post apocalyptic flicks?

LOCKDWN said:
And what is with all of the hate on the Mad Max series?
the first Fallout PLAINLY ripped off a lot from Mad Max, the dog, the muscle car, the leather jacket with the shouler piece, the double barrel sawed off shotgun......
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I wouldn't say that Fallout "ripped" anything off of Mad Max. The one-sleeved leather jacket and dogmeat are little references, nods of the head, and after Junktown, these fall away almost completely. Also, the muscle car and sawn-off shotgun only appear in Fallout 2. To be honest, I found it hard to enjoy any post-apocalyptic games, films or books after playing Fallout because, for me, Fallout was THE definitive post-apocalyptic vision.

That said, I hear that a film version of The Road is in production, to be directed by John Hillcoat and released in 2009. Despite the excellence of the book, this has the potential to be quite boring. One to look out for though, if only for the horrendous post-apocalyptic vision the book employs.
 
Well, if Anime counts, might I suggest you all take a gander at "Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind" It is by far my favorite Anime as well as PA movie, well, hell my favorite movie period.

Basically it is about a world after these huge organic robots made by men destroyed the planet. Most lands are barren or being overrun by a jungle in which the air cannot be breathed. The world has fallen to feudalism and a renaissance tech level, with spots of technology, such as airships. Overall very cool.
 
I just finished watching Panic in Year Zero!. It's my favourite post-nuclear survival movie now.
It has almost no special effects, and tells about a family trying to survive after atomic war - it has a lot of Fallout-style cars (it's a film from 1962), looting, gangers, rape, etc.
 
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also known as "How i stopped worrying about Iran."
 
I'm still looking for this film, but I was doing a Google search for "President Richardson" and hit on the movie "Virus", or "Fukkatsu no hi" in Japan.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080768/

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Plot Synopsis: A small group of multinational scientists stuck in the Antarctic learn to survive after a human engineered virus knocks out most of earth's population.
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The President's name is Richardson, and played by the reliably badass Glenn Ford. Also stars reliably badass Edward James Olmos, reliably badass Sonny Chiba, reliably babe-ass Olivia Hussey, and reliably bloviating George Kennedy.

It's GOT TO BE part of the inspiration for the FEV and Enclave storylines.
 
I always thought the closest thing to Fallout was A Boy and His Dog and Six String Samurai. Then read books like The Postman (NOT the movie, it's missing 3/4 of the crazy shit from the book like super computers telling people how to live and augmented soldiers) and a lesser extent Alas, Babylon and 1984.
 
Surprised nobody mentioned Chris Marker's La Jetee. Granted it's an artsy film that's probably more about love than the apocalypse but it IS the inspiration for 12 Monkeys, and probably better.
 
Has anyone seen Threads and The War Game?

So yes, I had a lot of free time yesterday, and looking up wikipedia articles on Nuclear Weapons, ICBM's and MIRV's and all that, I came upon these two films.

The War Game is a 1965 'BBC Documentary' and Threads is an 1985 film depicting a nuclear war and its effects on Britain, Sheffield in particular.

Both films are extremely grim, with famine, radioactive poisoning, the collapse of society and nuclear winter playing a role. Its also eery how easily in both films a nuclear war began, and makes you think back at the numerous incident in the cold war which *somehow* did not result in a nuclear exchange.

The harshness of it comes from the fact its extremely realistic. There are no 'vaults', 'mutants' or 'BoS' here, there is only chaos, death, desctruction, useless and cancerous mutations, and so on. I must say I had a bad night's sleep after watching these films, and that is something a films has never done to me since childhood.

Its saddening to think if this were to actually happen the reality of it would be extremely sad. No laser weapons, power armour or govenment plots, just the end of society. Lets hope it never happens.

Also, I wished I had watched these films before Dr.Strangelove, as the latter ends on a comical note much akin to fallout. (which actually references it on the RP mod in the EPA)

Has anyone seen these movies or care to comment? Any other similar movies you would recommend?

OBS: To the mods, if this topic is in the wrong thread then please move it to the general discussion thread. Many thanks.
 
marko2te said:
Both film make a simple statement, Threads even more, that those who die in the blast are the lucky ones.
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Indeed. You either die a quick and relatively painless death from the blast or end up blind, radiated or survive leading a diseased, grim and pointless future.
 
I'm not going to be able to remember the title of it, but I saw a movie years and years ago. It reminded me to a very minor degree of Vault Tec experiments. Several people are rushed to a small vault/bunker, and they end up staying their for a number of days if I recall correctly.

Anywho in the end it turns out there never was a nuclear war and they were put in there just to see what their psychological reactions would be. It looked like it was from the 70's from what I remember.
 
Sorry for the necrothread: just wanted to note that I have The War Game on tape. At one point, I put portions of it on YouTube as part of a Fallout-related development project, but have since taken them down.

I might be able to produce copies for folks, assuming it would not infringe upon the rights of a 40-year-old BBC production.
 
I don't appreciate how homosexuals are portrayed in Road Warrior. But go figure it's somewhat bland and Mel Gibson is in it. But oh noes, it has a lot to do with Fallout in general, ban! And hurray for Nazis too. And hurray for rich, snotty, arrogant Europeans and demented backwater Americans who try to create this label for themselves online so they appear to be desensitized or something.
 
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