The phrase
"apocalyptic event" refers to a catastrophic or disastrous occurrence that has a severe and far-reaching impact on the world or society. It usually implies the end of the current order or the destruction of civilization as we know it.
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One of the great exponents of Romanticism, the 19th century English painter, illustrator and mezzotint engraver John Martin, achieved huge popular acclaim with his history painting (more accurately, historical landscape painting) featuring melodramatic scenes
of apocalyptic events taken from the Bible and other mythological sources.
Set against a Los Angeles that is getting torn apart
by apocalyptic events, it displays the behavior of six friends who become trapped together in the same house (that of James Franco, as it so happens) as they try desperately to survive.
We knew that the movie revolves around a pub crawl involving Gary King (Pegg) and four childhood friends (including Nick Frost as a character called Andy Knight), while a cataclysmic,
possibly apocalyptic event, rages around them.
Yet this is the
ultimate apocalyptic event, one finally releasing an absolutely new world, but only insofar as it is the actual death of God.
The bestselling Left Behind novels, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins between 1995 and 2007, dramatize the premillennial view of the End Times favored by earlier generations of American fundamentalists, in which Christ «raptures» his followers to heaven before a series of
apocalyptic events unfold on earth.
The victory is that Sherlock Gnomes is not the seventh - seal -
breaking apocalyptic event that its reprehensible, punishing, life - sapping trailer suggested.
He'll hopefully be in the Deadpool and X-Force franchises for years to come, unless some
other apocalyptic event requires him to go back to the future.
As suggested by the
Norse apocalyptic event mentioned in the title, the trailer finds Thor's homeland of Asgard leveled and his beloved hammer Mjölnir destroyed by new villain Hela, devilishly played by Cate Blanchett, all while Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song» rages in the background.
The film, which revolves around a young man who has visions of an
impending apocalyptic event, premiered at the... Continue reading They Look Like People
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major apocalyptic event.
Although I found myself really liking the environment at first, I quickly found myself wishing that the clouded red sky would at least part from time to time to let in a little sunlight here and there, but I suppose such a luxury is non-existent when the planet has been brutalized
by apocalyptic events.
Based on the Black List script by Brooks McLaren, How It Ends revolves around a
mysterious apocalyptic event that turns the roads into mayhem, and a young father -LSB-...]
We had already been informed that the movie revolves around a pub crawl involving Gary King (Pegg) and four childhood friends (including Nick Frost as Andy Knight), while a cataclysmic,
possibly apocalyptic event, rages around them.
«This Is the End» follows a group of friends — the movie stars that you already know well from Judd Apatow - directed movies such as «Superbad» and «Knocked Up,» as well as other films — as they suddenly find themselves in the midst
of apocalyptic events.
Redemption is not dependent upon Messianic calculations or
any apocalyptic event, but on the unpremeditated turning of our whole world - life to God.
That book, along with The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966), should make it clear that for Altizer the death of God is a Christian and
apocalyptic event.
It's as if
the apocalyptic event itself eradicated God as well, or at least disproved his existence.
Despite all of the lessons that could have been learned from Y2K and Harold Camping, people will still rally around the idea that
apocalyptic events are on the calendar for 2012.
However we are to understand
this apocalyptic event, whatever form it takes, the second coming of Jesus Christ means to a Christian that God's righteousness will at last fill the earth.
This week's Belief Blog story on doomsday leader Harold Camping claiming he still expects the world to end on October 21, even after
the apocalyptic events he predicted for Saturday failed to materialize, fetched nearly 5,000 comments.
It's set in Appalachia, after
some apocalyptic event has left Small Town, USA, looking as if aliens have bombed the sets of a Gregory Crewdson photo shoot.
The movie, the eighth, is tightly focused and as somber and unsettling as it should be, considering
its apocalyptic events.
While investigating the death of a hacker in London, Detective Chief Inspector Robert Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Detective Inspector Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) discover proof the world has five years before
an apocalyptic event destroys the planet in this BBC co-produced drama from Neil Cross.
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) learns of «Ragnarok»,
an apocalyptic event that would cause the end of his home Asgard.
When
an apocalyptic event turns everyone around him - including his wife and daughter - into marauding zombies, everyman mechanic Barry arms himself to the teeth, soups up his car, and hits the road in order to rescue his sister from a deranged, disco - dancing mad doctor.
To enter, just comment below with where you would seek refuge during
an apocalyptic event.
Into the Forest Rated R for a scene of violence involving rape, language and some sexuality / nudity Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79 % Set in the near future, two sisters (Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page) who have moved off the grid must figure out how to stay alive after
an apocalyptic event takes place.
That's the focus here, and Nichols did both those things well in his previous films «Mud,» ostensibly about a criminal played by Matthew McConaughey but really about the changing way of life in working - class waterside communities, and «Take Shelter,» which starred Shannon as a construction worker seeing terrible visions of
an apocalyptic event, fueled by global warming and climate change, that destroys the Earth.
While far from subtle, von Trier's use of
an apocalyptic event as a metaphor for the nature of depression is an apt one.
Almost every other movie this year portrays
some apocalyptic event.
The story told here by Garland — whose screenwriting credits also include 28 Days Later, Dredd, Sunshine, and Never Let Me Go — contains elements familiar from his past works:
apocalyptic events, authority figures or scientists faced with ethical dilemmas, the exploration of the issues of gender, identity, and creation.
(All the action takes place in Panem, a nation created in the continent formerly known as North America after
an apocalyptic event.)
It is vital for Goodman to strike a tenuous balance between outwardly sinister and perhaps a bit misunderstood, a man who heartily and often violently protects his very particular way of life, a survivalist proven right by
an apocalyptic event of vague description, but beneath it all there is a sense that he cares for Michelle, though the extent to how and why remains murky.
After
the apocalyptic events of Season 2 leave New York City human-less, every dog has his day?
The film is an adaptation of the Stephen King thriller novel about
an apocalyptic event that amounts to a pitch heard by anyone on a cell phone at a certain moment in time, which turns them into zombified beings with a herd mentality.
Snapshot: An effects - driven disaster movie about a group of people struggling to survive
an apocalyptic event foretold in the Mayan calendar.
In 2013 the world was devastated by
an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland.