post apocalyptic flicks?

LinksBoxers said:
Land of the Dead counts as post-apocolypse, right?
I liked the main idea of the movie, but the story like execution was weaker than a motherboard mounted graphics card.
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Funny, I just watched this again yesterday. I would definitely count it as post-apocalypse.

I didn't have too much of a problem with the execution overall; it could have been better, but then again it is a fairly low-budget zombie movie. The main thing I disliked was the way they handled the zombies "intelligence" - it went from scary to cheesy pretty quickly.
 
Montez said:
LinksBoxers said:
Land of the Dead counts as post-apocolypse, right?
I liked the main idea of the movie, but the story like execution was weaker than a motherboard mounted graphics card.
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Funny, I just watched this again yesterday. I would definitely count it as post-apocalypse.

I didn't have too much of a problem with the execution overall; it could have been better, but then again it is a fairly low-budget zombie movie. The main thing I disliked was the way they handled the zombies "intelligence" - it went from scary to cheesy pretty quickly.
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Aye, you speak true and I say thank ya.
There where also flaws in effects, for far as gory bits. Now, I'm not a trained medical professsional, but I think hands aren't that easily split open from the side my just a pair of other hands.
 
LinksBoxers said:
There where also flaws in effects, for far as gory bits. Now, I'm not a trained medical professsional, but I think hands aren't that easily split open from the side my just a pair of other hands.
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Ha, I was thinking the same thing when that scene came up. It was kind of cool in a gory way, but it was really over-the top ridiculous as well.

I also liked how they can apparently rip a man's head and spine out with one hand, yet need a cleaver in order to get past a 1/4 inch of plywood.
 
I just saw "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" a week or two back on TCM. It came out in 1959, so it's genuine 1950's post-apoc, and it's definitely worth a watch. It stars Harry Bellafonte, Inger Stevens, and Mel Ferrer...and that's it. There are only three characters, but they're developed well. The atmosphere was great, especially the scenes with the civil defense shelter and the streets filled with abandoned 1950's cars.
 
Here are titles from a page on my Web site board users may find interesting. Some titles have been mentioned already.

SWAT HQ: Auto-Combat Media Index
http://www.serv.net/~owenmp/vadr/media.html

Damnation Alley
Mad Max
Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Warlords in the 21st Century / Battletruck
WaterWorld
Death Race 2000
Judge Dredd
Tank Girl
A.P.E.X.
Escape from New York
Escape from L.A.
No Escape
The Postman
Red Dawn
Island City (TV Movie)
The Day After
Threads

The novel of The Postman is substantially better than the movie. (Did you know the movie was filmed in Washington State?)

A.P.E.X. is a movie from the 1990s that is hard to find but features a good time travel storyline with combat robots similar to the Humanoid Robots in Tactics. A.P.E.X. also briefly shows the LandMaster from Damnation Alley, used as an APC to evacuate civilians in the opening sequence.

Thomas Morton's Web site has a more detailed list and discussion of post-apocalyptic movies than mine which focuses on automotive combat.

Post-Apocalyptic Media
http://www.pamedia.com
 
not exactly "post" apocalyptic, more "the cause of the apocalypse"... but ..

Failsafe.. a live tv movie that was recently remade with richard dreyfus, noah wiley, george clooney, harvey kitel

Plot.. a malfunction in automatic signaling equipment causes a routine nuclear bomber patrol to think the war has started and so off it heads to it's target, Moscow...
 
I really loved Reign of Fire as it was said before,and postman too,dont remember any post-apoc that worth reminding it right now,offcourse madmax is the best one...
 
Six String Samurai is funny. The music ROCKS!

Tank Girl (movie) was NOTHING compared to the (Tank Girl) comics.

And speaking of comics, check Xenozoic Tales AKA Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Pretty PA... with Dinosaurs... and there was an animated series but it sucked IMO.

Knights.... Worst. Shit. Ever.
 
T-Bolt said:
Dust Devil? The only Dust Devil I remember was a horror flick with Chelsea Field but that wasn't PA.

Joints? peep it out? Try and talk English mate.
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Hardware & Dust Devil are both Directed by Richard Stanley. Hardware stars Dylan McDermott as a dude who finds a robot head in "The Wastes" and brings it home to his sculptor girlfriend, the head then procedes to rebuild itself and kill everything it can get its gears on. Dust Devil came out after Hardware and is a Post-Apocalyptic joi...Um, errr, film about a Shapeshifting Serial Killer that lives in "The Wastes". Testament's a Pre-Apocalyptic film about people in the Pacific North-West dying of radiation poisoning because of a little thing called "World War III" that obliterated California (CA being destroyed is the only uplifting thing about the whole flick, I mean film), great movie, depressing as fuck though
 
Ibble The Malefactor said:
Hardware & Dust Devil are both Directed by Richard Stanley... <snip> Dust Devil came out after Hardware and is a Post-Apocalyptic joi...Um, errr, film about a Shapeshifting Serial Killer that lives in "The Wastes".
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Yeah that Dust Devil and it's not Post Apocalyptic, it was set in modern South Africa. Part of the film takes place in a deserted town being reclaimed by the desert but that doesn't make it PA. Just like Made in USA isn't post apocalyptic just because they visit towns abandoned due to environmental disasters or Kalifornia isn't PA just because they visit the sites of nuclear testing.
 
Somebody mentioned SEKSMISSIA aka SEXMISSION. The .pl version of the movie is so damn funny! I love it! I don't know how the subtitled version is.
 
Dawn of the Dead was kinda Meh. But... you can't go wrong with zombies... Zombies with exploading heads at that.

28 days later deserved much more credit than it got, in my opinion.

Omega man, All the way.
 
Things to come .movie based on the H.G Wells story.Though it deals with civilizations fall and rebirth.

I've always been partial to this movie,ever since i saw it way back when broadcast TV stations used to fill their empty hours during the late night to early morning hours with old movies(instead of infomercials)..if they didn't sign off the air for the night.

Damnation Alley.

Who doesn't enjoy a movie staring armored plated killer coackroaches and tough guy George Peppard.Its a fun watch.

Mad Max.

Wasn't a young Mel Gibson so dreamy before all his movies consisted of Buddy cop films or killing the English?

There is another movie i liked,as well as a few others,but i can't remember the name of it.In the begining of it some astronaughts come back to earth in a capsule,which lands on a beach i believe,the first one who tries to make his way out of it is grabbed and eaten by cannibals.

Besides those any post-apoc flick that has mutants,cannibals,wild biker gangs..or best of all mutant cannibal biker gangs.
 
My favourite ones so far:

Threads
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/
Excellent, shot documentary-style, BBC production. Takes place in Sheffield.

Testament
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086429/
Another good one, a small American community near San Francisco left largely untouched by the nukes slowly dissintegrates.

The Day After
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/
Everyone probably knows this one...

On The Beach
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/
Very good but lacking more PA scenery (all we see is an apparently untouched San Francisco and an oil refinery) and grit, imho.
 
DirtDigger2000 said:
There is another movie i liked,as well as a few others,but i can't remember the name of it.In the begining of it some astronaughts come back to earth in a capsule,which lands on a beach i believe,the first one who tries to make his way out of it is grabbed and eaten by cannibals
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Def-Con 4 - A err... interesting movie. Cannibals everywhere and a tyrannic boy who keeps control over a horde of slavers. I could say it's the best canadian post-apocalyptic flick :look:
 
ColJack said:
not exactly "post" apocalyptic, more "the cause of the apocalypse"... but ..

Failsafe.. a live tv movie that was recently remade with richard dreyfus, noah wiley, george clooney, harvey kitel

Plot.. a malfunction in automatic signaling equipment causes a routine nuclear bomber patrol to think the war has started and so off it heads to it's target, Moscow...
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Why waste time w/ 'Failsafe' when the same story was done so much better in Dr. Strangelove?
 
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