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What's your favorite apocalyptic movie/TV series? (poll soon)

Was "Threads" that BBC movie with the guy that kept missing his plane?

Anyway, my favorite apocalyptic movie series is the Terminator series. I was wonderfully impressed with the last one. Late sequels tend to suck, but this one took it to a new level.

Was "Threads" that BBC movie with the guy that kept missing his plane?

Nah. Threads was about the effects of a nuclear war with its narrative centring on a family in Sheffield. Fun stuff.

I'm currently working my way through the Survivors series - early seventies disaster series wherein a virus has killed 99.9% of the world's population and those that remain struggle to keep themselves alive. Good stuff, but a couple of things are never really addressed in it, like what happened to all the petrol?

I've always enjoyed watching the Left Behind movies, which are more along the lines of Christian Apocalyptic movies.

I bought The Day After thinking it was The Day After Tomorrow. Pretty dumb, hehe. I didn't even bother to look for the word "Tomorrow". Turned out to be an interesting movie though.

What's your favorite apocalyptic movie/TV series? (poll soon)

See, if it matched the book, i'd say "The Stand", but the TV series was an abortion.

So i'll say one of Charlton Hestons Apocalyptic efforts - probably "The Omega Man", because he gets to wear cool seventies sweaters and look moody.

I have always had a soft spot for the Mad MAX series.

Nah. Threads was about the effects of a nuclear war with its narrative centring on a family in Sheffield. Fun stuff.

I'm currently working my way through the Survivors series - early seventies disaster series wherein a virus has killed 99.9% of the world's population and those that remain struggle to keep themselves alive. Good stuff, but a couple of things are never really addressed in it, like what happened to all the petrol?

Wait until the last couple of episodes, then you'll find out.

Beverly Hills 90210.

At least, every time I had to watch it, it felt like the world had ended. :(

There was an illustrated book by Raymong Briggs (creator of Fungus the Bogeyman) called 'When the Wind Blows' (which I apparently missed when I voted in above???). It was adapted to film and shown infrequently on late-night UK Channel 4 throughout the 1990's, about an elderly couple called the Bloggs who must prepare for a nuclear winter.

Alone and barricaded inside their home, they follow government advice to the letter, and eventually succumb to the effects of fall-out. It was a fairly horrific thing to read and watch as a youngster, despite some black humour, and I never really 'got' it. However, the imagery has always formed my lasting impressions of what 'surviving' an apocalyptic event would be truly like.

If you ever get a chance to watch it... watch it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/

There was an illustrated book by Raymong Briggs (creator of Fungus the Bogeyman) called 'When the Wind Blows' (which I apparently missed when I voted in above???). It was adapted to film and shown infrequently on late-night UK Channel 4 throughout the 1990's, about an elderly couple called the Bloggs who must prepare for a nuclear winter.

Alone and barricaded inside their home, they follow government advice to the letter, and eventually succumb to the effects of fall-out. It was a fairly horrific thing to read and watch as a youngster, despite some black humour, and I never really 'got' it. However, the imagery has always formed my lasting impressions of what 'surviving' an apocalyptic event would be truly like.

If you ever get a chance to watch it... watch it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/

Soundtrack by Roger Waters and David Bowie doing the title music, as i recall. I borrowed it from our local video shop in the late 80s and the machine chewed it up, sadly. Very good film.

A Boy And His Dog

There was an illustrated book by Raymong Briggs (creator of Fungus the Bogeyman) called 'When the Wind Blows' [b](which I apparently missed when I voted in above???).[b]

Yep. :D

Beverly Hills 90210.

At least, every time I had to watch it, it felt like the world had ended. :(

AAACCCKKK!!! How did I forget to include that one?!? :headbang:

Well my favortie acpolyptic thingy ever is Fallout (http://vault.duckandcover.cx/index.php?title=Main_Page), for obvious reasons, but this is movies/ tv shows, so I guess it's Dr.Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Does Neon Genesis Evangelion count? If it does im picking that. If it doesnt im going with Mad Max on this. But IMO there arent that many good apocolyptic tv series/movies out there. However, there are two exceptional comic books. If you're into that kind of thing pick up a copy of The Walking Dead, and Y The Last Man.

Green Acres.


That mutant pig Arnold freaks me out.

1978's Dawn of The Dead.

No contest.... Well... maybe a little. I also like 28 Days Later.

The Fallout games are better than any TV/Film thingy :)
The War Of The Worlds or Day of the Triffids books are brilliant, too...

But films? Maybe 28 Days Later. Although the BBC did something about an asteroid strike (I think. "The Last Train", was it?) that was pretty good until the last episode.

EDIT: As Safalra states, it was actually ITV not BBC. Wow, how often do ITV do worthwhile stuff? Maybe I'm getting confused with the Asteroid docu-drama thing that was on at about the same time. The Last Train was mostly good, anyway ;)

If it was an option I'd vote for The Last Train - possibly the only good program ITV has ever made (note for non-Brits: ITV is the BBC's advert-infested rival). It has its flaws (it tries to be science fiction rather than fantasy, leading to things like ultra-acidic rain that somehow doesn't destroy the plants or abandoned buildings), but in its creativity (the fortress-like wind-powered town in Wales) its shocking scenes (the crucifiction outside the remains of the power plant) and the bleak scenes of the decaying remains of our civilisation, it excels. There's also something distinctly British about it - you can't imagine the ruins of New York, for instance, looking quite so bleak and sad.

1978's Dawn of The Dead.I've not seen that, so I'll go for the 2004 one.

Actually, there's this great DC comic called kingdom come. It hasn't been made a movie :headbang:, but anyone interested in end of the world comics should read it

Dr. Strangelove. What was great about it was that I laughed at it as my stomach sunk at the realization that it could have happened.

The original Planet Of The Apes movie.

There once was a "documentary" on German Television that was about how the war started in 1989/90. It was made in a really realistic way, with all these eye witnesses, just like documentaries on WW2 for example.
It ended with the Soviets shooting the nukes at America after their Tanks got bogged down somewhere in Germany...