Talk:Last Night (1998 film)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas

The film is not set around Christmas since it is set in Toronto and there is no snow anywhere. As well, Patrick specifically says that it is not actually Christmas, to his mother. I corrected this. 99.246.112.66 (talk) 02:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cause of the end of the world

The description says the end of the world might be caused by a super nova but that would not be possible. A super nova would not cause the night to become day and they specifically mention in the film how they miss the night time. The only way that would happen is if the earth stopped rotating but if it stopped rotating then half the earth would be burning up while the other half would be frozen solid - unless the earth not only stopped rotating but moved significantly away from the sun (but the sun should have appeared much smaller and far less bright outside) or the sun became dim. The high angle of the sun suggests they could not be in the event horizon between two hot/cold hemispheres. So whatever the disaster was it could not be a super nova by the way it is shown in the film. Likewise knowing the exact time the sun would explode would be a difficult one to explain.

Any other better explanations as to what the disaster might be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.45.233 (talk) 18:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't seen the movie but assuming the sun's mass did support a supernova, we're talking cataclysmic energy levels, on the order of trillions of watts per square meter at Earth's distance. There would indeed be instantaneous daytime all over the planet from extreme ionization of the atmosphere by a flood of all types of particles and plenty of radiative energy transfer to the back side of the earth. I think Earth would be incinerated in mere seconds like taking a blowtorch to a grain of sand. -Rolypolyman (talk) 17:52, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the offending sentence from the article since its clearly not a supernova. This tidbit is not central to the movie plot or theme, so its not really worth arguing over too deeply. --Anon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.252.71.146 (talk) 04:06, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A black hole could have entered the solar system, destabilized Earth's orbit and rotation, and collided with the sun to cause an immediate or delayed explosion. Both the tidal locking and very precise time calculation would be highly improbable though. 173.14.140.253 (talk) 18:59, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Inspiration?

Larry Niven's short story Inconstant Moon has a very similar premise, but I can't find anything stating that it actually was the inspiration for this film. Could be added as a See also link? Fences&Windows 18:19, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not 100 percent sure whether anyone has actually connected Inconstant Moon with Last Night. Most of the search results mentioning both are just lists of apocalyptic works, many of them mirrors of List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction; there are a couple of blog or message-board posts, but these seem to be cases where different people mention the two works. However, there's at least one interview in which McKellar himself cites On the Beach and The Omega Man as inspirations. This site says McKellar was inspired by The Day the Earth Caught Fire, but I can't find any direct quotes from him to support it. There are comparisons with Richard Matheson's "The Last Day," "The Last Night of the World" from Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, and the film Miracle Mile out there too, but they generally seem to be just some individual's opinion. Grover Snodd (talk) 20:43, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]