3 times man :D

what's not to like about denzel washington being a badass over and over agine. although the post-apocalptic compont is vary week.

What about "A boy and his dog" ?

Nobody seems to have seen that one. It was an inspiriration for George Miller, who did the Mad Max-movies.
I can recommend the comic from Corben, too. It has some scenes, which are not included in the film. Good one, real gritty, but in some ways humorous, as well.

Another one, which inspired me, is a not a postapocalyptic story, but a western (very particular in itself, cause its made by Jim Jarmush!) - "Dead Man".
I just love bleak storys with some, detailed and strange people in it.

By the way - the series "Jeremiah" was mentioned here.
I recommend all of you (dont know if its available outside of europe), the comics, which the TV-series is (very loosely!) based on from "Hermann".
The early "Jeremiah" comics are a very good postapocalyptic, western-like setting, and the series is still around. Recommandation (although i personally did´nt like the TV-Version at all) !

I saw A Boy and his Dog; didn't enjoy it much...

I do not see that these were posted earlier. If they were, my bad.

Some old classics:

Fail Safe
On the Beach (Gregory Peck version)

A little newer:

The Day After
Terminator
Terminator 2
By Dawn's Early Light

My $0.02

Mike

I saw A boy and his dog as a teen, it was on very early satellite TV and I never saw it again. I enjoyed it though and I was surprised to see Don Johnson out of nattily cut Miami Vice style gear.

The Quiet Earth - A New Zealand classic starring Bruno Lawrence. The moment a prototype global power system goes online for the first time every person who was alive at that moment disappears, while everyone who was on the brink of death at that moment is left behind. Odd but interesting.

The first half hour or so of Vin Diesel's Babylon A.D. seemed to me to depict a city like Krakow in T2K fairly well. The rich are extremely rich, while the rest live best they can.
The latter section of the movie is a complete contrast to the first, which while not exactly post apocalyptic, does work fairly well for the movie as a whole.

I didn't see this one mentioned...

Doomsday

Directed by the same guy that did Dog Soldiers, it's set in a near future Scotland that has been quarantined from the rest of the UK following the outbreak of a deadly virus.

It has homages to several post apoc films - most noticeably the Mad Max films and Escape from New York (the lead character, who is female, has a Snake Plisken style eyepatch) and is enjoyable enough if you don't take it too seriously.

How did I forget that one...with the delectable Rhona Mitra...I loved how her character could toss her prosthetic eye ahead of her to do recon.

Stakeland
 

Well guys - I know it aint exactly kosher to drag zombisa nad what have you not into our genre- (we prefer political/military backdrops :) ) but "Stakeland" is pretty good imho. Good imagery for a T2K setting , characters and story are a bit clicheèd but holds their own imho.

I definently recommend "Stakeland" - have to say I wanted to whittle a bit after.

Well thats all - of to the store for some more dry goods and buckshot shells.

Has anyone mentioned Doomsday yet?

Stakeland is one of the weirdest films I've seen in a while. It was good in a strange way but to me the vampire apocalypse setting just doesn't work, although the general setting could be used for T2K. No real explanation to how the vampires came about, and no consistancy to their powers. In the first scene the vampire can jump about like a fly but from then on they just walk around like other people. Sometimes they are only about after dark but then in other scenes they seem to be able to walk about fine in the daylight. Guns don't seem to harm them but a small wooden stake can kill them and fire can scare them. Weirdo religous nut cases using helicopters to drop them into fortified towns they want to take over. Strange and inconsistent.

inconsistent
 

agreed - inconsistent in some parts - just like I d imagine an apocalypse to be. As I said - its not a military/economocal/political backdrop - but rather your zombie type carnage situation that brings the govs down. As for the lack of explanation - there arent anything but theories in the movie.

I dont think its weird - in the sense that its hard to follow - but it has a certain twist to it. I consider it to be a good movie in the genre. Glad you saw - I would imagine it to be limited release.

See Post 48 ;)

I forget who recommended it, but i have just started watching Falling Skies. And after 3 episodes its been great.

Better than Walking Dead series 2 anyway,

Dog Soldiers was a lot better than Doomsday in my oppinion. How building a new Hadrians Wall and letting Scotland collapse into anarchy would stop an epidemic is anyones guess. All the Scottish nationalists must have loved watching England abandon them and saving themselves. I mean its not like Scotland is a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with no air or seaports. The Scottish cannibals were good however!

Anyonne see V for Vendetta?

Near future Britain run by a totalitarian fascist party, a sort of latter day Oswald Mosley version of Britain meets 1984.

The world has gone to pot through enviromental crisis and America has collapsed into civil war, possibly due to biological weapons developed by the facist Norsfire Party which has taken control of Britain and made it into one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world.

Civil liberties and freedoms of all sorts repressed unless your a member of the new party. All sorts of bigotted propaganda being broadcasted on state media. No blacks, muslims, homosexuals or any other ethnic minorities in this version of Britain, and the Irish are once again repressed.

All sorts of themes and analogies, and many more noted by its many critics, while the hero is an odd but well spoken Erol Flynn type who wears a black cape and a Guy Fawkes mask.

Yeah, there's no doubt parts of the plot of Doomsday were at best a bit tongue in cheek and at worst a bit dodgy...the first half was probably the best for me (up to when they got on the train)...I found the whole part with the knight in full plate armour a little daft. As I said initially it's best not to take it too seriously...and as mentioned Rhona Mitra is easy on the eye...

I haven't seen V for Vendetta yet although from what I know about it, it does appeal to me.

It turned out that it didn't; it just delayed the epidemic from getting out for about 20 years. Hence the reason for the character Rhona Mitra played -- find out how the few who did survive the epidemic did so and bring it back. But, as others have said, such movies are best not watched with a critical eye.

I suppose its a bit pointless thinking too hard about things that actually make sense in these films, but suprisingly it did miss out on an Oscar.

Anybody looking forward to the Expendables 2.

All the boys are back; Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Bruce Willis and Arnie. Don't know about Mickey Rourke but a lot of others are also going to be in it including Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steve Austin who I think dies in the last one, and possibly Charlie Sheen, Nicolas Cage, John Travolta and others.

No coherant plot, not much acting, but loads of action. Can't wait!

I had decent expectations of "The Expendables" and after watching it...well, my feelings were mixed.

No, I didn't expect any great big coherent story...but was it me or was there some serious cliches in the movie overall that bugged me? Well, that and this was after I watched Stallone's last "Rambo" film which I think was one of his best. Oddly enough, it's said some audience members were rolling their eyes at the amount of carnage in the film, such as when Rambo operates the M2 .50 cal Browning. :confused: It seems many still don't realize just what kind of damage a .50 cal round will do to an average human sized target...

Anyway, getting back on track, I think the problem with Expendables is that they hyped way too much on the star billing. Yeah, it wasn't bad...but I just wish they'd focused a bit more on the movie itself, but I digress. To each their own.

Ray Milland's "Panic in the Year Zero". From what I understand a lot better than the book.

Future War 198x, Anime movie from the early 80's here is a link to a German dub version. It's good anime, before they started ruining it with irrational school girl super soldiers and such.

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18551469j8RfAGkT

The Irish in Africa
 

The Siege of Jadotville

Has anyone seen this film yet? I just noticed it on Netflix yesterday and thought it might be worth a couple of hours. I'd hate to waste my time, though.

https://warisboring.com/the-siege-of...b15#.su7f5d5fl

Yes I saw it last week on Netflix Raeullus. I am Irish and was a bit cynical about watching a film about Irish soldiers as I was expecting it to be a bit corny and full of clichés. But it was far better than I expected and is based on a true event. It starts off slow but the storyline and action gradually builds, and I would recommend it.

In the real incident in the Congo they were outnumbered 20-1 and five of them were injured. But they killed at least 300 and wounded one thousand before their ammunition ran out. Don't f**K with the Irish!

Well, there's the Road. And the Red spectacles. And I still need to see six string samurai

Beast of no nation on Netflick is "very T2Kish"
 

Beast of no nation on netflick is a very interesting movie. It's very T2Kish. Even though it's closely modeled on real world events.

Happened to Stumble across a fully legal version on youtube'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhRgdckZoqU

That channel also has a bunch of the Showa era Godzilla films, which is making me wonder how to do a kaiju. Traveller: The New Era has some creature creation rules, but for size they only go up to 44 tonnes, while the Official Godzilla Compendium puts early Godzilla at 20,000 tonnes.

Extrapolating out on the table, he'd be Size 4989, with 5003d20 hits (or~52,500 Hits taking average die rolls) and x1666D6 as a modifier to damage dice (or ~5800D6 for a Dam 1 attack like the tail, while the claws and teeth would either be 1d6 or 1d6-1 for the number to multiply by 5800).

Depending on which table entries were rolled, claws could be either Pen 554 or 624, teeth would be either Pen 499 or 624, and the tail slap would be Pen 713.

The table for armor doesn't cover creatures this size; under RAW he'd be Armor 3 simply because that's the highest entry on the table and it's maxed out by his size modifier.

The lack of an appropriate armor table leaves game Godzilla a little weaker than film Godzilla, but that massive number of Hits and high Pen on the attacks would still make him dangerous.

Nice, official, in world, summary of the "Colorado Insurgency" from Red Dawn





The Templin Institute covers alternate worlds (mostly Science Fiction). Though I have pulled ideas from their world building threads (easiest to find under playlists) for many genres.


Assuming they did "Red Dawn" for the first time due to it being July 4th (nice way to play the algorithm).

Happy 4th to all my US friends. Happy Thursday to everyone else ;)

I found it a bit cringey.
The soldier-philosopher guy gets his history muddled up and confuses Clausewitz with Rommel, insults a Frenchman for losing to the Germans (82,000 dead in seven weeks, that's a hard fight) when the Irish didn't even show up for that fight. It's got that sort of stuff all the way through it. It might have a better end but it diverges so far from what happened in Jadotville I didn't finish watching it.

'Threads' Reboot
 

Apparently, the folks that produced the critically-acclaimed Netflix smash, Adolescence, are looking to reboot Threads as a TV show. I haven't seen the original but the image of the bandaged traffic warden (?) is burned into my brain and, from what I've heard here and elsewhere, it was to the UK as The Day After was to the US, if not even more harrowing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...d=BingNewsSerp

Looks like something to look forward to.

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Knowing the true life version of what the Adolescence folks based their story on, I can't wait to see how they transform Threads...