What? Nobody mentioned Akira yet? Set in the post-apocalyptic neo-Tokyo.
When the Wind Blows. What a downer.
What I love about the “28 … Later” movies is that all of the horror, death, and destruction is ultimately caused by acts of human decency. The
animal rights activists who release the monkeys in the first movie may be foolish or misguided, but they are acting out of genuine, heartfelt compassion. Similarly, the medic who helps the kids make it out of England through the Chunnel is motivated by utter, complete, selfless compassion and decency.
And these good and principled people, acting for good and principled reasons, doom the entire world.
As they do in real life.
Don’t know if there is going to be a new thread, but The *Book of Eli *just opened.
Oh dear Lord, what a stupid movie! There were many groaners through-out the film, but the very end, where…
…they put the newly printed King James Bible, carefully transcribed, by hand (a very inefficient hand too - with fewer than 100 words per page) on a shelf…right next to the Torah. Which was, the last I checked, essentially the same as the first half of the Christian Bible! Eli is dying on a couch, reciting the whole thing, and nobody thought to say “Skip ahead a few chapters…we’ve read this bit before”.
Did this film start out that stupid, created by a stupid writer, or was the stupid applied in thin layers, with re-writes and heaping helpings of stupid slathered on by the producer and director?
As is common in post-apocalyptic films, there are so many things that make no sense:
30 years after the apocalypse, the bad guys have fuel. Not just fuel, but enough fuel to drive GMC SUVs and ARMORED TRUCKS! At least The Road Warrior acknowledged that fuel would be running a bit low. Yeah, difficult to get fresh water, but plenty of fuel. And let’s not even get into just how much ammo these guys must have stocked up pre-smashy-smashy.
Hollywood really does think I’m an idiot. Luckily I saw this for free.
If you want to see a good post-apocalyptic film, catch The Road while it’s still in a few theaters.
Mr. Excellent - interesting. I hadn’t thought of it from that perspective - in addition, the father in the second movie dooms everyone by just wanting to see and kiss his wife, who he thought was lost to him.
So, thumbs down on “Book of Eli,” eh? Sigh. Hollywood keeps making sci-fi and PA movies, but they just don’t get them.
The Book of Eli hasn’t been released here as far as I know (and the reviews aren’t looking too good either, apparently) but the writer is none other than Gary Whitta, former editor of the well-known PC Gamer magazines.
Apparently the film’s visuals are more than a little reminiscent of the Fallout games, but again I haven’t seen it and have to go off Other People On The Internet, so take that for what it’s worth…
My favourite Post-Apocalyptic Films are probably Mad Max 2, The Postman, and both the Snake Plissken Escape From… films, FWIW.
I saw one clip from Book of Eli and decided I didn’t want to see it.
The baddies had Eli & Co. held up in a house standing in the middle of nowhere. They yell “Throw out the book!”
A package flies out of an upper story window and goes about 50’ and lands at the baddies feet. (:rolleyes:#1 since you can guess exactly what happens next).
Random baddie opens the losely wrapped book and opens the cover and it starts beeping. Oh no! It’s a bomb! (Did you guess?) So what does the baddie do with the book that was just tossed 50’ at them? Throw it back in the direction in which it came? No, (:rolleyes:#2), he tosses it 4 feet away under one of their own cars and yells “Ruuuuun!”
I just remembered another breathtakingly stupid thing that I don’t think really deserves to be spoilered: The old couple has a wind-up gramophone. They play some music for their guests. And it’s Anita Ward’s disco classic “Ring My Bell”.
[Morbo]Wind-up gramophones only play 78 RPM records![/Morbo]
Funny; I hadn’t thought about Miracle Mile for years until you mentioned it. Steve De Jarnatt directed both it and ‘Cherry 2000’, another post-apocalyptic film El_Kabong mentioned. I saw Miracle Mile as a teenager and really liked it, but haven’t revisited, so it’ll stay on my list.
A lot of great choices in here, plus some I haven’t seen but will now search out. I’d also include Blast from the Past, which was goofy Brendan Fraser fun, and post-apocalyptic for a few people, for a bit.
I was irritated at first, but then I realized that without electricity, the only way to play LPs (33and1/3) would be to adapt an old Edison to play at this speed and use the horn instead of an electromagnetic speaker. The old man was supposedly a talented mechanic. It did not appear to be turning at 78 RPM. So maybe they thought about it, certainly Gambon is old enough and was on set to point this out to them. My dad has a 78 player with records. The interesting thing is the choice of song. They could have picked hundreds of appropriate old time 78 recordings. Why ring my bell? I don’t know.
Oh, and unless it is simulpost, nobody has yet spoiled the double twist revealed at the end, either directly or in spoiler boxes. Is Eli? Or isn’t he? I’ve got to go see again, but I say is. The double twist is also wrapped up tightly with whether he is divinely protected. And I like that they hinted hard at the end of it, but not so much as to whack the audience over the head.
Here’s one I’m surprised no one mentioned: “Fukkatsu no hi” or “Virus” as released in the states.
There were two movies titled “Virus” released in the states during 1980. This is the one with the submarine, scientists, and two dooms-days (viral and nuclear).
Not a must see but watch it if you can.
You just beat me to it. I haven’t seen that movie since I was a kid, but it scared the crap out of me. Forget zombies and blood and gore, that was a scary movie.
As for Eli, I hated it. I get that it’s a post-apocalyptic action movie, but you need to lobotomize yourself for it to make sense.
How did the woman pushing her cart get ahead of Eli again, complete with replacement thugs? The only people we see on the roads are robbers and Eli, so who are they robbing? Don’t get me started on the twist about Eli and reading his book. Water is rare, but fuel is only in short supply when convenient for the plot. An armored sedan has enough supply to get from the middle of nowhere to the ocean, but people in the middle of nowhere thought there was nothing that direction. Are you telling me they managed to scavenge everything from San Francisco but there’s still enough on the abandoned roads to make scavenging there worth it? With all the Bibles in the world, only one survived?
I’ll buy a contrivance or two for the sake of plot, but there are jsut too many things that don’t make sense in the movie. I like a good apocalypse, but Eli was not good.
The Day the World Ended, from around 1956-57, post nuclear war film with lots of weird mutants walking around
Approximately what size is this book that Eli is shepherding across the landscape? Because kaylasmom used to have a Bible in Braille, and it took up all of a four-foot wide shelf – and then some
I don’t think The Signal has been mentioned yet. It’s an indie film from a couple of years ago. The story is that a mysterious ‘signal’ is transmitted through television, radio, phones, etc. and it turns people who hear it into maniacs. Not raging zombies, exactly, but unpredictable and violent. Sorta zombie-ish. It has three ‘acts’ from different viewpoints that I believe were directed by different people, but they mesh together into a whole story. I liked it.
He who bashith ‘The Postman’ shall meet his end with my fists!
The (canceled and finishing up) *Dollhouse *is pre-apocalyptic, with the unaired last episode of the first season being post-.
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