Hmmm... post-apocalyptic... well, there's always the Max Max movies. All three are really good for different reasons. "DEFCON 4" is a particularly nasty 80s B-movie with some nice inferences to canibalism. "Soylent Green" and "ZPG:Zero Population Growth" are excellent overpopulation horror stories, while "The Handmaid's Tale"(based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name) shows us a future where America recieves the Iranian Revolution treatment by Hardline Christian Militants from the perspective of a woman forced to bear children for infertile theocrats. For sheer violence there's nothing like "Escape from New York" and its sequel, "Escape from L.A.". "Akira" is an animated film from Japan set in a Tokyo rebuilt after massive worldwide devastation. It tells the story of a teenage biker punk who gets mixed up in a government experiment harnessing psychic power. It rates pretty highly on Roger Ebert's Top 100 of All Time... like #17 or something. The "Terminator" films are, well, pre-post-apocalyptic, being primarily time-travel stories. Finally, "A.I.:Artificial Intelligence" takes a pretty strong look at the failings of humanity through the eyes of a child-robot against the backdrop of a future Earth being slowly consumed by climate change.
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Date: 2004-10-10 07:10 pm (UTC)--m4