# The Book of Eli and The SDMB Post-apocalyptic Film Festival **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448 "2010-01-11T00:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/41 "2010-01-11T20:08:50Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > One I might try to track down is Robert Altman’s (little seen, apparently) post-ice-age thriller _Quintet_. Pretty much every review I’ve ever seen on it is strongly negative, however. It definitely requires the right frame of mind. I love it, but I’ve never really met anyone else who even likes it. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/42 "2010-01-11T20:47:46Z")
> [@ajdebosco](#): > > _Blade Runner_ and the whole “get off the earth while you can” genre seems to fit the category of dim future world, don’t they? “Dystopian” fiction. The world is still functioning more or less. But in a way that seems disturbing and bizarre to us. Still very enjoyable. I would include Ninteen Eighty Four, Brazil, Total Recall, Johnny Mnemonic, The Island, and Babylon AD in that genre (although not all those films are of equal quality). For post apocalyptic TV series, you have Jeremiah and Jericho. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/43 "2010-01-11T23:43:49Z")
**After the Cola Wars** : [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVgXZyHdFw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVgXZyHdFw) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/44 "2010-01-12T01:22:02Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > There is also some indie film I saw about 5-10 years ago that follows a bunch of people in LA I think as they try to get to each other before some inevetable (but vague) catastrophy. I can’t remember what it was called though. Are you thinking of Cloverfield? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/45 "2010-01-12T04:20:45Z")
Ok, here’s what we seem to have so far in the genre of pre-, during- and post-apocalyptic films, leaving out (near as I can tell) those that are more ‘dystopian future’ flicks: 9 (animated) 12 Monkeys 2012 2019, After the Fall of New York 28 Days Later 28 Weeks Later Book of Eli, the Boy and His Dog, A Cherry 2000 Children of Men City of Ember Cyborg Damnation Alley Dawn of the Dead (plus remake, I think) Day After Tomorrow, The Day After, The Day of the Dead Day of The Triffids DefCon 4 Doomsday Escape From New York Five Hell Comes to Frogtown I am Legend La Jetee Last Man on Earth, The Last Night Le Dernier Combat Le Temps des Loups (Time of the Wolves Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Matrix, The (3 films) Miracle Mile Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Night of the Comet Night of the Living Dead On the Beach Panic in Year Zero! Parasite Planet of the Apes (4 films plus remake) Postman, The Quiet Earth, The Quintet Rats: Night of Terror Reign of Fire Resident Evil Road Warrior, The Road, The Shaun of the Dead Six-String Samurai Stand, The (made-for-TV version) Tank Girl Terminator, The (4 films) Testament The Omega Man Threads Ultimate Warrior, The Waterworld When Worlds Collide World, the Flesh and the Devil, The A lot of great suggestions for future viewing; thanks. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/46 "2010-01-12T04:26:49Z")
Whoops, forgot _Zombieland_. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/47 "2010-01-12T04:41:33Z")
I can’t BELIEVE no one’s mentioned _Dr. Strangelove_ If _Escape from New York_ counts, certainly _Escape from LA_ does. Some more that come to mind: \*Dawns Early Light Red Dawn \* ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/48 "2010-01-12T04:57:45Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I can’t BELIEVE no one’s mentioned _Dr. Strangelove_ Not post-apocalyptic, The movie ends at the apocalypse. > [@](#): > > Red Dawn \* That’s not really an apocalypse film either, just a war movie. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/49 "2010-01-12T05:11:06Z")
_Fail Safe_ – ok, a two city apocalypse _The Bedford Incident_ (if you believe the nuke at the end was the first shot of WWIII) _Invasion of the Body Snatchers War of the Worlds Battlestar Galactica_? _Silent Running The Blood of Heroes Malevil The Time Machine_ ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/50 "2010-01-12T05:15:31Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Not post-apocalyptic, The movie ends at the apocalypse. > > That’s not really an apocalypse film either, just a war movie. The OPs last list includes, pre-, during, and post-apocalypse movies/ IMO _Red Dawn_ is one of the Signs of the Apocalypse. 😛 Certainly it concerns the destruction of large partts of society. ---
**Author:** ![Pandoranoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/51 "2010-01-12T05:29:19Z")
> [@Hung\_Mung](#): > > Are you thinking of Cloverfield? No, I am pretty sure they (msmith 537, that is) are thinking of Last Night (indie, L.A., vague apocalyptic event approaching, Sandra Oh). What’s funny is that the first person to quote the person that you (Hung Mung)just quoted actually mentioned Last Night by name–but they didn’t quote the part of msmith’s post that you just quoted; just the part about Miracle Mile and something else, so I guess they didn’t even notice that they were talking about the film that msmith 537 couldn’t remember the name of. Whew. Did that make any sense at all? I would have just left it alone, but I was all peeved because Miracle Mile and Last Night were the 2 I was gonna mention. Fox once tried to do an actual sitcom about four or five people living together after a nuclear holocaust. It was about as putrid as you’d expect. All I remember is the last line of the first (and probably last) episode: ‘Great. The last tube of toothpaste in the whole world, and some idiot had to squeeze it from the middle.’ This, I remember. High school French? Gone, gone, ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/52 "2010-01-12T05:42:47Z")
I think _Last Night_ is set in Toronto, or some other god forsaken Canadian city. 🙂 BTW, was there ever an explanation for how everyone knew the world was going to end? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Baldy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Gary\_Baldy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/53 "2010-01-12T06:58:02Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > The society in it is completely intact and viable; it even looks like kind of a fun place to live, if you can get over the age-crystal deal. Likewise Death Race 2000. These are dystopian films. So is Mad Max (the original) - Mad Max is really more of an updated take on a Western film than anything resembling post-apocalyptic fiction. The sequels, on the other hand, are post-apocalyptic. Okay, I misspoke when I said “Death Race 2000”. I meant to say “Deathsport”, which was the sequel to “Death Race 2000”. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/54 "2010-01-12T08:56:30Z")
AFAIK there’s no legit video or DVD version, and it’s not quite post-apoc, but the ABC miniseries AMERIKA. Kris Kristofferson is released from the gulag in Soviet Amerika & treks cross-country to raise popular resistance. Meanwhile, Sam Neill- having failed in his stint as the AntiChrist- becomes Commisar. Great premise, made in response to a challenge by Ben Stein, mediocre execution. And a homage to Dr. Gene Scott at the end. Anyone else see this? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/55 "2010-01-12T15:40:33Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > AFAIK there’s no legit video or DVD version, and it’s not quite post-apoc, but the ABC miniseries AMERIKA. Kris Kristofferson is released from the gulag in Soviet Amerika & treks cross-country to raise popular resistance. Meanwhile, Sam Neill- having failed in his stint as the AntiChrist- becomes Commisar. > > Great premise, made in response to a challenge by Ben Stein, mediocre execution. > > And a homage to Dr. Gene Scott at the end. > > Anyone else see this? I remember my older sisters watching it, but I wasn’t too interested at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/56 "2010-01-13T11:45:43Z")
> [@Pandoranoid](#): > > Fox once tried to do an actual sitcom about four or five people living together after a nuclear holocaust. It was about as putrid as you’d expect. All I remember is the last line of the first (and probably last) episode: ‘Great. The last tube of toothpaste in the whole world, and some idiot had to squeeze it from the middle.’ > This, I remember. High school French? Gone, gone, [Woops!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woops!), which itself was a parody of a post-apocalyptic film, possibly **The Day the World Ended** (1955). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/57 "2010-01-13T13:41:18Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > _La Jetée_ has always been one of my favorite in this genre.. Another avant garde effort is Peter Greenaway’s [The Falls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falls). It’s a very odd duck indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/58 "2010-01-13T20:27:40Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > AFAIK there’s no legit video or DVD version, and it’s not quite post-apoc, but the ABC miniseries AMERIKA. Kris Kristofferson is released from the gulag in Soviet Amerika & treks cross-country to raise popular resistance. Meanwhile, Sam Neill- having failed in his stint as the AntiChrist- becomes Commisar. > > Great premise, made in response to a challenge by Ben Stein, mediocre execution. > > And a homage to Dr. Gene Scott at the end. > > Anyone else see this? I only know it because SNL did a parody of it called “AmeriDa” where the US is taken over by Canada. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/59 "2010-01-13T21:41:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I think _Last Night_ is set in Toronto, or some other god forsaken Canadian city. 🙂 > > BTW, was there ever an explanation for how everyone knew the world was going to end? That’s the one. I don’t think they ever gave an explanation. It had to be something foreseeable but not preventable, so I’m guessing an asteroid or something. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448/60 "2010-01-13T22:06:37Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > [Woops!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woops!), which itself was a parody of a post-apocalyptic film, possibly **The Day the World Ended** (1955). Now I want to see this show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-eli-and-the-sdmb-post-apocalyptic-film-festival/524448.md?page=4)