>I have a fondness for post-apocalypse movies, even though sci-fi is not my genre. "28 Days Later" was set in England after the big one and was very well made IMO. For more fun, I liked "The Day After Tomorrow" starring Dennis Quaid. After a new ice age strikes the northern U.S. he heads south to escape. There is Dennis on snowshoes, trekking south, trying to find his son, played by a young Jake Gyllenhaal. The touch of humor, always appreciated in a Roland Emmerich production, was that so many Americans were doing the same thing that Mexico had erected a checkpoint to prevent Americans from swarming into Mexico illegally, LOL.

If there's anything in that predictive programming (i.e. that all those apocalyptic movies are a preparation for the real thing - once it comes, we'll know the drill, and will actually have gotten used to the thought), I'm then happy I'm back here. None of them happened outside the US or UK.

Though I remember seeing a couple that happened in Japan, but then the disaster there covered the whole world - the Japanese don't forget proper coverage. For the U* production, they do forget. So if/when it comes, the people here will only partly behave in the patterns set by these movies, and will rather fall back to their own self-organizing community and solidarity sense. It's happened before, smaller scale of course, in earthquakes, floods and other disasters. I'd rather be here, than where solidarity is a bad word.