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Best Apocalyptic Films you should watch

I know it’s kinda strange but aside from the Time Travel films, I’m also fascinated with the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic films with the thoughts of what shall come after the end of everything.

There’s something strangely interesting to know how anyone would survive to live on the rotten & wasted land. How to live roaming around the destroyed earth in search of food and sleep on the abandoned buildings night after night, there ’s a shortage of food with no vegetation as it will be too cold to grow anything, and find anything left to eat from the abandoned supermarkets. To fight for your life against people who are also trying to survive. I also often daydream about myself living in this kind of world where it’s gonna be survival to the fittest and nothing else matters but to survive the day alive.

With these in mind, I decided to write down the list of the Best Apocalyptic films I have seen in no particular order.

1. BIRD BOX-2018

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The film follows a woman and a pair of children, who must travel through a forest and down a river blindfolded to avoid supernatural entities that cause people who look at them to commit suicide.

2. A QUIET PLACE-2018

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The plot revolves around a family facing struggles to survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing.

3. THE ROAD-2009

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In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.

4. 28 DAYS LATER-2002

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Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. The plot depicts the breakdown of society following the accidental release of a highly contagious virus and focuses upon the struggle of four survivors to cope with the destruction of the life they once knew.

5. THE BOOK OF ELI-2010

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A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. 

6. 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE-2016

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The story follows a young woman who, after a car crash, wakes up in an underground bunker with two men who insist that an event has left the surface of Earth uninhabitable. 

7. CARGO-2017

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In a world overtaken by a virus that turns people into zombies within 48 hours, the Rose family Andy, Kay, and their baby Rosie tries to survive.

8. IO-2019

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The film is set in a dystopian future, where Earth’s atmosphere has become toxic. Most humans have fled the planet, to live on a space station near Io, a moon of Jupiter.

Mr. Nobody- Film

Spoiler ahead, haha!

As much as I’m fascinated with Time Travel and Sci-fi films and having a very little interest in Drama, I happened to cross over this Sci- Fiction Drama Film titled Mr. Nobody starring Jared Leto while browsing on Net Flix.

And to my surprise, it’s actually good, if not to consider one of the films that made a great impact on me. I literally cried (can’t help it) to the character’s life choices and decisions and the possible outcome on his multi-selves dimension.

To start with, this is the story of Nemo, a 118-year-old last mortal on earth (after the human race has achieved the immortality, year 2092) as he narrates the three stages of his life at the age of nine, fifteen and thirty-four. Beginning from the time he was obliged to make a very critical choice on his parent’s split-up and how alternate paths branched in between (two alternate storylines when he chose to remain with his father and the other story when he chose to live with his mother) showing all the possible outcomes and possible futures from his different decisions and life choices and how he tries to find the correct decision in every choice he made up to the conclusion of what could have been, what could have happened if he chose a different one.

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Interesting right? It’s actually Sci-fiction Time travel with a touch of reality. How life would be if we were able to see our future self ahead upon every single decision we make in life and have the chance to go back and choose a different path and re-correct the mistakes by having multi-versions of ourselves in different dimensions of our choice like NEMO with his different life- Life when he stayed with his mother, Life when he stayed with his father, Life with his three wives, with different kids, with different houses and different career, and all with different endings.

I’ve always had this weird fantasy sometimes I wish I could see the future me and I could go back and re-do some of the bad decisions I made in the past and to clearly see how would I be if I chose a different one.

But what amazed me was the conclusion at the end, that NEMO might have never been existed and wasn’t born after all. He was just a product of the nine- year old child imagination at the train when he is about to make a very critical choice in his life. 

This film is one of the most engaging piece of drama I have seen in such a long time. It was boring at the beginning but once you get to understand the story, with all the flashbacks and visions of his would-be life in the future, you will definitely get hooked. Tbh, the movie is difficult to follow for an ordinary watcher. I literally cried on some scenarios with his father, with his mother, how we waited for the love of his life, Ana, and how they never met in another timeline. The story’s sense and wide visualization of life and death and time and love and choices made this worth to watch.

Rating: 5 Stars

Bohemian Rhapsody Film

Finally, The Long wait is over. Bohemian Rhapsody, the biographical film about the British Rock band Queen is now showing in Cinemas.  The story about Queen,  their Music and the extraordinary life of the Band Lead Singer- Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara in real life), on and off the stage life,  his drug addiction, his gay-life, exploited by the wrong crowd and friends and his battle after being diagnosed with AIDS infection.

My thoughts about it? Although it has been observed that a one and a half hour film wouldn’t be able to tackle and compress Freddie’s colorful life, only on limited measures since it fails to elaborate much of Freddie’s life and times and his sexuality. It feels like the story is being told in a fast-forward mode that the audience was completely left out disappointingly, wanting to explore more all the highlights of his story in a much more detailed manner.

I like the portrayal of almost every one of the cast. Rami Malek impersonation of Mercury is terrific. Although his transformation is slightly exaggerated particularly those dental prosthetics (that made him look a little bit like a rat)  and his accent is quite a little bit over-do. But then, he totally nailed how he deploys every move, even a snap of the finger,  the energy, and flamboyance of Mercury.

Gwilym Lee as Bryan May, (Oh well, I think Gwilym Lee is a much better Bryan May than Bryan May is Bryan May), Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, and Joseph Mazzelo as John Deacon looks similarly the same and did a great job on their portrayals as well, no doubt about that.

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Overall, It’s a great movie, great cast, something worth to watch because of everyone’s superb performance although some are entirely superficial. Rami Malek does a brilliant job and the film entirely relied on his portrayal. A masterpiece though it wasn’t written accurately.

Mercury is a Legend. Whether or not it is accurately told, the performance itself did well. The Live aid part (the highlight of the movie) actually made me believe that I’m watching it for real. 

Not to mention that for some reason, I felt sad when I re-watched the QUEEN Live Aid performance again that made me want to cry. Just by watching him perform that day, regardless of his illness, the high energy is actually heartbreaking.

Freddie Mercury and Queen indeed are one of the most beloved performers in the planet. They reached unparallel success during their time, and one of the GREATEST ROCK BAND IN HISTORY.

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Queen is definitely the Best Entertainer of all time! And yeah, I’ve always admired Queen for the longest time now…

5 Stars 🙂

QUEEN LIVE AID PERFORMANCE 1985

CAMP SAWI

I’ve seen this movie sometime in 2016 when I was on vacation in the Philippines, and recently while taking advantage of my high-speed internet, lol, I watched it again. 

The usual plot actually, simple story about love, loss and moving on, but there is something unique about this movie that I love.

Although I’m not broken-hearted when I first see the movie, and even when I watched it the second time around, I just love how the characters portray their respective roles with so much compassion.

I love the character of Bela, who’s Bridgette in the movie. Oh well, I never see Bela as good as being Bridgette.

At the beginning of the movie where you would see her really crying out loud in pain because her Chinese boyfriend of ten years dumped her for someone of his race because they were not allowed to marry someone from different nationality as part of their tradition.

You would actually feel her inner sadness and deep heartache as she was still trying to communicate with her ex-bf,  calling him several times and when he answered, trying to open up a conversation even for a few minutes, trying to bring back their memories, hoping to have a second chance -> I guess, asking why is he not responding to  all her calls and text messages, begging for little time to meet him in person even for 5 minutes just to see him, and  patiently waiting for him to come but he didn’t, all the rejections and disappointment, crying and crying all over again….

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I felt her pain. I felt her rejections. I felt how it was like to be ignored just like that without reasons or at least a little explanation to make you feel better.

I felt how she was still trying to get in touch with the person, to be with him again even how much pain he caused her. Ouch!!!

Before the end of the film where she was seen meeting with the guy and the only thing she managed to ask him is “How are you? I just want to know if you are okay….” and left.

Oh well, you know, sometimes Life sucks for no apparent reason at all…and worse, you will be left with no other option but to force yourself to move on.