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Last Night on Earth

Constitution Hill

23:23 / 11.01.03

So, I'm currently watching a low-budget millenial angst movie called Last Night. It follows a bunch of people through the last 6 hours before the world ends. I missed the beginning so I don't know why it's ending at midnight, but, anyway, it is.

What would you do with your last 6 hours?

I'd play some frisbee while there's still daylight. Watch the sunset in Aberystwyth. Have a Tekken-thon with my friend geoff, and listen to my ex's latest relationship woes. Eat my friend Sara's bagels. Quote Blackadder and bitch about my sister with my brother. Have a game of SoF online and whoop some clan boys butts. Find and read a short story co-written by Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K Dick. Laugh until i cried with my friend Simon. Smoke a spliff and chat and kiss and make love to my girlfriend. But right at the end? I'd like to have a Fenchurch from HG2G moment.

How about you lot?

000

23:31 / 11.01.03

I would steal the last 6 hours off the people around me. 6,something Billion people X 6 hours: something approaching eternity.

And with that much time in my hand, I would maintain a forum board whose only member was me.

gornorft

23:37 / 11.01.03

I'd tape it on CNN so I could watch it later.

Assuming that the means of our destruction was going to be visually spectacular I would assume that there would be a massing of people in the best vantage points. I'd head for the best of those where, I'm sure, a huge party would ensue. With me I'd take everything I've ever bought with the intention of consuming or playing with later (duty free whisky, fireworks, drugs, inflatable Dalek) and get stuck in.

I'd also initiate a bonfire for the burning of condoms.

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

00:08 / 12.01.03

I would probably get very drunk, then dance. Kill any coppers who weren’t repenting, fuck the prettiest member of the royal family, but no, that would probably be a big gang-rape, so I would just dance ,dance, dance. Shake my booty all over town.

Tryphena Absent

00:53 / 12.01.03

Fill my body with drugs, dance somewhere classy, fuck someone to death - maybe more then one person, eat, drink and smoke. Then at midnight I'd walk the streets of London and remember how much I love the city for the last time.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

02:53 / 12.01.03

Not tell my bloke. Stuff us both full of nice knocky-outy drugs, and canoodle lots.

"Nothing, love. Just hold me."

Tezcatlipoca

07:33 / 12.01.03

fuck the prettiest member of the royal family

And which one might that be, Panarchy...?

And with 6 hours left to live? Hmmmm....I think I'd start a new book.

that

09:40 / 12.01.03

I'd refuse to admit defeat. I'd gather together everyone I loved, and all the tinned and long-life foods I could find, as well as everything else we might need, and find a deep cave system.

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12:11 / 12.01.03

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Last Night is directed by the genius Don McKellar and there is no actual reason for the end of the world at midnight. Given the brightness the concludes the film one might assume a meteor strike but this could easily be representative of any other event. It seems that it was an important move to remove any explanation so that more focus could be directed on the human reaction to imminent demise without reprieve.

Constitution Hill

12:19 / 12.01.03

Thanks Potus. Was Don McKellar also the lead guy in the film? His name rings a bell somehow. Sex, drugs & rock n'roll seem to be the consensus here... i guess some things never change. Surprised there are no random acts of anarchy, though.

pointless and uncalled for

12:34 / 12.01.03

Yep, he was the guy that wound up with David Cronenburg's wife at the end. No acts of anarchy, and how would you describe the burning buildings, trashed cars and tipping over of a streetcar?

Saint Keggers

12:53 / 12.01.03

Don McKellar is amazing. I've loved his work since we watched Highway 61 in my Writting For The Media class in college... and Twitch City was one of the best shows to air in a long while on the CBC.

As for my last 6 hrs..
Im going sky diving.

Constitution Hill

13:29 / 12.01.03

No acts of anarchy, and how would you describe the burning buildings, trashed cars and tipping over of a streetcar?

Oh, I meant that none of the replies in this thread have contained acts of anarchy. As for sky-diving, if the end were a meteor impact / gloabal thermo-nuclear conflagration then that'd be one hell of a firework display.

Saint Keggers

14:26 / 12.01.03

Yeah..fall into the nuclear mushroom!

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:40 / 12.01.03

I initially thought I was shallow for identifying most with the guy who's trying to fulfill all his sexual fantasies, but recent conversations have reassured me that this is indeed the only sane option...

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

18:57 / 12.01.03

With only six hours left, I'd gather together all of my friend for a big dinner and spend the time chatting the night away.

Unless I could find someone to fulfill most of my nastiest sexual fantacies with. Then I prolly would just lose track of time.

Jub

07:46 / 13.01.03

I'd go and sit in a cafe in Rickmansworth and suddenly realise what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and finally know how the world could be made a good and happy place.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:20 / 13.01.03

I think I'd probably try to get an early night. I mean, really, what does it matter in the greater scheme of things whether I'd fulfilled some hitherto unachieved sexual fantasy? After all, in six hours' time it won't matter anyway. Much better to be nice and cosy under a big fluffy duvet, IMHO.

rizla mission

10:43 / 13.01.03

Yeah, I think I'd go with that too. Like on New Years Eve, there'd be far too much pressure to have a good time, it would be easier not to bother. Just listen to some records and have a nap. That's the ticket.

maby

12:56 / 13.01.03

Something I'd always wanted to do but never had the courage to, perhaps? A Fenchurch moment would be timely, I think I'd prefer one of those moments of clarity, when the events in your own life slot into place so well you realise you are God of your own universe. Oh, and there would be smoking involved. No time to give up.

8===>Q: alyn

13:58 / 13.01.03

I'd cry and cry and cry.

Sax

15:11 / 13.01.03

I'd get under the duvet with Haus.

Brigade du jour

20:06 / 13.01.03

Eat biscuits 'til I'm sick
Find a car that I could nick
Break a window with a brick
And drink wine 'til I go 'hic!'

Constitution Hill

23:28 / 13.01.03

Mmmmmmm biscuits & duvets. What was i thinking with the frisbee? Bed & crumbs is where it's at.

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