Saturday, September 23, 2006

Kablooie!! Nucleiod war!!

The TV Show "Jericho" premiered on Wednesday.
Premise: Smalltown in Kansas witnesses mushroom clouds off in the distance. Communication is cut off. Townsfolk deal with the possibility that the rest of the world might just be dead.
Yay! I [heart] post-apocalyptic stuff, so it's pretty compelling to see a series devoted to it.

The show itself was... well, there's potential. I'm still on the fence about it, and have decided to give it a few more episodes to determine whether it's a keeper or not.

But! Onto the fun, interactive part.

I've been thinking about all the movies and tv shows that have shown nuclear explosions.

Here's what I can think of, please add more!

Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
"Battlestar Galactica" (new series. Not sure if the original 70s show dealt with nukes or not. I'm thinking no.)
Miracle Mile (late 80s movie with Anthony Edwards discovering there's one hour until LA gets nuked.)
Chain of Commmand - we have really crappy movies at my work. But, this movie DOES have a major city get nuked.
Independance Day (Um. I'm about 93% certain we see mushroom clouds in this. When the human resistance uses the nukes to fight back, right?)
The Day After
Beneath the Planet of the Apes - I believe, though, we don't really see a mushroom cloud as more of just a flash to white, but I'm including it anyway.
The season one ending of "Sledge Hammer!" ended with a nuclear explosion. (Season Two began retitling the show "Sledge Hammer!: The Early Years". Ha!!)
Certain episodes of "The Simpsons" and "Futurama" and "The Twilight Zone" have had mushroom clouds.


And this isn't even getting into novels that are all apocalyptic. Man, there's a lot of nukes in pop culture.
It's almost as though we've got a pre-occupation with the complete destruction of civilization or something...

5 comments:

CosmicAvatar said...

Does Akira count? I'm not sure if that counts as a nuclear explosion, but the effect was the same.

Er, please don't tell me the title refers to Grease 2...

P@ said...

But what's wrong with Grease 2? It had Michelle Pfiefer and a cool cool cool cool rider. :)

Amy said...

You know, they blow up Vegas with a nuke in The Stand.

Amanda said...

I had a dream last night (after watching the season premire of Jericho) that Georgia was flooded by a giant ice storm. I was quite worried about Rob.

At any rate, there's a thread about this on TWOP, if you're interested.

CosmicAvatar said...

But what's wrong with Grease 2?

Uh, the fact that a) it's utterly dreadful and yet strangely likeable and b) I'm pretty sure that is a line from it, meaning I've definitely watched it more than three times...

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