Thrakazog Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I'm astonished nobody's given props to Death Race 2000. I mean, c'mon! Grandma's worth 40 points! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwolf Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I'm astonished nobody's given props to Death Race 2000. I mean' date=' c'mon! Grandma's worth 40 points![/quote'] Ack! the grasshopper at his absolute worst! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted July 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I'm astonished nobody's given props to Death Race 2000. I mean' date=' c'mon! Grandma's worth 40 points![/quote'] Oh, hey, it gets better: Death Race 3000 http://imdb.com/title/tt0452608/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time For me, the best PA was The World, the Flesh and the Devil, from the 1960s. Of the more modern stuff, I'd have to say Mad Max II:The Road Warrior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BNakagawa Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time Already mentioned: Road warrior, awesome. Six String Samurai, love it. Blood of Heroes/Salute of the Jugger, a personal favorite. Escape from New York was fun, too. Not yet mentioned: Fist of the Northstar (animated) Battle Royale Was Damnation Alley mentioned? I don't remember. I loved the landmaster. Oh, duh. My all-time favorite: (the original) Rollerball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I thought that it was "Frogtown" ? However a fully animated version featuring Scrooge McDuck' date=' Donald and the nephews might be fun ![/quote'] Opps my bad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted July 29, 2006 Report Share Posted July 29, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I wouldn't classify dystopic futures like Rollerball, Soylent Green, Death Race 2000 or even Equilibrium or V For Vendetta as post-apocalypse. For me the "apocalypse" part means the breakdown of large-scale society. The defining PA movie is The Road Warrior, of course. The best is probably either Planet of the Apes or The Matrix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Squirrel Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I wouldn't classify dystopic futures like Rollerball, Soylent Green, Death Race 2000 or even Equilibrium or V For Vendetta as post-apocalypse. For me the "apocalypse" part means the breakdown of large-scale society. The defining PA movie is The Road Warrior, of course. The best is probably either Planet of the Apes or The Matrix. If the Matrix took place in the "real world" I'd call it PA but 95% of the movie takes place in the Matrix. For this reason, I don't see the movie as a PA at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Frisbee Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time What, nobody's mentioned the awful take on the Deathlands serial novels that the Sci-Fi Channel dredges up every couple of months for a rerun? I seem to remember a Gene Roddenberry(sp?) show pilot that was made into a TV movie about an astronaut who is put into suspended animation and wakes a few hundred years after WW3...Genesis II or something like that? And though the short novel was better, the Damnation Alley movie was a good shot at a post-apoc movie. Matt "Fuzzy-memory-and-all" Frisbee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time Correct... And obviously nobody on these boards but me has seen Last Man On Earth starring Vincent Price,but have seen the awful remake The Omega Man.This is terrible. Interestingly enough,the BBCTV version of Day Of The Triffidswas far superior to the 60's movie,being far closer to the source material.It is probably the best P/A miniseries I've seen,and is available on DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time What' date=' nobody's mentioned the awful take on the [i']Deathlands[/i] serial novels that the Sci-Fi Channel dredges up every couple of months for a rerun? I seem to remember a Gene Roddenberry(sp?) show pilot that was made into a TV movie about an astronaut who is put into suspended animation and wakes a few hundred years after WW3...Genesis II or something like that? And though the short novel was better, the Damnation Alley movie was a good shot at a post-apoc movie. Matt "Fuzzy-memory-and-all" Frisbee "Genesis II" ! Well sometimes the brain just refuses to remember the truly awful attempts at tv series that have been made in the past ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Squirrel Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time Correct... And obviously nobody on these boards but me has seen Last Man On Earth starring Vincent Price,but have seen the awful remake The Omega Man.This is terrible. Seen it? I own it and have watched it two or three times now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confusion Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time Six-String Samurai grargh... this movie is terrible.. That being said, anyone in the Pasadena/Montrose/Glendale area who are up for a viewing, I think we can put something together. I just have to remember to vacuum. Bring Beer, it will help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time Correct... And obviously nobody on these boards but me has seen Last Man On Earth starring Vincent Price,but have seen the awful remake The Omega Man.This is terrible. Interestingly enough,the BBCTV version of Day Of The Triffidswas far superior to the 60's movie,being far closer to the source material.It is probably the best P/A miniseries I've seen,and is available on DVD. I'll say double for the Beeb version of Triffids. It's got to be the best adaptation of Wyndham I've ever seen (though I have to admit I haven't seen the latest version of Children of the Damned - why couldn't they have kept "The Midwich Cuckoos" as a name? It's much more evocative.) Apparently, there's a new version of I am Legend in the works. Maybe they'll get it right this time (not that Price's version was bad, but from what I've seen of it it wasn't too faithful). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time Oh I remember seeing something called "Battle queens of the ice age" or something equally lurid...a bad film with big b**bs....what else could you hope for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thag13 Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time Oh I remember seeing something called "Battle queens of the ice age" or something equally lurid...a bad film with big b**bs....what else could you hope for? I think that one has Julie Strain in it. Its bad, but a fun Net flix rental just to see her. No one has mentioned, NO Blade of Grass. Its a interesting movie, as a plague kills the earths Grass plants and stravation runs thru the planet. Its British Movie made in 1970. It shows up on Turner Classic every now and then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midas Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I seem to remember a Gene Roddenberry(sp?) show pilot that was made into a TV movie about an astronaut who is put into suspended animation and wakes a few hundred years after WW3...Genesis II or something like that? Matt "Fuzzy-memory-and-all" Frisbee The protagonist's name was Dylan Hunt. The villians were transhumans bent on enslaving mankind. Midas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I prefer Mad Max to its sequels. The three films saw the camp element escalate in each one, reaching true awfulness by the third. The second was still OK, but I prefer the first. I also think these films are a terrific source of names for Australian supervillains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Squirrel Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I rewatched The Last Man on Earth on Thursday. Good stuff. I need some good Post-Apoc radiation waste type movies. Preferably stuff I can pick up on DVD for cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time The only postnuclear P/A film I can remember seeing is the Corman film the Day The World Ended.Not one of Corman's better works,its main point of interest today is the ludicrous Paul Blaisdell monster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Chamberlin Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time Long time no see, heroes. I'm finally back to the boards and I figured this was the topic for me - especially since no one has yet mentioned "World Gone Wild"! I mean, come on! Bruce Dern as a quasi-Merlin-type, Adam Ant as the Scientologist badguy... this is f*ck*ng epic, man! And some of the best/worst lines of all time: George: "Oh, my God, they cut yer [censored] off!" Hank: "Kill me!" I can watch this show over and over again (and I do, when I need inspiration) and never get tired of it. Ahhh, the cheese... It's so gouda, I camembert it. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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