YOU KNOW, I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING SIMILAR EARLIER TODAY. I realized that some of the most successful movies/genres/etc involve the extermination of the human race, or the near extermination of the human race resting on either one hero, or a small group of people. I'm genuinely curious to know if people want to be exterminated, or want to save the world. OR MAYBE THEY JUST HATE EVERYONE AND WANT TO BE THE LAST PERSON LEFT. I don't know, but now that I've thought about it, it is kind of odd.
Heh, I was listening to this song, which is about zombies but I'm pretty sure is a metaphor for American greed and stuff, so I was like HUH. And wanted to talk about something ridiculous.
Most of those epic end of the world stuff just have the action appeal, yeah, because being the last people alive leaves a lot of room for violent happenings but there is usually SOMETHING MORE to things that resonate, otherwise we wouldn't end up with 2854302 different movies about artificial intelligence turning on us, or vampires, or et cetera.
The action appeal definitely, but considering the amount of ways people have come up to obliterate the human race and the amount of people that are interested in it, there has to be something up. I mean, I have to hand one thing to us, we can get pretty creative about how we'd get wiped out.
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Most of those epic end of the world stuff just have the action appeal, yeah, because being the last people alive leaves a lot of room for violent happenings but there is usually SOMETHING MORE to things that resonate, otherwise we wouldn't end up with 2854302 different movies about artificial intelligence turning on us, or vampires, or et cetera.
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