ZymeAddict on 1/8/2009 at 08:45
I have, actually. I agree it vastly improves the ending, as well as the film as a whole, by actually making the character's actions consistent and logical.
However, as an adaption of the novel, it still does a pretty piss poor job, IMO, both in terms of its themes (the film completely ignores the twist at the end of the novel which gives it its freaking name in the first place, for instance), and general logic (where is Will Smith supposed to be getting all the electricity he's using? In the novel the main character is forced to subsist off gas-powered generators, but apparently the grid is still chugging along hunky-dory in Smith's New York).
A girl actually dressed up as Tank Girl at a Halloween costume contest I attended last year. No one there (including me) had ever heard of the character before so, needless to say, she lost. :)
SubJeff on 1/8/2009 at 10:17
Threads is going to mess you up man. You've been warned. Its just so wrong.
You could try She (not the old one about the immortal woman, the newer bonkers one).
Books: I am Legend, although not about a nuclear apocalypse, has some good post-apocalyptic themes, as does The Drowned World. Has anyone else heard of Z for Zaccharia? I've not read it but I think its a post-nuclear story.
And you'd never heard of Tank Girl? For shame.
EvaUnit02 on 1/8/2009 at 12:07
Planet of the Apes
Don't forget the masterpiece, Battlefield Earth. :laff:
addone on 1/8/2009 at 12:33
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Threads is going to mess you up man. You've been warned. Its just so wrong.
You could try She (not the old one about the immortal woman, the newer bonkers one).
Books: I am Legend, although not about a nuclear apocalypse, has some good post-apocalyptic themes, as does The Drowned World. Has anyone else heard of Z for Zaccharia? I've not read it but I think its a post-nuclear story.
And you'd never heard of Tank Girl? For shame.
I've heard of Tank Girl, definitely :P I've read bits of the comics.
And wow, thanks everyone! Who TTLG could come up with a better, more detailed list than wikipedia (I was unsatisfied with their article) overnight?
BEAR on 1/8/2009 at 13:38
Quote Posted by PeeperStorm
If you decide to watch
Now and Then, Here and There, you should probably hide your razor blades and sleeping pills. You might be tempted to use them afterward. Much of the show was supposedly inspired by news coming out of Rwanda during the genocide there. Another far-future setting.
Jesus you are so right. That was probably the most fucked up anime I ever watched.
demagogue on 1/8/2009 at 14:30
Can't forget the 'post-apoc mutants' sub-genre ... Night of the Comet, Omega Man, and I am Legend.
Kevin Costner's The Postman and Waterworld aren't as bad as some things already in this thread.
There was that t.v. movie, The Day After, that actually gave me nightmares as a kid in the Reagan era because we lived next to a B-52 air base.
june gloom on 1/8/2009 at 17:53
Does Dark City even qualify as post-apocalyptic? At all?
And I don't know how anyone could possibly have missed me saying Jericho the first time.
Will be nicer and have more suggestions once I wake up some more and have some food in me.
