"Your Favorite Post-Apocalyptic Movie?" Topic

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind?

It is well after any apocalypse, though.

What, no one liked "The Silent Earth"?

Nausicaa is a brilliant film. She's one go-to girl, for sure.

"Hell Comes to Frogtown" – dang dude, I didn't know anyone else had seen this gem! Definitely up there with Trancers and Tremors in the B-movie hall of fame.

"This Silent Earth" was just too odd for me, though it's a good one.

"Planet of the Apes" and "Damnation Alley" are classics, but for different reasons.

Hell comes to Frogtown. Oh yeah baby. Rowdy Roddy Piper and that chick that gets half neked in all those movies. Quality baby, pure quality. And don't forget the one frog suite that could actually talk.

Stronty Girl,

I would second the John Mills rendition of Quatermass, gangs wearing colours etc great series

Zardoz
On The Beach
Panic in The Year Zero

You've overlooked the truly ultimate POST-Apocalyptic flick: "A Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Universe"!

day of the dead, everyone forget about that film? it's really about a post apocalyptic world, i would add also pulse, but only for the fivce last minute ( very apocalyptic in fact)

i forget also

the quiet earth

How about 28 days later !

Also what is the one with dragons I think it's called dragonfire, thats a good flick Mathew mconnaly is a mad man. Just whats needed in a post apocalypse world

A Boy And His Dog. Hands down, period.

Just for the sake of naming a movie:

Tank Girl

Tim

I always thought that these were a bit odd, but entertaining:

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CC

Cacique Caribe, The Handmaid's Tale was much better as a book. And while a little off topic, the computer games Fallout and Fallout 2 were excellent postapocalpyic expierences…complete with playing solitare on Windows 3.1 right next to a tacnuke crater.

A very exhaustive list is also available on:
quietearth.us/postapoc.htm

28 days later is propably one of the most striking, and ruthless, in terms of its feeling and spirit

In the video boom of the mid 80s we rented so many of those trashy Italian Mad Max rip offs and they were hilarious, some have been mentioned already but I always remember 'The New Barbarians' which starred that lawyer bloke from Petrochelli. Warriors of the year 3000 was another dreadful one. Bronx Warriors and Bronx Warriors 2 (The later of which received loads of cuts over here)

He didn't ask for an exhaustive list. He asked for your favorite. Do you have one?

I liked 'Omega Man' well enough, but 'The Last Man On Earth' is a lot closer to 'I Am Legend'. Plus, it's got Vincent Price… I'd take him over Charleton Heston any day of the week.

I also like 'The Last Combat' and 'Last Woman On Earth'.

'The World, The Flesh and The Devil'.

A character study with societal, psychological, sexual and racial overtones; made in 1959 with Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens and Mel Ferrer. Those are the only three actors in the whole movie.

I don't remember much about it, but I remember liking it.
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I liked Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle) which is a quirky french film about two survivors that have a private war against one another amidst the ruins of a city. It features Jean Reno as "the Brute". It was directed by Luc Besson and is presented in black and white. There is no dialogue in the film.

The Road Warrior (Mad Max II) is one of my all time favorites. I never really warmed to the first
Mad Max movie though. I always got the sneaking suspicion that Mad Max was never intended to be a post apocalyptic film at all and was just set in a present day or near future Australia. The after the bomb setting of the movie felt really tacked on. Basically, if it wasn't for the preamble at the beggining of the film (which is composed of footage from the rest of the movie hmmmm…), I wouldn't even consider it a post nuclear war film. In the Road Warrior the post apocalyptic setting is embraced fully and it is further fleshed out in Thunderdome.

On the Beach is probably the single most depressing movie I've seen. It is a great work of film.

I remember one called somrthing likr " The last warrior" and Im pretty certain Yul Brynner was in it. Sticks in the memory because someone gets killed by a deepfatfryer. Well it would clear up the plukes I suppose.
Mike

Seemingly thats " The ultimate warrior."

I saw an old VHS copy of "Jack Tillman;The Survivalist"(no relation to the Jerry Ahern books) with Steve Railsback as the title character-mid 80's type of post-apocalypse pic. Not necessarily a fave,but not a total loss either. Quite a few others on my list,but………

For "game-able" Post-Apocalyptic films . . .

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CC

These novels may also provide game scenario ideas . . .

You may need to put on protective sunglasses for one of these links (I won't tell you which one – feel lucky?):

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TMP link

CC

By the way, though I absolutely cannot stand Denzel Washington, I'll have to force myself to watch this, when it comes out:

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Aside from The Book Of Eli (previous post above), it looks like we are going to get another PA film, The Road:

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my favourite maybe is Doomsday….it's got a little of everything.

Could you count HG Wells' Time Machine as Post Apocalyptic?

If so put me down for that.

Don't see why not! And that's one of my absolute favorites too.

CC

HOW about "WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION" and "GOD'S LITTLE ACRE"?

DAWGIE

HOW ABOUT THESE?

TIME MACHINE

DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

THINGS TO COME

DAMNATION ALLEY

THE STAND

ON THE BEACH

PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO

A BOY AND HIS DOG

cannot remember the title but the whole movie had two men (1 middle aged, 1 younger) and 1 woman in it (the old man's wife) on a caribbean island.

"MY EYES ARE DIM, I CANNOT SEE! I HAVE NOT BROUGHT MY SPECS WITH ME!"

now that is a memorable dying line for any actor to utter!

AND STRONTY GIRL, what was the title of the last QUATERMASS movie? with SIR JOHN MILL. i do not think i ever saw it and would like to. i enjoyed all of the QUATERMASS movies, but missed this one.

DAWGIE

"cannot remember the title but the whole movie had two men (1 middle aged, 1 younger) and 1 woman in it (the old man's wife) on a caribbean island. "

That would be the Last Woman on Earth, a Roger Corman film.

(What, I can't know stuff?)

Judge Dredd

This spring "The Road" will be released in cinemas, with Vigo Mortensen. You can see trailers on youtube about it.

I've played fallout 1&2 too. Maybe they're the games I've enjoyed the most, ever. And I'm computer-gaming since 1993.

@Gecoren – I love Hardware and the soundtrack. :)

My favorite Post-Apocalyptic movie is probably Max Max Beyond Thunderdome, simply because it has so many cool elements to it -- Master Blaster, Aunt Entity, the Thunderdome, the dude with the airplane, the savage children waiting for Cap'n Walker to come rescue them, it's just an awesome movie that really sticks in the memory. It's not hard to find minis representing Max (though they tend to be rubbish), but I've never seen a decent figure of Master Blaster. I'm surprised no one has ever (to my knowledge) made a diorama of the Thunderdome either. It seems like it'd be a difficult but doable piece.

Another favorite is World Gone Wild, with Adam Ant as the villainous cult leader Derrek Abbernathy, who reads prayers from a book called "The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Manson." I love Bruce Dern's character Ethan, the psychedlic mushroom chomping shaman/post-apocalyptic Gandalf. It steal it's plotline from the classic "Magnificent Seven" (or from "Seven Samurai"), but it has so many memorable characters that you barely notice that you've heard the story before. Also features a survivor village that is very doable as a terrain board.

"Tank Girl," which introduced me to Naomi Watts (thanks!) and featured Malcolm McDowell with a holographic head (so awesome). Plus the Rippers, which totally reminded me of the TMNT After The Bomb RPG and it's Australia supplement (Mutants Down Under).

If you can find it "The Sisterhood" is a fun if kind of stupid movie about two women who are members of a mysterious group called The Sisterhood, and a third woman who joins them on their quest to save some Sisterhood prisoners of war. The women of the Sisterhood each have a special power (one has telekinesis, one can heal, and one talks to birds). The villain is interesting simply because he's a hero who is just misguided (he thinks the Sisterhood kidnapped and brainwashed his sister, and has sworn vengeance on them), and the movie does a skillfull job of making you root for a peaceful resolution to their conflict, which is very unique in an action movie. It'd be very easy to turn this movie into a post-apoc campaign, since its essentially just a series of chases and battles.

I also really liked "Bleak Future," which is a very rough, very cheap super 16mm post-apocalyptic comedy that is kind of hard to find. The lead is "Slangman," a knowledge merchant who travels the land selling the definitions to words to people (so they can gain clues as to what their salvaged goods are for), which he takes from a massive dictionary he carries ("the last book in the world" he claims, and he is apparently one of the few literates in the world). His companion is Atlatl, a mute savage Scotsman who throws javelins he carries in a golf bag. The movie is very rough, with lousy camerawork, painful acting, and many jokes that fall flat or get tired -- but if you love the genre, it does have some hilarious jokes (how the world ends is brilliant, as is the ending of the movie), and it's full of ideas for characters that are quite offbeat and fun.

"Children of men" although not technically post apocalyptic

CC the Necroposter has an apprentice! lol

There are so many entertaining PA movies…good, well there are not so many good ones.

It would greatly depend on the parameters of PA and if we are talking for gaming and then if for RPG or miniatures?

The latest movie, Crazies, shows what could result in an apocalyptic setting.

Okay it's no AP but it is a good beginning to the end or a good lead to one, YouTube link
(trailer) I love this move!

Road Warrior #1
Mad Mac #2
Cant think of a #3

Lowtardog:

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

Watchable for free on Google Video. Can't get more scary than a 1980s BBC mockumentary about nuclear war.

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My favourite post-apoc movie has to be America 3000. "Plastic."

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind?

Doh! Forgot about this one. Definitely my favourite post-apoc movie (America 3000 is #2 then). Love the new version with Patrick Stewart.