Post-Apocalyptic Films of the 80's

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Good ones Bern!!!
Of course there's this one too:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZTAhZKP5wCY

 

[MrBern]

mullets of the future

I definitely remember that video.
I always liked how Petty winces at the old BattleStar Galactica scenes on the tv.

It was interesting that the song says nothing of the imagery , but the mood all works.

Hmmm, its starting to remind me of FIREFLY, now that I see it again.

OK, heres a littl `80s fun
RickSpringfield in 2019

 

[A.R. McVintage]

Blade Runner fits the dictionary definition of an apocalypse.
In the film the humans who can afford it are leaving Earth due to environmental issues.
Also, the movie did not fully explore this plotline but animals are all but extinct. This is why the Tyrell Corp. makes animal replicants like the owl.

It reads like an apocalyptic situation to me.

Then we fit the definition of an apocalypse. Panda bears are all but gone, gas is nearing five dollars and scientists say the arctic will be a melt this summer.

lol

 

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From 2008........

Hmmmm......
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

 

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http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b150027_charlize_theron_mad_maxine.html#

 

[Marc Chevalier]

This is earlier than 80s, but my 9 year old self loved it: Damnation Alley

For many years, the "Damnation Alley" RV sat parked right above the Hollywood Freeway, maybe a mile away from the Hollywood Bowl.


Here's what I saw: http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1532600279046838361dKaDSn


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[MrBern]

post apoc Saturday morning for kids.

I thought that was the same vehicle used in the `76 Saturday morning show ARK II.

For millions of years, Earth was fertile and rich. Then pollution and waste began to take their toll. Civilization fell into ruin. This is the world of the 25th century. Only a handful of scientists remain. Men who have vowed to rebuild what has been destroyed… This is their achievement… Ark II, a mobile storehouse of scientific knowledge, manned by a highly trained crew of young people. Their mission: to bring the hope of a new future to mankind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_II
But it seems they are not...

Damnation's Landmaster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmaster

 

[Carlisle Blues]

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[Leesensei]

For many years, the "Damnation Alley" RV sat parked right above the Hollywood Freeway, maybe a mile away from the Hollywood Bowl.


Here's what I saw: http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1532600279046838361dKaDSn


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That picture is taken beside the Dean Jefferies custom car shop. Dean built the vehicle from Damnation Alley. He also built my favorite car from TV. The green Hornet's Black Beauty!

 

[Feraud]

George Miller is still trying to get another Mad Max movie made..

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy are in negotiations to star in "Fury Road," this century's installment of the "Mad Max" movie series from writer-director George Miller.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies...heron-tom-hardy-hit-quotfury-roadquot-reuters

 

[Medvssa]

You're the one who claimed they came out in the early nineties. A very eye-rollable error, especially from someone trying hard to prove a point. Mistakes that blatant and having a defendable point don't go together.

Oh, my, ad hominem! how wonderful lol lucky you, I won't hold it against you so I won't think that everything you say in the future is wrong

I personally agree with MrBern and Feraud and of course Bladerunner is my favourite post-apocalyptic movie

I also remember a movie I saw when I was quite young, so it could very well be from the 80's. I have a very faded memory of it.
It was definitely post-apocalyptic, about... I think a couple of brothers? that survived a nuclear blast, in the 50's or thereabouts, by hiding in a bunker with their parents, who at some point died. The first part of the movie was very dark, set in the bunker. It comes to the point that they can come out of the bunker, and they give eachother a 50's haircut and come out dressed in that fashion too, to find a world a la Mad Max.... anyone know what am I talking about? I don't even know if the movie was any good lol

 

[Lone_Ranger]

The Bedford Incident, is a great one. Hard to find though.

Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. The Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to the breaking point.

Fail Safe, and Dr Strangelove, of course.


There's another obscure one called, Twilight's Last Gleaming. Haven't seen it for a looooong time.

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster), escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3


My favorite Day-Before-the-Apocalypse movie....Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.


Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane. Joan Fontaine, Michael Ansara, Peter Lorre, Frankie Avalon, and Barbara Eden, in uniform

 

[flat-top]

Grrr.........
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Mad-Max-Fury-Road-Will-Be-a-3D-Conversion-18338.html

 

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Oh, and here's your new Mad Max, Tom Hardy:

 

[Mav]

For post- apocalyptic flicks of the 80's, Road Warrior was my favorite. But, overall, you can't beat Panic in the Year Zero. Yeah, yeah, not really post- apocalyptic, more duck- and- cover 60's, but it's got Ray Milland, old cars, a big aluminum- sided camper, lever action rifles, and giving the bad guys their karmaic due. Plus, you can watch it online at NetFlix. Or, if you rent it, it comes as half of a double feature with Vincent Price in the first film version of Matheson's "I am Legend." Although Chuck Heston's "Omega Man" is better, but just as cheesy.

 

[John in Covina]

Leading upto the post apocolyptic time is the film "Miracle Mile."
The story of a guy that gets accidentally gets a call from a young nuke missle launch crew member who has mis-dialed his dad's phone number, oh, and it's really bad news.

 

[xwray]

Would Soylent Green be considered post apocalyptic...no atomic war that I remember, just populating ourselves to death.

 

[SkullCowboy]

Steel Dawn (1987)

 

[rustedmetal]

How's about:

Prayer of the Rollerboys
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102703/

Solarbabies
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091981/

 

[MrBern]

Dystopias

Wow, this thread is making me miss my VCR.

Does anyone The Max Headroom tv series? It was rather Bladerunner-esque

So has anyone seen the recent post-apoc movies The Road , or Book of Eli ?

Zombieland was good for a few laughs.