I Iove this.
Reminds me of a sorta-joke I came up with back in high school.
You might like this old skit from The Frantics:
Just a note here - my wife got up and walked out saying, “I can’t watch this anymore.”
Like I said, I think a lot of people don’t quite know what else to do with themselves if they’re not working a job. It’s why a lot people die mere months after retirement, or find alternate work to keep them busy.
I enjoyed that movie. And if that’s the scene I’m remembering, TJ Miller is one of the employees hanging in there, which seems very TJ Miller.
All three books in the trilogy are quite good, and each is relatively short.
Because the film was so badly done, or because the topic was so depressing, or because the film was so well done that the vicarious experience was overwhelmingly horrific?
Not to answer for them or their wife but I thought it was poorly done. I hated that movie.
Mostly the second, but she found Jane Alexander’s performance heartbreaking.
If you liked This Is The End, you might also want to check out Rapture-Palooza. It’s another dark comedy about the Rapture. By coincidence, it was released the same week as This Is The End and ended up getting overshadowed by that movie.
The Rapture did canonically happen in another episode, but Homer was the only one taken, and he convinced God to undo it.
The cosmology of the Simpsons universe is odd, because God and Jesus Christ factually exist, but so do Buddha, Vishnu, ancient Japanese dragons whose awakening will herald the end of the world, and Spongebob Squarepants (who is capable of answering prayers but choooses not to).
I wouldn’t say that I liked it, it was a fairly irreverent take on the supposed value of celebrities’ lives vs. the rest of us, and the biblical stuff was treated as over-the-top and kind of silly. It didn’t ask me to take anything seriously, so it was a mildly amusing way to spend a couple of hours.
If 2012 was mentioned, I missed it. In that critically-unacclaimed flick, only government and elites initially know that the planet is going to be subject to population-killing earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, volcanoes, etc.—but that’s thousands of people ‘in the know’ and eventually most of the population does become aware.
It might not fully fit the OP’s parameters as the emphasis is on building what’s needed for survival, rather than on emotional adjustment to what’s coming.
Ah yes, the film where the impending apocalypse speeds up and slows down based on John Cusack’s current vehicle of choice.
In case you haven’t seen this before:
Wasn’t there a crappy flick called Meteor ('79)?
No, there was a friggen’ awesome movie called Meteor.
I think this might have been the first example of the “Nuke the Moon” solution to such a space-borne threat.
Ah, yes, the Moon Nuke. Beautiful.
OMG it’s worse than I imagined!
People thought they were making a serious movie? (Yes I know Yakety Sax wasn’t in the original soundtrack!)
That film brings up the existential question that occurs to me watching some apocalyptic films: if the death, damage and destruction is THAT great, what exactly are you surviving for? What kind of life are you buying for your kids?
In 2012’s case, after the initial panic of just feeling the need to get away, they all were racing for the big spaceship escape craft the billionaires had been prepping.
The book was (as usual) much better. There’s also a sequel, After Worlds Collide, set after three of the spaceships land on Bronson Beta, which is also very good.
Can’t disagree with that!
My immediate reaction: “How the hell do they know what the names are?” They didn’t say “This is what we’re calling them”; they said “These are their names”! And they say Bellus is a star.