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This is literally the plot of The Core -- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
Yeah, I loved that movie when I was a kid. In the mid 90s to early 00s there was no shortage of movies where a team of scrappy underdogs were tasked to stop a world ending event.
- tappaseater 4y ago
  3 large hurricanes bring such cold that it flash freezes on contact. Survivors hide in a library and have to burn all the books to fend of the flash freezing. Effed up symbolism right there. Love those movies.
  - iso1631 4y ago
    I loved that scene (in Day after Tomorrow), they're arguing along the lines of "no you can't burn Shakespeare it's a crime against humanity" or something, then in comes a supporting character wheeling in a ton of tax law books, which of course nobody had any problem burning.
    - tappaseater 4y ago
      Thank you for that. I forgot the distinction. Like T-rex eating the lawyer hiding in the toilet in Jurassic Park.
- dTal 4y ago
  Nowadays it's extra-legal billionaire vigilantes with magical powers that save the world. Did we go wrong somewhere?
  - qbrass 4y ago
    Batman's pushing 90 and he wasn't the first rich vigilante.
    - dTal 4y ago
      Batman, and superheroes in general, have always been a bit of campy fun. The target audience was children, like the comic books they were based on. It wasn't until The Dark Knight that anyone took Batman seriously. That really seemed to break the seal on the "gritty, realistic superhero" genre. The trouble with that is that in the real world, the existence of superheros would be horrifying (an observation satisfyingly deconstructed by The Boys). Perhaps we can overlook that for a movie or two, for the novelty, but after a decade and a half of wall to wall "gritty, realistic" media depicting violent anarchistic ubermensch as the good guys, one has to wonder if this is entirely healthy.

Yeah, I loved that movie when I was a kid. In the mid 90s to early 00s there was no shortage of movies where a team of scrappy underdogs were tasked to stop a world ending event.

tappaseater 4y ago
3 large hurricanes bring such cold that it flash freezes on contact. Survivors hide in a library and have to burn all the books to fend of the flash freezing. Effed up symbolism right there. Love those movies.
- iso1631 4y ago
  I loved that scene (in Day after Tomorrow), they're arguing along the lines of "no you can't burn Shakespeare it's a crime against humanity" or something, then in comes a supporting character wheeling in a ton of tax law books, which of course nobody had any problem burning.
  - tappaseater 4y ago
    Thank you for that. I forgot the distinction. Like T-rex eating the lawyer hiding in the toilet in Jurassic Park.
dTal 4y ago
Nowadays it's extra-legal billionaire vigilantes with magical powers that save the world. Did we go wrong somewhere?
- qbrass 4y ago
  Batman's pushing 90 and he wasn't the first rich vigilante.
  - dTal 4y ago
    Batman, and superheroes in general, have always been a bit of campy fun. The target audience was children, like the comic books they were based on. It wasn't until The Dark Knight that anyone took Batman seriously. That really seemed to break the seal on the "gritty, realistic superhero" genre. The trouble with that is that in the real world, the existence of superheros would be horrifying (an observation satisfyingly deconstructed by The Boys). Perhaps we can overlook that for a movie or two, for the novelty, but after a decade and a half of wall to wall "gritty, realistic" media depicting violent anarchistic ubermensch as the good guys, one has to wonder if this is entirely healthy.