Post-Apocalpyse / Dystpia Movies

More examples of recent ones of these that are good, please. Children Of Men has a lot to answer for.

'Ever Since the World Ended'
The 'Survivors' TV series from the 1970s, which I only just discovered and am 2 episodes in and am hooked on.

CASSHERN lol
Silent Running sort of ought to count

vv good interview with l.q. jones here (writer/director of 'a boy and his dog', actor in tons of films, etc)

http://www.interviewinghollywood.com/lq-jones.html

A.P.E.X.

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/apex/apex2.jpg

Picked this up recently. I don't usually go for video crud past 1989 (bad 80's movies >>>>>> bad 90's movies), but this one had the right vibes. Some of the worst computer graphics I can remember.

I'm going to see Doomsday tomorrow, directed by Neil Marshall, the guy who made Dog Soldiers. It's apparently a Scots version of Escape from New York.

I have Casshern. It's mentalist. Probably about three steps of plausibility beyond what I'm after.

Doomsday intrigues me. I liked both Dog Soldiers and The Descent by him. What's with only making films beginning with D?

Will report back!

It's apparently a Scots version of Escape from New York

That sounds about right -- it's more like Dog Soldiers (half-serious loopiness) than The Descent. There's a sequence that involves Mad Max extras fighting in (and outside) a moving luxury car while Frankie Goes To Hollywood plays. You should probably watch or avoid based on that.

Even though the trailer made the film look laughable, I'm going to have to go see Doomsday, as bits of it were filmed literally round the corner from me. Haghill was chosen to represent abandoned post-apocalyptic Scotland, as it looks like that all the time anyway. I don't think any set-dressing was required.

Liked The Descent, kind of hated Dog Soldiers (though it had good bits)--the trailer for Doomsday made it look like utter shite. And yet I'm still a little bit tempted, just because it's end-of-the-world stuff (I has me an obsession).

More examples of recent ones of these that are good, please. Children Of Men has a lot to answer for.

There aren't too many recent examples of post-apocalypse movies, are there? I think it was sorta tied to the nuclear scare, so when the Cold War ended, this genre kinda fizzled. I think it might in the future take the form of post-environmental crisis film, but so far Waterworld is the only example I can think of.

The Day After Tomorrow I guess counts as during-apocalypse rather than post. But is kind of rubbish.

I think what I'm after is recent-ish films that are similar topically to CoM and do it as well. I'm onto a loser, aren't I?

Sounds like I need to see Children Of Men.

It's excellent, and there's a very long ILE thread on it if I remember rightly. I suppose 28 Weeks Later might count in terms of post-apocalyptic stuff, even if it is a zombie movie? Or I Am Legend, which is similar? Both are pretty good IMO.

Not out til November, but I've got high hopes for The Road.

28 days Later I like a lot. I Am Legend I thought sucked. Sprites not scary.

Ooh, The Road has a really great looking cast! I loved the book, just hope it can be done justice.

Yeah, the book was fantastic.

I have a copy of the book waiting to be read. Who's directing, what's the cast?

Director is John Hillcoat, who directed The Proposition, which was excellent and kind of almost sort of post-apocalyptic. Viggo Mortensen, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall = goodness hopefully.

Viggo Mortensen has recently become my current favourite actor, so his presence bodes well in my book.

Frankly, the 28 Days/Weeks films aside, there's nothing much movie-wise in recent years that approaches 'Children of Men' in this field.

but as you mentioned above: http://www.survivorstvseries.com/Episode_Guide.htm

first 2.5 episodes on youtube

Nowhere is one of my favorites.

The Quiet Earth! Bruno Lawrence = classic.
http://www.oldmovies.net.au/userimages/user1367_1173659520.jpg

a boy and his dog
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Love this.

Quiet Earth is pretty great.
And seriously, people, you need to see 'Ever Since the World Ended'.

o_O

le temps du loup

So, Doomsday... totally OTT and silly, not much in the way of acting, the climactic chase scene apparently takes place in the south of France rather than Scotland.

BUT it's really good fun! Some great action sequences, some very good set pieces, and despite the lack of proper acting some engaging performances. The special effects are pretty decent, and it's crammed full of references to other films, including Escape from new York and Mad Max most obviously, but a bunch of others too. And Rhona Mitra looks good throughout, despite being of the Keanu Reeves school of non-acting. All in all, a good popcorn movie IMO.

le temps du loup

Yeah, that's a good one (though it has 2 very stupid "shocking" scenes). Did make me realise that a lot of what I read/watch as being "end of the world" is acually just "Western Europe/America becoming like what a couple of billion people deal with every day", though.

So, Doomsday worth seeing then? Noted.

I really liked Children of Men, especially how it captured how the end of the world would be people trying to get on with their lives even though things are coming to an end. And how people would have dogs as replacements for their children. And the scene where he visits his brother at the Tate Modern and Court of the Crimson King plays. I'm also probably alone in thinking the ending worked too.

Can I just point out:

Mad Max - Dystopia
Mad Max 2 (Road Warrior for you yanks) - Post apocalypse
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - Fucking shit

Am now 10 eps into "Survivors", and what an ace show it is.

Fuck, finding this thread was hard because of that typo.
Anyway, just watched 'Special Bulletin' from 1983 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ -
"...presented in the style of "War of the Worlds", a mock-TV news broadcast about a group holding Charleston, South Carolina hostage with a homemade nuclear bomb. The surprisingly complex treatment of the subject is great."

The sort of thing people hereabouts would like, I think.

i've always totally loved the cover of the quiet earth - possibly the only movie poster i'd like (save for all the awesome polish ones)

i wonder if i wld like 'survivors'...

The sort of thing people hereabouts would like, I think.

Great movie! Love it a lot

i wonder if i wld like 'survivors'...

easy enough to find out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLr79-AcqqM&feature=related

I tried to watch Doomsday the other night and had to switch it off after about 30 minutes or so, because it was just so absolutely stunningly awful. I couldn't bear it. A dreadful, dreadful film.

I think I've made my peace with the fact that I don't need to see 'Doomsday'. The trailer looked so unbelievably crappo, and presumably they were they good bits.

Does anyone remember a movie about some people living in a post apocalyptic base in the desert or something (perhaps oz), and it was cut with the occasional animation of a load of people running down streets hunting dead fish shapes projected on the building walls ?

does nobody know this? ^

Would it be "In The Aftermath" by any chance? It combines live action with a Japanese anime called "Angel's Egg" The fish thing rings a bell but I could be wrong.

It certainly is, from the sounds of things. Many thanks!!

i just watched logan's run over the weekend and that shit is gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarbage

<3 this genre

I've really got to get hold of Max Headroom: 20 minutes Into The Future

Warning: Do NOT watch 'No BLade of Grass'. The book is ace. The film is balls.

Interesting new Spanish one called Tres Dias I'm trying to get my hands on: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0984155/

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjA3NDU0MjA1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTA4Mzk1MQ@@._V1._SX283_SY400_.jpg

Are there any PA/D political dramas? I want tons of exposition & process shit. Basically, The West Wing: After the Plague.

Special Bulletin kind of gets there, as do Threads and The War Game, but I want more and betterer.

^^^BSG

Yeah, and I love that stuff in it, but I'm looking for more near future, pseudo-realistic stuff.

I mean, I'm know I'm being a total Goldilocks here, but I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't see if anyone knew of some little hidden gem.

The show Jericho kinda gets there, but the go-to theme for most of these is that government/authority is non-existent.

Aside, I really want to see Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude. A Portuguese movie released several years ago based on J.G. Ballard's "Low Flying Aircraft"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190975/

THE BLOOD OF HEROES people, come on. (Called JUGGERS sometimes in the EU.) Post-apocalypse sports movie with Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, and Philip Vincent D'Onofrio. Except the sport involves putting a dog skull on a stick. Joan Chen snaps a guy's leg like a twig. Run don't walk for this one, it's really good and well thought out for what it is.

Are there any PA/D political dramas?

Have you seen 'Fail-Safe'? It's ALL dialogue/exposition/political shenanigans (esp. the 2000 "live TV" version).

THE BLOOD OF HEROES people, come on.

Doh! Completely forgot about this one... I'm still nerdy enough to remember the Jugger salute though

Have you seen 'Fail-Safe'? It's ALL dialogue/exposition/political shenanigans (esp. the 2000 "live TV" version).

Though technically it's just barely pre-apocalypse

i loved le dernier combat when it came out, but i haven't seen it since. luc besson!

(nb when it came out i was 13. still like to see it again tho.)

Just, er, came into possession of a copy of 'le dernier combat'--must watch.