10 Biggest Movie Myths About The Apocalypse

#8 - Sanctuary

Utopia. Eden. Shangra-la. Or as I like to call it ... Tir Asleen. In most movies, sanctuary has something to do with water ... either the coast such as Book of Eli (2010) or The Road or an island in Children of Men (2006) or Waterworld and sometimes even at a fun park, Zombieland (2009). Yes, the world around us right here, right now, sucks ass ... but somewhere not too far from here is a veritable wonderland of awesomeness.

Its an easy way to give the plot and story some movement by giving the heroes a quest. But ... Funny thing about radiation. It doesn't sit in one place like an obedient dog. It spreads with the wind and infects everything. Obviously, ground zero is going to be super irradiated and produce 75 foot tall man-eating ants, but the rest of the world is kinda screwed, too. And this is because in nuclear explosions, radioactive material is thrown up into the stratosphere and it could take weeks, months, and even years for it to settle back down to earth. Which means that entire time it is riding the winds, waiting like a postuous ulcer to f**k somebody's day. Whatever a post nuclear world looks like ... its a fate that we're all going to share no matter where we live. Except for the moon base, of course. They're safe ... until the aliens come.