curmugeon ([personal profile] curmugeon) wrote2004-10-10 06:19 pm
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Films..

I'm looking into renting or purchasing a series of films, but the subject matter makes it interesting. To start I want to find '1984'. Then I'll add films such as Bladerunner', etc. I want suggestions of political or post-apocalyptic films. I have 'The Matrix' and want films of that genre. Any suggestions?
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[identity profile] hedgehog8000.livejournal.com 2004-10-10 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Escape from New York
Damnation Alley
Brazil
Rollerball (the original, NOT the remake)
Wizards
Rock and Rule (not on DVD yet sadly)
The Wall
Logan's Run
Day After Tomorrow
The Day After
Not necessarily in that order, some better than others

[identity profile] hedgehog8000.livejournal.com 2004-10-10 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Dark Crystal
Crack in the World
The Forbin Project
Night of the Comet
When Worlds Collide
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Fail Safe (original)
Fahrenheit 451
Running Man
THX 1138

[identity profile] mojo-iv.livejournal.com 2004-10-10 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

--m4

[identity profile] mojo-iv.livejournal.com 2004-10-10 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
A Clockwork Orange... ahhh... my favorite...

--m4

[identity profile] pirat-ponton.livejournal.com 2004-10-10 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
strange days is not quite post-, more pre-apocalyptic

(and recommended)
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