best post- apoc movie

Faceless_Stranger said:
The Road, and the Mad Max trilogy... don't see why there's all this hating on Thunderdome???
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Agree, I thought it was pretty well styled. Not too crazy about Tina, but the overall art direction made it a worthy sequel. Master & Blaster were awesome, too!

Thunderdome and Waterworld are the two movies I really quite like and everyone else seems to hate, for no obvious reason (to me anyway).

mobucks said:
i thought the postman was good
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This was the only non-comedy movie I've ever seen where the entire cinema was laughing out loud. The whole time. When he rides past the boy with the letter and then in the last moment he rears up on the horse, turns around, grabs the letter at full speed and rides off in the opposite direction!? What a riot! :clap:
 
And there was this one movie about the russians invading the west coast and some highschoool kids with their fathers hunting riffles forming a gurrelia movement aginst them until th army reacaptures their area.

That would be Red Dawn. Same director as Conan, if I remember correctly. Utterly hilarious, if not post-apoc.
 
A lot of people hate waterworld because it was terrible. A long, terrible movie. About Kevin Costner drinking his own piss.

Thundedome gets hate, I think because of how it's nowhere near as good as it's sister films and isn't that good at all, either. Oh and because the story is utterly and completely fucked. There's that.
 
Waterworld has this really odd, old-school pirate/Robin Hood vibe. I remember watching it and there's Costner swinging from the rigging, knife clenched in teeth, wearing a friggin' codpiece, fencing with the bad guys and playing some really trite, corny "swashbuckling Hollywood fun-time adventure music". I had seen enough for my tastes at that point to turn it off. It's not the most horrible, but given that it had the largest budget to date, and Costner was seen as King Midas after he swept the Oscars with Dances w/Wolves, people were bound to be disappointed. It's pretty bad though.

I've always been a huge Escape from NY fan, I don't know if that's considered PA or just Regan-era dystopia.
 
The Road is quite perfect allthought not nearly as perfect as the original book, kind of reminded me of hemingways For whom the bell tolls, so I suggest everyone to read it before watching. Mad Max 1&2 are pretty good VIDEOGAME-MOVIES, I wouldnt call them good movies as their plots are crappy ripoffs. Now someone says they arent movies based on videogames. I agree. They just feel as they would be movies based on fallouts 1&2(and maybe wasteland). Sorry about misspelling, Im from Finland and quite drunk.
 
Escape From New York, Mad Max 2: Road Warrior, A Boy And His Dog (it was absolutely hilarious, but so captivating for some reason I adore it), Book Of Eli (haha just kidding - NO. it sucked major balls, haven't seen a worse movie in a LONG time. Except maybe Wolf Man, but that's not PA...)

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oh and Tank Girl was a riot, surely
 
Dawn of the Dead (70's version or whatever year it was made) and the lastest Terminator. I feel like theres another movie but I can't think of it...
 
DirkGently said:
What was wrong with the Book of Eli?

First Dawn of the Dead was great, btw, 'just saying.
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I guess first of all the movie was a looooong draaaag. It looked cool in places, but content-wise it didn't pluck one string in me. I'd use words 'infantile' and even 'retarded'. A fake 'deep' movie with no real deep thoughts :(
 
Dr. Combat Shotgun said:
Mad Max 1&2 are pretty good VIDEOGAME-MOVIES, I wouldnt call them good movies as their plots are crappy ripoffs.
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Actually i think the games are based off the movies, not the other way around.
 
Oh and how could I forget to mention Escape from L.A. the sequel to Escape from N.Y.

EDIT: then yes - 12 Monkeys, though I liked La Jetee very much too, same thing though...
EDIT2: Akira made me wet myself with delight.
EDIT3: Angel's Egg was a great anime - loved it thoroughly
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I backtracked through some older posts and people keep mentioning Postman and Waterworld. While Waterworld could have had some promise, if it only wasn't a Costner movie (he's out there just for the money), Postman was an uber-fail. It had some nice landscape shots, but the pro-american patriot propaganda shit throughout the whole film kinda dragged it down. Wait. What. That was the whole point of the movie. Pft
 
Guiltyofbeingtrite said:
A lot of these seem to be dystopian and not post-apocalyptic.
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if you consider a nuclear holocaust the only kind of apocalypse, then yes - you are absolutely right.
 
Gaspard said:
Guiltyofbeingtrite said:
A lot of these seem to be dystopian and not post-apocalyptic.
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if you consider a nuclear holocaust the only kind of apocalypse, then yes - you are absolutely right.
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What?

I wasn't talking about yours if that triggered that response, if I was I would have quoted you.

I've seen Escape from NY come up a lot and it isn't an apocalypse, it is a dystopic future where the US sends its prisoners to a penal colony. The closest thing the series comes to apocalypse is after the end of Escape from LA.
 
Yeah, but it might as well be PA since for 98% of the movie, they're the horribly ruined and wrecked version of some well known cities. They certainly give the feeling of PA, and, hell, if you're on the island, you'd probably think that the world has ended.
 
Guiltyofbeingtrite said:
What?

I wasn't talking about yours if that triggered that response, if I was I would have quoted you.

I've seen Escape from NY come up a lot and it isn't an apocalypse, it is a dystopic future where the US sends its prisoners to a penal colony. The closest thing the series comes to apocalypse is after the end of Escape from LA.
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sorry about that then :oops:
 
I really liked the props/settings in waterworld, I think thats why i liked the movie so much, aside from the post apocalyptic sailing. I know people put hard work into that stuff, an art that seems replaced by CGI these days, which is sad IMO.

that or i just have a man crush on costner, Wyatt Earp is one of my fav movies. Fuck that Kurt Russel crying Wyatt Earp from Tombstone. Pussy.
 
Yeah, they did an extremely, extremely expensive amount of actual prop/set work for Waterworld that was A) incredibly awesome B) Nearly fucked because of Costner, C) Extremely, extremely expensive because of Costner.
 
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