doomsday films

DOOMSDAY FILMS
Two things before we start today. One, you are getting guest articles both weekend days. I'm not the only glutton for punishment. Two, a loyal minion sent in the below links about the coming legislation to ensure only the big agri-giants survive and thrive by controlling or eliminating farmers markets. Yet another example of how a complex system can't decentralize to save itself from collapse.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-s-dream-bill-HR-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090309-337.ht ml
http://cryptogon.com/?p=7362
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=12671
http://shepardpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/hr-875-would-essentially-outlaw-family.html
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I'm happiest when I have an ongoing writing project above and beyond the daily blog. The blog is all good and well but by its very nature is short and concise whereas I like to pontificate unending. That takes a book. Plus, when I'm dead and gone everyone will read them and wish I was still around so they could bask in my greatness. And they'll feel like turds for not acknowledging my superiority when I was alive. But I need to be all excited and tingly about the subject matter or it simply doesn't materialize. I keep trying to write a novel and I get excited for several days and then it sort of just dies. I almost wonder if your brain doesn't have to be wired a certain way to write fiction, something I lack. I can gather data, analyse, tie together obscure facts, yet I can't write fiction. Do I lack imagination? Well, it doesn't matter too much. I suck at it and even though I'll try again off and on I think the whole thing is doomed. So, when I got a new and bright idea the other day I was relieved. I could abandon my last fiction attempt and go back to non fiction.
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I might be wrong, but I don't think anyone has done a book on doomsday movies. Review every single one, what they were about, how good or bad, whether it even is about doomsday or if it was classified erroneously. And of course I'll be writing a needlessly long review for every one and adding my cynical and gloomy brand of humor. And, being an electronic book I can go back every year or three and add new films and you'll have to pay me all over again! Why, I could make an extra five or ten bucks a month! Loyal minions, line up for my exploitation!
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If you go on www.wikipedia.org and go to "doomsday films" you will find quit a list. I don't agree that a lot of them are anywhere close to doomsday films. Titan A.E.? I didn't see it, but I believe it was a cartoon and at the opening the earth is destroyed and the ship flies away. So, that's more high tech sci-fi than doomsday. And while Terminator had that doomsday feel to it, both from dreams about the resistance in the ruins and the ending where you could just feel the beginning of the end, I don't think Terminator 2 had the same feel. And in 3, the only doomsday connection was the very ending. Okay, it is all pretty subjective. What I feel should make the list might not agree with what you think. If you think they left any out, please let me know. Some I won't be able to review, like the British TV series. I'm going to reactivate my Netflix account and watch one or two a week. Then I'll write them up afterwards. Even the ones I've watched two or three times I'll watch again. You can't give a good review when it's been years since you watched it.
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So, the other question ( I guess the first question is, are there anymore than what was on the wiki list ) is, do you want them as I write them, posted as the daily article or do you want me to wait until I'm done and put them all together? If I post as done the cheaper loyal minions don't have to buy anything. If I wait, you pay $2, $3 at the most and it's all together nice and tidy. This is going to cost me a bit of change. The average cost on Netflix is about $2 a movie for the cheaper packages. If I got the four at a time ( which makes each one much cheaper ) I wouldn't have enough electricity to watch them each week. Please give your input, and don't try to rain on my parade here. This book prospect excites me, and an excited Jim has enough enthusiasm to churn out the daily drivel.
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