Best Post-Apocalyptic Movie and Song/Video Thread
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Charlie don't surf. The Clash.
It's a horrible movie, but for some reason we used to watch it in high school:
Damnation Alley, so bad, but I loved it as a kid.
Didn't see this thread before posting in covid. Just watched this.
Possibly the most depressing movie ive ever seen...
Would make a great/horrible double bill with Never Let Me Go.
Movies off the top of my head:
The Quiet Earth is an underseen low budget New Zealand film. Just don't look at the poster as it spoils the ending.
Twelve Monkeys, obviously. Children of Men too.
Stalker might be stretching the definition a bit, but it's great. Then there's the whole post nuclear war subgenre, with The Day After and Threads being the most famous exponents.
I am Legend fits the bill, but it's crap and I'd even prefer the trashy 60s version of that story, which is The Last Man on Earth.
Escape from New York is more of a breakdown of society movie, but I'll take any opportunity to bring it up.
Other than that, plenty of Zombie movies have that same vibe, as do some of the Planet of the Apes films. Technically, The Matrix is post-apocalyptic, but it feels more Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk.
Akira and Wall-E are post apocalyptic, but animated.
We should really extend this to video games though, with the Fallout series and Stalker being some of the most popular ones.
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Yessss........
He wrote another book I'm partial to called "Round the Bend". Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets aviation.
If you think the movie is bad, definitely don't read the book. Or any McCarthy book for that matter.
I LOVE Twelve Monkeys, Children of Men was fantastic.
"Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" was pretty good.
Is children of men the one where no one can get pregnant with Clive Owen?
Edit: yerp, good film.
Edit: yerp, good film.
Yep, I'm pretty anti religion, but I can just cope with watching that one.
Read the book. It's even worse.
The Quiet Earth is on youtube in acceptable quality.
Great book.
If your talking about the "Made for TV" movie version, it was surprisingly good by those standards at that time, but not "great".
What made it even cooler was moving here and actually knowing the places It was referencing. Like when they walk through the tunnel - that's a fucking long way to go in total darkness. Or going over 70 in the middle of winter after a whole winter of not being avalanche controlled
. The guy from Chicago would have probably had a big impact on @Nick as well, because he obviously knows it. Same with that little town in Kansas in the story; I drove through it at some point - now I have a picture of it in my head.Wow, that's really bad. Then again, one wouldn't expect the post-apocalypse world to be "good"...
