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Mad max fury road kickass6/14/2023 Even the comedy This Is The End revolves around an act of God. Will Smith’s After Earth ? It’s more about how Scientology can help you survive hell on Earth, than how Earth went to hell in the first place. ( World War Z, a novel with a lot of pointed political allegory, saw most of it removed from the film adaptation.) Tom Cruise’s Oblivion ? Hey, the aliens invaded us, bro. Zombies? The result of a disease that we didn’t see coming and which spreads too fast for us to stop. However, in a lot of recent films, the idea that mankind would be responsible for its own demise has been neatly excised. George Miller’s Mad Max was inspired by a gasoline crisis that brought Australia to its knees Soylent Green was born out of several real-life food shortages. It used to be, when someone was making a movie which took place after an ill-defined apocalypse in a far-flung future, they were actually making very sharp commentary on man’s capabilities to do evil unto himself in the current day. Cinephile City’s Mark Young is a member of the Klub, and every Monday he will share the previous week’s movie here. Once a week for the past six years – a streak that could not be interrupted even by Superstorm Sandy – the New York Movie Klub has gathered its 20 or so members to share a film with each other.
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