Your favorite post-apocolyptic movie?

[Reynard]

Actually they were both Swayze movies.

Red Dawn was about the US being invaded and Swayze and some other kids forming a resistance

Steel Dawn was a post apocalyptic setting where swaye played some sword wielding law man.

Hmm... I never thought about it before. maybe Steel Dawn was a sequel to Red Dawn?

 

[Rackhir]

Hmm... I never thought about it before. maybe Steel Dawn was a sequel to Red Dawn?

Steel Dawn was just "Shane" with Road Warrior outfits.

 

[Tonguez]

Battlefield: Earth (I like it because it's so bad)

Yet another case of a bad novel made into a really bad movie

 

[VirgilCaine]

I liked 13 Days Later, a British film about zombies infected by rage

28 Days Later?

Personally...

The Omega Man
Night of the Comet
Romero's Zombie Cycle
Mad Max Series
Last Man on Earth (with Price)
(I'd like to see) Damnation Alley
....The Day After (all the way through)

Hardware--Does this movie start with a sunrise/set and a radio jockey talking about the UV levels. Then there's a fat junk dealer paying several people?

 

[Dark Jezter]

Hmm... I never thought about it before. maybe Steel Dawn was a sequel to Red Dawn?

Considering that Patrick Swayze's character died at the end of Red Dawn, not to mention that World War III ended without the fall of civilization, I highly doubt it.

 

[James Heard]

My personal favorites are:

Mad Max: Thunderdome: I thought the first two were great too. The characters in Thunderdome might have been over the top, but they're easily some of the most memorable ones ever. Plus it made me jealous of Ike Turner, which obviously took a lot of excellent storytelling.

Night of the Comet: Night of the Comet...bad acting, poor plot, ridiculous method for murdering the world...Why do I like this movie? Kelly Maroney, and Valley Girls with Uzis. Genius.

The Quiet Earth: Best apocalypse ever. If only the secondary actors weren't so bad it might be on my list of best movies ever. It easily gets the most kudos for having a complex, well-thought out series of action/consequence of any "the world ends" movie I can think of. I would love to see someone capable redoing this film.

And...Just for giggles since we're also allowing zombie movies:
Shaun of the Dead: What's not to like?

 

[freebfrost]

Hmm... can't believe no one has mentioned Warrior of the Lost World, a movie so bad that you *have* to see it to believe it.

Appropriate review by MST3000 is here.

So... utterly... bad.

 

[Arnwyn]

Some of my favorites:

- Planet of the Apes
- The Omega Man
- The Day After
- Judge Dredd
- Six-String Samurai
- Twelve Monkeys
- Logan's Run

 

[David Howery]

I saw Damnation Alley because I'd read the story it was based on... the movie was less than interesting... everything gets fixed at the end because the earth tilts a little? Right...

My fav. post- apoc. movie has to be The Road Warrior... just so neat, with Humongous rules the wasteland and all that...

The Postman? That was never made into a movie, nope, didn't happen, just a good book and nothing more... :\

 

[sniffles]

Did it feature a head that had managed to survive the apocalipse that was turned off at the end of the story.

Here's an interesting web site that I found recently. It's a bibliography with synopsis for post nuclear war stories.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/nuclear/a.htm#A

No, no disembodied heads. Just this one lone guy who survived because he was working in the sewers or something when the apocalypse arrived. Now that I think about it, I believe it was actually aliens who killed all the adults with a virus. It was in an anthology of post-apocalyptic short stories, printed some time in the '80s, I think.

Wow, that is an amazingly comprehensive site. Fascinating link, thanks, Rackhir!