Post Apocalyptic Films - List Your Faves!

[ducati_EL34]

Originally Posted by RayW

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.

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.

[RayW]

Originally Posted by ducati_EL34

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.

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

[ducati_EL34]

Originally Posted by RayW

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

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.

[RayW]

Originally Posted by FalconEddy

On the animated side of post-apocalyptic:

Titan-A.E.

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

Originally Posted by ducati_EL34

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.

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

Ray

[ducati_EL34]

Originally Posted by RayW

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

Ray

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

Robert

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by ducati_EL34

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.

IIRC, it was the Arab States placed an embargo on the U.S. and West. I remember Lee Majors making a point where perhaps the "Arabs are tired of driving 30 year old Cadillacs." I'd place the movie in the 2005-2010 timeframe.

Let's see, I like "Dr. Strangelove" and "Failsafe." The latter actually avoided the apocalypse but it could have happened.

"Threads" was really scary, the British film from 1984 that went from just before World War III to 13 years later. Another British one, "The War Game," was made in 1965 but it was banned for a while, I have a copy of it somewhere.

"No Blade of Grass," another British one, 1971, where grass type crops like grains and so forth get a plague in Europe and there is food shortages. Some people did make it to the U.S. that was unaffected but the film focused on the survivors left behind.