[learning]

I starting thinking about this the other day. I feel if there was more movies and tv shows that encourage prepping/readiness, maybe more people would take it serious.

And I'm not just saying a show like Dooms Day Preppers. I mean a real movie that shows how each scenario we talk about, and how each type of person gets through it. (Preppers, half Preppers, non Preppers, and the obamas)

 

[wldwsel]

Testament, The day after, On the Beach.

WW

 

[learning]

Right, but I mean new movies and new tv shows.

In my opinion, Hollywood either goes to some extreme about a human having super powers, or far out left about one person taking on a million man military.

 

[willthrill81]

Your idea is not a bad one, but the problem is that unless it's exciting, thrilling, and/or emotionally moving, it's not 'entertainment'.

Most aspects of good prepping do not fit this bill. Buying extra canned goods, putting rice and pasta into Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers, stockpiling .22 ammo, storing water in HDPE containers, and all the rest is not exciting, thrilling, or emotionally moving.

That's why "Doomsday Preppers" only focuses on the most extreme preppers out there, and they try to say that each is only prepping for one type of disaster. That's far more interesting that someone who is simply preparing to live without incoming resources for some period of time.

 

[ToBe]

I heard the rights to One Second After had been bought but I haven't seen that confirmed.

 

[bertzie]

Red Dawn is a good one.

 

[nhprepper]

I heard the rights to One Second After had been bought but I haven't seen that confirmed.

I would live to see this as a movie.

 

[ToBe]

I would live to see this as a movie.

I'd thought since I read it that it would make a great mini series, then they could include the second book (which I have yet to finish).

 

[Timberline]

I'm sure there are many others but the one that sticks out to me the most for your criteria is The Road.

 

[escape]

+1 for the Road.

 

[HB of CJ]

No Movies That I Am Aware Of ...

I believe there are no movies or books that can prepare or motivate people to get ready. Practically all the films I have seen or books I have read have been filled with mis beliefs, errors, out right falsehoods and darn out right lies. It is call Hollywood for a reason. Bad books or novels include something called author "handwavin", which means they just make up garbage that is not correct, or even closely so. Sorry.

 

[learning]

Maybe if people seen The Purge 2, and looked at the current administration as the driving force of that movement

 

[Alpha-Zombie]

I believe there are no movies or books that can prepare or motivate people to get ready. Practically all the films I have seen or books I have read have been filled with mis beliefs, errors, out right falsehoods and darn out right lies. It is call Hollywood for a reason. Bad books or novels include something called author "handwavin", which means they just make up garbage that is not correct, or even closely so. Sorry.

Try Earth Abides and Alas, Babylon.

 

[jimdc]

if ostupid isnt enough motivation for you, no movie will be.

 

[mojomandan]

For a movie to motivate people to take prepping more seriously, it would have to seriously scare people.

For example, they should show the devastation caused by the shutdown of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, et al. That, and the inability for the movie characters to text, may send the moviegoers into an all-out prepping panic.

 

[PurpleKitty]

As a vendor, I always hate the inevitable scene where they take a chair to the snack machine and smash out the glass.

Sci-fi had some good shows now and then, before they got occulty and I stopped watching.

 

[leadcounsel]

The Trigger Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trigger_Effect

An enjoyable relatively slow but realistic movie of an occurrence of prolonged blackout in a big city. Some violence, some human conflict, issues of morality (steal or kill for supplies), etc. Shows the panic and desperation of people when they go without power and supplies for extended time, the rush to buy a gun, the struggle of a passivist versus more proactive people, some racial issues.

It's an enjoyable film with very good acting and realism. Best of all it avoids all the stupid Hollywood CGI garbage, huge explosions, unrealistic shootouts, etc.

It's a favorite of mine to gently push a non-prepper into prepper mode.

 

[munik]

The TV show Jericho was good...look that up

 

[dontbuypotteryfromme]

Tomorrow when the war began. Is a teenage version of a prepping movie.

 

[Marlin94]

Defiance
The Road
The Book of Eli
Red Dawn
The walking dead
Jericho