T2K / Post-Apocalyptic Movies

[TiggerCCW UK]

Have to agree with that - Children of Men was awesome. The final gun fight was an impressive scene, as was the 'marauder' ambush when they were driving to the resistance base. Good soundtrack as well - I love the Franco Battiato (spelling?) cover of Ruby Tuesday.

Another camp post apoc classic is Hell Comes To Frogtown starring wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper as the titular Sam Hell. Absolute gem

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by TiggerCCW UK

Another camp post apoc classic is Hell Comes To Frogtown starring wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper as the titular Sam Hell. Absolute gem

I haven't seen it but I can't imagine that it can compare with his work in the sci-fi thriller They Live.

[Raellus]

Not exactly a post-apoc flick, but I just watched the animated film Waltz with Bashir about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in '82. It was quite good. It follows a man trying to recover his memories of serving in the invasion. He interviews various vets trying to jog his own memory. What follows is a series of vignettes, some tragic, some brutal, some comic, and some surreal. All of this leads up to the last 18 minutes of the film which examines the Sabra and Shatilla [sic] refugee camp massacres. It's an unusual but powerful war film. I recommend it.

[Ramjam]

They are re-making Red Dawn with a 2010 release date by the way (and i quote Wikipedia) :

'Two top executives at MGM, Harry Sloan and Mary Parent, announced that a remake of Red Dawn is in the early stages of pre-production in May 2008 at the Festival de Cannes. This was announced along with a big-budget rebuild of RoboCop, which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss. The remake of Red Dawn is slated to be directed by Dan Bradley, who has previously worked as a second unit director and stunt coordinator on films such as The Bourne Ultimatum, Spiderman 3 and the Quantum of Solace. MGM has announced that Red Dawn will be remade "keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in". In a further announcement the same month, Dan Bradley has been confirmed as the director with Carl Ellsworth, screenwriter of Red Eye and Disturbia writing the updated screenplay. Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman (A Man Apart) is also acting in a producer capacity. Australian Chris Hemsworth has been cast in a lead role.

Ellsworth has said:

"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we’re in. As ‘Red Dawn’ scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again? It was later revealed that the Chinese would be the invaders and they would be aided by the Russians later on."

Joining Hemsworth are Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki with a possible setting of Spokane, Washington. Tony Gilroy, who wrote The Bourne Trilogy and Micheal Clayton will do a rewrite of script.'

[General Pain]

how about you post a link to IMDB (www.imdb.com) and perhaps your own rating from one to ten. It would be a lot easier for others to find/buy the movies in question.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Ramjam

They are re-making Red Dawn with a 2010 release date by the way

I was really excited about this until I realized, that now I would be one of the guys in the camp and not one of the Wolverines.

"Boys! Avenge me! Aveeeeenge me!!!" (just practicing )

[Cdnwolf]

Resident Evil 2 where they are trapped in the city.

And I can't believe no one has mentioned the classics of classics...

Planet of the Apes


And don't forget Charleton Heston in Omega Man.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by kato13

I was really excited about this until I realized, that now I would be one of the guys in the camp and not one of the Wolverines.

"Boys! Avenge me! Aveeeeenge me!!!" (just practicing )

These last years, words like “remake�, “prequel/sequel� and “based on� make me shudder... Specially when referring to something I’ve previously enjoyed.The worst thing is that, although suspecting an imminent disaster, my friends and I always end up in the queue of the theater ticket office, smiling and shrugging our shoulders...ready for the disaster, but with a tiny and insignificant spark of hope. Of course, at the end of the movie, nobody will admit the previous existence of this spark...



Ahhh...Now I’m starting to feel the tragedy floating around me... I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. ...

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Marc

These last years, words like “remake”, “prequel/sequel” and “based on” make me shudder... Specially when referring to something I’ve previously enjoyed.The worst thing is that, although suspecting an imminent disaster, my friends and I always end up in the queue of the theater ticket office, smiling and shrugging our shoulders...ready for the disaster, but with a tiny and insignificant spark of hope. Of course, at the end of the movie, nobody will admit the previous existence of this spark...



Ahhh...Now I’m starting to feel the tragedy floating around me... I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. ...

Remakes and sequels almost never match the original. And no movie I've ever seen has matched the book version. Who's better at special effects, after all -- the wizards in Hollywood or your own mind?

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by kato13

I was really excited about this until I realized, that now I would be one of the guys in the camp and not one of the Wolverines.

"Boys! Avenge me! Aveeeeenge me!!!" (just practicing )

Me and my Basic Training buddies were really hacked off about the release date on that one -- we most likely weren't going to see each other in a long time, if ever, and it was opening only two weeks after we finished Basic!