apocalyptic films!

Sm0ke

can anyone reccomend some good futuristic apocalyptic films????

I.e. soylent green, mad max (even decent zombie films)

or if that fails just tell me what ur fave sci-fi films are!

ixoy

Please don't just tell him what your fave sci-fi films are. That leads to list threads and that's sort of against the charter.

Apocalyptic films are fair game for discussion though. My recent favourite in that genre is "Children of Men", which works because the future is recognisable as a very dirty and gritty version of today's London. The culture's not out of kilter and the issues there are, fairly obviously, issues that are alive today in terms of immigration. It's intensely believable that our neighbouring government could slip into the sort of pseudo-fascist state depicted here. It's fairly light on the sci-fi aspects but there's enough of a flavour there for it to count.

Jello

I'd agree Children of Men is a brilliant film.

Danny Boyle's Sunshine (released April 5) also looks like it's gonna be a great apocalyptic sci-fi thriller.

Creature

Children of Men is a brilliant film.

Couldn't agree more.

George Romero's "Dead Trilogy" features the running apocalypse theme. Especially Day of the Dead - very gloomy, depressing stuff. Avoid it if you're squamish though as it's ultra violent/gory.
I'd also reccomend 28 Days Later and Zack Snyder's recent(ish) remake of dawn of the Dead.

qwertplaywert

Children of Men....what a sensational preformance by Clive Owen.....
also 28 days later..............
good tv show is Jericho

Fenster

Definately Children of Men

Sm0ke

i have to say i kinda forgot about children of men!

theres some stunning sequences in it and i went to see it in the cinema not knowing what to expect! brilliant film

yeah romero's dead films are some of my all time faveourites absolutly class films, the remakes are pretty good too, savini did a good job on night of the living dead

any others? I 'm really looking for something to watch that i havnt seen but i cant think of any!

fitz

The original Planet of the Apes.

The Bollox

28 days later is a very good film, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

another sci-fi film that I really like, infact it's probably on of my all time favourite films, is Donnie Darko, but may not be what you are looking for here

Karl Hungus

Personally, I would recommend:

Brazil
12 Monkeys
Gattaca

rizzla

The Omega Man, a great classic.

The Denouncer

yeah Brazil, 1984, Children of Men

I like Waterworld! Some great post-apocalyptic-esque scenes, very Mad Max style. I think its completely under-rated, that's probably just me though

gandalf

rizzla wrote:

The Omega Man, a great classic.

First one that sprang to mind as well. Charlton Heston is excellent in this. One of my Favs and from the same era as Soylent Green.

28 Days Later I enjoyed as well, mainly for the shots of a deserted London (very freaky). Still haven't seen Children of Men but I intend to real soon

missingtime

Would Dark city count?
Blade Runner
Event Horizon
The Fifth Element

Jack B. Badd

missingtime wrote:

The Fifth Element

Apocalyptic?

qwertplaywert

well the OP did mention if not apocalyptic,just your favourite sci fi movies

mathias

Thx 1138 , Serenity , Starship troopers , screamers , a scanner darkly, hardware,

ekevosu

I think I might be one of the few people on the planet that enjoyed this film but - "The postman".......

It even had a dodgy cameo from Tom Petty..."weren't you?"

DapperGent

I really like Logan's Run.

Deliverance

Al Gores' 'An inconvenient Truth' (just kidding).

TerrorFirmer

One of my favourite movies ever - Death Machine. It's more so Sci-Fi then apocolyptic but it's set in the (bleak looking) future, where giant killer robots are the latest tech in warfare.

Lemming

Why hasn't anyone mentioned "Dr.Strangelove"?!! The motherlode of apocalypse

or "Whoops Apocalypse!"

*ahem*

I'll chip in and make ekevosu not feel so lonely and also admit to liking 'The Postman' although would I consider it apocalyptic? Kind of.

I'll add Reign of Fire to the list in that whilst not being the strongest of films, certainly gave an air of desperation to humanity's survivors.