Apocalyptic Movies

wonton

anyone recomend any good apocalyptic movies, dunno why but i love them( do i hate people that much ha).

stuff like I am legend, The mist,the core, the day after tomoro.

Cheers

Kess73

The Road
A Boy And His Dog
Mad Max Trilogy
28 Days Later
Dawn Of The Dead (original and remake)
Waterworld
The Book Of Eli
9
12 Monkeys
Cyborg
Casshern
Escape From New York

JP Liz V1

Serenity - it has it all from action, sci fi, comedy, romance, drama

Captain Chaos

The Planet of the Apes, the original 3 at least.
The Omega Man.

johnny_ultimate

This is veering dangerously close to becoming a list thread. If you are going to recommend films, please give reasons why, otherwise it'll have to be locked.

As for good films that deal with the apocalypse (or post-apocalypse) a few spring to mind. The Road is a definite one to check out - the book is better, but film captures it's essence surprisingly well. The bleak wasteland is one of the most memorable post-apocalyptic landscapes, plus keeps the reasons why relatively ambiguous in favour of a story of a father and son trying to traverse the landscape.

I'd also recommend Last Night as an alternative take on the end o' the world. The focus is on the people trying to come to terms with the incoming apocalypse. Not too well known, but a welcome change to the typical Roland Emmerich style nonsense.

Spiritoftheseventies

Apocalypse Now. Describes beautifully how war corrupts. The scene where Brando and Sheen meets for the first time is beautifully done although it was shot that way due to brando's weight issues but as such it was an inspired piece of film making.
Martin Sheen plays his role to perfection while Brando showed in those few scenes why he was a class actor.

AnonoBoy

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Apocalypse Now. Describes beautifully how war corrupts. The scene where Brando and Sheen meets for the first time is beautifully done although it was shot that way due to brando's weight issues but as such it was an inspired piece of film making.
Martin Sheen plays his role to perfection while Brando showed in those few scenes why he was a class actor.

Not really an Apocalypse movie though is it, despite the title?

Spiritoftheseventies

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Not really an Apocalypse movie though is it, despite the title?

Well you could argue the commune was a post Apocalyptic though. Another movie would be Lord of the Flies.
Preferred the Black and white version. A perfect example of how the lines between order and anarchy can become blurred.
Well worth a look if no-one has ever seen it. Based on the book by William Golding
Short description of it here but basically about a set of choirboys who are marooned on an Island and how things slowly disintegrate as the two factions split and set up base camps.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057261/

Deliverance

I have to second 'the road' it is a disturbing movie, it is almost to real in a way. In my opinion it is almost perfect as a satisfying watch from start to finish. The ending is hardly a twist but it is relevant to the survival horror that the man and his son learned. Brilliant movie.


'The Mist', well what can I say... it is Darabont combined with King enough said. Darabont is the only man that truly has the talent to put across a King movie. The ending to this movie can only truly be appreciated by actually watching the entire movie. Kings story as usual keeps the audience in an intense state of adrenaline pumping horror.