[flametree]

I see no one has mentioned escape from new york. A classic!

However there was a british tv series in the 1970 called 1990. It stared Edward Woodward after the Callen series. If you do get a chance to watch it remember it was done it 1977 and yet it seems to get right what is happening now.

The following in a review from the internet that sums it up

TERRIFYING THEN. HAPPENING NOW, 18 July 2002
Author: jerzed from Harrow, England

This series scared the crap out of me at the time and was the most real portrayal of what could happen here in Britain under a despotic government.

And guess what? It's happening, the bureaucracy, surveillance, scapegoatig class war, trila by jury being reduced, disclosure of "previous" which will pejudice juries and others. CCTV, smart cards without which you will become a "non-citizen", State accomodation for "public sector workers" (oppose the state and lose your home), intrusive bureaucrats and officials monitoring our offspring. Get the books and see what I mean.

Hopefully. the entire series will be released on video or DVD or perhaps repeated on terrestrial TV..

In 1990 there was a control freak Home Secretary obsessed with regulating everything and with Blunkett and what he is doing to our justice system will realise Wilfred Greatorex's nightmare.

If the centres for asylum seekers don't pan out they could become the New Labour ARCs (Adult Rehabilitation Centres)


Cheers

[elocs]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('flametree', '
')This series scared the crap out of me at the time and was the most real portrayal of what could happen here in Britain under a despotic government.s)
Cheers

[TheDude]

There's also a TV show this fall on CBS, Jericho, about life post-nuke (dunno if it's going to be terrorists or war - we'll find out I guess). Premiers Sept 20 I think.

[Hagakure_Leofman]

Now this is interesting.
I looked up 'Threads' on the IMDB here.
The entire movie is now online at google video.

What's scary, are the apparent unanimous opinions of the people who have seen this film and commented on the imdb. They all characterise watching Threads as a horrifying experience.

I haven't watched it yet, though after reading these accounts, it's sounds a little like the peak oil 'penny dropping' moment I'm sure people on this forum can relate to.

On a lighter note...

I'll make a modest contribution to this thread and suggest the Wim Wenders 1991 film Until the End of the World. An odd non-mainstream film shot at locations all around the world concluding in the beautiful and remote Australian desert where a group of 'survivors' (for want of a better word) live with what they believe is the knowledge that the rest of civilisation may very well have been destroyed by a disintegrating nuclear satellite.

A beautiful film.

[Ferretlover]

I have:
The Omega Man
The Quiet Earth
Mad Max and Mad Max Beyond
Bladerunner
Day after Tomorrow
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Several Planet of the Apes movies
Escape from NY
Hitchiker's Guide
I am Legend
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (orig)
Matrix and Matrix Revolutions
The Net
On the Beach (orig)
Red Dawn
Silent Running
Soylent Green
all three Terminator
V for Vendetta
Wag the Dog
War of the Worlds (w/Gene Barry)
among others..

Am looking for Threads (so far, the copies I have found online state-"not playable on players in the US), Night of the Comet (plays on TV almost every month), and Day of the Triffids (along the same vein as Night/Comet: There's a spectacular comet shower, and everyone who watches it wakes up blind. Pods drop from the comets/space and stalk the humans. Also trying to find "A Boy and His Dog."

[TheDude]

Day of the Triffids is the archetypal "Cozy Catastrophe," the term I brought up reviewing World Made By Hand - Last man on Earth leads life of leisure. Haven't seen the flick in a looonnnngg time.

You can get a US-compatible DVD of Threads from eBay, about $15 - I remember shopping for it on Amazon and being dismayed that they wanted $35 for it. Horrifying is the word - they pull nary a punch. Imagine the Road Warrior with no gas, ribs sticking out, everyone fighting over the last can of dog food.

[kpeavey]

The Postman
NW US post wars, post climate catastrophe (the 3 year winter), post drought, post insect invasion. The country had devolved into small segregated, self sufficient communities under the rule of a dictator led army. Shows an example of how a single system, mail, can re-unify the towns to fight tyranny and make the world a better place.

and the chic was smoking hot.

[welshgreen]

I remember watching threads in school, never managed to see the end so thanks for posting the google video link!

[kpeavey]

Threads on google video did not want to load for me.
I did find it on youtube, several parts, but it loads.

Threads on Youtube

dinner and a movie for me tonight

[dorlomin]

Children of Men

WTF clearly one of the best post peak oil films ever made. The premise, there are no children being born, is ok, but the realisation of a post peak world and its shabby drabbness is awesome.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '
')Threads was a BBC production from around then, covered more time than the DA and was quite the grim show apparently.

[BigTex]

I'm watching Threads on Google video right now.

I'm so excited! I feel like I just took a doomer laxative.

***

Later: Well, I finished it, and that's a pretty grim piece of work there.

Not much else to say.

Grim.

[Ainan]

I don't believe these have been mentioned yet:

A boy and his dog - Strange post nuclear war film, but very nice to watch.
Robinson Crusoe - This version, if you have never read the book or seen the film, i recommend this one. Deals with isolation from humanity very well and shows a more practical guide to survival.
Last night - This one may have already been mentioned(Or maybe that was last winter) but the plot is the world is ending at midnight for an undisclosed reason. This film follows what a few people do in the 6 hours leading up to their deaths.

[BigTex]

It was mentioned before, but I watched "I Am Legend" last night.

That was a great film. Good balance of hope and hopelessness.

Nice zombie action too.

[Kaj]

May I heartily recommend 'The Twelve Monkeys' (Bruce Willis). Concept involves human-killing virus and time travel, really fascinating and haunting. Most of it takes place pre-apoc with Cassandra-complex tensions, but there are some spooky Apocalyptic shots near the beginning.

[Kaj]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ou are kidding me? Right?