A while back in Gen Sci Fi, Balon started a topic about post-apocalyptic novels.
Now what about favorite post-apocalyptic movies? Really, any movie with a "dystopic” premise works for me.
So, what movies make you sadly muse - or cackle gleefully - about the end of the world as we know it?
Logan's Run is one favorite. Saw it as a kid and I remain fond of it, though it’s hard to overlook the movie’s flaws today. This movie may have been my first exposure to the idea of human civilization rebuilding/remaking itself after a terrible war/disaster. The portion of the movie where Logan and Jessica left the safety of their gleaming city and entered its forgotten “bowels” was especially exciting to me. When they then broke through to "outer" Earth and wandered through the wasteland of what was once Washington DC, that was pretty cool too. It’s possible that my attraction to themes and images of industrial decay started with Logan’s Run. Shall I call it the “romanticism of entropy?”
Good post. And I'm sure you're right about the Lynch movie. I just can't look at it apart from the text...and I didn't think it was cast that well either, with a couple of notable exceptions. Hell, Patrick Stewart would have made a better Duke than the Duke did.