Fallout fan at the movies

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It Wandered In From the Wastes
OK, so let's say a fallout fan goes to a videostore. Now he has already seen Mad Maxes, Dr. Strangelove, Planet of the Apes, Blade Runner, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, heck, even Escape from LA kind of stuff. His next choice would be...?

Share Your dystopic, (post)apocalyptic, catastrophic, futuristic, radiated, more or less fallout related movie experience and please continue the list.
 
Battlefield Earth. It's a really shitty science fiction movie, but the experience of watching it is certainly both dystopic and catastrophic.
 
Thanks for reminding me of 12 monkeys, that movie ruled. Also, i sugest The postman, or i think it is named something like that anyway...
 
The Omega Man (1971): This 1971 gem has Chuck Heston battling albino zombie-cultists after a virus kills virtually everyone (or turns them into albino zombies).

Soylant Green (1973): Another great Heston film. Takes place in a dystopic future where NY is really really over-crowded.

Damnation Alley (1977): This cheezy PA movie has the heroes travelling across the US in a suped-up APC, encountering killer rednecks, flesh eating roaches, and Las Vegas.

Dawn of the Dead (1978 & 2004): Zombies have caused civilization to collapse, and a group of survivors have barracaded themselves in a mall. Both versions are pretty good, though the 78 version is more goofy.

Night of the Comet (1984): After a comet turns almost everyone into powder (or, of course, zombies), 80's valley girls go shopping and fight the mutant survivors.

Brazil (1985): This dystopic black comedy by Terry Gilliam has a takes place in a retro-future that looks similar to Fallout.

Threads (1985): This documentory style film presents a realistic accound of what happens to the survivors after London is nuked

Fist of the North Star (1986): This anime is really stupid, but it's PA, and has kung-fu badasses and exploding heads. My favorite movie when I was 12.

World Gone Wild (1988): This movie is really hard to find, but it's a good 'ol bad 80's PA movie, complete with Adam Ant as a Charles Manson worshiping death cult leader.

Six String Samurai (1998): This movie takes place in an alternate history where a nuclear war happened in 1957. Very weird movie with a Buddy Holly look-a-like as the katana weilding hero. Good but not great.
 
Forgotten said:
Thanks for reminding me of 12 monkeys, that movie ruled. Also, i sugest The postman, or i think it is named something like that anyway...
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Quoted for truth...12 Monkeys pwns! And yes, the movie is called the postman. It's pretty nice, don;t expect too much though...
 
Threads was a film about what would happen to the survivors of a city like Sheffield, not London.
 
the questions is- Fallout Fan-

A Boy and His Dog-
Life in the post-apoc and you've got vaults and the problem of vaults. Note that the Vault problem is similar to one found in Fallout 2 in a rather similar society. The consequences of the biological imperative after nuclear holocaust. Plus Don Jonson is the intellectual inferior of his dog. Did I say it has vaults? Oh it also has a scav village not unlike Junktown.

The Blood of Heroes.
Rutgur Hauer, Joan Chen. What would sports be like in the Post Apocalypse. Hmmmm... probably a violent blood sport involving putting a dog's skull on a stake while dodging all sorts of strange handheld weapons? And what if you're a good team in the wasteland? Then you get to compete in the vaults. Yes, another movie in which Vaults figure prominently.

The Omega Man-
Charlton Heston, republican conservative and future NRA president, gets it on with a hot black chick. Does he kill her when he finds out she's become a monster? If you can handle it, also try Last Man on Earth- similar story, but if you want more, read Matheson's I Am Legend- form which these stories derive.
 
Nemesis was a terrific movie. Check it out, I loved, and has a great PA universe, along with some kick ass cyborgs, guns, and boobies.
 
1984, although the book was better, but then again when isn't the book better.
Also the simpsons spoof of omega man...."Homega Man"
 
"C'mon Homer, we just wanna eat yer skin."

The Iron Giant - A movie not often mentioned. It is, however, based in the 50's, and has an atmosphere which is aware of nuclear paranoia. The focus of the film, the Giant, is also an example of popular 50's sci-fi.

And its a good movie anyways.
 
A Boy and His Dog-
Life in the post-apoc and you've got vaults and the problem of vaults. Note that the Vault problem is similar to one found in Fallout 2 in a rather similar society. The consequences of the biological imperative after nuclear holocaust. Plus Don Jonson is the intellectual inferior of his dog. Did I say it has vaults? Oh it also has a scav village not unlike Junktown.
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Oh yeah, and remember that crappy porn they were showing? lol!

The Omega Man-
Charlton Heston, republican conservative and future NRA president, gets it on with a hot black chick. Does he kill her when he finds out she's become a monster? If you can handle it, also try Last Man on Earth- similar story, but if you want more, read Matheson's I Am Legend- form which these stories derive.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about Last Man on Earth, that movie was closer to the book. And Vincent Price was closer to the book Robert Neville.

Also, here are some more PA movies:

Beneath Planet of the Apes (1970): Not as good as POTA, but it does have telepathic mutants living in an underground vault. And it has a cool ending too.

Battle for Planet of the Apes (1973): Pretty stupid, but it does have a good PA mutant vs. ape battle at the end. Very low bugent and crappy, but good for cheeze lovers.

Zardoz (1974): This movie is too strange for words. It does have a group of immortals living in an enclosed area after a nuclear (?) war. It also has Sean Connery running around in an orange diaper and ammo bandoliers. And a guy who wears underwear on his head and has a drawn on moustach. And a giant flying stone head that hates penises and vomits guns. They don't make movies like this anymore . . . I wonder why . . .

Logan's Run (1976): Takes place in a vault-city-esque place (actually, a dome, IIRC) where no one is allowed to live past 30. Pretty cool movie, and Jenny Agutter is hot.

The Day After (1983): Shows the aftermath of a nuclear strike from a town in Kansas' POV. Grim and depressing, but not as much as Threads.
 
another movie called

Omega Doom:

straight from the back of the box:

In the post-apocalyptic world that is Earth, machines rule. Having killed off their human adversaries, the Roms and the Droids have squared off against one another in the search for mankind's last and most fatal element of war: guns. When Omega Doom (Rutger Hauer) strides into the fray, the machines hone in on the stranger and the slaughter intensifies. As combatants are decimated and the survivors get closer to the mythical stash of the guns, the question becomes, "Will there be anything left to kill?"

basically Hauer is a 'supposed' badass robot whos brain system was damaged by a human in a scrap, and he started thinking about the morality of the war, or something, so he became a wanderer. comes upon a town being ruled over by two factions, the Roms and the Droids. Roms were military, top class 'bots, Droids were more resistance, pieced together from various other robots. He plays both against eachother, killing them off with his special EMP dirks, then in a climactic battle he finally uses his giant motherfucking sword to chop off the head of the last Rom.

The only reason i own this movie is because my stepdad did the propwork (all the knives and shit), and in the beginning when a boot smashes a skull, that shot actually took about 6 hours and maybe 50 skulls to get right, finally my stepdad was just, like "everyone fuck off, this is how its done" and they used his.

he also socked Rutger Hauer in the back of the head when they both were pretty housed.

lol lots of random information, eh?
 
ALthough I already seen some of the mentioned movies (I laughed my ass off on one of the planet of the apes episodes with the Bomb cult and while watching "Seksmisja" of course), I must say my "to watch" list gained some interesting titles.
Let me just add a few intriguing b-class oldtimers:

*"Five" (1951) - amazing movie about a group of five people who survived the nuclear doomsday. A frustrated intellectualist, a pregnant woman, a black dude, a racist and a bank employee that suffers from radiation, in a Lloyd Wright house in the mountains

*"Them" (1954) - Whoooaa! That's a big fekin ant!

*"On the Beach" (1959) - It's got nuked world, Australia awaiting the big wave of radiation and destroyed San Francisco. 'Nuff said.

*"The Day the Earth Caught Fire" (1961) - The Earth goes off its orbit and is closing dangerously towards the sun in result of cold war H-Bomb tests. Meteorological disasters, panic (angry mob in the streets of London), chicks in bikinis everywhere. Only another explosion can save the Earth. Well, they tried to make it realistic...

*"The Damned" (1961) - Reminds me of "Village of the Damned". A secret "scientific" experiment raises a bunch of kids in a video-controlled underground shelter. Born from radiated mothers, the children are meant to be those who will survive the atomic doom, founders of the new civilization (sounds familiar...)

*"The Most Dangerous Man Alive" (1961) - A cool combination of a gangster movie and sci-fi. A betrayed gangster gets radiated and his skin gets hard as steel and bulletproof. Oh ye, and he wants his REVENGE, hehe

*"The Day of the Triffids" (1962) - A shower of meteors makes most of the people blind. The rest witness great panic and chaos (in London people are fighting for food, cars are crashing, blind people hunt the ones that see to use them as their slaves) which is a perfect opportunity for the killer plants from outer space to invade!

*"Panic in Year Zero!" (1962) - A study of a social situation after the big bang or "how to outlive the incoming chaos", "Bradys on the field trip" or "my family must survive". A paranoic vision under the strong influence of the cold war, shows that only the most ruthless will survive.
 
Death Race 2000 (came out in 1975) is a dark, but hilarious movie.

Sylvesterr Stallone and David Carradine both star in it.

Here's a summary of the plot from IMDB

"A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points has a change of heart while being hounded by rivals and a conspiracy seeking to stop the race."

"In the near future the ultimate sporting event is the deathrace. Contestants get score points for running people down as they speed across the country. The sport has crazed fans who sacrifice themselves to the drivers. An overt agency is trying to bring an end to the immoral deathrace and has infiltrated one of their followers in to the race as a navigator. In the end of the race the lives of the competitors, the President and the deathrace itself are in peril."

Taglines for
Death Race 2000 (1975)


In The Year 2000 Hit And Run Driving Is No Longer A Felony. It's The National Sport!


A Cross Country Road Wreck!

EDIT: My personal favorite movie of all time is American Psycho... but it doesn't have anything to do with a PA or SCI-FI theme.
 
Split Second: In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under several feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.

The creature is a mutated thingy that lives in the sub-way system. It evolves using DNA of it's victims. This means it's part rat, part human and part other things it ate. It's cool...

And 12 Monkeys rules all the way! YEAH!!!
 
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