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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's called post apocalyptic for a reason. A few years from now, this genre will lose its futuristic aspect

[–] cmhe 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hmm... I don't think the apocalypse we get is over that quickly.

[–] jaybone 16 points 1 month ago

Yeah, those in power are really dragging this out.

[–] joostjakob 10 points 1 month ago

Unless of course our luck runs out and someone pushes the nuclear button

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

You might be right but I'm not going to give up hope that easily

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Considering I will die come the apocalypse, post apocalypse will always be futuristic to me.

[–] x0x7 3 points 1 month ago

Are you saying something is going to be uncovered?

[–] shneancy 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i think the futuristic aspect will stay still it's a future of an alternate world - think steampunk, victorian scifi but still scifi. this is atomic age scifi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They even have a name for it: Atompunk. It's got all the aesthetics of the mid-century, but with nuclear power.

I've been partial to dieselpunk myself, though. Interwar grittyness really cinches it for me.

[–] Valmond 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's actually "Le fires" 🇫🇷 !

[–] TrickDacy 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

🇫🇷 Les* fires 🇫🇷

[–] Valmond 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 9 points 1 month ago
[–] jaybone 6 points 1 month ago

Tips firedora

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They missed the most epic shots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And it would have added authenticity to the show unlike any other.

[–] LovableSidekick 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we hrd u lik apoclyps so we brt u mor apoclyps

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Okie dokie!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wasn't there a movie about war that had to relocate their shoot because of an actual war happening nearby?

[–] shalafi 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apocalypse Now

Filmed predominantly in the Phillippines, a particular clip from the documentary reveals how the helicopters in the film belonged to the Phillippines and were used to fight rebels and insurgents.

Due to the “civil war in the south”, the narrator (Eleanor Coppola) says, “Every day the government sends different pilots who haven’t participated in the rehearsals, wrecking tens and thousands of dollars worth of shots.”

Since there were “rumours” about rebels being positioned just ten miles away from the shooting location, the Filipino commanders feared the safety of the cast and crew and remained stationed at the locations.

Coppola continues, “In the middle of a complicated shot, the helicopters [later revealed to be five in number] were called away to fight the rebels.” This led to a delay in the filming schedule.

My wife would have been a child in the 1979 Philippines. I'll have to ask her about all that.

[–] x0x7 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be tens of thousands of dollars? So it's like $2,000 dollars and $40 bucks?

[–] shalafi 2 points 1 month ago

I take it to mean, "...sometimes wrecking thousands, even tens of thousands..." Poor wording, but it's a quote, what you gonna do?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Awe we won't see Sexy Flatface for awhile?

[–] NocturnalMorning 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What is flatface? I googled it and came up empty. Or are you just calling the girl in the picture flatface?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was thinking of the ghoul cowboy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Hey, what ever floats your chemical filled boat!

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[–] Shellbeach 4 points 1 month ago

She's amazing in what she does but she is phenomenal as Jinx in Arcane!!!! I hope to see much much more of her, VO or screen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Lmao the number of people that thought you were talking about the lady

[–] iAvicenna 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"lets just film Trump and Elon instead of vaulttec"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Second season's gonna introduce The Master. They gotta wait for the fires to subside so they can film in the burnt out wreckage of LA for all the shots of the Necropolis they wanna get.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

According to the canon master died around 2100, show's set around 2290

[–] affiliate 9 points 1 month ago

do not underestimate bethesdas ability to defy canon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Good thing canon matters

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tarkovski would have used it.

[–] MissGutsy 3 points 1 month ago

From the Wikipedia article of the stalker movie

Several people involved in the film production, and possibly Tarkovsky himself, died from causes that some crew members attributed to the film's long shooting schedule in toxic locations.

Sound designer Vladimir Sharun recalled: "We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris."

The production story of that movie was wild

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's a really cool picture. With the red, and the out of focus, and the pipboy. Costume design was on point in that show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They just got a bunch of new filming locations, so maybe they can make up the time in travel.

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