Jun212010
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For pure entertainment, watch a survival flick!
M.D. Creekmore over at The Survivalist Blog has had a lot of time on his hands lately. How do I know? Well, he’s put together a list of the “Greatest Survival Flicks of All Time.” How many are on the list, you ask? Ten? Twenty-five? No! 101! This list of movies will keep you busy every night this summer and then some!
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My own favorites from his list are:
- The Killing Fields (Can’t watch this one more than once or twice, though.)
- Shackleton (Don’t miss this one!)
- I Am Legend (Worth watching to learn the true importance of storing vinegar.)
- The Flight of the Phoenix (Jimmy Stewart is always worth watching.)
- Braveheart (You’ll want your husband to wear a kilt after this one.)
- Behind Enemy Lines (Don’t watch this one late at night if you want to sleep afterward.)
- Day After Tomorrow (Only worth watching for the scene of Americans trying to cross the border into Mexico!)
Check out his list here, and by all means, if you have suggestions for other titles, let us know!
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The best survival entertainment is not a film but a television series — "Jericho" — which ran from 2006-08.
Available at Amazon and Netflix.
1rightwingmom
"NUTS!" Loved and miss Jericho!
Always liked "Red Dawn" ~ Patrick Swayze!!!
BTW ~ They're re-making "Red Dawn" for a Thanksgiving '10 release!
Security Guy
"The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston is a classic!
TheSurvivalMom
I haven't seen that one, and I'm a big Charlton Heston fan. Thanks for the recommendation.
The Librarian
Actually, I Am Legend is a remake of Omega Man. I love The Day After Tomorrow because its Dennis Quaid ('nuff said?) but also the fact that they survive by hole-ing up in a library! Best line in the movie: Two character are arguing about which books to save and which to burn for warmth when a third character interrupts them to say " Hey you guys I've got shelves of tax codes over here!".
peterpiper
I loved "The Day After Tomorrow", too. Did you find any mistakes, both by the holed-up survivors and the movie makers? 1. The survivors should have made a demi-room and not attempted to heat the whole room. 2. They should have used the curtains as covers or pulled them shut to help keep out the cold. 3. They should have piled books closely together to make the room smaller, especially covering the window where cold would come in. 4. While it wasn't safe to try to leave NY, once the streets froze over and they could walk they should have explored other nearby buildings for supplies. Exploring the Russian ship for food would also have been an intelligent move. 5. They should have sat/slept close together, using shared body heat. And finally, the major goof: when the guys got on the Russian ship and found the bottle of penicillin, it wasn't frozen! Amazing!
Hawaii Honey
Good observations about "The Day After Tomorrow!" The wolves weren't very realistic! Regardless, I really liked that movie. It was a FATHER bear going after his son against all odds! How about "2012?" I was totally exhausted after watching it. That is one action-packed movie. Did you see that the island of O'ahu and Diamond Head were on fire!! Yikes! Scary image!!! Another movie that didn't make the list ……….To this day I still think often about Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson in the 1973 classic "Soylent Green!" What a shocker ending that was!!!
Mary
Jeremiah Johnson has always been one of my favorites.
LizLong
I think they should make a list of advice from Burn Notice (the tv series). They have suggestions for things like making a car more bullet proof cheaply and easily. (It involves phone books.) Most of the advice would be security or tactical in it's application, but still fun and (hopefully never) useful!
On Jericho, the one thing I didn't really get (NOT a spoiler) was why anyone would bomb Detroit! They were doing us a favor, from what I've heard, by getting rid of it. :-p
L P
Jericho was great for opening people's eyes, and had a lot of great thoughts within it. But I had issues with some of its details.
When everyone came out of the building after the fallout cloud and rain, someone asked of the black gunk on the railing, "What's this?" The reply was "That used to be Denver…" Fallout doesn't vanish with the passing of the storm. The gunk was radioactive, and the producers didn't do anyone a favor by suggesting that it was safe to touch…. or failing to illustrate that character's error some how later in the script.
The Ravenwood jerks could have been stopped at that bridge…. the single file approach was foolish, and on their trip in, they could have passed right through hidden deer-hunter-sniper positions, finding themselves in an encircled position at the bridge.
10KT bombs on the ground, 1 in each city, wouldn't do what they suggested.
LizLong
I'm pretty sure the woman who touched the radioactive gunk had to go get radiation treatment right away, it just wasn't really highlighted well. Some more real information would've been nice, but we're talking Hollywood here so we're lucky they even made the series. It's always bugged the crap out of my dh and I that they had a train right outside the town that they should've been able to move in fairly easily once they pried the car off it and they didn't. Lots of resources that weren't used well.
L P
I can't be sure right off the top of my head, but I think it was Mimi that didn't the touching, and she never showed any signs of radioactive poisoning. I wrote the writers and director, and didn't get a reply (surprise surprise…). I went them some freebie technical corrections. OH well. The show DID do quite a bit for increasing awareness, and to be honest, it gave me yet another kick to move ahead faster than I was previously. I know of several people that credit Jericho with helping to get a spouse on board, waking up a kid, or getting conversations started at work. So, yeah, I beat it up on some technical issues, but overall, I'm very glad it ran when it did.