"Your Favorite Post-Apocalyptic Movie?" Topic

I know there are many cheesy ones out there. Not interested in those bad ones.

However, what is YOUR absolute FAVORITE of the better ones?

More importantly, WHY?

CC

Looking for after-the-fact movies of how survivors deal with the RESULTS of the catastrophe (natural, man-made, alien, etc.) and with each other.

Thanks.

CC

There is of course only one credible answer:

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The reasons are self-evident.

Allen

Note that it wasn't me who said that, viewers.

Mad Max
The Road Warrior (do I even need to eplain?)
Waterworld – road warrior w/ jet-skis. bad but pretty amusing

Warlords of the 21st Century, Aka "BattleTruck" in the US
A Boy and His Dog
Escape From New York
for sheer perversity… "Battlestorm, the Destruction of Jared-Syn"
SpaceHunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

While there are lots of things about Mad Max 3 (Beyond Thunderdome) I like it because it shows how a society could possibley be after a nuclear war.

Though I don't like the Thunderdome society, what intrigues me are the children from the plane. How they began their own myths and legends and how the language shifted.

A bleak post Nuclear film – threads very dark factual and frightening

Favourite one the Postman, much better than Waterworld though I do like the Second Mad Max and fond of the Escape duo a bit silly though

"When The Wind Blows", though that is more about not being able to deal with the results of a nuclear apocalypse than dealing with them.

Polynikes,
Is that the correct title to that movie? I cannot find it anywhere.
CC

imdb.com/title/tt0090315
Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft. Don't get much more classy than that.

It is a cartoon, though. That might put you off. Based on the Raymond Briggs* comic.

*He's the Fungus the Bogeyman/The Snowman guy.

A picture to give you an idea of the style:
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Well, the apocalypse hasn't happened yet and after it does I get the impression that there's not going to be that many cinema going folk around…………. or cinemas… adn possibly not movie makers either.

In fact (call me a pessimist) I have my doubts that after the apocalypse any movies are going to be made…..

When the wind blows was a reaction to the 1980s Cold War and the govt propaganda and information given out on what to do in the event. It revolves around two old geezers who remember "The War" and how they cope with making a fall out shelter etc. Very poigniant but not a survivor.

Threads was a TV Fil which took you up to 13 years after a nuclear war still the best and for gritty reality and the after effects on the enviornment and society beats The day after Hands down

imdb.com/title/tt0090163

The original MAd MAx movie and the future scenes in the origninal Terminator.

Besides the above 'the jugger' (sp?) was also good

with Rutger Hauer

Can't get more post apocalypse than "Planet of the Apes" or even "Omega Man".

Would "Lost Horizons" count?

Damnation Alley should be included. Not a great movie but the Landmaster is an awesome machine.

Threads was a scarey movie . It was banned in the US for some reason so I had to watch it . Mad max …a favorite . Adventures in the Forbidden zone. Great .

Yes Jugger was good couldnt remember the name of it

For a good movie, The Beach is probably the best in the genre. Its very bleak.

For fun of course its Escape from New York. "I am the Duke of New York!" Gotta love a movie with Chef in it!

Damnation Alley is not good but fun.

There really hasn't been something really great. The subject matter is kind of depressing. I think the fun really begins in life when you have finally hit bottom though. Look at "The Good Earth" by Pearl Buck.

If you can count it, and this is a huge spoiler but "Planet of the Apes" is GREAT even if it was written by a Frenchman. Pierre Boulle wrote the original novel after writing "The Bridge over the River Kwai."

Road Warrior

self evident I think

Funny no one ever asked David Bowie to do the music for Escape from New York. I'ld have thought it to be a shoe in.

"Yes Jugger was good couldnt remember the name of it"

Hear in the States the the movie is called "The Blood of Heroes" great flick and if anything shows that there will always be a thirst for violent sports even after the end of the world as we know it.

My favs are Mad Maxx and Road Warrior

The Omega Man ( although I wish they had made it more like the book it was based on "I am Legend")

"Threads was a scarey movie . It was banned in the US for some reason so I had to watch it"

ming31 I saw Threads here in the States on PBS. Damn depressing movie I want to say. And it rates as a one of the best post Apocoliptyic movies ever made.

The Stand, TV movie.

Omega Doom with Rutger Hauer.

Combat bots searching for humans.

Threads was REALLY depressing. Saw it in '84 on PBS. Everytime I hear the song Radioactive, I think of threads (radioactive was running on MTV at the time).

The Road Warrior tops the list but I could never get enough assless chaps and mohawks in my lifetime so I went on to watch those horrible Italian films. Warriors of the Wasteland (I Nuovi Baribari), Texas Gladiators 2020 (whatever Joe D' called it), Bronx Warriors 1990, Escape from the Bronx (MST3K version is more watchable). Still, The Road Warrior is the venerable father to all these and I salute it with both barrels of my sawed off shotgun.

The Road Warrior or Mad Max 2

On the other hand, my vote for worst ever goes to 'the postman' (it doesn't deserve any CAPS).

My wife found "Handmaid's Tale" very interesting:
us.imdb.com/title/tt0099731

CC

She also said she liked "Testament" (1983):
imdb.com/title/tt0086429

CC

Six String Samurai!!!

"A mysterious and powerful hero of the classic kind, Buddy is as skilled with his guitar as he is with his samurai sword. Thrown together with a kid whom he saves in a spectacular battle, the two of them must now escape their enemies and reach "Lost Vegas," the rock 'n' roll capital of this future world."

"Hell Comes to Frogtown" with Rowdy Roddy Piper!

"'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard."

Adrian

3 Heston movies:

Planet of the Apes
Soylent Green
Omega Man

Allen:

You should be DHed for that reference.

"It's a madhouse! A maaaaaaaaadhouse!!"

pamedia.com/movies

Delicatessen (1991)

I like 'The Bed-Sitting-Room'… but it's not at all serious.
also "Quintet" (second ice-age)… but most folks hate it.

I'm also partial to films where the world just ends… like at the end of 'Beneath The Planet Of The Apes', 'Miracle Mile', and 'Last Night'

I'm suprised no-one has mentioned "Day of the Triffids". The old movie was good, but I almost liked the BBC TV series even better. Both were good.

For that matter, I liked Ralph Bakshi's 'Wizards', too, although I don't think that's quite what you're looking for, Carique.

Alxbates, Wizards is one of my all time favourites. I'm smacking my head for not remembering it!

Ok, how about Hardware?

imdb.com/title/tt0099740

It's low budget but has a soundtrack to die for and based on a 2000AD future shock. For me, it ranks amongst the Plisken movies.

'No flesh will be spared' Mark 13.

Guy

It's just gotta be Mad Max 2. Superb film, not as good as the first one though with the original Australian dialogue, instead of the dreadful Warner Bros. dubbing… And some of the best character names ever!

Ray ;-)

And another one:

imdb.com/title/tt0066154
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I recall seeing this when I was in my teens on TV. This is a weird film where everyone is out for themselves. I remember a bit where the hero(?) tries to break into this compound which is defended by a Vickers machinegun.

Guy

mad max

madmaxmovies.com

I think 12 Monkeys qualifies as post Apocalyptic. Very cool sci fi.

Escape from New York was good.
Zardoz was cool.
Threads was very good, saw it on PBS.
I really love Deathrace 2000! It was funny, fantastic, people watching bloodsports on TV, and then their favorite celebrity becoming president. Just like what happened in Minnesota, and California.

Soylent Green was slow but interesting. Did anyone else pick up homo erotic inferences between Edward G Robinson and Charleton Heston? Heston's silk neck scarf, the tight shirts, stealing his domesticated "buddy" jars of jam to smear on his Soylent Green….hmmmmm, I dunno. The death scene with Edward G Robinson is iconic, it has appeared in many other shows, even on South Park.

The Handmaids Tale? Yikes! Leave your balls at the door, Margaret Atwood hands them to you and blames you for being born with them. I think I'd rather get hoofed in the crotch than watch that man hating flick again. peeeyewww!

Delicatesen. Yeah!
12 Monkeys. Ah!
Stalker imdb.com/title/tt0079944 by Tarkovsky.
Dawn of the Dead

I knew the quote from Threads, from some punk-song. Never knew it came from a movie. Have to track it down. :)

I once saw part of a fifties post-apoc movie, about/with a community led by a dictator with a british soldier helmet and a sheepskin jacket. At a certain point the film turns 360 degrees into a space opera/-invasion movie. Very strange. Don't know the title.

How could nobody mention "Night of the Comet", in my mind the best movie made by the same fine team that brought us "Eating Raoul", "Death Race 2000", and "Killbots"?

For that matter, how about "Steel Dawn", with mucho Patrick Swayze chop-socky, a fine smirky villain played by Anthony Zerbe, and major contributions by many members of the Hoon family?

Oh wait, I almost forgot "World Gone Wild", yet another "Seven Samurai" clone featuring Adam Ant as the evil warlord and Bruce Dern, one of the finest psychos ever to appear on film, as one of the *good guys*.

Geez Louise, I must have wa-a-a-a-ay too much time on my hands.

LT

Area 23, you could be thinking of Things To Come a 1936 British film.

Favourites are definitely 28 Days Later and Mad Max 1 & 2. And I also cast my vote for Night of the Comet – good choice brass1.

There was a movie starring Yul Brynner called The Ultimate Warrior or The Last Warrior or something, about communities of survivors fighting over the last remaining food stores in an American city. Possibly New York. I remember liking that a lot, but I was about 12 when I saw it.

The Rutger Hauer movie was called Salute to the Jugger in the UK.

Then there was the whole Survivors TV series (BBC 1970s). I remember liking that lots when I was a kid, but I don't know if it has stood the test of time. It was about a woman (Abby) searching for her missing kid in the aftermath of a plague that had killed off 90% of humanity.

The last Quatermass is also great – the one with Sir John Mills. Collapse of society, gangs and cultists everywhere, then weird alien stuff starts happening.