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Good post-apocalyptic movies anyone?

"Ever Since the World Ended" is about two filmmakers after the world is devestated in a plague (there are only 186 people left in San Francisco).

Sure, the premise is pretty stupid (a documentary after the world has ended...for who? and why?). There are a few other things that are pointless, like the teacher telling kids about Leonardo DaVinci, when arguably more important is the need for the kids to learn how to grow crops, salvage, and/or hunt. Plot holes, like a character who is murdered, are never resolved.

On the plus side, though, are the things you never consider about the end of the world. When kids are born afterwards, what will they think about the adults stories of what the world was like? How do people deal with death after so many have been killed (another annoying point about the movie...they say it's worse now when someone dies, then move on like nothing happened). There's a very interesting scene at a home for women where a woman wants to have a kid and propositions one of the men about town.

But she's not saying "come fuck me, man-meat!" Her and the man discuss it with the group of women over dinner. Does he have responsibilities to the child? Does he even want it? Procreation is the important theme to the conversation, not what to do after the baby is born.

Anyway, it's on Netflix instant watch, and though it's not a great movie, it's interesting to see a post-apocalyptic film that's not about killing one another.
>> No. 125
the road
>> No. 138
The Road and Ever Since the World Ended would be interesting to compare and contrast. The Road is essentially about the end of humanity. I haven't read the novel or seen the film, but what little I've learned about it seems to make very clear there is no way for life to continue. It's really a story about people trying to die later rather than sooner.

Ever Since the World Ended, which I've not seen either, seems to make it clear that survivability is possible. 186 people is not really enough to restart the population, unless the woman to man ratio is very high, but there does seem the possibility of continuing on with a little luck.

Maybe a third contrast would be Children of Men (the novel) which basically just gives a description of what would happen if people were no longer able to procreate or multiply in any way and population just aged to death. The novel just plays out the scenario, but I believe the film (again, didn't see it), offers the possibility of re-starting the procreation process.
>> No. 147
  This movie is batshit insane. The REAL effects of nuclear war. Also, Threads is also available on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo0BQM3OlQ&feature=related

Because if you think The Road was bleak, you haven't watched these.
>> No. 238
>>138

Honestly, after re reading the world I don't think it was the end of humanity.

Maybe it's just because I think the book's message was to never give up hope.
>> No. 433
Good luck with that nuclear exchange.

You'll be lucky if that is how we kill each other.
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