Your favorite post-apocolyptic movie?

[KaosDevice]

Hey, what about the Twillight Zone episode 'Time Enough At Last'...c'mon, Burgess Meridith, you can't go wrong...

Or, and I can't believe I remember this, does anyone else recall a cancelled (hard to believe) sitcom on Fox called 'Whoops' about the survivors of an apocalypse?

 

[VirgilCaine]

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.

Those were MACs, NOT Uzis.

"Dad could have gotten us Uzis!"

 

[Dragonfriend]

I noticed no one mentioned The Postman...

I say the Postman. Great, great, great movie

 

[WizarDru]

Both the incredibly cool ARK II vehicle and the steel-plated cockroaches (not giant scorpions) were ACTUALLY REAL! Below are some trivia notes from IMDB, and there's even a fansite for the ARK II (Landmaster):

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/landmaster/

Now the funny part here is that the VERY FIRST SENTENCE tells you that the Landmaster (used in Damnation Alley) is NOT the Ark II from the TV series of the same name (which I loved...I mean, they had a ROCKET PACK!)! Irony, thy name is CarlZog.

Anywho, even though Damnation Alley is a pretty goofy movie, I still loved it way back when.

Planet of the Apes
All 3 Mad Max movies ("I am...the HUMUNGOUS!")
The Omega Man
The Quiet Earth....one of the most disturbing apocalyptic movies I've ever seen.


I don't count movies like 12 Monkeys (excellent though it is) and Logan's Run as I don't really see them as post-apocalyptic. 12 Monkeys features glimpses...but mostly takes place in the modern world. Logan's Run's world isn't really apocalyptic so much as depopulated...hence the fun-filled flight across an America gone Wild. Soylent Green is a dystopian future...horrible things happen, but it's more to do with the horror of the future than anything else. The same applies for the Matrix, to me. It's post-apocalyptic, true...but the apocalypse isn't really the focus...cyber-world is. I'd say that the second two Matrix movies ARE post-apocalyptic movies, the third more than the second.

Night of the Comet and Sleeper are the comedy entries, IMHO, and good ones at that. Both are silly and totally unrealistic...but any film that features the line "We're not crazy...we just don't give a %&#*!" is OK in my book.

 

[sniffles]

Hey, what about the Twillight Zone episode 'Time Enough At Last'...c'mon, Burgess Meridith, you can't go wrong...

Or, and I can't believe I remember this, does anyone else recall a cancelled (hard to believe) sitcom on Fox called 'Whoops' about the survivors of an apocalypse?

I don't remember a Fox series, but there's a British comedy film titled Whoops Apocalypse! from the '80s. I've never seen it. I should, though - it's got Peter Cook.

 

[KaosDevice]

I don't remember a Fox series, but there's a British comedy film titled Whoops Apocalypse! from the '80s. I've never seen it. I should, though - it's got Peter Cook.

That sounds really familiar, I'll have to track it down. Thanks!

 

[Soel]

Threads - British cousin to The Day After, much more harrowing and bleak

Survivors - mid 70's british tv series depicting aftermath of a modern plague outbreak.
Fascinating and thought provoking.

Boy and His Dog - Don Johnson and a telepathic dog. And it gets weirder!

Testament - Another dramatic nuke film circa Day After. Also sadder.

Human Animals - two men and a woman, post-apoc, akin to Quest for Fire, but more odd

Last Days of Planet Earth - Japanese 70s' film about the prophecies of Nostradamus. Features
mutant animals and sky mirrors

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Human Animals - two men and a woman, post-apoc, akin to Quest for Fire, but more odd

Ooooh...do you mean the Maiden song Quest for Fire? About the caveman tribe fighting dinosaurs and cannibals while looking for fire? Awesome

 

[WizarDru]

Ooooh...do you mean the Maiden song Quest for Fire? About the caveman tribe fighting dinosaurs and cannibals while looking for fire? Awesome

Huh? Maybe I'm misremembering, but there were no dinosaurs in Quest for Fire...in fact, that was one of the chief intents of the director. There were wooly mammoths, as I recall. While there were some anachronisms in the movie, that wasn't one of them, iirc. Maybe you're thinking of Ringo Starr's Caveman?

Edit: Ohhhhh....Duh. You mean a song by Iron Maiden. Got it. I'll shut up now.

 

[cattoy]

Fist of the Northstar / Hokuto no Ken.

But not the live action version. Oh dear god not the live action version.