Thursday, September 1, 2011

Post Apoc

Here is a decent list of top ten post apocalypse flicker shows. 

Sum up, reverse order:

  • Soylent Green
  • Escape from NY
  • Last Man on Earth
  • 28 Days Later
  • Logan's Run
  • Panic in the Year Zero
  • A Boy and His Dog
  • Dawn of the Dear (1978)
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Mad Max trilogy

I've seen all of them except Logan's Run.  It has too much of a whiff of patchoulli to it, but I should hunker down and watch it.  All the others I have watched multiple times.  Event the obscure ones.  Like I said, a decent list, one to be proud of, but I'm sure people's opinions will differ.

Honorable Mentions or also-rans:

  • a whole host of comet movies in the 90s and before that we often try to intercept in space or withstand.  Of all I'd pick the classic: When Worlds Collide.  Not all comet movies hit an Apocalypse.
  • Waterworld
  • The Postman
  • There are quite a few Level 4 zombie outbreak flicks.  Including World War Z, coming soon
  • Plague movies that wipe out the planet are out there.
  • The Day After
  • On the Beach
  • Threads (three nuke movies)
  • Zardoz (yech)

I think that about covers it.  So aside from seeing Logan's Run to firm up my coverage, what am I missing out on?
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21 comments:

  1. MartySeptember 1, 2011 at 7:00 AM

    I own Logan's Run. We can watch it next time you're over. Save any fees in case you don't like it.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 7:03 AM

    The Omega Man
    I am Legend

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  3. New Jovian ThunderboltSeptember 1, 2011 at 7:16 AM

    Omega Man and I Am Legend were covered by the better of the 3 movies: Last Man On Earth

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  4. BobSeptember 1, 2011 at 7:38 AM

    Logan's Run is ok. There is a sunset scene in the movie that inspired George Lucas when he was filming the original Star Wars, he made it a double sunset so as to outdo Logan's Run. What was really fun was the cheesy TV show they made from it, it featured a Data-like android years before Star Trek: TNG.

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  5. MartySeptember 1, 2011 at 8:09 AM

    I just read the book, Last Man on Earth, that the Vincent Price movie was based on. Good stuff, though changed a lot in the movie.

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  6. ChabotSeptember 1, 2011 at 8:15 AM

    Night of the Comet ..... classic 80s
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087799/

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM

    Quiet Earth
    Day of the Triffids

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  8. Angus McThagSeptember 1, 2011 at 9:04 AM

    I really think that someone needs to look up the word "dystopia" and note that it has a different definition from "apocalypse".

    Will the music of the end of civilization be called apocalypso?

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  9. bluesunSeptember 1, 2011 at 9:12 AM

    No real zombies, but you gotta include Six String Samurai for the bizarritude.

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  10. PaladinSeptember 1, 2011 at 9:32 AM

    Good choices all. I would happily submit "The Book of Eli", with Denzel Washington. I liked that movie a lot.

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM

    The Road
    The Myst

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  12. Bubblehead Les.September 1, 2011 at 9:35 AM

    Escape from L.A., because Snake DID survive the "Battle of Cleveland", which someone may not because they didn't bring enough Guns for the Practice Run....of course, we could also talk about "Apocalyptic" TeeWee shows, but most of them will get you killed.

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  13. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 10:31 AM

    A Boy and His Dog? Really? Don Johnson was better in Miami Vice, and that's not saying much.

    I'd throw the Terminator franchise in there, although it has no good ending. Mad Max as #1 is a given.

    28 days later and 28 weeks later were also pretty good. I also liked Book of Eli.

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  14. LC ScottySeptember 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM

    Book of Eli, The Road.

    I second the comment abut differentiating apocalypse and dystopia.

    WV: evelfu-martial arts practiced on the back of a motorcycle.

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  15. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 2:45 PM

    Doomsday

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  16. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 4:47 PM

    The Bedford Incident, Failsafe. You will be enterained, frightened, or maybe just elightened.
    Dont thank me, its what I do...





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  17. Dave_HSeptember 2, 2011 at 3:11 PM

    No argument about the difference but I think dystopian future scenarios can certainly be lumped in to the apocalyptic genre.
    www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html
    A good example in film is Colossus the Forbin project. Billions of humans were enslaved by Colossus, essentially ending whatever future independent development the human race might have had.
    Oh,by the way any film that stars the future President of the NRA, pitting him and his well stocked bunker vs. a horde of post apocalyptic mutants should be in the top ten.

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  18. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 1:47 PM

    Pandorum (2009) - Slowly the spacecraft's shocking, deadly secrets are revealed...and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.

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  19. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 6:06 PM

    Stryker, if you can find it.

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  20. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2011 at 1:42 PM

    For pure campiness and enjoyment, how about DefCon 4?

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  21. 1 With A BulletSeptember 19, 2011 at 12:49 AM

    Hell Comes to Frogtown (starring Rowdy Roddy Piper!)

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