Movie Apocalypse movies (and TV) for these troubling times

[Herne Hill Hammer]

The Day After (TV Movie 1983) ⭐ 7.0 | Drama, Sci-Fi

2h 7m | TV-PG

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I still remember seeing a bit of this - the camp with the human leg on the fire...

One of my favourites. Huge controversy when it was released. It was years before it was released on DVD.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Survivors, a 70s English tv show (& a remake about 10 years ago) about a chinese virus that wipes out most human life.

I'll have to look the original up. I enjoyed the remake.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

******* tough movie to watch. Bleak, even worse than Schindler's List.

Rhona Mitra



Larry Hagman's first role.



Charlton Heston had a good run for a few years in the late 60s / early 70s

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Never seen Schindler’s List, ‘Downfall’ ‘Das Boot’ or ‘The Pianist’?

Barfly (Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway and featuring Frank Stallone for bonus points), Naked (David Thewlis), a truly awful human being.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

World War Z. Shares it's name with a book and that's where the similarities end, a pretty good movie none the less.

 

[STFU Donnie]

******* tough movie to watch. Bleak, even worse than Schindler's List.

Rhona Mitra

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Larry Hagman's first role.

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Charlton Heston had a good run for a few years in the late 60s / early 70s

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At the time (1964) it was unusual to see two very different films coming out at the same time covering the same storyline - an unauthorised nuclear strike by the US on the USSR. Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe played it dead straight while Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) played it for laughs, with Peter Sellers unbelievably good playing three roles. His phone conversation with the Soviet Premier is fantastic.

Both are excellent pictures.

Also, on a similar theme was 1965's The Bedford Incident, starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

At the time (1964) it was unusual to see two very different films coming out at the same time covering the same storyline - an unauthorised nuclear strike by the US on the USSR. Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe played it dead straight while Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) played it for laughs, with Peter Sellers unbelievably good playing three roles. His phone conversation with the Soviet Premier is fantastic.

Both are excellent pictures.

Also, on a similar theme was 1965's The Bedford Incident, starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier.

One thing I remember about Fail Safe is Walter Mathau playing a straight role as an intellectual who likes a drink and to slap his women aroud.

Burt Lancaster - 1977 - Twilight's Last Gleaming. He's an AF general who takes over a missile silo and threatens WWIII.



By Dawn's Early Light - Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones and Martin Landau

 

[STFU Donnie]

One thing I remember about Fail Safe is Walter Mathau playing a straight role as an intellectual who likes a drink and to slap his women aroud.

Burt Lancaster - 1977 - Twilight's Last Gleaming. He's an AF general who takes over a missile silo and threatens WWIII.

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By Dawn's Early Light - Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones and Martin Landau

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James Earl Jones was in Dr. Strangelove too. He was one of the crew of Slim Pickens' rogue B-52, but I'm not sure you ever see his face - he's wearing his helmet and oxygen mask. But there's no mistaking that voice.


Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones and Martin Landau. One of these doesn't really belong among the others.

 

[GROTTO]

******* tough movie to watch. Bleak, even worse than Schindler's List.

Rhona Mitra

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Larry Hagman's first role.

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Charlton Heston had a good run for a few years in the late 60s / early 70s

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There is an alternative end scene that if you see it will break your spirit and will to live as a human being its that depressing.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

There is an alternative end scene that if you see it will break your spirit and will to live as a human being its that depressing.

I started watching it again a couple of months ago. I should really go back to it and watch it again from the beginning. Not sure I could stomach a shitful ending.

 

[GROTTO]

I started watching it again a couple of months ago. I should really go back to it and watch it again from the beginning. Not sure I could stomach a shitful ending.

You may recall (lol if IIRC) the end scene involves Guy Pearce.

I might watch it too again, good movie but you need to be in a positive frame of mind. Not the kind of movie to watch if youre already feeling down.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

One thing I remember about Fail Safe is Walter Mathau playing a straight role as an intellectual who likes a drink and to slap his women aroud.

Burt Lancaster - 1977 - Twilight's Last Gleaming. He's an AF general who takes over a missile silo and threatens WWIII.

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By Dawn's Early Light - Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones and Martin Landau

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Landau was President. Boothe and De Mornay lovers and bomber pilots together.