Silicon Valley 30 years after the mysterious and spontaneous disappearance of 90% of the world's population. The Winchester Mystery House ("The House") serves as a focal point for parallel universes and inexplicable energies that are changing the world and its post-Vanishing children.
# The novels Island in the Sea of Time (1998), Against the Tide of Years (1999), and On the Oceans of Eternity (2000) by S. M. Stirling, in which a cosmic disturbance of indeterminate cause transports the island of Nantucket and its surrounding waters backwards in time 3,000 years to the Bronze Age.
# The novels Dies the Fire (2004), The Protector's War (2005), The Meeting at Corvallis (2006), and The Sunrise Lands (2007) by S. M. Stirling, in which a disaster of indeterminate cause (most speculation within the novels concerns an all-powerful outside force, often facetiously referred to as "Alien Space Bats") causes electricity, combustion engines, and modern explosives to cease functioning.
# The 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
# The series of novels set in the world of Wraeththu by Storm Constantine, in which humanity is replaced as the planet's dominant species by a race of mystic hermaphrodites. War and plague ravage the human population, but no single cause is specified.
# The 1988 novel Tea from an Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan, set in a cyberpunk world following a a vaguely described natural cataclysm.
# Ongoing comic series 'Wasteland', takes place roughly 100 years in the future where North America is a dustbowl and lacking modern technology.

The Decline of the Human Race:

# The 1997 film The End of Evangelion, in which all humankind are reverted to a "primordial soup" and merged into a single consummate being.
# The The House of the Dead series of video games. Scientist Dr. Curien finds a way to reanimate the dead, though not without disastrous results. Later in the series' timeline, Caleb Goldman uses the undead in his mission to destroy the human race and protect the Earth from further destruction by humans.
# The 2008 History Channel program, Life After People, explains what would happen to the Earth if humans suddenly because extinct, the cause of the extinction left unexplained.

Ecological Catastrophe:

# The 2003 film It's All About Love written, directed and produced by Thomas Vinterberg
# The 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow written, directed and produced by Roland Emmerich. Based in part on the novel The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell & Whitley Strieber
# The 2005 film Serenity and 2002-2003 television show Firefly by Joss Whedon, in which the Earth's resources and biosphere get used up prompting mass exodus for the stars.
# The 2006 film The World Sinks Except Japan, a parody of Japan Sinks. All the land on earth sinks into the ocean, with Japan being the last to go. The sinking has something to do with tectonic plates.
# The 2003 novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
# The 2003 novel Clade by Mark Budz
# The 2003 novel The Secret Under My Skin by Janet Mcnaughton, set in a period following a technocaust, when scientists were blamed for environmental disasters and taken to concentration camps.
# The 2004 novel Crache by Mark Budz
# The 2004 novel The Snow by Adam Roberts, in which the world is buried under kilometres of unnatural snow.
# The 2006 novel Small-Minded Giants by Oisín McGann
# The novels Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow by H. M. Hoover, set in California several centuries after pollution all but wiped out the human race
# The novel trilogy Snowfall by Mitchell Smith (Snowfall, Kingdom River, and Moonrise) in which North America has retreated into hunter-gatherer societies and military kingdoms some 500 years after an apocalyptic ice age.
# The novels Mara and Dann, Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: A Novel by Doris Lessing Set in a future ice age. Other Lessing novels like Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta deal with apocalyptic themes.
# The 2002 video game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, in which a flood has decimated the fictional world of Hyrule.
# The 2002-2003 anime series Overman King Gainer, which depicts humanity living in domes after an ecological disaster.
# The 2005 short story The Garden Where My Rains Grows by Brian Keene, set in a post-apocalyptic world where it started raining one day and never stopped.
# The 2005-2006 anime series Zoids: Genesis where an earthquake triggers a series of worldwide natural disasters that devastate Planet Zi.
# The 2005-present radio drama Nebulous by Graham Duff, in which much of the world was destroyed by an event known as "the Withering".
# The 2006 anime series Ergo Proxy by the Japanese production company Manglobe, in which an undefined global ecological disaster has decimated the surface of the Earth, and the small remaining human population lives in isolated, city-state dome complexes.
# The 2006 PC game, Battlefield 2142, in which a new ice age renders most of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable. Wars are fought over the remaining habitable land.
# The Command & Conquer: Tiberian series of games in which a radioactive, self-replicating alien crystal known as Tiberium has rendered most of the Earth's surface uninhabitable.
# The game Dark Sun from TSR, Inc.

Monsters and biologically altered humans:

# The 2002 film Reign of Fire, in which dragons take over
# The 2004 film version of Dawn of the Dead
# The 2005 anime series Trinity Blood involving a war between humans and vampires.
# The 2006 novel Cell by Stephen King
# The 2006 film Pulse, in which the world is overruned by Humanoid Ghosts, and everything is destroyed by them.
# The 2006 book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
# The Trilogy including Monster Island (2006), Monster Nation (2006), and Monster Planet (2007), by David Wellington
# The 2007 film Resident Evil: Extinction. In this third chapter of the game-based movie, a virus infects most of the Earth's population, turning them into zombies. The few survivors move away in armored groups, or hide underground.
# The 2007 anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, in which cloned "Beastmen" fight an apocalyptic battle with humanity.

After the fall of space-based civilization:

# The PlayStation video game Xenogears
# Red Dwarf, the British Science-Fiction Sitcom
# Star Man's Son 2250 A.D. by Andre Norton
# Transfusion by Chad Oliver

Astronomic impact (meteorites):

The 2006 TV series Three Moons Over Milford
# The 2001-present book series Remnants, by K.A. Applegate
# The 2002 novel The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
# The 2004 novel Earth, the New Frontier by Adam Celaya
# The 2004 novel Singularity by Bill DeSmedt, in which it turns out that a presumed meteor that struck the earth is in fact a microscopic black hole that entered the earth's crust, and never exited.
# The 2005 novel It's Only Temporary by Eric Shapiro
# The 2000 console game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a Nintendo 64 game.
# The 2001 console game Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, for PlayStation 2
# The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, which includes video games, short stories, and animated features, revolves largely around the fate of a planet which is ravaged by the impact a a giant meteor/asteroid, summoned by magic.
# iD Software's new project, Rage, is set after a meteor collision with the Earth.
# Godzilla: Unleashed from Pipeworks, set in the post-apocalyptic earth in which earth has been destroyed by crystals.
# Advance Wars: Days of Ruin - With virtually all of humanity wiped out by a meteor strike, the game follows the exploits of an army of survivors, fighting bandit raiders and hostile armies across the planet's desolate remains.
# Warhammer 40,000 tabletop, card and computer games are set in a far future after the fall of the Eldar, where mankind wars amongst many other races.
# Larry Niven's Ringworld, an expedition from earth to find a futuristic planet, a ring surrounding a star, results in the members finding that a meteor puncture in the ring's floor and power failure caused the cities to break a part and civilization to collapse.
# The Last Legionary series by Douglas Hill, in which a lone soldier fights to bring down the organisation which unleashed a deadly radiation against his planet, killing all his people and rendering the planet uninhabitable.
# The computer game Supreme Commander is set at the end of a thousand year long war, called the infinite war, between two separate factions of humans and a race of cyborgs.

[JewishbyChoice]

The real problem that I think we all see in this trend is the unbelieving world is being inundated by these doomsday stories and they are becoming more hopeless and depressed. Insomnia is on the rise, making the pharmaceutical companies very profitable. The enemy is definitely at work here to plunge the world into worry and anxiety without Good News. Imagine the youth of today being bombarded by all these games that are extremely frightening with graphics that are so life-like. These times are so dark. We being the bearers of the Light of the World must let more people know that we know the End and it is Good. The Good Guy Wins. Evil has been pulverized at Calvary.

[JewishbyChoice]

The History Channels Line-up:

Mega Disasters
Alien Infection
Earthquake in the Heartland
Gamma Ray Burst
Hawaii Apocalypse
L.A.'s Killer Quake
Mega Drought
Mega Freeze
Methane Explosion
New York Earthquake
Oil Apocalypse
Super Swarms
West Coast Tsunami
Yellowstone Eruption
Bible Code II: Apocalypse and Beyond
Bible Code II: Apocalypse and Beyond
Decoding The Past Doomsday 2012: The End of Days
Nazi Prophecies
Presidential Prophecies
Secrets of the Dollar Bill
Seven Wonders of the World
Hell: The Devil's Domain
UFO Files
Alien Encounters
Alien Engineering
Beyond The War of the Worlds
Deep Sea UFOs: Red Alert
New UFO Revelations: Cattle Mutilations
New UFO Revelations: The Gray's Agenda
The Day after Roswell
UFO Hot Spots
UFOs in the Bible
UFO Hunters Abductions
Abductions Cops vs. UFOs
Crash and Retrieval
Military vs. UFOs
The UFO Before Roswell
UFO Gateways
USOs

[JewishbyChoice]

The real problem that I think we all see in this trend is the unbelieving world is being inundated by these doomsday stories and they are becoming more hopeless and depressed. Insomnia is on the rise, making the pharmaceutical companies very profitable. The enemy is definitely at work here to plunge the world into worry and anxiety without Good News. Imagine the youth of today being bombarded by all these games that are extremely frightening with graphics that are so life-like. These times are so dark.

We being The Bearers of The Light of the World must let more people know that we know the End, and it is Good! The Good Guy Wins. Evil has been pulverized at Calvary.

Jesus is the Good News!!!

[Debsters]

I was watching the Sarah Connor Chronicle Files (Terminatior) Monday on Fox. The end of the show she quoted a scripture from Revelation. It was the one about the White Horse, Pale Horse etc. Then the show played a Johnny Cash song about the Rapture/Revelation passage. All while a mini blood bath war was going on with a robot. But still it made my ears perk up just hearing the passage read and listening to the song.

And of course through the Sarah Connor CF series, they talk all the time about Armageddon.

Yep, lots of shows, movies, books, documentaries all cashing in on it.