@@swgriffin1977 well I have to imagine if the skull has a bullet hole that the helmet would too, it’s not like you can put on a helmet after you die from getting shot in the dome
"The rain is radioactive and will kill any living thing in an instant." A few kilometres later. "The rain here is completely safe." Logical. Makes total sense. 👍
Probably just an alpha radiation - it can be blocked by mere paper sheet- but it can be deadly if an alpha emitting particle gets inside a living organism say like swallowed. then it would continusly irradiate nearby tissues inducing radiation sickness over time.
So you have the ability to survive 17 years underground frozen but not the foresight to stash a few battery packs and survival snacks/water. Soldier of misfortune
Batteries can be packed, but survival snacks and water is a cannot, due to it being expired, theres some food that will expire in 20 years but not water, to keep it fresh is to boil it but wonder if he packed a lighter, so yes that explains alot.
@@VisualiserYu good packed water will last forever. And canned food can last longer than 20 years. there is canned food from WWII that you still could eat
Nah... He might have been frozen but he's not dead, so in his subconscious he could probably feel the slow shift of time, and he could also dream, you know? Even if it's not shown in the movie. It's like comparing him to a comatose patient that had been unconscious for years.
@@MollyHJohns That's not how "being frozen" works. ALL your biological processes stop. Cryo Sleep is literally "You're frozen at a point in time", if any of your biological processes were still running, you'd die, especially as your body would then still be aging, rendering the point of cryo sleep moot. For all intents and purposes, if you're in cryo sleep, you're effectively dead. He wouldn't feel anything. All he'd feel is before and after, full stop. It would literally be a blink. A blink from lying in the chamber to being in pain as he's woken up.
I was in an induced coma for just over a month. I had to relearn how to walk, i could barely sit up without help because my muscles had begin to atrophy. Yet after 17 years this guy can get up walk around and climb oout of that place with heavy equputment on his person.
sooo he walked like a couple blocks and now its safe for him to take off his helmet and get soaked in the radioactive rain? wtf were they thinking when they made this
fallout does not work like this. nuclear winter was quite literally mathematically debunked. places that are directly radioactive - are. the rest just sort of heals itself over time as entropy spreads the radioactive thingies away. After all - people live in Pripyat (some never left), same goes for flora and fauna - it thrives and is healthy but a mere few meters away are kill zones of dead trees and sterile soil. People in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well rebuilt their cities almost immediately, hell, there are people that survived 2 atom bombs, 2x black fallout rain and lived to late eighties in those cities.
It’s a proof of concept that was used to pitch to Studios, whom didn’t care for it as they couldn’t quite figure out how to shovel ‘The Message’ down an audiences throats via it.
This movie was loosely based on a Twilight Zone episode, starring Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery. How is it that the car’s paint has all been eaten away, but the newspapers on the street are completely legible? Also, how does he have such amazing muscle mass after 17 years of not using them?
Important detail: When the soldier braces against the car while approaching the helmet, he aims for an easy shot but then chooses to approach instead. This act saved his life because the woman responded in kind, whistling to alert him of her presence rather than taking a similarly easy shot.
He hasn't spoken to anyone in 17 years. Hasn't felt the rain in all that time either. No. He wouldn't be losing his mind from loneliness, he was asleep the entire time. There grammar police. Fixed it. Now kindly "words that violate CZcams rules."
Maybe not loneliness but general fear and anxiety that comes along with being in that situation, being uncertain if you’ll find food or clean water when everything around you is debris and rubble.
@@praetorianstride5948 true. But the way they worked it. And the fact he got frozen, expecting the end of the world. H lived in a city, he should have been expecting it.
@@carljacobs1837 if you fear the end of the world, then live it up now while its good, don't freeze yourself till it's horrible and then be sad about it
So is it really never explained why he froze himself, why he has team members and rendezvous points, or anything? Does it really just start and end like this? I thought about stopping the video because this might have been a movie I was interested in seeing, but I'm definitely glad I didn't waste my time on the full film now...
I am thankful for these recaps, honestly. If I had to watch the rubbish for it's entirety of the film i would be most angry . This dude did 17 years and seems he reverted in intelligence,insight and foresight
The number of flaws in this movie were shocking: 1. The man awakens 17 years later without storing any batteries for his equipment, trail mix bars or canned food?? 2. The newspaper easily survives radioactive rain, yet the paint on cars peel?? 3. The man recovers from a 17 year cryogenic freeze as quickly as someone who took an afternoon nap?? Logically the mind, muscles, organs and blood going thru a freezing and then thawing process would not be as simple as an afternoon nap. 4. The device monitoring the rain says it's dangerously radioactive and then after a short distance rain is totally safe??
@@NTJedi the entire movie is a joke. if it's a 2 hours movie it will be even more joke, because you only watch a dude wake up from his slumber, walking with gun and meet a woman. There it is, that's the entire movie
What pisses me off so much more is those shitty cliff hanger endings, these movies never get a 2nd movie and if they do it always has this really weird story line where the writers clearly ran out of ideas
A perfect example of why I like these recaps. This movie had a fascinating idea, but oh boy would I have been pissed if I had sat through it only for it to end like this!
Seems like OceanGate didn't only build shoddy subs, they apparently also have a side hustle manufacturing barebones survival shelters, where upon the slightest problem, all occupants are forced into extreme survival mode without any supplies.
For being an indie production, the film has an impressive set & costume design. Which is reminiscent of games like GTFO or Routine. The location they shot in are also impressive.
Although I have no proof, I wouldn't be surprised if writer-director Gavin Rothery was inspired by The Twilight Zone episode "Two" (1961). Indeed, the overall tone and structure of Rothery's short film and that long ago TV episode are so identical you can't ignore them. In both stories, a nuclear war has taken place. You are never told who the opposing sides are. The initial narrative takes place inside a ruined city. And you are told that the war ended ages ago. In the case of Rothery's movie, this info is conveyed through the contrivance of a computer system connected to a stasis chamber. While in that Twilight Zone episode, Perennial host Rod Serling does the introduction. In both stories, you are introduced first to a singular man wandering about the devastated civic center. However, the man soon discovers that he is not alone. The other survivor is a woman, and the man can tell from her uniform that she is from the opposite side of the war. The only noticeable difference between the two stories is the ending. Rothery's tale ends on a cliffhanger, with the two survivors pointing weapons at each other. However, in that Twilight Zone episode, written and directed by Montgomery Pittman, the initial contact between the two survivors results in a fight over the last remaining canned food. After which, when they conclude they are the only survivors of the war, the man and the woman decide to have an armistice. They swap out their military fatigues for civilian clothes. These sole survivors of an apocalyptic war then choose to live together as a couple. And all of this is done with hardly any dialogue. As to why Rothery ended his story the way he did, we'll never know for sure. Perhaps he had a limited budget, or maybe he lacked imagination. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The narrator of this breakdown also didn't directly mention that, like in Twilight Zone's "TWO", the woman was an enemy soldier. The woman in this movie wore the same symbol from the Propaganda posters displaying their enemies. If they'd spent more time interacting and letting down their guard, this would've been a perfect remake of "TWO".
As a man with a beard and mustache, my favorite part is how he wakes up after 17 years looking like he was asleep for 7 hours. Why would he be so concerned about shaving when his facial hair takes decades to grow?
@@zacharycarrier2890 you had me doubting myself....lol, but I remember instantly being a tad indignant.I have a beard, because I hate shaving. If my facial hair grew like his, problem solved, well, at least every decade or 2. Hair growth for that guy is like the "brood x" for Cicadas lol.
I knew this was going to happen when he found a team-mate dead, the skeletal solider's equipment was broadcasting for 17-years. Of course his own equipment's power source fails in 48 hours. LOL.
If you want to do something cool with a receipt put a lighter underneath it but don't touch the flame to the paper the ink will push itself out and turn the receipt black wherever the heat has touched it but it will only do it on the topside the side where the heat is applied will stay white the whole time it's a rather cool experiment I figured out by accident
@@TwoStacks217 the bills, the strips...are made with chemical treated paper, that reacts with thermal "changes" . So if you put such a strip in a freezer...the chemical embedded into the paper should be able, through the low temperature, " erase " so to say all marks and writings, which are made with "hot" markings.
so the monitor dies even though the other monitor broadcasting for a long time stayed alive, and he didn't even note down which direction the rendezvous point was? Why rush in a direction of a flare and then take a gun out while arriving?
I'd like to think, he was so happy to see a flare that he ran. Then when he got to the area it was fired from, he realized how stupid it was to just run without checking to see if it was a trap or not. But the film was like 20 minutes long, so they had to rush it lol
Yeah I think this was a short film, watched a few years ago. Plot had a lot of holes in it though, like why would he put himself into cryo sleep for so long if he had a young healthy wife waiting at home, the lack of muscle atrophy after 17 yrs, and other points that others have mentioned in the comments.
That parts realistic. If you could stop your organs or slow them down enough to "freeze" yourself for 17 years, none of your glands would work either and your hair would stop growing like a flower without sunlight...The rest, don't make sense though.
Plot twist:the woman was his wife indicating that she also froze herself from the fear of the apocalypse and they possible were in the same bunker as the man because she got the same gear as him and also if the car paint got eaten away how did the newspaper survived
This was taken from an episode of "The Twilight Zone." Episode was called Two. Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Bronson were the only 2 soldiers left, one from each side of the war.
it's like you're implying being frozen for 17 years is actually legit lol. The whole movie is science fiction, you're not supposed to believe it could really happen.
@@dosmundos3830 Well, technically it's possible. Bacteria and other microscopic organisms that have been frozen for thousands of years have been revived. But do not expect a full human body to be frozen and brought back anytime soon. At least not yet for another few generations or centuries.
@@brickthetough3962 No, good science fiction is rooted in real science, not just imagination. That's why Star Trek is science fiction whereas Star Wars is is just fiction/fantasy.
Damn this is insane this channel finally hit 1M subscribers it's very cool I've been subbed since 34k this is very nice to see fox recaps still growing
they could find the seed bank with literally every single type of seed inside to essentially "replant" the earth, or at least start a farm. It's a real thing, look it up.
Reminds me of WW1 in Battlefield 1 where soldiers kept killing each other until the entire battlefield is nothing but a huge pile of corpse. After that, it came down to the last German and British soldier and pointed guns at each other but realized there's no point since they're the only ones left and dropped down their guns
They appear to have different uniforms and be of opposite sides in the war. Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" did this same plot decades ago starring Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as the man and woman.
So while he was in cryo chamber for 17 years he was conscious enough that he felt the time without other humans and/or amenities (food, rain, etc)..... Newspaper survived outside elements but buildings are leveled and cars have been stripped of paint.... darn good paper!
Okay, the gear, minimap, post apocalyptic, safe zones, teammates, finding the radio. feels more like a video game with side quests than movie. Also what’s with that airsoft optic from 2002
If the radiation had "taken over the place" he should have never taken off his CBRN gear. Then again, he didn't seem to be in the right state of mind to begin with. Nice to see a relatively happy ending to such a grim story.
are there any food that can last that long? Even canned goods have expiration date. Rice might be possible, but I don't know how I can make them last for 20 years.
Nobody seems to have mentioned the fact that after 17 of sleeping, he'd have basically ZERO muscle strength. This means that not only would he not have been able to climb the ladder to get out of that bunker, he wouldn't have even been able to stand.
Newspapers and photos that are still legible, laying on his back for 17 years and can walk just fine and more HUGE inconsistencies. The really annoying part is that the newspapers were the absolute dumbest way to give background info. Literally a dozoen movies have done this far better.
Seen it. Two different Twilight Zone episodes with this subject. Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery (1961) in a similar post-nuclear-war theme. Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bower in another with an "Adam and Eve Of The Future" ending (1963).
imagine how pissed you would be if you got to the meeting point and discovered that the members of congress were the ones who had made it. I would be like "NOOOOOOOOOO' I also have to ask what kind of man would be hiding out in a cryo chamber rather than being there by his wifes side when the end comes.
Wait when he said the helmet was in bad condition, I immediately thought oh no they must've died a harsh a death but then the narrator's just like it means he died a long time ago and I actually 😂 😂
pretty unrealistic. Radiation from a nuclear war would not last years. Even after months, the radiation levels would signficantly go down to safe levels in most areas.
They should have made the buildings out of newspapers. Apparently they can survive a nuclear blast and 17 years of weather and be perfectly readable. Shows the POWER OF THE PRESS!
As in previous comments, Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery did a similar story for the Twilight Zone's "Two" episode. Twilight Zone also did a crashed spacecraft story with Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bower named "Probe 7, Over and Out"
Some of Gene Roddenberry's stories were way ahead of their time! There's Taillight episodes that even in 2023 make you think - God damn these guys were outside the box!
I assume he had a hand in the bunker's design so that, when he wakes up, there will bright, disorienting, and flashing yellow lights, probably a siren, to gently greet him after years of sleep? :)
"no food or water supply" as water is literally pouring from the sky into his mouth" 🤣 If he looked through his house a bit longer he might have come across Cogsworth. Dogmeat is waiting for him up the road too. And all he has to do for Piper is pretend he is a merchant.
Fun fact: after humanity has completley died out, earth would take maybe 3 million years and it will recover like nothing ever happened, maybe. just maybe. new multicellular intelligent life could emerge
Nice. They developed a technology that allows a newspaper to last up to 17 years in the pouring rain and radiation without biodegrading. Glad to know that Science was still on the march!
Bunkers like his needs to have a built in luxury house underground fully furnished next to it...ready for his occupation. Plus a animal nursery that has separate multiple cryochambers for animals.... with 13 cows and pigs and chickens(for a variety of potential BBQ meats at his disposal upon awakening) and finally a plant nursery with hundreds of stored seeds for planting in a artificial sun equipped Green House. So he and his new wife can get busy on repopulating the dead Earth.
Protagonist entry. **Boom** Device says Dangerous levels of Nuclear Radiation and Radioactive Rain. Protagonist walks a few steps. **Boom** Environment safe. I think it's just the guy who built that Nuclear bomb was seriously underpaid, that he simply did a bad job.. 🤣🤣
The last thing I would want to find are people after seeing what had happened to the planert. If the only other person is an enemy combatant, even worse. That is not addressed in the video. The two left were enemy combatants.
I love the fact that people magically don't suffer muscular atrophy after nearly 2 decades of inactivity. Meanwhile if I skip the gym for a week my strength drops
That newspaper survived 17 years in the rain without disintegrating.... some good paper they used.
Could just blew out there that day
not just the rain it survived the nuclear impact lmfao
@@mr.spookyy3780 And the radiation that stripped the paint off cars...
It was from dunder miflin
It was a plastic newspaper.
I love how the radiation stripped the paint off the cars but the newspaper survived !
lol
Exactly
and the man's family picture too
Lol
I do not call that survive but preserved.
Narrator: "The helmet is in bad condition, implying it's owner died a long time ago". As he looks at a skull inside the helmet. Good stuff.
😂😂😂
The helmet was in perfect condition! the skull however, seemed to have a bullethole
😄🤣
@@swgriffin1977 well I have to imagine if the skull has a bullet hole that the helmet would too, it’s not like you can put on a helmet after you die from getting shot in the dome
@@sassythesasquatch8036 someone could put the helmet on you. But obviously isnt the case. It's a possible outcome tho.
"The rain is radioactive and will kill any living thing in an instant."
A few kilometres later.
"The rain here is completely safe."
Logical. Makes total sense. 👍
DO NOT QUESTION THE MONITOR.
😂😂😂same like Hindi movies
could have something to do with the blast radius, like in fallout 4 certain areas emit certain amounts of radiation.
Probably just an alpha radiation - it can be blocked by mere paper sheet- but it can be deadly if an alpha emitting particle gets inside a living organism say like swallowed. then it would continusly irradiate nearby tissues inducing radiation sickness over time.
@@CalebDNM
Real-life ain't no video game, sweetie. That's not how radiation works.
So you have the ability to survive 17 years underground frozen but not the foresight to stash a few battery packs and survival snacks/water. Soldier of misfortune
He prob didn’t have enough time.
Batteries can be packed, but survival snacks and water is a cannot, due to it being expired, theres some food that will expire in 20 years but not water, to keep it fresh is to boil it but wonder if he packed a lighter, so yes that explains alot.
@@VisualiserYu good packed water will last forever. And canned food can last longer than 20 years. there is canned food from WWII that you still could eat
@@zexiz1107 jars full of honey... Raw corn/ pulses.... And water in Milton bottles
yea that`s the thing!
I love how it’s like, “he hasn’t felt this in a long time”, but if he was in cryo sleep, it would’ve just been a blink to him, as if no time passed…
That's what I kept thinking lol. "He felt rain for the first time in years"
Nah... He might have been frozen but he's not dead, so in his subconscious he could probably feel the slow shift of time, and he could also dream, you know? Even if it's not shown in the movie. It's like comparing him to a comatose patient that had been unconscious for years.
@@MollyHJohns That's not how "being frozen" works. ALL your biological processes stop. Cryo Sleep is literally "You're frozen at a point in time", if any of your biological processes were still running, you'd die, especially as your body would then still be aging, rendering the point of cryo sleep moot.
For all intents and purposes, if you're in cryo sleep, you're effectively dead. He wouldn't feel anything. All he'd feel is before and after, full stop. It would literally be a blink. A blink from lying in the chamber to being in pain as he's woken up.
Unless its a coma type situation and he was dreaming for 17 years.
@@MollyHJohns oh wow I just said that but shorter lol
Man wakes up in Detroit, immediately regrets it.
He goes in search of common sense but only finds democrats.
😂😂
I was in an induced coma for just over a month. I had to relearn how to walk, i could barely sit up without help because my muscles had begin to atrophy. Yet after 17 years this guy can get up walk around and climb oout of that place with heavy equputment on his person.
Even if it’s not realistic, imagine the movie just being the man flopping around because he can’t walk
@@rice83101 maybe
Anytime you notice details like that, a wizard did it.
@@rice83101 No you wouldn't
It's called plot spaghetti, you see bullshit? Plot spaghetti. You see a relationship that wouldn't work irl? Plot spaghetti. Get it?
sooo he walked like a couple blocks and now its safe for him to take off his helmet and get soaked in the radioactive rain? wtf were they thinking when they made this
They were thinking with their radioactive rain-soaked brains.
fallout does not work like this. nuclear winter was quite literally mathematically debunked. places that are directly radioactive - are. the rest just sort of heals itself over time as entropy spreads the radioactive thingies away. After all - people live in Pripyat (some never left), same goes for flora and fauna - it thrives and is healthy but a mere few meters away are kill zones of dead trees and sterile soil. People in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well rebuilt their cities almost immediately, hell, there are people that survived 2 atom bombs, 2x black fallout rain and lived to late eighties in those cities.
@@neuswabian9442 🤓
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@@TCD-Gaming 🤓
The radioactive rain kills in an instant but he finally took off his helmet in the rain and survived.
that area specifically was safe from acid or radiation
@@Kgv1o10 but it's the exact same rain tho
@@InternalxHD true
Rad Storm
He instantly got cancer 😂
"hoping to start a hormone session" is a better ending line
I can’t imagine the agony of watching this movie in theatre, hoping something will happen and boom…Movie just ends…!
It’s a short film, not a feature full length film
It's not the of film, they fcuked each other and start become 2nd adam and eve.
RIGHT!😂👍
at least i have saved the time.. by watching recaps
It’s a proof of concept that was used to pitch to Studios, whom didn’t care for it as they couldn’t quite figure out how to shovel ‘The Message’ down an audiences throats via it.
Remember he is not only the last man, the camera man is always here
Edit:Damn I didn't think that comment would blow up in the comment section💀
Bahahahaha
dude fr
Maybe the camera man is a girl or a robot dog
Hahahaha
Please tell me the camera man doesn’t do any back shots
This movie was loosely based on a Twilight Zone episode, starring Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery.
How is it that the car’s paint has all been eaten away, but the newspapers on the street are completely legible? Also, how does he have such amazing muscle mass after 17 years of not using them?
Option 1: Fiction
Option 2: Cryostasis maybe isnt what we think it is
@@zertico_kawaii670 option 3 probably has an automatic muscle worker that can pump the muscles
Option 4 It’s a stupid movie.
Option 5: All of the above
Option 6: You're all fucking morons that can't just enjoy a movie without reading too far into it
Amazing. No muscular movement for 17 years. He just throws on a full load and proceeds up the ladder.
I've seen so many comments like this. Do you people not understand how cryo sleep works? Like at all?
@@bionic1matt this man clearly don’t lol
@@bionic1matt who does? do you think all the cryo sleep logic stuff is all related in all the movies?
@@sherluckholmes1110 I mean, the fundamental idea of how cryosleep would work yes, is all the same.
@@bionic1matt please explain how cyro-sleep works.
Important detail: When the soldier braces against the car while approaching the helmet, he aims for an easy shot but then chooses to approach instead. This act saved his life because the woman responded in kind, whistling to alert him of her presence rather than taking a similarly easy shot.
He hasn't spoken to anyone in 17 years. Hasn't felt the rain in all that time either. No. He wouldn't be losing his mind from loneliness, he was asleep the entire time.
There grammar police. Fixed it. Now kindly "words that violate CZcams rules."
Maybe not loneliness but general fear and anxiety that comes along with being in that situation, being uncertain if you’ll find food or clean water when everything around you is debris and rubble.
@@praetorianstride5948 true. But the way they worked it. And the fact he got frozen, expecting the end of the world. H lived in a city, he should have been expecting it.
@@carljacobs1837 Expecting it, doesn't mean it will ease your anxiety when you're living it!
*spoken
@@carljacobs1837 if you fear the end of the world, then live it up now while its good, don't freeze yourself till it's horrible and then be sad about it
So is it really never explained why he froze himself, why he has team members and rendezvous points, or anything? Does it really just start and end like this? I thought about stopping the video because this might have been a movie I was interested in seeing, but I'm definitely glad I didn't waste my time on the full film now...
It's only a 20 minute movie
This is probably a promo or a fan made move based on the Fallout games
@@bibraca it's a old Twilight Zone episode but in a updated format
@@mamasboy9886 no it's not. It's just an apocalyptic scenario short film.
@@alimfuzzy that's how the Twilight Zone worked there's an episode like this but they them ( him) talking in it an pointing guns at each other
The ability to survive 17 year but "Oh, I forgot some AA Batteries and a packed lunch" mentality gets me every time. This is a great comedy movie.
I am thankful for these recaps, honestly. If I had to watch the rubbish for it's entirety of the film i would be most angry . This dude did 17 years and seems he reverted in intelligence,insight and foresight
This movie is pretty much a Twilight Zone episode. The one with Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery.
The number of flaws in this movie were shocking:
1. The man awakens 17 years later without storing any batteries for his equipment, trail mix bars or canned food??
2. The newspaper easily survives radioactive rain, yet the paint on cars peel??
3. The man recovers from a 17 year cryogenic freeze as quickly as someone who took an afternoon nap?? Logically the mind, muscles, organs and blood going thru a freezing and then thawing process would not be as simple as an afternoon nap.
4. The device monitoring the rain says it's dangerously radioactive and then after a short distance rain is totally safe??
@@NTJedi the entire movie is a joke. if it's a 2 hours movie it will be even more joke, because you only watch a dude wake up from his slumber, walking with gun and meet a woman.
There it is, that's the entire movie
It's a 20 minute short-film. You definitely didn't save nearly as much time as you thought you did, unfortunately.
What pisses me off so much more is those shitty cliff hanger endings, these movies never get a 2nd movie and if they do it always has this really weird story line where the writers clearly ran out of ideas
"Everything is so depressing and tranquil."
Tell me more...
A perfect example of why I like these recaps. This movie had a fascinating idea, but oh boy would I have been pissed if I had sat through it only for it to end like this!
Seems like OceanGate didn't only build shoddy subs, they apparently also have a side hustle manufacturing barebones survival shelters, where upon the slightest problem, all occupants are forced into extreme survival mode without any supplies.
For being an indie production, the film has an impressive set & costume design. Which is reminiscent of games like GTFO or Routine. The location they shot in are also impressive.
If only the story didn't have a laundry list of flaws.
the title is the point there was man and woman yeah but 69@@NTJedi
Although I have no proof, I wouldn't be surprised if writer-director Gavin Rothery was inspired by The Twilight Zone episode "Two" (1961).
Indeed, the overall tone and structure of Rothery's short film and that long ago TV episode are so identical you can't ignore them.
In both stories, a nuclear war has taken place. You are never told who the opposing sides are. The initial narrative takes place inside a ruined city. And you are told that the war ended ages ago.
In the case of Rothery's movie, this info is conveyed through the contrivance of a computer system connected to a stasis chamber. While in that Twilight Zone episode, Perennial host Rod Serling does the introduction.
In both stories, you are introduced first to a singular man wandering about the devastated civic center. However, the man soon discovers that he is not alone. The other survivor is a woman, and the man can tell from her uniform that she is from the opposite side of the war.
The only noticeable difference between the two stories is the ending. Rothery's tale ends on a cliffhanger, with the two survivors pointing weapons at each other.
However, in that Twilight Zone episode, written and directed by Montgomery Pittman, the initial contact between the two survivors results in a fight over the last remaining canned food. After which, when they conclude they are the only survivors of the war, the man and the woman decide to have an armistice. They swap out their military fatigues for civilian clothes. These sole survivors of an apocalyptic war then choose to live together as a couple. And all of this is done with hardly any dialogue.
As to why Rothery ended his story the way he did, we'll never know for sure. Perhaps he had a limited budget, or maybe he lacked imagination. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
duke_of_lilywhite :
Yep! Twilight Zone episodes
"Two" & "Probe 7 over and out"
both = 1 man / 1 woman ✔
The narrator of this breakdown also didn't directly mention that, like in Twilight Zone's "TWO", the woman was an enemy soldier. The woman in this movie wore the same symbol from the Propaganda posters displaying their enemies. If they'd spent more time interacting and letting down their guard, this would've been a perfect remake of "TWO".
As a man with a beard and mustache, my favorite part is how he wakes up after 17 years looking like he was asleep for 7 hours. Why would he be so concerned about shaving when his facial hair takes decades to grow?
Shaving for a seal with the mask
@@zacharycarrier2890 good point. Though it doesnt show him having the ability lol, or the time since he woke up.
@@tommywolfe2706 you're right
@@zacharycarrier2890 you had me doubting myself....lol, but I remember instantly being a tad indignant.I have a beard, because I hate shaving. If my facial hair grew like his, problem solved, well, at least every decade or 2.
Hair growth for that guy is like the "brood x" for Cicadas lol.
he was in cryosleep, he was frozen, do people not even listen during these videos
I love how he says the rain is radioactive and will kill any life-form, but later he takes off his mask and gets a face full of rain 😂😂
I knew this was going to happen when he found a team-mate dead, the skeletal solider's equipment was broadcasting for 17-years. Of course his own equipment's power source fails in 48 hours. LOL.
The other guy used Duracells while his was some Chinese knock offs.
@@JohnSmith-nj4zq - just caught up...lol!
What kind of ink are they using on those newspapers?
Because I have receipts that have faded after a month 😂😂
If you want to do something cool with a receipt put a lighter underneath it but don't touch the flame to the paper the ink will push itself out and turn the receipt black wherever the heat has touched it but it will only do it on the topside the side where the heat is applied will stay white the whole time it's a rather cool experiment I figured out by accident
🤣🤣🤣🤣 two weeks in hot weather!
@@TwoStacks217 ...or keep it in a freezer...it will reset the marks/ made with hot "writing system".
@@robgoodsight6216 i dont unstand please explain further
@@TwoStacks217 the bills, the strips...are made with chemical treated paper, that reacts with thermal "changes" .
So if you put such a strip in a freezer...the chemical embedded into the paper should be able, through the low temperature, " erase " so to say all marks and writings, which are made with "hot" markings.
And the Cameraman was there waiting for him every single day of those 17 year! That is dedication.
So this is basically Fallout without the title.
Seems like it.
So, he wears a respiratory protection mask but with no filter or regulator. Why though?
Appears to have a PAPR on his back that would contain the filters and push air through automatically.
so the monitor dies even though the other monitor broadcasting for a long time stayed alive, and he didn't even note down which direction the rendezvous point was? Why rush in a direction of a flare and then take a gun out while arriving?
I'd like to think, he was so happy to see a flare that he ran. Then when he got to the area it was fired from, he realized how stupid it was to just run without checking to see if it was a trap or not. But the film was like 20 minutes long, so they had to rush it lol
He recognised the insignia on the helmet as belonging to the enemy side in the war.
Fox recap never disappoints
"The man climbs up the tallest building in the city to execute his final plan"
not gonna lie he had me there
His military armor is cool as hell and isn't this a short film? And this city was hit by nukes, wmds , and bioweapons
I especially like how they use knee-pads as shoulder pads.
from what i can tell the suit is based on the equipment Seal Team 5 used to use for VBSS (visit, board, search, and seizure) operations
Yeah I think this was a short film, watched a few years ago. Plot had a lot of holes in it though, like why would he put himself into cryo sleep for so long if he had a young healthy wife waiting at home, the lack of muscle atrophy after 17 yrs, and other points that others have mentioned in the comments.
@@kainevittulainen cool
@@NaturalMystic69 plus who was the enemy?
Amazing, been slept for 17yrs and still, he look liks he took a nap, no over grown hairs or beard (still bald) 😆
That parts realistic. If you could stop your organs or slow them down enough to "freeze" yourself for 17 years, none of your glands would work either and your hair would stop growing like a flower without sunlight...The rest, don't make sense though.
Plot twist:the woman was his wife indicating that she also froze herself from the fear of the apocalypse and they possible were in the same bunker as the man because she got the same gear as him and also if the car paint got eaten away how did the newspaper survived
The newspaper was obviously coated in a protective layer of plot armor.
The kneepad on his shoulder is hilarious.
This was taken from an episode of "The Twilight Zone." Episode was called Two. Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Bronson were the only 2 soldiers left, one from each side of the war.
I'll avoid this one. If I want to watch someone constantly crying, I could turn on Fox News.😈
Waking after 17 years with a fresh haircut, well trimmed beard and a belly. Yeah, seems legit
it's like you're implying being frozen for 17 years is actually legit lol. The whole movie is science fiction, you're not supposed to believe it could really happen.
Any comment?
@@dosmundos3830 Well, technically it's possible. Bacteria and other microscopic organisms that have been frozen for thousands of years have been revived. But do not expect a full human body to be frozen and brought back anytime soon. At least not yet for another few generations or centuries.
@@ajcyrilldy not humanly possible, in any way ;)
Its because the cryo stasis chamber froze his cells stopping hair growth and for the belly its just frozen cells
After 17 years, his muscles would be so atrophied that he wouldn't be able to stand up.
That's why it is a science fiction. not a documentary. It is fiction.
@@brickthetough3962 No, good science fiction is rooted in real science, not just imagination. That's why Star Trek is science fiction whereas Star Wars is is just fiction/fantasy.
So basically a take on a old Twilight Zone episode.
Damn this is insane this channel finally hit 1M subscribers it's very cool I've been subbed since 34k this is very nice to see fox recaps still growing
Did I really just watch a short version of a short film.
Lol yes. Recappers are running out of things to regurgitate.
@@roger4845 Soon they will be doing recaps of movie recaps done by other channels.
So grateful for this cliff notes version of the movie. I'd hate to have watched it just to get to a cliff hanger ending like that.
This was based on a Twilight Zone episode. Thank you for sharing this.
they could find the seed bank with literally every single type of seed inside to essentially "replant" the earth, or at least start a farm. It's a real thing, look it up.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
It’s in the artic…
Apply practicality with academic knowledge dude.
Isnt that on antartica?
You can't sow a seed in radioactive soil 🤷♀️
Man no man with the right sense of mind would direct this plot of a movie ,even I would come up with a better plot for the protagonist.
Reminds me of WW1 in Battlefield 1 where soldiers kept killing each other until the entire battlefield is nothing but a huge pile of corpse. After that, it came down to the last German and British soldier and pointed guns at each other but realized there's no point since they're the only ones left and dropped down their guns
yeah
Or how newspaper is still readable after 17 years in rain and wind
They appear to have different uniforms and be of opposite sides in the war. Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" did this same plot decades ago starring Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as the man and woman.
I remember that, quite a good film...
Yep, it was called 'Two', S3 EP1. Better executed than this.
So while he was in cryo chamber for 17 years he was conscious enough that he felt the time without other humans and/or amenities (food, rain, etc).....
Newspaper survived outside elements but buildings are leveled and cars have been stripped of paint.... darn good paper!
Okay, the gear, minimap, post apocalyptic, safe zones, teammates, finding the radio. feels more like a video game with side quests than movie. Also what’s with that airsoft optic from 2002
If the radiation had "taken over the place" he should have never taken off his CBRN gear. Then again, he didn't seem to be in the right state of mind to begin with. Nice to see a relatively happy ending to such a grim story.
So he was intelligent enough to freeze himself but didn't store any supplies? Non of this movie makes much sense
it's a short film, the narrator in this recap did not explained everything.
are there any food that can last that long? Even canned goods have expiration date. Rice might be possible, but I don't know how I can make them last for 20 years.
@@jrome1771 there are canned foods from WW2 that are still edible
@@jrome1771 freeze dried is what I heard.
@@jrome1771 A guy on CZcams eat a MRE from WWI. It's still good.
I appreciate you explaining the word WAR to me
Nobody seems to have mentioned the fact that after 17 of sleeping, he'd have basically ZERO muscle strength. This means that not only would he not have been able to climb the ladder to get out of that bunker, he wouldn't have even been able to stand.
I appreciate your effort good luck ❤❤
Newspapers and photos that are still legible, laying on his back for 17 years and can walk just fine and more HUGE inconsistencies. The really annoying part is that the newspapers were the absolute dumbest way to give background info. Literally a dozoen movies have done this far better.
Thanks for this recap!
took him 17 years and a nuke strike
for him to get a date with lady gaga
Seen it. Two different Twilight Zone episodes with this subject. Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery (1961) in a similar post-nuclear-war theme. Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bower in another with an "Adam and Eve Of The Future" ending (1963).
and they’re both better lol
DC Kidd
Yep! Both Twilight Zone episodes, "Probe 7 over and out" & "Two"
= 1 man / 1 woman ✔
imagine how pissed you would be if you got to the meeting point and discovered that the members of congress were the ones who had made it. I would be like "NOOOOOOOOOO' I also have to ask what kind of man would be hiding out in a cryo chamber rather than being there by his wifes side when the end comes.
They would have their hands out wanting your unpaid back taxes.
@@crabbiecakes5663 end of the world is temporary but taxes are forever
The kind of man who never married.
@@crabbiecakes5663 😆👌🏽
I can't believe he actually picked up the phone to see if it was working LMAO
Truly worth a recap less of than 10 mins 👏
Wait when he said the helmet was in bad condition, I immediately thought oh no they must've died a harsh a death
but then the narrator's just like it means he died a long time ago and I actually 😂 😂
Seriously 😅
@@sweetdreamsbeautifulnightm9133 like fr
I'm seeing a skull with a hole between the eyes and the narrator was like nope it's just old😂
Love at first sight
Brought to a new level
pretty unrealistic. Radiation from a nuclear war would not last years. Even after months, the radiation levels would signficantly go down to safe levels in most areas.
They should have made the buildings out of newspapers. Apparently they can survive a nuclear blast and 17 years of weather and be perfectly readable. Shows the POWER OF THE PRESS!
*And the bald guy finally gets a girlfriend. She does him to save the human race.*
LMAO-
I dunno she looks full on lezzer to me.
As in previous comments, Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery did a similar story for the Twilight Zone's "Two" episode. Twilight Zone also did a crashed spacecraft story with Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bower named "Probe 7, Over and Out"
Samuel Martinez
Yep! Both Twilight Zone episodes
= 1 man / 1 woman ✔
Some of Gene Roddenberry's stories were way ahead of their time! There's Taillight episodes that even in 2023 make you think - God damn these guys were outside the box!
I assume he had a hand in the bunker's design so that, when he wakes up, there will bright, disorienting, and flashing yellow lights, probably a siren, to gently greet him after years of sleep? :)
that newspaper is stupid. No piece of paper would survive 17 years of constant rain, let alone the ink surviving in the open.
Fun fact: there was a episode very similar in the original Twilight Zone
glad that there will be a pt 2
they should make a movie like this where someone prepares for a war that never happens and by the time they come up the world is really advanced
"no food or water supply" as water is literally pouring from the sky into his mouth" 🤣 If he looked through his house a bit longer he might have come across Cogsworth. Dogmeat is waiting for him up the road too. And all he has to do for Piper is pretend he is a merchant.
Fun fact: after humanity has completley died out, earth would take maybe 3 million years and it will recover like nothing ever happened, maybe. just maybe. new multicellular intelligent life could emerge
Sleeps for 17 years then look at the hair. Come on. Whats wrong with the movie crew
Wasn't asleep, was frozen.
Nice. They developed a technology that allows a newspaper to last up to 17 years in the pouring rain and radiation without biodegrading. Glad to know that Science was still on the march!
What kind of material they used to produce news paper that after 17 years still intact and neat.
high tech
17 years and the car tires are still pumped surviving a nuclear strike... i need this tyre brand for my car.
Michelin. Trust no other.
All those car tires with air in them. That is magic.
Bunkers like his needs to have a built in luxury house underground fully furnished next to it...ready for his occupation. Plus a animal nursery that has separate multiple cryochambers for animals.... with 13 cows and pigs and chickens(for a variety of potential BBQ meats at his disposal upon awakening) and finally a plant nursery with hundreds of stored seeds for planting in a artificial sun equipped Green House. So he and his new wife can get busy on repopulating the dead Earth.
Protagonist entry.
**Boom** Device says Dangerous levels of Nuclear Radiation and Radioactive Rain.
Protagonist walks a few steps.
**Boom** Environment safe.
I think it's just the guy who built that Nuclear bomb was seriously underpaid, that he simply did a bad job.. 🤣🤣
Must be easy to write down the casts of this movie.
Maybe in 17 years Detroid will be rebuild and be livable again. Wakes up 17 years later: Welp what was I thinking?
That's a Twlight Zone episode made into a movie. Neat
Reminds me of an episode of the twilight zone with Charles Bronson
And Elizabeth Montgomery. The episode called TWO
@@jessicajayes8326 Rught!!!!! good episdoe.
"Everything is so depressing and tranquil" lmao... quality writing lads.
Environment safe.. but suit still caked in radioactive fallout 🤣
The last thing I would want to find are people after seeing what had happened to the planert. If the only other person is an enemy combatant, even worse. That is not addressed in the video. The two left were enemy combatants.
Whew! Thanks. You saved me thirteen minutes.
Sooooooooooo his radio that’s been out of use for 17 years and surprisingly still works, just so happens to die when he gets it? Movies lol.
Cool vid dude
How was he asleep for 17 years but wakes up with a fresh haircut and crisp shave??
Nothing happens to your body in cryo-sleep. It's completely frozen.
I love the fact that people magically don't suffer muscular atrophy after nearly 2 decades of inactivity. Meanwhile if I skip the gym for a week my strength drops
10 years ago I had an accident that left me paralyzed in wheelchair.
Once this started playing , I got up from chair to turn it off.
😂