Post Apocalyptic Films - List Your Faves!
 

I'll admit it, I love this genre. Jack Lord got my wheels turning in the Rocky Horror remake thread so who else likes these films and which ones? I'd like to find a few I've missed. (Omit the zombie films though as those are deserving of their own thread anyway.) Have at it -

Mad Max
Omega Man
Cherry 2000
Le Dernier Combat
A Boy and His Dog
The Postman (let the rotten vegetable throwing commence)
The Ultimate Warrior (although it has been years since I saw it)

No Question:

When Worlds Collide (natural)
On the Beach (man made)

Soylent....green...is...people !!!!

On the Beach - the original, although the new one is OK too.
Testament
The Quiet Earth

Tank Girl - just for the sheer stupidity of it...
Damnation Alley - same reason


This may be slightly out of genre:
Silent Running
Red Dawn

Damn the Punctuation Nanny..My last post was all in capitals & the One Who Knows Better wouldn't let it stand as such...Another one would be the "Planet of the Apes" series.

Apocalyptica now (that was easy )

You took my favorites!
I love Soylent Green,
and I have a Boy and His Dog on betamax and it looks great.

Oh yes! :thmbsp:

"Get your hands off of me you damned dirty ape...."

Also...

Silent Running with Bruce Dern

Escape From New York
Blade Runner (was this post-apocalyptic?)

The Last Man on Earth (first version of I Am Legend before The Omega Man)

Battlestar Galactica (not a movie but certainly post Apocalyptic)

I don't know if they have made a film of it, but you guys should read "Ape & Essence" by Aldous Huxley. Post Apocalyptic Los Angeles, demon worshipers and orgies in the ruins of the LA Memorial Coliseum.

Great stuff here, quite a few I hadn't considered.

Shame on me for missing Red Dawn. "Wolverines" is my sig on another board too!

"Silent Running" I would have put into Sci-Fi but it makes complete sense in this regard. It is a really overlooked and underpraised film.

And for a humorous look at this setting:

"A Boy And His Dog", starring a young Don Johnson. :D

I really really liked 'I Am Legend'.

Wasn't Cherry 2000 about a guy who tries to get his hooker/robot back?


Been a Loooooong time since I saw that one!

I'd prolly say Mad Max for me.


Matt

The original War of the Worlds
and also When Worlds Collide

I don't recall if it was post apocalypse or just post the-oil-ran-out, but there was one back in the early 80's called "The Last Chase" with Lee Majors and Chris Makepeace (Rudy from Meatballs). Living in a totalitarian state where there is no oil, Majors, a former racecar driver, takes his car across country to California, a free state. He stops and siphons the dregs out of old gas station tanks to make it. I recall it being really hokey but entertaining.

For another hokey but fun romp through a post apocalyptic world, how about Judge Dredd?

And I guess technically, The Matrix trilogy was post apocalyptic too.

Ray

OK, heheheh, as cruel as it may be, here's my list of favorite Post Apocolyptic movies:
1. 12 Monkeys-Bruce Willis Madeline Stowe
2. The World, The Flesh and The Devil-Harry Belafonte Ingrid Bergman
3. The Road Warrior-Mel Gibson
4. Waterworld-Kevin Costner Dennis Hopper
5. The Day After Tomorrow-Dennis Quaid
6. Independence Day-Bill Pullman Will Smith
7. Deep Impact-Tea Leone
8. The Core-Hilary Swank Delroy Lindo
9. Freejack-Emilio Estevez Rene Russo Mick Jagger
10. Soldier-Kurt Russell
11. Solarbabies-Richard Jordan
12. Outland-Sean Connery
13. The Island-Scarlett Johannson
14. Postman-Kevin Costner
15. Cherry 2000-Pamela Gidley Melanie Griffith David Andrews
16. Slipstream(Mark Hamill & Bill Paxton)
17. Split Second-Rutger Hauer
18. Blade Runner-Harrison Ford
19. Terminator 1,2,3-Arnold Swarzenegger
20. Matrix 1,2,3-Keanu Reeves
21. The Running Man-Swarzenegger Richard Dawson
22. Omega Man-Charlton Heston
23. Escape from New York-Kurt Russell
24. Escape from L.A.-Kurt Russell
25. The Time Machine-Guy Pearce
26. Starship Troopers-Casper Van Dien Denise Richards

Thats all that comes to my mind right now, but I know there's more:)

Charlie:nutz:

Hell Comes To Frogtown

Death Race 2000

The Last Chase was not about running out of oil. The Totalitarian state did away with cars, and Public Mass Transit was put in place. This was after a plague (it was speculated that it was the swine flu) wiped a good portion of the population.

On the Beach (the original Stanley Kramer film; there was a remake!?)
Testament
Silent Running (only an ecological apocalypse, but still...)

If you'll extend the definition to "peri-apocalyptic" films, Stanley Kubrick made two of the best:

Dr. Strangelove
2001 (A Space Odessy)

Ah cool, someone else has seen it. Thanks for the clarification. I haven't seen it since it hit cable back in the 80's. Just remembered the car being chased by a jet (?) through a wasteland.

Ray

The recent flick, "Children of Men," is quite good.

Great brit-pop tunes and visual treats for Pink Floyd fans.

Logan's Run. I loves me some cheese.

Does this count: the episode of the Twilight Zone where Burgess Meredith is the sole survivor of an apocalypse, and now has time to read all the books he could ever want to... if he hadn't just broke his glasses, that is...

On the animated side of post-apocalyptic:

Titan-A.E.

On the bizarre side:

Six String Samurai and The Day Of The Triffids

As far as my favorites, most were already mentioned; but, I especially enjoyed the plotline behind 12 Monkeys, Logan's Run, and The Omega Man.

And, IMHO, some of the best were The Terminator Trilogy.

. . Falcon

The Road Warrior is my all time favorite.
Avoid "Doomsday" at all costs.

Seconded! My whole family loves that movie.

I liked the movie until I read the book this summer. It really should have a different title as that is the only thing in common other than hostile plants. To put this in context, the original title was "Revolt of the Triffids". Why revolt? They were being farmed & crushed for their oil content! Puts a little different spin on things, yes? I kept thinking "28 Days Later" as I read the book as that is the feel to it. A truly great read and unlike many sci-fi books from the the 50's, it reads like a contemporary work. It is well worth hunting down if you enjoy this genre. The characters are well developed, average people caught up in a situation they clearly are not prepared for; sentient plant life with organization skills. I truly wish Wyndham had written the follow-up to it.

http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/Wyndhamimages...ok%20cover.jpg

In fact Lee Major's was a spokesman for the Transportation Ministry. He went around giving lectures on the merits of the "state" run system.

Yeah it was Burgess Meredith flying an F-86 Sabre Jet.

Malevil (1981):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malevil

The scene where the bad guys attack earth and they launch the big ship is a great demo scene for your HT setup.

Wow, you're the Last Chase authority! Now I'm going to have to see if I can dig it up.

Ray

Thank you for that.

French Sci-Fi is a treat!

Death Race 2000!!!

The Road Warrior
A Boy and His Dog
Escape from New York (more accurate category - Best Post-Apocalypse Boobs)
Waterworld (just kidding but Dennis Hopper was great as the head of the smokers)

I vaguely remember a movie about broadcasting pirate radio from a plane that never landed. Anybody recall it?

Malevil
 

I just saw it once when it came out, but I remember a very good movie
overall. There was a guy building a radio transmitter from the parts
of a discarded TV set, it should be interesting to watch with more
sophisticated eyes than at the time.

Unfortunately, this does not seem to be available with English
dubbing or subtitles, as far as I can see.

I can't believe nobody mentioned Day the World Ended, and The Last Man on Earth.
Jack

Night of the Comet.

I enjoy all 3 Resident Evil movies....

If you find it, let me know. I have only seen it once and it would be fun to see it again.

Robert