End of the World movies

[Pinarius]

"The Day the Earth Caught Fire": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...th_Caught_Fire

"Dr. Strangelove": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Str..._Love_the_Bomb

"The day after": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

"When the Wind Bows": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(film)

[manofarms89]

I guess Children of Men is somewhat of an apocalypse movie, given the plot. But I didn't find it to be that good.

i thought children of men had a genius concept, one of the few instances in which the book is not better.

[Holger Danske]

Definitely Children of Men.

I have to second this one. A very good movie really. Very Dystopian!

[MaximiIian]

Classical suggestion here: Blade Runner

Blade Runner's not apocalyptic. Just cyberpunk and kinda dystopian. Remember, dystopia doesn't mean the world's ending; it just means the world sucks. It's still a good movie, but it's just not an apocalyptic movie.

[Holger Danske]

Yeah, checked that up... Got caught up in the dystopian word I guess..

[vizi]

12 monkeys.

That was an interesting movie. I also have the short it was based off of. La Jette. Pretty cool stuff.

I should inform you, since everyone is suffering from brain damage atm.

Children of Men is not a good movie. It is very boring. Pointless and lacks anything that might make it an interesting movie.

And as much as it hurts me to mention this...he End of Evangelion and Neon Genesis Evangelion were pretty cool. If you have seen the show, like Max said, watch the movie.

Other then that, anime sucks.

Now I feel somewhat better about myself.

[MaximiIian]

Children of Men is not a good movie. It is very boring.

That depends on what one finds to be boring.

Other then that, anime sucks.

That's a matter of personal taste. Anime is simply an art style. It is just as varied and good as any other form of media. It is no better, no worse.

Always remember Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap."

[Captain Jin]

I liked Children of Men. Especially the battle in the urban area when the British troops rolled into that immigrant town and started wrecking shop.

[Swagger]

i just saw it, it was good

[manofarms89]

children of men was very good, also makes you think how much of what we do only matters if there are future generations.

[Kylie]

Zombie flesh eaters is good, a little cheap, but good.

[Manco]

A Boy and His Dog

Though don't take my word on it, I was very drunk when I saw it.

[Ketzerfreund]

I'm going to go the classic "nuclear war" way, and Pinarius already mentioned "The Day After" and "When The Wind Blows". Pretty much everyone knows "The Day After"; less so "When The Wind Blows". It's a very sad animated movie about an elderly couple living on the countryside outside of London when nuclear war breaks out. They are far enough from the bombs hitting London to not be incinerated at once, but still close enough to suffer from the long-term effects without actually understanding what happens to them... During the beginning you see how they prepare for the upcoming war by following all those "Protect & Survive" pamphlets to the letter (with confusion ensuing when one pamphlet contradicts the other), and all that makes this an incredibly sad film. As a good movie watcher you will cope with the whole range of emotional impact that a movie will make, of course, so I can agree to Pinarius' recommendation.

Someone was so nice to post "When The Wind Blows" on Youtube in several parts, so you can go and watch it right away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbsrJuAoQo

I'm going to add a BBC movie that takes a similar route: "Threads". It's a movie with documentary aspects about it; it shows how the war begins (take note of those newspaper snippets and TVs running in the background!) and lists some numbers, but mainly it follows the fate of a woman for up to 13 years after the war... You can watch how the little bit of life that's left after the war goes on in an extremely wretched way... Also, this movie has an incredibly impact-heavy end scene - it consists only of a single facial expression right before the credits roll, but in it's context it's extremely effective.

You can watch "Threads" on Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...90698427111488

[ThiudareiksGunthigg]

Children of Men is not a good movie. It is very boring. Pointless and lacks anything that might make it an interesting movie.

Apart from an intriguing premise, interesting characters, some intense action scenes that weren't all explosions and CGI for their own sake, great acting, wry dialogue, quiet satire on today's society (pandemics, euthanasia, refugee crises, terrorism, government propaganda posing as "infomercials"), an ironic approach to its subject matter, some comedy (especially from Michael Caine) and some of the best cinematography seen in recent years, yes "it lacks anything that might make it an interesting movie". And if you are a fourteen year old boy who thinks Transformers was a cinematic masterpiece, you'll probably find it "boring" too.

Most other people recognise it for what it is - a subtle masterpiece.

[Captain Blackadder]

I thought Children of Men was fantastic, it was so bleak. I did love that scene right at the end with the soldiers after the block of flats scene(Don't want to ruin it for people who havn't seen it)

Another one which is rather bleak is On the Beach which deals with the last major city left in the world after a nuclear war.

[vizi]

Apart from an intriguing premise, interesting characters, some intense action scenes that weren't all explosions and CGI for their own sake, great acting, wry dialogue, quiet satire on today's society (pandemics, euthanasia, refugee crises, terrorism, government propaganda posing as "infomercials"), an ironic approach to its subject matter, some comedy (especially from Michael Caine) and some of the best cinematography seen in recent years, yes "it lacks anything that might make it an interesting movie". And if you are a fourteen year old boy who thinks Transformers was a cinematic masterpiece, you'll probably find it "boring" too.

Most other people recognise it for what it is - a subtle masterpiece.

Thank you for that. You managed to be more stereotypical then I did. And I merely said it was boring.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Zombie flesh eaters is good, a little cheap, but good.

Wouldn't really call that a end of the world movie since for 99,9% part of the movie, the world is still up and running perfectly well.

Anyway, Dawn of the dead(original), Day of the Dead(original), 12 monkeys and also *points at my avatar* Doomsday which is a bit of a guilty pleasure.

[vizi]

Anyway, Dawn of the dead(original), Day of the Dead(original), 12 monkeys and also *points at my avatar* Doomsday which is a bit of a guilty pleasure.

Excellent choices.

And Doomsday is the perfect guilty pleasure in that respect. I really had a fun time watching that movie. I think I died of laughter at Sol. He looked like a reject hardcore punk rocker who got sucked into a time warp and got to become some anarchy tribal leader.

[Juvenal]

I think that the end of the world (as we know it) is actually better tackled in print, because you have longer to think about the situation, implications and consequences.

This is a book-list I previously posted here.

There are hundreds of novels about the apocalypse, here are just a few that I have enjoyed...

Non-stop (1958) by Brian Aldiss. Aftermath of collapse of society in a generation star-ship. You might also try Greybeard (1964), a story of a future where everyone is sterile and the youngest couple left in the world are in their 50's, or Hothouse (1967) a story set after the virtual exinction of humanity where the survivors compete (poorly) with other animals in a world-girdling jungle.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter M Miller (won the Hugo) a story of rebuilding civilization after nuclear war.

The Forge of God (1987) by Greg Bear, an end-of-the-world story - don't trust aliens (it also has a sequel, Anvil of Stars).

Wolf and Iron (1990) by Gordon R Dickson, a detailed and gritty story of survival after society collapses in the USA.

Death of Grass (1956) by John Christopher, a plague has wiped out all grasses and cereals. Civilization is proved to be a thin veneer when people must fight to secure what little food remains.

Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham, when the population of the world is blinded, genetically-engineered mobile plants find themselves accidently in the ascendency.

The Chrysalids (1955) by John Wyndham, in an agrarian world recovering from nuclear war, mutant children try to hide their telepathic powers from a society that will kill them without mercy - a hint of Salem perhaps?

Farnham's Freehold (1964) by Robert Heinlein, an American family are catapulted into a post-nuclear society that highlights the assumptions and prejudices of 1950's America by inverting them.

Riddley Walker (1980) by Russell Hoban, 2000 years after the apocalypse in England. A strange anarchical society that lives in the ruins. The whole book is written in a dialect out of which the reader can pick the twisted remnants of concepts from our own time.

Dark Universe (1961) by Daniel F Galouye, post-apocalypse, people live underground in a medieval society. The most striking thing is that there is no light, people use their enhanced sense of hearing to echo-locate and the very concept of vision has been forgotten. But then outsiders break into the underground world...

Across Realtime (1991) by Vernor Vinge, a story that goes from the near future when the world-changing discovery of how to create stasis-fields is made, through apocalypse and on into the far future where a few survivors use their stasis-fields to skip through millions of years while they try to recreate humanity.

Oh, by the way, one movie no one has mentioned yet is WALL-E, absolutely brilliant!

[Swagger]

i forgot to say that survival movies would also be welcome


i loved the tv serie ''Jericho'', unfortunatly it got canceled after a couple of seasons

i also liked the movie ''Castaway'' with Tom Hanks