10 Biggest Movie Myths About The Apocalypse

#7 - The Wasteland

Part and parcel with #8 above is how an ass load of atomic weapons is going to affect our planet. And the popular consensus is that nuclear war is going to 1) evaporate all of the water and 2) make it really hot. Again ... movie myth ... not science. And there's probably good reasons for this. First, the most famous post apocalypse movies (Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Beyond Thunderdome) were set in Australia. I live here and I can assure you that its hot and barren for most of the year.

Those images though were probably indelibly printed in the minds and expectations of movie audiences and, quite frankly, it fits a neat political agenda against global warming. The suits probably love it because shooting in Southern California is much easier than in ... say ... northern Finland. Most theorists believe that the huge amounts of ash from flammable targets (such as cities) and earth will be thrown up into the atmosphere that it will block out the sun's rays and lead the exact opposite of the parched wasteland above. Nuclear winter. It is the same concept for what theoretically happened to the dinosaurs. A huge meteor hit, throwing up billions of tons of earth into the atmosphere and it immediately started an Ice Age. Thankfully, this time around, Ray Romano won't be voicing acting.