Must See SHTF / EOTWAWKI / Survival Movies

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BigCheeseStick

Discussion Starter · Oct 6, 2013

My top 10:

#1. Idiocracy - MUST SEE!!!

#2. Road Warrior (ALL of them, even Beyond Thunder Dome)

#3. Jeremiah Jones

#4. I am Legend (better than Omega Man imo)

#5. The Book of Eli

#6. Zombieland

#7. The Postman

#8. Shawn of the Dead

#8. Water World

#9. The Day After Tommarow

#10. The Hunger Games

The list goes on (The original Red Dawn, 28 Days Later), but had to stop somewhere.

Any others?

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BigCheeseStick

Discussion Starter · #4 · Oct 7, 2013

indie said:
Bad Netflix! I just looked and the only one on your list available to stream is Hunger Games, which we've already seen.

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Discussion Starter · #5 · Oct 7, 2013

alterego said:
Just watched world war Z earlier this week,

Not to impressed.

Agreed. Those zombies were only missing red and blue pajama's and they would have been superman!

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Discussion Starter · #15 · Oct 8, 2013

Smitty901 said:
Soylent green, every time I hear Obama care I think of that movie.
I bet Hollywood is looking a t cranking out some new ones with this shut down stuff going on.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Just finished watching it. Interesting movie. Certainly a depressing, yet possible option for our future. Did I mention depressing?!?

I wanna be a shovel truck driver!

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Discussion Starter · #18 · Oct 8, 2013

The Road: Summary of the ENTIRE movie? "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?", "Daddy, I'm hungry, where are we going?".

I unfortunately read the book. Then saw the movie only because I downloaded it for free, & I couldn't believe it could possibly be as bad as the book. Yet... It was. :| Easily makes my #1 worst film all history.

When I finished reading the book I immediately threw it in the bathroom trash because it didn't deserve the kitchen trash can.

Not really a spoiler because it's the first thing that happens in the movie, but the mom did the right thing by killing herself if she had to be around that damn kid another day!

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Discussion Starter · #23 · Oct 12, 2013

NWPilgrim said:
A Boy and His Dog, with a young Don Johnson. The ending is "unique".

I can't remember the name but one of the best I think is from the 1950s about a family just heading into the California hills to go camping when LA is hit by a nuke.

Omega Man with Charlton Heston was a forerunner of I Am Legend. I think it did better job than the newer version with him surviving in the wreckage of a city.

The Stand by Stephen King was pretty good. The larger theme of good versus evil is blown up into a rgional conflict, but the same principal might apply at a neighborhood level.

I don't think this theme has ever been really well done yet. Lights Out promises to be probably the best effort, when it is released. Most either have a person or small group as the only survivors, or they are surrounding by vampires/zombies/aliens. Neither scenario is very realistic. I good production should explore more of the neighborhood, city, rural dynamics and choices people make. Plus it should explore how different people fare based on fitness, skills, prepped versus not, country versus city, bug in versus bug out.

Downloaded "A Boy and His Dog" had to stop watching it part way through, but want to finish. All I'll say right now is the day my dog starts talking, she'll be living on the street! I hear enough from my wife already!

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Discussion Starter · #24 · Oct 12, 2013

I can't believe I and everybody else forgot "Damnation Alley"!!! :shock:

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Discussion Starter · #26 · Oct 12, 2013

9UC said:
Wasn't "I am Legend" and the "Omega Man" just remakes of the original movie "Last Man on Earth" starring Vincent Price cira 1964?

What a movie! GREAT recommendation. Thank you! At the beginning it says "From the novel "I am Legend"".

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In one quick scene his '55 Nomad turned into a '59 Ford station wagon mid drive!

Back then continuity wasn't quite what it is today.

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Discussion Starter · #27 · Oct 13, 2013

NWPilgrim said:
A Boy and His Dog, with a young Don Johnson. The ending is "unique".

I can't remember the name but one of the best I think is from the 1950s about a family just heading into the California hills to go camping when LA is hit by a nuke.

Omega Man with Charlton Heston was a forerunner of I Am Legend. I think it did better job than the newer version with him surviving in the wreckage of a city.

The Stand by Stephen King was pretty good. The larger theme of good versus evil is blown up into a rgional conflict, but the same principal might apply at a neighborhood level.

I don't think this theme has ever been really well done yet. Lights Out promises to be probably the best effort, when it is released. Most either have a person or small group as the only survivors, or they are surrounding by vampires/zombies/aliens. Neither scenario is very realistic. I good production should explore more of the neighborhood, city, rural dynamics and choices people make. Plus it should explore how different people fare based on fitness, skills, prepped versus not, country versus city, bug in versus bug out.

Yes, yes it is! :shock:

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Discussion Starter · #29 · Oct 14, 2013

Lucky Jim said:
I didn't forget it! I posted this link to the full movie earlier this year, check page 3..
http://www.prepperforums.net/forum/...9-suggestions-eotwawki-type-movies-books.html

I've gotta say, I'd have a lot harder time dealing with giant killer cockroaches than zombies! Zombies would be more fun than anything for a little while. Cockroaches though....

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Discussion Starter · #35 · Oct 14, 2013

9UC said:
I'm just not real big on movie going, but sat through "The Road" late yesterday on DVD. Overall, I'll give it an OK, but I wasn't real impressed as the story line just seemed to drag on and on. Only bright spot in the plot was the finding of the live bug and the dog with the family at the end.

I stood up and had to stop the movie for a minute when they left that fully stocked shelter because they heard a dog outside!

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