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SuperHiro · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:21 am Post subject: 93% of the population...

http://www.WhatIsTheEndGame.com

I haven't seen this movie yet, but the population reduction element introduced from tonight's episode of Heroes is eerily similar. I heard about this movie while listening to Coast to Coast AM. The maker of this film believes there is actually a group of people who want to see 90% of the population dead! eek

Payquage · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:42 am Post subject:

Maybe Mohinder was right about messing with the Shanti virus - a version was created that could cross into the general population. Oh - or what if it's a version that ONLY affects the general population? Then everyone who's left would be a special. That sounds like it could be someone's evil plan (oh, wait, that was the 4400...)

mattk25 · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject:

Is this a movie or a documentary on real events? Freaky! Strange how it is simliar to the Heroes plotline!

SuperHiro · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject:

SuperHiro · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject:

The whole video is up on Google Videos:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261

Hercules67 · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:32 am Post subject:

You know there are going to be a lot of "End of the World" movies coming out the next few years, don't you? Starting with the one with Will Smith, "I am Legend".

There is also "Southland Tales".

We have many apocalyptic tales coming up, not the least because of the upcoming end of the "the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar". Some interpreters of the Bible and users of the Bible code are starting to use that date as well.

Don't forget the writers have also stated that they have used this book as a reference: Y: The Last Man in which every man on the planet, except one dies (the women, surprisingly, all survive).

ichigo · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:38 am Post subject:

I believe I heard that mentioned on Coast to Coast as well...I'll have to look into it.

mattk25 · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject:

Jormengrund · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject:

Let me think here.. 7% of the population of the planet survive, but there's only one man.. I'd say that he's going to be one tired fellow by the end of the first week! lol

obsidianflame · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject:

How did a discussion of the world population being wiped out turn into a strange male fantasy?

Am I going to have to get the hose?

I'll check out these links when I'm no longer in the middle of a class talking about incestual relationships and magical realism (we're discussing Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison). lol

evil pixie · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

This is reminds me of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove; here's the bit:

[Strangelove's plan for post-nuclear war survival involves living underground with a 10:1 female-to-male ratio]
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

Zonedancer · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:23 am Post subject:

I used to listen to Coast to Coast AM myself
back in the day when Art Bell was hosting it.
While the show was very entertaining
I tended to take everything I heard
with a very large grain of salt.
I did buy this neato aluminum hat though
which is very good for blocking both
Alien and Goverment Thought Probes.
Better Alien Thought Probes than those other Alien Probes

HERCULES said,

Jormengrund · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

And of course, there's Planet of the Apes, Armageddon, Deep Impact, The Day After Tomorrow, ad nauseum. Hollywood loves to prey on the fears of some folks who just are afraid of the future, and what it could possibly hold. Thus, they try to think up any and all kinds of plausible (and some fantastic) ideas, work them into something resembling a storyline, and then film it.

Most "end of the world" flicks tend to run along a familiar theme. The ones that really tend to catch my attention are the ones that break away from the stereotypical mode, and do their own thing. Instead of the earth being in a "post-apocalyptical" state, it's one that has been reduced by famine and disease, and it's left to the survivors to figure out the cure, or die. That kind of stuff actually catches my attention more than some "big bang" storyline about some massive war that eliminated all but a few handfulls of humans, and their struggle against mutated survivors of the horrific war atrocitites that were committed.

I don't think I'll bother watching "I am Legend" when it comes out in the theater, but I will at least give it a look-see when it makes it's way to DVD. I do owe it to the actor to at least give him a try..

Hercules67 · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:04 am Post subject:

The "end of the world" scenes in "I am Legend" look very well constructed. Just for those, I think I will give it a try. The original novel is actually pretty decent and mildly related to the "Heroes" current storyline..... "The Omega Man" adaption was a movie that I actually enjoyed.

You know, the apocalyptic nuts that came out of the woodwork and went back hiding back 7 years or so? They are going to come back out in another 5 years or so. Just remember:

23 December 2012

Jormengrund · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

I have never yet put any stock in anything that Nostradamus ever quoted, mainly because his rantings are those of someone that is like a psychic on crack.

Shady predictions that can be construed however someone would like to interpret them isn't my idea of a true prophetic vision, it is just (in my mind) the rantings of someone who really needed to be noticed at that juncture in time, and was willing to do or say anything in order to get that attention.

I personally think that he wouldn't have been as famous if he'd not tried to predict the end of the world so many different times. That we're still here and kicking is just one more reason why I don't put much stock in any of the "End of the world" predictions. My feeling? I'm already in hell, mainly because this world isn't ending, and with the way things are going, it's not getting any prettier, it's just getting worse.

Thank god that I won't have to keep living in it as it really starts to get out of hand.. (I hope)