DualBerettas
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what are some good ones?
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SHTF movies? (besides Red Dawn, The Postman, etc.)
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Daedalus
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The Omega Man
Omega Man ( Playing on the post nuclear war fears of the babyboomers)
Soylent Green(Same thing)
Morning After (my generations greatest fear)
28 days Later (no gun remake of dawn of the dead)
The Fire Next Time( very real scenario, if you buy the global warming thing)
Red Dawn (of course, The next generations fear)
It don't hit much harder than these classics
Godzilla
Bats
Army of Darkness
Light of the Living Dead
Dawn of The Dead
Soylent Green(Same thing)
Morning After (my generations greatest fear)
28 days Later (no gun remake of dawn of the dead)
The Fire Next Time( very real scenario, if you buy the global warming thing)
Red Dawn (of course, The next generations fear)
It don't hit much harder than these classics
Godzilla
Bats
Army of Darkness
Light of the Living Dead
Dawn of The Dead
Mark Tyson
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The Day After
Nightcrawler
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Soylent Green....yikes. That's all I can say.
The Day After is one of the most depressing movies ever made. Realistic that way, I suppose, but no fun to watch.
The Day After is one of the most depressing movies ever made. Realistic that way, I suppose, but no fun to watch.
wingnutx
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I can't believe
that nobody mentioned Mad Max or The Road Warrior.
"Battle Truck" was pretty cool, or at least I thought so when I was a little kid.
"Escape from New York" qualifies, I think.
that nobody mentioned Mad Max or The Road Warrior.
"Battle Truck" was pretty cool, or at least I thought so when I was a little kid.
"Escape from New York" qualifies, I think.
bobs1066
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If you can find it, "The War Game", a British movie about the immediate aftermath of a limited nuclear war. It's a very grim piece of work.
Not to be confused with the Mathew Broderick movie with a similar name.
Not to be confused with the Mathew Broderick movie with a similar name.
Justin
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Bonus points to anyone here who's seen Panic In Year Zero!
Quick synopsis: A family is heading to the country for a weekend of R&R when the Russkies lean on the button and vaporize society. Early 1960's Dad does what he does best: puts the womens in their place, and then goes on to extol the virtues of law and order, promptly before robbing a hardware store.
Along the way the family meets tough thugs with upturned collars;
Dad: "Why'd you do it?!"
Young Punk: "For the kicks, man, the kicks."
All this and terribly uptempo jazz music at all the wrong moments. Trust me, you will not be seated during the dramatic "exiting the house and getting in the car" scene. (Ya know, because you'll be in the kitchen, getting a sandwich.)
If you're a fan of terrible, D-Grade movies from the 1960's, get a pack of brewskies and a couple of friends together some idle afternoon and roast this turkey.
(Why this one never showed up on MST3K is truly beyond me.)
Biggest gun lesson learned: Those wimpy blade sights on all GI-style 1911's are worthless, so always shoot from the hip.
Man, talk about primitive times. Didn't even have tritium night sights.
Quick synopsis: A family is heading to the country for a weekend of R&R when the Russkies lean on the button and vaporize society. Early 1960's Dad does what he does best: puts the womens in their place, and then goes on to extol the virtues of law and order, promptly before robbing a hardware store.
Along the way the family meets tough thugs with upturned collars;
Dad: "Why'd you do it?!"
Young Punk: "For the kicks, man, the kicks."
All this and terribly uptempo jazz music at all the wrong moments. Trust me, you will not be seated during the dramatic "exiting the house and getting in the car" scene. (Ya know, because you'll be in the kitchen, getting a sandwich.)
If you're a fan of terrible, D-Grade movies from the 1960's, get a pack of brewskies and a couple of friends together some idle afternoon and roast this turkey.
(Why this one never showed up on MST3K is truly beyond me.)
Biggest gun lesson learned: Those wimpy blade sights on all GI-style 1911's are worthless, so always shoot from the hip.
Man, talk about primitive times. Didn't even have tritium night sights.
bobs1066
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The Day After was partially filmed in & around Lawrence, KS. I used to live a couple of blocks from an IGA store that was in some scenes. Very slight brush with fame.......
George Hill
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The Liberals Finally Take Over Film:
Planet of the Apes.
Planet of the Apes.
A Boy and His Dog.
Classic.
And hey... I liked the Apes movies.
Classic.
And hey... I liked the Apes movies.
Mark Tyson
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I saw Panic in Year Zero - a little known 50's era atomic war flick. Actually, considering the fare of the time consisted of radioactive mutants and space men in aluminum foil tights, I thought it wasn't that bad.
HankB
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I vaguely remember seeing something years ago . . . IIRC it was something called "On The Beach" in which the fallout from a nuke war was spreading towards Australia and they couldn't do anything about it . . .
Surprised that "Alas, Babylon" was never made into a movie.
Surprised that "Alas, Babylon" was never made into a movie.
Holly76201
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Night of the Comet [Guilty Pleasure, but you gotta love the exchange between the Sisters: "The MAC-10 was practically designed for housewives"; "Yeah, well DADDY would have gotten us Uzis"]
and
The Stand
and
The Stand
Hkmp5sd
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Howdy, folks. Newbie here.
I just felt the need to mention a flick produced by the B.B.C. in the early '80's called,"Threads." Very well-done documentary-style account of the hypothetical conditions of Sheffield, England following the big 'shroom.
MESSED UP!
Unfortunately, video of this movie is rarer than rocking horse crap so if you haven't seen it, odds are against obtaining a video copy @ this time. I know I've been looking for about 7 years with no success other than 1 or 2 that the sellers wanted a lot more than I could swing.
Happy New Year.
I just felt the need to mention a flick produced by the B.B.C. in the early '80's called,"Threads." Very well-done documentary-style account of the hypothetical conditions of Sheffield, England following the big 'shroom.
MESSED UP!
Unfortunately, video of this movie is rarer than rocking horse crap so if you haven't seen it, odds are against obtaining a video copy @ this time. I know I've been looking for about 7 years with no success other than 1 or 2 that the sellers wanted a lot more than I could swing.
Happy New Year.
Yuck Mouth
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The Trigger Effect(1996) Basically about how a blackout effects the lives of some suburbanites.
benEzra
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You got the title right. It's a remake of Nevil Shute's (Nevil Shute Norway's) well-written 1950s novel by the same name. BTW, Shute knew the scenario was unrealistic, and so he postulated that all the bombs used were cobalt bombs designed to maximize radioactivity. (He was reportedly working on a sequel/alternate scenario, in which Australia survives WW3, when he died.) The book is more of a psychological study than a SHTF novel (or than an anti-nuke treatise, for that matter).
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