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post apocalyptic films.

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    #32
    Fysh
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    SlipperyPeople wrote: »
    Found this while searching for recommendations so hopefully it's alright to bump, Considering the current times I've been wanting to watch some more of these.

    I've watch the survivalist, akira, shaun of the dead and 28 days later. Any one else got any decent films they've seen that fall into this genre?

    Rover (2014) is an underrated recent one - it's "properly" post-apocalyptic in that the apocalypse, whatever it was, has been and gone and the film deals with survivors making do as best they can. Plus it stars Robert Pattinson in one of his earliest decent performances, alongside Guy Pearce.


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    #33
    quickbeam
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    Melancholia. Lars Von Trier, so maybe a bit of an acquired taste.


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    #34
    Heckler
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    The Road is about as bleak as they come. I thought it was great especially the music. (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis) Really grated on the nerves. My skin was crawling for half of it. Made a lasting impression.

    Mad Max ( all of them) because brilliant.

    28 days later because of John Murphys theme. Great film too.


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    #35
    Kylta
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    Maybe try
    The Snowpiecer
    The Crazies ( timothy olyphant version could
    be remad version)
    Legion


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    #36
    El Gato De Negocios
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    Threads is as bleak as it gets and is uncomfortably real.


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    #37
    73bc61lyohr0mu
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    Catz


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    #38
    j.s. pill II
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    bedrock#1 wrote: »
    You want this beauty....

    Threads (1984)

    "Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long term effects of nuclear war on civilization"

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488


    +1 million

    Makes The Road look like Happy Gilmore

    Once you've watched it - you cannot unwatch it!:eek:


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    #39
    Hangdogroad
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    Kylta wrote: »
    Day off the Triffiths, (I think it was a two parter) was on bbc a few years back. The film was ok but it made back in th 50s.

    Early 80s tv version is the best.


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    #40
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Doomsday (2007)


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    #41
    DoozerT6
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    The Road is INCREDIBLY bleak and Viggo Mortensen is fantastic in it, but I think Threads is even bleaker because it just seems...more real, I guess. Not more realistic per se, but more real.


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    #42
    Blue850
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtP80Z08lfg


    Docu/drama from 2010 of what might happen the USA
    in the event of a flu like pandemic....


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    #43
    blackwave
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    +1 for threads very unsettling but brilliant to watch!


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    #44
    Kylta
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    The Survivalist.
    Mars Attack
    The Divide
    One Hundred Morning's


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    #45
    Kylta
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    A quiet place


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    #46
    Ipso
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    Has anyone seen On the Beach starring Gregory Peck?


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    #47
    bonny!
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    The Stand tv series is ok. I remember watching it as a child and being terrified but intrigued at the same time.

    I watched it again about two years ago and it hasn't aged well and for some reason I never catch the end episodes so I dont know the conclusion. Still the first couple of episodes are quite suited. Book is probably much better.


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    #48
    quickbeam
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Has anyone seen On the Beach starring Gregory Peck?

    Yeah, I did. It's not bad. I prefer the book it's based on though.


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    #49
    Greyfox
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    bonny! wrote: »
    Still the first couple of episodes are quite suited. Book is probably much better.

    Book is way better due to how low budget the tv series was, luckily theirs a proper adaptation of the stand in development now. Hopefully its brilliant as the Stand is probably the only story that shows the gradual breakdown of society rather than just skipping to society been already in ruins. I also hope the tv series based of the last of us game captures what made the game so special.

    As people have mentioned Dawn of dead remake, a quiet place, I am legend, 28 days later, Doomsday and Mad max fury road where all great films


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    #50
    Heckler
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    I am legend the movie is good but could have been called Zombie War Whatever for all its relevance to the book really. Rewatching it right now and enjoying.

    The Richard Matheson book is even better. A very short read but well worth it.

    The movie is in title only mostly. The real reason for the title of the book becomes apparent in the end.


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    #51
    Heckler
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    Heckler wrote: »
    I am legend the movie is good but could have been called Zombie War Whatever for all its relevance to the book really. Rewatching it right now and enjoying.

    The Richard Matheson book is even better. A very short read but well worth it.

    The movie is in title only mostly. The real reason for the title of the book becomes apparent in the end.

    Rewatching now I see there is an alternative ending which is really bad. Shocking bad. Hollywood bad.


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    #52
    R.F.
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    #53
    Prefect_1998
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    Z for zachariah

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1598642/

    Book is much better than the film but not a bad watch


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    #54
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Heckler wrote: »
    I am legend the movie is good but could have been called Zombie War Whatever for all its relevance to the book really. Rewatching it right now and enjoying.

    The Richard Matheson book is even better. A very short read but well worth it.

    The movie is in title only mostly. The real reason for the title of the book becomes apparent in the end.
    The book was previously adapted as The Last Man On Earth with Vincent Price, which was then remade as The Omega Man with Charlton Heston.


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    #55
    Capt'n Midnight
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    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/
    Damnation Alley - Not a great film. The Landmaster looked cool though

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073835/
    The Ultimate Warrior - it's not a great film
    https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/ultimate-warrior-40-survival-fittest Yul Brynner's character could be considered a precursor to antiheroes like Mad Max: tough, silent, brutal when necessary but also intelligent and worldly. The emphasis on the sociological aspects of the story is unique to its era, and while it's not a great film, it deserves reappraisal as one of the more carefully considered end-of-the-world scenarios to be released in that decade.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/
    Escape from New York - go watch it again.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/
    WALL·E - I've got the Blu ray somewhere, the first half hour is just so well done.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/
    Snowpiercer - Korean sci-fi dystopia based off a French comic and filmed in the Czech republic.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822847/
    Priest - Vampires vs clerics.


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    #56
    Outlaw Pete
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    The Terminator.


    https://twitter.com/TerminatorFans/status/1246576288858550276


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    #57
    Cetyl Palmitate
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    Snowpiercer is pretty good. Made by the guy who made parasite. It was on film4 recently.


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    #58
    spurious
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    The Quiet Earth (1985, NZ).


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    #59
    nix
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    It comes at night is a recent-ish one that stands out that hasnt been mentioned, it was quite tense and atmospheric from what i remember, stars Joel Edgerton and im pretty certain its on netflix, or was anyway.


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    #60
    Inviere
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    nix wrote: »
    It comes at night is a recent-ish one that stands out that hasnt been mentioned, it was quite tense and atmospheric from what i remember, stars Joel Edgerton and im pretty certain its on netflix, or was anyway.

    Watched that a few days ago, and was quite disappointed with it.

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    #61
    Redpunto
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    More of a zombie movie but The Cured is a good one and Reign of Fire


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