{"id":671,"date":"2026-10-29T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:46:33","slug":"weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blast.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This block will stay here, I am going to leave this post here and then change out the movie plot details below. This page will get outdated as far as posts go, but will have a new movie each week (or at least I am going to try and do one a week). You can stream older movies on places like Fandago but they don&#8217;t have all the titles and some are really hard to find. You could go to the library and get the DVD and watch these older movies but then you run the risk of the copy being scratched and well not working that&#8217;s what happens when you lend things out to anybody. So yeah this change, I may update the date on the post so that you will be able to see when I have a new movie to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blast from the Past<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Fernando_Valley\">San Fernando Valley<\/a>&nbsp;in 1962, eccentric scientist Dr. Calvin Webber believes a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_war\">nuclear war<\/a>&nbsp;with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Union\">Soviet Union<\/a>&nbsp;is imminent, so he builds a secret&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallout_shelter\">fallout shelter<\/a>&nbsp;beneath his backyard. Alarmed by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuban_Missile_Crisis\">Cuban Missile Crisis<\/a>, Calvin takes his pregnant wife Helen into the shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwJA\">An&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F-86_Sabre\">F-86 Sabre<\/a>&nbsp;suffers an unexpected mechanical failure and crashes into their house above. Calvin assumes the worst and activates the shelter&#8217;s time-locks for 35 years. Because the house was destroyed, the public assumes the family was killed, and the property is abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwJg\">Adam grows up in the shelter, educated by Calvin. Above ground, first a diner opens, then a pizzeria, and finally the punk club&nbsp;<em>Purgatory<\/em>, as the suburb becomes an inner-city&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghetto\">ghetto<\/a>. A youth named Melker works there through all its iterations; by 1995, he has become a middle-aged alcoholic living in the now-condemned club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwKQ\">When the shelter unlocks in 1997, Calvin mistakes the blighted neighborhood for a post-apocalyptic wasteland of irradiated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mutants_in_fiction\">mutants<\/a>. He decides the family must stay underground, over Helen&#8217;s objections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwKw\">Adam leaves to gather food and supplies after Calvin falls ill. On the surface, he encounters Melker, who witnessed Calvin ascend from the shelter floor and believes they are the Holy Family. Marveling at the outside world, Adam purchases supplies but subsequently loses his way back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwLA\">When Adam tries to sell Calvin&#8217;s classic baseball cards at a hobby shop, Eve Rustikov prevents the owner from cheating him and is fired for intervening. She drives him to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holiday_Inn\">Holiday Inn<\/a>&nbsp;in exchange for a rare&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rogers_Hornsby\">Rogers Hornsby<\/a>&nbsp;card but guiltily returns the next morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwLw\">Adam hires Eve for $1,000 a week to help him procure supplies and find a &#8220;non-mutant&#8221; wife from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pasadena,_California\">Pasadena, California<\/a>, following Helen&#8217;s advice. Adam meets Eve&#8217;s gay roommate\/best friend Troy, who offers him practical advice and a complete makeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwMQ\">Eve and Troy take Adam to a 1940s swing-style nightclub to find a partner. He attracts several women, including Eve&#8217;s nemesis Sophie. Jealous, Eve reconnects with her ex-boyfriend Cliff to provoke a fight, relenting only when Adam demonstrates his boxing skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwMg\">Disgusted with herself, Eve goes home, where Troy informs her that Adam left with Sophie. Panicked, she hurries to intervene, but Adam soon returns and explains that he rejected Sophie&#8217;s advances because he could only think about Eve. They kiss, but when Adam admits the truth about his past and his desire to take her as his wife &#8220;underground,&#8221; Eve asks him to leave, believing he is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mental_disorder\">mentally ill<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwNA\">Locating the club, where Melker now commands a cult worshipping him, Adam returns to Eve&#8217;s apartment, where she is waiting with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychiatrist\">psychiatrist<\/a>&nbsp;to commit him. Adam escapes, though not before asking Eve and Troy to collect his belongings and settle his hotel bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwNg\">In his room, Troy and Eve find toiletries and clothing from the 1960s alongside immensely valuable&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stock_certificate\">stock certificates<\/a>&nbsp;in companies like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM\">IBM<\/a>. They realize Adam was telling the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwOQ\">As Melker and his cult occupy the area, Calvin prepares to seal his family inside the shelter again. Troy and Eve fail to find Adam at a nearby adult bookstore. As the despondent pair is about to leave, Eve spots him. They share a passionate embrace, and Adam takes her to meet his parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwOg\">Impressed with Eve, Calvin and Helen agree to set the shelter&#8217;s locks for two months while Adam and Eve make arrangements. Staying for dinner at the shelter, Eve reveals that she hails from Pasadena, to Helen&#8217;s delight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mwOw\">During this time, Adam and Eve sell the stocks, building his parents a new home in the country identical to their previous one, and acquire a restored red 1960&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cadillac_automobile\">Cadillac<\/a>&nbsp;convertible. They help Melker rebuild the pub into a 1950s-themed nightclub after convincing him that Adam is not God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After mentioning that Eve is Ukrainian, Adam reveals to Calvin that no nuclear war occurred: a plane simply crashed into their house, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Cold War is over. As Helen calls them in for a roast dinner, Adam goes inside while Calvin secretly begins planning to build a new fallout shelter. 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