Just finished watching 'On The Beach'. A 1959 movie starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. It is based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute of the same name.
God is it depressing.
Nuclear war has happened and the northern hemisphere is dead. A US Navy submarine pulls into Melbourne. They estimate they have 6 months before the radiation starts killing people. They mount a mission back to the west coast, to test the air and to investigate a mysterious signal emanating from San Diego.
Everyone dies. Everybody. It does a wonderful job of conveying the hopelessness of the situation by having the remaining populace queue for suicide pills
There was plenty of undue negative reviews about it but it is true that Wonder Woman was received unpresidened praise for somthing unaffiliated from the MCU.
Besides, Venom has done pretty good business this week. Havent seen it yet but will get down to the cinema on the weekend and i’ll let you know if it’s any good.
Just finished watching 'On The Beach'. A 1959 movie starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. It is based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute of the same name.
God is it depressing.
Nuclear war has happened and the northern hemisphere is dead. A US Navy submarine pulls into Melbourne. They estimate they have 6 months before the radiation starts killing people. They mount a mission back to the west coast, to test the air and to investigate a mysterious signal emanating from San Diego.
Everyone dies. Everybody. It does a wonderful job of conveying the hopelessness of the situation by having the remaining populace queue for suicide pills
It has often been claimed that Ava Gardner described Melbourne as "the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world."[11]However, the purported quote was actually invented by journalist Neil Jillett, who was writing for The Sydney Morning Herald at the time. His original draft of a tongue-in-cheek piece about the making of the film said that he had not been able to confirm a third-party report that Ava Gardner had made this remark. The newspaper's sub-editor changed it to read as a direct quotation from Gardner. It was published in that form and entered Melbourne folklore very quickly.
Its not got any better in the last 59 years...just bigger.
