On The Beach Part 2

[atter0]

why would only one nuculear submarine survive? or no nuke carriers? ..i bet most of our fleet would arrive in austrilia...

[KLRJUNE]

Wow, this got bad real quick. It is nowhere near as good as the original.

[teddythebenny]

hmm, seeing the london riots.. i wouldnt be surprised, i mean look what happened after Katrina, though in that case, a great deal of the looting occured from the working class/poor.. London riots, even the well to do, uni students were looting.. and japan after 3.11.11? no need to start that one..

[anisete46]

would like to know what book she's reading

[JohannVF]

Fallout doesn't work that way. The vast majority of it is heavy enough to settle out in the vicinity of the blast. Cancer rates would go up,but Australia wouldnt be staring at a Cloud O' Doom coming their way months later.

[trinitymike]

So, was this the "Let's round up every Actor in the biz who was once someone in the 80s and give them one last job?" Oh, and the American accents on the Charlston crew? Nice try, but.....

[LaneTheSlain]

Would the Australian army have been using M4s?

[ChaosDynamics]

They should rename this - "Home and Away: Apocalypse".

[Professor6871]

@ChaosDynamics Yea that would be a better title for it.

[talltom1973]

this is probably more realistic, I mean people will loot. In the original, no one looted.

[muiroford1]

America is so so ............................

[muiroford1]

America is so so butch.

[v19d]

Where were the Russians, How about France, How about UK. How long does a big load of radiaiton reach Europe from America and then the rest of the radiation reach Russia on Top of Radiation from China. I can say the radiation that reaches Alaska came from China in about 5 days. I can also guess Alaska left America after the 48 were blown up

[v19d]

I bet you the Americans wouldn't make it no further then central Mexico

[v19d]

Very interesting scene.

[TheKindredAutmn]

the acting is fucking idiotic.

[vardiss22]

Cool....thiscould be the prequel to Mad Max 1

[ObssesedNuker]

DAMN! Over three hours? What is this, Pearl Harbor?

[jrtayloriv]

Is this movie supposed to be a satire?

[soeffingwhat]

@jrtayloriv - No, anyone with a Brain would see its serious.

[Stgfre]

What is the minimun amout of radiation a average human can deal with, 20 rads?

[anisete46]

wish I knew what book she was readinG

[pieman97405]

At least in the original people respected each other right up until the end. You'd think people would just want to live like nothing happened till it was no longer possible to deny the end was near.

[oldfilmfan1]

rachel ward is one sexy lady

[heezysteezy]

the movie carries none of the rustic australian morals or character that the novel portrays. the book, was extremely realistic and the characters very human.

i just cant really get into the movie.

[tonyge11]

i like the guy who said 23 rads would kill you in 4 or 5 hrs. - he's right , but would everyone be so damm analytical if this sh@t really happened ? I'm a nuke eng. and just watching this made me kind of sick. I pray we never ever live to see such crap !!

[thegirl44]

I live ten minutes away from one of the biggest petrol-chemical manufacturing areas in North America so I'll be dead before the all clear finishes sounding, but in those 3 minutes I'm going to shoot up a shit load of Morphine, get in my 30 year old Mustang and drive like a motherfucker.

Pray for me that I'm at the top of a hill with a pretty view when it hits :).

[manuelherrera777]

The original version has much more impact

[Ericzeppe]

Cant really compare a tv-series with a movie.

Wouldent even call this a remake.

Based on the novel like the first one

[anisete46]

"sliver" lining ? seriously guys...

[geoffck6969]

Horses at full gallop!

[geoffck6969]

Seeing as the greatest contribution to Western Civilization via Australia was Kevin "Bloody" Wilson, Slim Dusty, and Paul Hogan, my attack profiles as a nuclear power may very well have included targetting a good number of Australian cities with some nice cobalt salted multi-megaton MIRV'ed warheads. That woulda shut them and their annoying accent up I would wager!

[anisete46]

I disagree with Jen. Both versions are well done. What this version does lack, aside from Gregory Peck, is the poignant music of Waltzing Matilda.. And Rachel is seriously annoying with her mannerisms. Ava much classier; But I enjoy both the movie and the series. And this version is perhaps more relevant to young people today (women with jobs, an unmarried woman who sleeps with a man not considered a slut, Astaire (dire) vs. Brown (hunky). Just sayin'..

[eric777100763]

@6:31 how do they have gas for the boats?? Every nation loves the USA when they NEED something!

[jen8933]

hey on the bright side no one has to pay their bills!

:)

[thelearner60]

There's always some sliver lining somewhere.

[RATTLEY67]

@jen8933 When you live on the street you pay no bills either but it can be a hard life

[rich5248]

@jen8933 LMAO

[jen8933]

it was cool how those two guys were riding in a speed boat and their hair wasn't moving...that is some great hairspray.

[jen8933]

it's sad to see such a great classic movie like "on the beach" redone so horribly. the acting is so - well it's just plain bad.

[thegoatboy102]

best movie ever saw book is better though

[tom500k]

How about some more grown-up comments to supplement the teen-talk.

[dbzlover2023]

I thought it was kinda funny how the guy had horses hooked up to his car and a pair of seats up top

[proverb311031]

that woman is living in a dream, wake her crazy butt up!

[lukeslandspeeder]

why they actin like its permanent?. it will eventually wash out bout 10-15-20 years.. prob.

[tom500k]

By that time the effect of Nuclear Winter will reduce the human population by more than 99% -- try reading the public domain USAF study. It's either end ALL nukes or end all of us! That simple.

[lukeslandspeeder]

i know. thus thats why i said 20 years and .1%. it would wash out over a long time.

[tom500k]

Wish you were correct. But even the USAF recognizes (in print, openly) that the combustion products would cut sunlight so severely and for so long, that life would end on Earth.

What physics books suggest that "it [lethal radioactive matterials will ... wash ... 10-15-20 year? Nice, but lethal fantasy.

[lukeslandspeeder]

i never said that people would make it. i said that over "much time" the planet would recover. life finds a way. the planet has froze complety solid once in the past. the planet has also went through this when the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. so in ending just because we will prob be all gone dosent mean the planet would be. mans brichies arent big enough yet to destroy the planet litterally.

[KataAnimata]

Life, as far as we know, hasn't found a way' on any other planet in the universe. If life were wiped out here that'd be it.

[lockyfan]

earth was created to be inhabited. unlike the other planets.

[lewisner]

@lukeslandspeeder Apparently vegetation was sprouting a matter of months after Hiroshima.Scorpions and Cockroaches are less susceptible to radiation.And some life forms exist in underground caves.So, life would go on.

[soeffingwhat]

@lewisner - Would that make it ok then? It would still be Armageddon for all Humans and any form of Life that is not Cockroaches or Scorpions, so your words don't mean much regarding 'Life going on'

[soeffingwhat]

@lewisner - Yes but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, in Terms of World Wide affects, the only Cities it happened to. While not trying to downgrade the horror of what happened to them at that time, I think the major difference is f it happened all over the World, then there wouldn't be much chance of Life going on at all.

[lewisner]

@soeffingwhat Not life as we know it but SOME form of life. As I said there are lifeforms in underground caverns which never see daylight plus microbes and so on.It may take a million years but life would rebuild itself. In the rationale of OTB only the Northern Hemisphere was Nuked, the rest of the world irradiated.

[soeffingwhat]

@lewisner - I think the rationale of OTB is sound in this as such a huge Nuclear Fallout, no matter what side of the World would absolutely spread and the Human Race would become extinct. And the millions of Years means Nothing if we blow ourselves up. Your making it sound as if its "nothing really", prove me wrong if your not.

[lewisner]

@soeffingwhat And you sound unusually confrontational. I've no wish to have an argument here so I'll comment once more then no more. What I am saying is that although human life may be extinguished, "Life" in some form would continue even if only as microbes.

Adios.

[soeffingwhat]

@lewisner - Oh I'm not confrontational, but I would be with anyone who thought that it wouldn't matter so much if Human Life didn't matter so much so long as Life continued in some form or other. Microbes Live on other Planets, Planets incapable of sustaining Larger Life, so if this happened Earth would become just like them. "Microbes"?? Means nothing if nothing else can exist on Earth.

[Professor6871]

@soeffingwhat It wouldn't be just nuclear full out but a nuclear winter that would also spread to the southern hemisphere. The end in Australia wouldn't be as cosy as it is in this drama.

[KataAnimata]

But everyone will still be dead.

[Shipmate1936]

the L.A. SSN (688) Class, they are beautiful and fast, luv them

[anisete46]

"the natives definitely suck at throwing things"

[Shipmate1936]

I believe they are coded for certain sections of the submarine--may be wrong but I believe that is right

[anisete46]

possibly.. i don't have any other explanation, maybe if a sub commander visits here, he can tell us....

[tangypanda]

Damn the Mom is hot.

[agj9]

@tangypanda mum :)

[ludocrat]

@tangypanda

Yeah, positively radioactive.

[keyanage]

sounds like global warming

[anisete46]

can someone explain all the different colored sub uniforms?

[anisete46]

what book is she reading?  can't see the title..

[brucearmstrong1]

I can't tell either - all I can see is that it's a Penguin softcover. Both Moira and Dwight talk near the end about re-reading the classics, so possibly she's doing the same thing.

[anisete46]

Thanks for the try mate :))

[TheEdibleDormouse]

I've just looked at my copy of "On the Beach", and it looks a lot like that (although that's not a Penguin title...)

[anisete46]

That would be weird and wonderful  :)))

[anisete46]

I've always wondered what book I will be reading or re reading when I die...

[ezraakave]

For me, Julius Ozbourne is the prototype of a modern scientist. I'm sorry I haven't been better student in mathematics.