THE BED-SITTING ROOM — a bizarre little comedy from Richard Lester. No plot to speak of, but good fun.
A Boy & His Dog
a masterpiece from the mid-70s.
is that the one where a boy and his dog hunt down women and rape them?
i’ll take children of men
Eraserhead for me.
Den would say Hardware.
I’d probably say Twelve Monkeys but most of that is just slightly pre-apocalyptic.
Some of my favorites are:
The Road Warrior
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Delicatessen
Akira
Logan’s Run
Six-String Samurai
and yes, Waterworld
on the silver globe
morning patrol
visitor of a museum
the last of england
Europa 1991
DIR Lars von Trier
SCR Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel
107 Min
The Afterman- 1985 Directed by Rob Van Eyck
Le Dernier Combat- 1983 Directed by Luc besson
A Boy and His Dog- 1975 Directed by L.Q. Jones
Children of Men of course
Akira of course
I’m blanking…
Ressilada wrote: “and yes, Waterworld”
It has been a long time since I’ve seen Waterworld, but I remember not understanding why people thought it was so bad. I didn’t think it was a masterpiece or anything, but didn’t think that it deserved the critical flogging it got.
And though not “post-apocalyptic” in the sense you’re probably talking about, I really wish someone would make a good adaptation of The Lathe of Heaven. I like the first version in that cheesy, Logan’s Run kind of way, but I would love a much bigger budget, well-acted version.
It’s a cost/result comparison. Waterworld with its excessive costs and Kevin Costner’s control came across as an ego piece like Battlefield Earth, even if the results were technically better and Costner actually pours money into environmental water research and not Scientology. But that is why it gets flogged.
As for how good it actually is, I cannot say until I see it.
—PolarisDiB
The Road Warrior
Jubilee
Children Of Men
Agh, what is the name of that Herzog film? The one where he filmed water pools and made it look like oil fields burning?
Eraserhead…great film, but post-apocalyptic?
IDIOCRACY
LAND OF THE DEAD
Neon Genesis Evangelion
It’s a TV series, not a film, but still.
The Road Warrior
The Road
Le Dernier Combat
Escape From New York
The Last Man On Earth
The Omega Man
I Am Legend
Le Jete
Twelve Monkeys
Time Of The Wolf
Planet Of The Apes
The Quiet Earth
On The Beach
Captain, agreed about LATHE OF HEAVEN — it really deserves a fuller screen adaptation. I’d love to see Cuaron get his hands on it.
thanks to anyone who suggested road warrior, i loved it but NOT waterworld. that film is awful, absolutely terrible and the plot did not make sense because i don’t know how you would use that map also it had Kevin Costner in it, enough said.
Konstantin Lopushansky‘s Visitor of a Museum
Nikos Nikolaidis’ Morning Patrol
Milos Zábranský‘s Masseba
Jan Schmidt’s Late August at the Hotel Ozone
Piotr Szulkin’s O-bi, O-Ba – The End of Civilization
The Book Of Eli – it’s not great but it’s not awful either.
Mister Fahrenheit
I’ve been really into post-apocalyptic films recently, I’d like to know your favorite or the one you thinks best. Also I want to watch another film so what would you recommend?