Passing a video camera in front of these paintings and then editing the resulting footage together with some loud Wagnerian music would be about 100 times more entertaining than anything Roland Emmerich has ever made.
@Grey_Area: It looks like the water has just swept into the city, hence the trucks still floating around with their lights on. The poor sharks were probably swept in by the water. As soon as the water settles they will find a better place to live.
These pictures are amazingly cool. They are my kind of end of civilization.
Sure it could have held six million people...for several hours, stacked like cord wood. then the air would have given out. Hey! the air would give out first! We don't need restaurants, showers, food or water, the air will give out! It can hold 12 million people!
It didn't help that Mao underestimated the destructive power of Soviet warheads (the Sovs compensated their less accurate warheads with bigger destructive yields) and the actual cost of building a city sized shelter on the then fragile Chinese economy.
... jeez, Dixia Cheng literally translates to "Underground City". I thought we Chinese people were supposed to have more flowery terms for these kinds of things? Like Prosperous Subterranean Utopia or something.
@crashedpc - Haifisch: Maybe since its a dirty, wet, swampy, nasty, nuclear fallout shelter intended to squeeze 6 million people into it, they just said ehh fuck the silly name, just call the kettle black..
@burlybax: Never underestimate the Chinese tendency to completely euphemize (made up word) something that's utterly shite. Oooh, believe me, I know this first hand.
@BadUncle: Nope - all you need is an attractive wall sconce, maybe some decorative potporri - would fit nicely in the pages of Better Homes and Bunkers.
@BadUncle: yep, and no possibility of Ghosts or weird underground dwellers, the last insane survivors of political prisoners or fringe science experiments!
My problem with this movie, and all Emmerich productions, isn't the elaborate CGI destruction, but the rampart boringness between them. I doubt I can sit through a 2 hour movie with no plot. #2012
@B: movie was terrible. a regret. theres not nearly enough CGI destruction to hold your attention for 2 1/2 hours. Movie could have been 43 minutes long.
Also - if you've seen the LA destruction/plane scene online - its the only thing worth watching. Though some of the dialogue in the film is so laughably bad it borders on entertainment (but this will one day be online as well in an edited 2-3 min clip) #2012
I haven't see this movie yet (and probably won't until it comes out on DVD).
But a fun game might be to try to figure out how one would survive all the cataclysmic stuff that happens in it. I'm thinking along the lines of being in a nuclear sub over deep ocean -- would the earthquakes and subsequent tidal waves still get you? In the international space station -- would ejecta from volcanoes reach high enough to get you? Are you pretty much screwed anywhere but in deep space?
"All in all, it's a very Hollywood view of how the world ends. With the exception of a few token minorities, it's American and European characters we're tracking, American and European high culture people are trying to save, and American and European monuments we're seeing destroyed"
Europe exists and it's not for a happy couple visiting Paris or the Nazis invading us? That's not very Hollywood, in Hollywood the Aliens tend to destroy Washington, New York, Los Angeles, or the whole world, from NY to LA. #2012
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Oh who am I kidding? These are stupid cool and probably more entertaining than sitting through that movie.
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These pictures are amazingly cool. They are my kind of end of civilization.
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Even if they packed 15 million in there, when they died they could always blame it on Western capitalism. Though, to be fair...
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Also - if you've seen the LA destruction/plane scene online - its the only thing worth watching. Though some of the dialogue in the film is so laughably bad it borders on entertainment (but this will one day be online as well in an edited 2-3 min clip) #2012
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But a fun game might be to try to figure out how one would survive all the cataclysmic stuff that happens in it. I'm thinking along the lines of being in a nuclear sub over deep ocean -- would the earthquakes and subsequent tidal waves still get you? In the international space station -- would ejecta from volcanoes reach high enough to get you? Are you pretty much screwed anywhere but in deep space?
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Europe exists and it's not for a happy couple visiting Paris or the Nazis invading us? That's not very Hollywood, in Hollywood the Aliens tend to destroy Washington, New York, Los Angeles, or the whole world, from NY to LA. #2012
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Meh, all uh them're yankees. so ain't no great loss. #2012
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