'The Road' was so close to realism, it was frightening to imagine that such a scenario could happen and drain away the earth of all life and leave humans with nothing but their lives intact. Superb film, deserves a higher spot.
TO: Wtf it's Doris! RE: " . . . that such a scenario could happen and drain away the earth of all life and leave humans with nothing but their lives intact." And that's the UNrealistic part. What kind of cataclysm would kill all plant and animal life and yet leave human beings untouched?
Some are scarce,others like The Road,waters are contaminated. When the end comes,you only have to remember water are for drinking if you can find or produce some just enough for a half day.
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book of eli, the matrix, i am legend. those all should have been on the list if you look at the votes. top 10 means best movies NOW, TODAY, NOT FROM THE 30s. Almost nobody´s watching shit from the 30s.
Have you ever watched those movies? Because not only are they good movies, they also have damm good looking post-Apocalyptic landscapes. I Am Legend for example, has a totally trashed New York landscape. if anything looks apocalyptic, it would look like that. If you compare the landscapes of I Am legend to "12 monkeys", then i´m 99% sure you´ll agree with me.
Elmar Kerkhof I watched all of them and book of eli and I am legend are bad at the same time. book of eli dont give anymore then any other flick is shown for landscape in this top 10. I am legend also wasnt much more then Escape from NY
Did anyone else like 9? I think it's better than most Pixar movies and far better than Frozen, but was so underrated. I mean the movie was beautiful. Not as great as the first 30 minutes of Wall-E, but still good.
I Am Legend in my opinion was the best. It had the Krippin Virus spread and make people and dogs nocturnal and dangerous, but there was a gigantic twist at the end.
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Oh sure, the scientist in 'Nine' can fracture his own soul and bind it to a bunch of voodoo dolls...but one dark wizard does it and he never hears the end of it.
Except the scientist wanted to keep humanity alive, while the dark wizard was their version of Hitler...wanting to wipe out anyone who was of a tainted race
I felt that Children of Men's world should have been number one because in a sense, it truly is a realistic tale of all the effects of both a Dystopia and an infertile world combined towards a world that screams suicide for the entire human race.
+Melissa Saar I read the book and it talks about how the country is burnt and how there's a LOT of ash everywhere so I think it was a super volcanoe especially as it's dark all the time probably because of the ash blocking out the sun
Just saw The Road. And had without a doubt, the best apocalyptic view of earth. You know the world is dying, when the trees are dying. And the ground can't grow plants anymore, because earth is basically dead. I have seen alot of zombie movies, but The Road is how earth would look like after all the zombies are killed.
10. "Oblivion": Things aren't what they seem to be. (2077) 9. "9": The last survivors aren't human. 8. "Waterworld": No time to gather 2 of every kind. 7. "12 Monkeys": Do we have The Time"? (2035) 6. "28 Days Later": Another kind of "Zombie Apocalypse" 5. "The Road": Is there anything left? 4. "Mad Max": The Police are just another gang. 3. "Wall-E": "Can Earth be saved/reclaimed? 2. "Planet of the Apes": How did this happen? Honorable Mentions: "I Am Legend": I'm an Omega man...this is my wristwatch. "Book of Eli": Literature you can feel. "The Matrix": Don't Humans make lousy batteries? "Snowpiercer": This train is bound for Infinity. "Children of Men": Man's favorite sport is gone. (2027) 1. "The Terminator": See what happens when you make Corporations "Human"? (2029)
"The Road" has a well written script, directed well and its well acted. Its an "awful" movie though in that it is extremely depressing. I didn't say its a bad movie. It's good...and its awful at the same time. I recommend if you watch the movie, sit through the end credits (and listen) which are much, much brighter than this cold, gray movie. I'd also recommend watching something much brighter like a funny comedy afterward.
The trailer for the road is hilarious, it has feel good music and gives a impression of hope. lot of folk watched that because of the trailer and lot of folk were left disturbed 🙂
"The Road", that movie deserves the number 1. The Terminator, although a good movie, is set in present day(for the time of the movie) with just glimpses of the post apocalyptic. The Road is pure post apocalyptic. I don't understand why it does not have more recognition as a Sci Fi movie.
Book of Eli is more than an honorable mention. It captures everything about a post apocalyptic setting. Shortened resources, hostile survivors , desolation, changed rules of society. It made me appreciate having running water things we take for granted everyday.
One of the many inspirations behind the last of us. Still apart from the two man survival party aspect, I don't see how else naughty dog got inspiration from this movie. Oh, and It's an OK movie.
***** I know. I saw No country for old men's influence in there with the minimalist soundtrack, which I believe to be one of the games three best parts. These have even stated some of their influences in public. I still don't see what the road meant for these guys. The movie wasn't all that touching. The environment though felt pretty depressing.
Indeed, the apocalyptic world without gas was Road Warrior. There was plenty of fuel to burn in Mad Max. It's almost like W.M didn't even watch the movie eh?
Agreed... I would've added or at least mentioned the The Day After and / or Threads. They're a little dated now, but still pretty awesome. Edit: They are also two of my all time favourite apocalyptic movies behind The Road and tied with The Book of Eli.
mrhard2000uk Yeah, I saw it as a kid. I love how it looks at the impact over years instead of a small slice of time directly following the bombs. Heavy stuff, but still epic after all these years. I have copies of it and The Day After and still watch them at least once a year. To me they are both timeless PA.
u hatemyzen i actually wouldnt show my kids threads, and they are 14 and 18, i have repetitive nightmares about sirens going off then getting nuked, and prob stems from the trouser shitting i prob did watching it way back then when i was a kid
TO: johnmonk66 RE: "The Road should have been number one, it is the most possible." Is it? Really? What kind of cataclysm would kill all plant and animal life and yet leave human beings untouched?
+axesantex Santana Waterworld was a great success for young people at this time (so 30's people now i guess....) but adults didn't really get into it !! This movies recquires imagination :)
Beautiful and horrifying. it has the best depiction of what "life" in the post apocalypse would be like. It's like the video game The Last Of Us without all the greenery and parasite controlled humans. I also will forever wonder what caused the (post) apocalypse in The Road.
Yes, 28 Days Later was an excellent movie. I especially loved the cold-blooded, practical, whatever it takes attitude of the Selena character. She didn't mess around!
ronan sweeney The author of the Metro 2033 book had a choice of a movie or a game and he went with a game since that would allow him to use more of his imagination with it.
On the list of favorite movies of all time, Wall-E is among them, a true masterpiece of animation in its use of pantomime and music to tell a story. The themes of loneliness, commercialism, environmentalism, and extreme dependency on technology prove this is the most well crafted film from the studios of Pixar. Just a little side note, whenever I see the titular character stroll by the many advertisements and abandoned BnL malls/stores, a thought appears in my mind that postulates "what if Walmart had controlled the world?" Think about that for awhile
The Road is one of those movies I never get tired of watching. Mesmerizing with some powerful acting and images. People label it as unrelentingly bleak and depressing but the overall message is of humanity and self sacrifice.
Jimbo smith Apparently you don't understand sarcasm. Oh wait, I'm sorry did you lose your family to an HD video? And now you are destined to seek revenge on any video clip with a resolution higher than 480p?
Jimbo smith Dude films have been recorded in 1080p for a long long time we just have somewhat recently gotten to the point where we have the tech to be able to display it in 1080p. soooo he could ask you the same thing are you stupid or what?
It's really more of a critic of the bible - of all religious books, actually - and the blind (heh) following of any kind of so called scriptures. It's how it can be a tool of power if used by the wrong men, by manipulating people's beliefs and hopes, using "faith" to crush rebellion and ultimately ascertain dominance upon the weak minded slaves you create. You know what's funny ? Book of Eli, in my opinion, never gives a positive view of the Bible. It's not even used at the end of the movie . It just joins the archives, safeguarding a culture that isn't relevant anymore.
If we r talking about survival so of course most of u have not heard about Alive(1993) based on real story of a plane crash in remote snowy mountain where 27 survivors survived for 80 days by eating bodies of rest of survivors who died in crash!! What we see in most of movies, we know it aint real but what happened in that movie was so fucking real!!
life as it is but has the future been changed maybe its been delayed or will never happen but one things for certain never stop fighting and I never will the battle has just begun
yeah, mad max, isnt an "apocalyptic" movie. its a dystopian movie, where society has collapsed. IMO, take mad max out, bump terminator back one, and put mad max 2 as number one. cause really, the book of eli, waterworld, i am legend, the road, and the majority of modern non zombie oriented apocalpyse movies are *Directly* inspired by george millers vision. mad max 2 is undeniably the greatest apocalyptic landscape, except for maybe, mad max fury road which was fUCKING FANTASTIC AND YOU SHOULD ALL WATCH IT TEN TIMES
It could be argued that the extent of social collapse seen in Mad Max 2 & 3 would count as the end of the world, since the old world HAS ended, & humanity is struggling to arise from its ashes. A dystopian world is where society's gone to hell: Blade Runner, for instance, or The Matrix. Matrix actually has both. The machine-ruled barren Earth & underground sanctuary Zion are post-apocalyptic; the false world inside the Matrix is dystopian, with its crumbling buildings & claustophobic highway. The Lathe of Heaven is also another well-visualized dystopian society. There've been 2 versions on tv: the better one was on PBS in the 80's ; more recently, A&E did a version, both based upon Ursula K LaGuin's excellent novel. On an overpopulated Earth, a young man has realized to his horror that some of his dreams literally alter reality. He goes. to a dream therapist for help, wanting to stop these dreams, but the doctor sees the potential to create a utopia. Unfortunately, there's not much control over the content of hypnotically. themed dreams!
Also, usually dystopian settings take place as society rebuilds itself following an apocalyptic event, so you can say that the two almost go hand-in-hand...
The Road is the first (and probably the only) book that made me cry. You are scared before turning every page, usually the soundtrack makes you scared but in the book the atmosphere itself is terrifying. No zombie BS, just what you would expect people to become- they either commit suicide, turn into cannibals or the 'ethical' survivors (the one carrying the fire)
Hello? "Logan's Run", anyone? The domed city, the Sandmen, the search for the elusive "Sanctuary"...and outside of their enclosed world, a world where nature has recovered and reclaimed the Earth. Washington D.C. covered in vines...took my breath away the first time I saw it as a child. The movie definitely deserved a place on this list.
The Earth shown in Deep Space Nine's episode "Past Tense" is very likely to happen soon. Sliders also showed a similar dystopia of the rich divided from the poor but did so around a Romeo and Juliet theme. Even the Earth of the Expanse shows this dystopia.
When I first saw Planet of the Apes when I was a kid, the first thing that popped in my mind when they showed that "plot-twist" was, "Wait, we were supposed 2 think the planet controlled by apes *wasn't* Earth?"
Correction: The apocalypse in the Book of Eli wasn't wholly nuclear. The general idea, if I recall, was that the bombs burned away the Earth's ozone layer, and without that barrier the sun burned everything. It's why they all wear goggles and sunglasses outside, and why there's a motif of blind characters.
True, but, looking around outside, you do see a bunch of craters, all over the place, so, I think it's pretty obvious that some probably MOST places on Earth were hit multiple times! It seemed long enough that some places were coming out of it to some degree. It could be that maybe inside some people's lifetime that the ozone may have been able to recover, since sunglasses would be enough protection if it were totally gone!
Besides some people reinterpret apocalyptic scenarios as any type of mass destruction, not just nuclear or physical warfare, but environmental disasters as well.
Charles Gaming's comment is a nice acknowledgement of the current and deliberate ethnic "cleansing" of Australia, Europe and America. Only a few years ago, the people such as Charles Gaming used to just deny it. And now they say stuff like "why are you being a racist?". From denial to intimidation. Perhaps there's hope even for them after all...
ChestOfDoom I'm Aussie and it's all true apart from the think the don't mention like all the deadly animals that could easily kill you and the 50 degrees wether we have during winter
28 days later is in my opinion the greatest horror movie ever made. Since its release 17 years ago I have yet to see a movie that captures this level of hopelessness and those haunting images of those empty streets are just so raw and the feel so real.
Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, John Carpenter's The Thing, REC, all arguably just as good as 28 Days, and most of those have a feeling of hopelessness.
Don't the empty streets feel real because they were? If I recall, they filmed in central London really early in the morning on a holiday Sunday or something similar, so the streets were as empty as they ever get.
TO: Rafal Wysocki RE: ""The Day After" hands down the most terrifying apocalyptic movie of all time." While The Day After was a pretty good movie, it can't compare to Threads, particularly concerning a nuclear war and its aftermath. With Threads, there was no Hollywood sugar-coating or happy ending - just things getting worse and worse.
If we're looking at new Fallouts, New Vegas provided a much more interesting post-apocalypse, in my opinion, with a lot more depth and character than Fallout 3. And I haven't even touched the first two games, so I can't say whether or not those are better, even. Fallout 3 was almost TOO apocalyptic.. like, the apocalypse had just happened yesterday, and humanity still hadn't started spreading out again. New Vegas was more believable, little settlements everywhere trying to reestablish civilization, and dozens of unique factions all vying for control, or just struggling day-to-day to survive.
Nick Hartless In terms of sheer destruction and decay.. sure, I could give you that. I didn't like how nearly all of the buildings seemed to be made of the same shitty spare parts.. like the knowledge of building structures had somehow been lost to humanity, but.. it was still pretty cool, walking and fighting through the ruins of DC.
Both do their own thing well. F03 feels more apocalyptic, and NV made me want to be a cowboy. Ammo too easy to get in NV, but all that atmosphere is lore friendly.
The Road is easily the best of all these. It's such a realistic and morbid take on a post-apocalyptic world. Children of Men is another movie that does a really good job of conveying the grim reality of an apocalypse and is probably the second best depiction on this list.
Children of men should have been no1. You can see the effort put into even the smallest details (search Children of men advertisements) and it looks so realistic it's scary. I like Terminator 2 as a movie but the future parts are nothing special.
This is my Top 10 for best post-apocalyptic scenes in movies 10:28 Weeks Later 9:Train to Busan 8:I Am Legend 7:Oblivion 6:Planet of Apes 5:Chernobyl Diaries 4:The War of the Worlds 3:Avatar 2:Wall-E 1:Armageddon HM:Independence Day,28 Days Later,Waterworld
Actually, according to a lot of studies, if humans left the earth (or if the previous civilization left earth a long time ago), within 150 million years there would be almost no trace of them left.
If there was a nuclear war that destroyed our population previously we wouldn't be here, according to Threads humanity wouldn't be able to reproduce from at least 13 years after a full scale attack, and anyone born prior would've been retarded or deformed.
"9", "The Road", "WALL.E", "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes", "Terminator Franchise", and "War For The Planet Of The Apes" had AMAZING land scapes I've ever saw! Also if anyone would wanna see the landscape of waterworld, just go on a ship and sail out to sea. Lol 😆😆😆
"The Stand" (1990ish) will always be #1 on my list. Gary Sinise, Jamie Sheridan, Miguel Ferrer, etc were all great in it. Stephen King is a master at storytelling .
God, I grew up with all these 80s - 90s movies that all denoted 2025 - 2035 would be the apocalypse caused by super technology and overgrowth of humans, and when the movies were made, it felt like it really would be. Now it's already halfway to 2017 and those movie's ideas of what year the apocalypse would be seem so silly. xD I wonder what the generation in 2035 will feel if they ever watch those movies, if they even do. - Probably, "Wow, the CGI was bad... Wait, you mean your cars ran on gasoline?"
Threads, Logan’s Run, Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Where Have All The People Gone? A Boy And His Dog, THX1138, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams ( Mount Fuji In Red, Blizzard) scenes. The Man In The High Castle.
IveGotToast Well Skyrim was announced at the VGAs, maybe this will be the year. It is not too late for a 2014 reveal. But Yes, I don't know how much longer I can go without any Fallout 4 news.
The Road by far rises above all the others. I read the book, which was beautifully hopeless, never tells what caused the apocalypse. The movie brings this dark madness to life. The papa and his son have such a heartbreaking closeness and it's the only reason they find the will to survive. It's only the movie that could actually happen.
what about the creative post-apocalyptic Germany in the year 2016, when solar flares have destroyed the earth's atmosphere and temperatures have risen by 10°C. The movie "Hell" from 2011.. includes cannibals, crazy survivors and the search for the mountaints cause "thats where the water is from.. haven't you seen the picture in the bottle water?"
They don't know every movie ever made, give them a brake, tho i will check that movie you are talking about and see if i like it, if i do i will come back and thank you...
Missing: Cowboy Bebop Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds Laputa Castle in the Sky Damnation Alley The Quiet Earth A Boy and his Dog Zardoz Things To Come
A boy and his dog, isin't that the one about the kid who gives his psychic dog food in exchange for guidance and the locations of women he can rape? I heard it was pretty good.
"Last Man on Earth" + Vincent Price. "Resident Evil: Extinction", "Land of the Dead", "Reign of Fire", and the "Mutant Chronicles" are just a few you missed that were awesome. All better than the cartoons you sited.
"the Road" had by far the best and most realistic Apocalyptic World ever made in a movie.
Have you ever seen a movie called Threats? That makes The Road a hell of a lot more digestable.
ABOlsen69X Threads. And yes it's a great film.
th-cam.com/video/r3A3bRHpBw8/w-d-xo.html
Book of Eli was pretty good too
I loved it.
'The Road' was so close to realism, it was frightening to imagine that such a scenario could happen and drain away the earth of all life and leave humans with nothing but their lives intact. Superb film, deserves a higher spot.
Call me old fashioned but the lack of a back story was what ruined it for me...
TO: Wtf it's Doris!
RE: " . . . that such a scenario could happen and drain away the earth of all life and leave humans with nothing but their lives intact."
And that's the UNrealistic part. What kind of cataclysm would kill all plant and animal life and yet leave human beings untouched?
One has to wonder in a world with only water how do those people get so dirty?
+Russell Charlton i just thought that.
:)
Some are scarce,others like The Road,waters are contaminated. When the end comes,you only have to remember water are for drinking if you can find or produce some just enough for a half day.
***** Please re-read my comment carefully.
+Russell Charlton sir you ask to much..one does not re-read comments on TH-cam...let alone grasp them
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book of eli, the matrix, i am legend. those all should have been on the list if you look at the votes.
top 10 means best movies NOW, TODAY, NOT FROM THE 30s. Almost nobody´s watching shit from the 30s.
Elmar Kerkhof book of eli and i am a legend are prety cool.
Elmar Kerkhof wrong , this is about how the landscape is and not how was the whole movie.
Have you ever watched those movies? Because not only are they good movies, they also have damm good looking post-Apocalyptic landscapes. I Am Legend for example, has a totally trashed New York landscape. if anything looks apocalyptic, it would look like that.
If you compare the landscapes of I Am legend to "12 monkeys", then i´m 99% sure you´ll agree with me.
Elmar Kerkhof I watched all of them and book of eli and I am legend are bad at the same time. book of eli dont give anymore then any other flick is shown for landscape in this top 10. I am legend also wasnt much more then Escape from NY
Did anyone else like 9? I think it's better than most Pixar movies and far better than Frozen, but was so underrated. I mean the movie was beautiful. Not as great as the first 30 minutes of Wall-E, but still good.
Everything is better than frozen
It's one of my favorite movies!
Is it scary
Soooooo Foodfight is BETTER than Frozen....
9 is super awesome & one of the best animated movies I've ever seen
The honorable mention picks were all better than half the movies in the list.
I agree.
I Am Legend in my opinion was the best.
It had the Krippin Virus spread and make people and dogs nocturnal and dangerous, but there was a gigantic twist at the end.
I have noticed that for just about every movie list from WatchMojo
100% Facts.
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***** Yo mama
haha all the icebergs have melted.. mojo made a boo boo
Resident Evil
You should do 'Top 10 greatest villains in video games'
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Oh sure, the scientist in 'Nine' can fracture his own soul and bind it to a bunch of voodoo dolls...but one dark wizard does it and he never hears the end of it.
Although humanity didn't stay alive...
Yes
Shhhh... dont say his name..... the whom who must not be named...... return!!!
Except the scientist wanted to keep humanity alive, while the dark wizard was their version of Hitler...wanting to wipe out anyone who was of a tainted race
@@xzelpelonia3622 as a crappier prequel version played by a bleach blond anemic jack sparrow for done God awful reason.
The road is absolutely horrifying
Sure is.. It is the most realistic outcomes
The book is even worse. Movie is great, though.
My opinion, The Road should have been #1. Absolutely stunning, and rare in that it captured the bleakness of the amazing book.
Here,here.
I felt that Children of Men's world should have been number one because in a sense, it truly is a realistic tale of all the effects of both a Dystopia and an infertile world combined towards a world that screams suicide for the entire human race.
"the road" is one of the darkest and most depressing movies i saw so far...
What bothered me the most, though, was not knowing what the hell happened to make the world that way. Unidentified apocalypses are the worst, yeah?
+Melissa Saar I read the book and it talks about how the country is burnt and how there's a LOT of ash everywhere so I think it was a super volcanoe especially as it's dark all the time probably because of the ash blocking out the sun
I agree with Woodzy on that.
i think its part of the dark charme of the movie the real reason behind the catasthrophe isnt mentioned
Try movie called "Threads" from 1984.
Just saw The Road.
And had without a doubt, the best apocalyptic view of earth.
You know the world is dying, when the trees are dying.
And the ground can't grow plants anymore, because earth is basically dead.
I have seen alot of zombie movies, but The Road is how earth would look like after all the zombies are killed.
I just saw it too. It has great performances and probably the best post-apocalyptic world ever. Truly incredible movie.
@@evancodsworth2 Have you seen Io? It set a good stage... story was kinda meh for me though.
It's getting colder everyday.
The pale old oil-tanker guy in Waterworld, "Oh, thank god,", always made me LOL!
He was so happy xD
Haha, I still remember that from seeing this movie in the theater as a kid. Even then, I could tell he was miserable and welcomed death
The Road should be number one. Very dark, very realistic.
10. "Oblivion": Things aren't what they seem to be. (2077)
9. "9": The last survivors aren't human.
8. "Waterworld": No time to gather 2 of every kind.
7. "12 Monkeys": Do we have The Time"? (2035)
6. "28 Days Later": Another kind of "Zombie Apocalypse"
5. "The Road": Is there anything left?
4. "Mad Max": The Police are just another gang.
3. "Wall-E": "Can Earth be saved/reclaimed?
2. "Planet of the Apes": How did this happen?
Honorable Mentions:
"I Am Legend": I'm an Omega man...this is my wristwatch.
"Book of Eli": Literature you can feel.
"The Matrix": Don't Humans make lousy batteries?
"Snowpiercer": This train is bound for Infinity.
"Children of Men": Man's favorite sport is gone. (2027)
1. "The Terminator": See what happens when you make Corporations "Human"? (2029)
Well written. Well done.
Planet of apes was remade
the road is honestly the best movie I've ever seen, it's so so so GOOD
Viggo is a MONSTA ! he really lets you feel the emotions !
"The Road" has a well written script, directed well and its well acted. Its an "awful" movie though in that it is extremely depressing. I didn't say its a bad movie. It's good...and its awful at the same time. I recommend if you watch the movie, sit through the end credits (and listen) which are much, much brighter than this cold, gray movie. I'd also recommend watching something much brighter like a funny comedy afterward.
The trailer for the road is hilarious, it has feel good music and gives a impression of hope.
lot of folk watched that because of the trailer and lot of folk were left disturbed 🙂
"The Road" was a fantastic, and haunting film.
But it looked so sad!
"The Road", that movie deserves the number 1. The Terminator, although a good movie, is set in present day(for the time of the movie) with just glimpses of the post apocalyptic. The Road is pure post apocalyptic. I don't understand why it does not have more recognition as a Sci Fi movie.
Jason King well it's not about the overall movie it's about the best post apocalyptic setting
Yea, and that movie has it. In real life, that's close to what it would be like. I like realism in movies.
The Road was the most depressive movie that i ever watch. I was forced to watch the second time. Never will watch again.
Book of Eli is more than an honorable mention. It captures everything about a post apocalyptic setting. Shortened resources, hostile survivors , desolation, changed rules of society. It made me appreciate having running water things we take for granted everyday.
"Logan's Run" should have at least earned an honorable mention.
The Road is sooo underrated
One of the many inspirations behind the last of us. Still apart from the two man survival party aspect, I don't see how else naughty dog got inspiration from this movie.
Oh, and It's an OK movie.
Why doesn't he just get the army of Gondor to come
***** I know. I saw No country for old men's influence in there with the minimalist soundtrack, which I believe to be one of the games three best parts. These have even stated some of their influences in public. I still don't see what the road meant for these guys. The movie wasn't all that touching. The environment though felt pretty depressing.
They based more on the book than the film
Juli Oroza
Road looked like DayZ+ Last of Us.
The Road is the most realistic of all of them. Beautiful yet haunting film
Man, the first Mad Max was basically modern day rural Australia at that time! It wasn't until the second film when they really kicked it up a notch.
Yup -- the first _Mad Max_ is actually pre-apocalyptic, taking place before the nuclear war. Can't believe these guys got that wrong.
yeah the same places that they filmed are like shopping centres and stuff in nowadays
Yeah it's always misunderstood the first mad max is the decline of society, then in the road warrior the apocalypse happens.
Agreed. 2 and 3 were the real apocalypse scenes.... and the car was supercharged not turbo .... that bugged me the most
Indeed, the apocalyptic world without gas was Road Warrior. There was plenty of fuel to burn in Mad Max. It's almost like W.M didn't even watch the movie eh?
The book of Eli or the road was the best
Agreed... I would've added or at least mentioned the The Day After and / or Threads. They're a little dated now, but still pretty awesome.
Edit: They are also two of my all time favourite apocalyptic movies behind The Road and tied with The Book of Eli.
I love the book of Eli
u hatemyzen threads was immense especially for its time
mrhard2000uk Yeah, I saw it as a kid. I love how it looks at the impact over years instead of a small slice of time directly following the bombs. Heavy stuff, but still epic after all these years.
I have copies of it and The Day After and still watch them at least once a year. To me they are both timeless PA.
u hatemyzen i actually wouldnt show my kids threads, and they are 14 and 18, i have repetitive nightmares about sirens going off then getting nuked, and prob stems from the trouser shitting i prob did watching it way back then when i was a kid
I really wish "9" had become a more popular film, it was fantastic and really well thought out.
ya I know I really loved its steampunk theme
i thought it happened in 2021 hehe
get it
21!
elias hernandez shut up
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It was directed towards children when it clearly wasn´t a children s movie.
The Road was just phenomenal.A classic.
The Road should have been number one, it is the most possible.
TO: johnmonk66
RE: "The Road should have been number one, it is the most possible."
Is it? Really? What kind of cataclysm would kill all plant and animal life and yet leave human beings untouched?
The Water World was one the most miss understood movie of 90"s in that was too ahead of its time. If they re do that movie would be very succesfull
waterworld is my favorite movie i hate how it gets such bad reviews
+axesantex Santana Waterworld was a great success for young people at this time (so 30's people now i guess....) but adults didn't really get into it !! This movies recquires imagination :)
+axesantex Santana for sure. I loved this movie so much as a kid.
+axesantex Santana We gotta find the girl with the tattoo of land on her back.
Agreed.
the road should be #1. that movie was beautiful
Exactly! Fantastic movie, and the landscape was so realistically bleak and believable.
Beautiful and horrifying. it has the best depiction of what "life" in the post apocalypse would be like. It's like the video game The Last Of Us without all the greenery and parasite controlled humans. I also will forever wonder what caused the (post) apocalypse in The Road.
Francisco Pereira it was a fantastic adaptation of the book
And they didn't rely on cgi. Which imo makes it better.
SO glad 9 was on the list, I love that movie!
Yes finally they mentioned 9
And it's @ #9-How appropriate!
Yes it's appropiate, but not for children.
Haha! I meant the placing was perfect
I accord with you, friend
28 days later was more than just London
it was Britain...
+onehappy pepper (onehappypepper) PLOT TWIST!!! GDRXIOMGRTSZB-IUOMJ,FYXTIO-DRTYIUMPJTRH0IURNTS fml
onehappy pepper the opening scenes were very much influenced by the '60s film 'The Day of the Triffids'.
Love that movie by the way.
Yes, 28 Days Later was an excellent movie. I especially loved the cold-blooded, practical, whatever it takes attitude of the Selena character. She didn't mess around!
Great movie, and my first exposure to Chris Eccleston.
In regards to Oblivion, I always found it odd that all of Washington D.C. was completely gone but the Washington Monument looks completely intact.
Micah Gestrich it's not gone, just buried.
Who else thinks Fallout would make a great movie?
I think Fallout would make a better TV series if they were going to adapt the stories from the games.
They made a kind of movie its named Nuka Break
I think metro would also be awesome
ronan sweeney The author of the Metro 2033 book had a choice of a movie or a game and he went with a game since that would allow him to use more of his imagination with it.
OCGameR cool
3# Mad Max
2#Book Of Eli
1#The Road
Triggered like a femenist
The original mad max isn’t even set in an apocalypse!
HavokDJ yah it’s is
"The Road" is the most accurate I think, but I enjoyed several of these other movies more...
Mad Max is pre-apocalypse Mad Max 2 is post-apocalypse.
When mad max 2 is coming out ?
iam legend what?
Nathan Evans I thought you were talking about "Mad max fury road"
iam legend nah, fuck Fury Road.
+Nathan Evans (RoyalAviator) What!? What did Fury Road do to you?
In the "I am legend" clip the gas was $6.63! Man the gas prices alone are apocalyptic enough for me. I can barely afford last summer's prices.
Amanda Milligan well, if it makes you feel better, think that here in europe gas prices are already that high...
Andrea Tomassini that's right. Thankfully we didn't dismantle our public transportation system or live in suburbs like in the US of A
MrSvenovitch that's right, sadly here in Italy public transportation sucks too!
On the list of favorite movies of all time, Wall-E is among them, a true masterpiece of animation in its use of pantomime and music to tell a story. The themes of loneliness, commercialism, environmentalism, and extreme dependency on technology prove this is the most well crafted film from the studios of Pixar. Just a little side note, whenever I see the titular character stroll by the many advertisements and abandoned BnL malls/stores, a thought appears in my mind that postulates "what if Walmart had controlled the world?" Think about that for awhile
9 is so fucking creepy but so damn great, very underrated
It is a really good movie.
Ik I love this movie
Before I even started watching I'd say The Road is definitely the most depressing.
The Road is one of those movies I never get tired of watching. Mesmerizing with some powerful acting and images. People label it as unrelentingly bleak and depressing but the overall message is of humanity and self sacrifice.
Does HD exist in Canada? If so, perhaps you guys can start posting videos in at least 720p.
Are you stupid or what? Most of these movies were made in the 90s, what do you expect?
Jimbo smith Apparently you don't understand sarcasm. Oh wait, I'm sorry did you lose your family to an HD video? And now you are destined to seek revenge on any video clip with a resolution higher than 480p?
Jimbo smith Dude films have been recorded in 1080p for a long long time we just have somewhat recently gotten to the point where we have the tech to be able to display it in 1080p. soooo he could ask you the same thing are you stupid or what?
how are we suppose to know if youre sarcastic since its over text
How am I supposed to know if you're asking a question if you don't use a question mark?
Book of Eli shouldn't have been just an honorable mention
Agreed... one of the visually best P.A. films out there with all the crater scenes!
i agree.
It's really more of a critic of the bible - of all religious books, actually - and the blind (heh) following of any kind of so called scriptures. It's how it can be a tool of power if used by the wrong men, by manipulating people's beliefs and hopes, using "faith" to crush rebellion and ultimately ascertain dominance upon the weak minded slaves you create.
You know what's funny ? Book of Eli, in my opinion, never gives a positive view of the Bible. It's not even used at the end of the movie . It just joins the archives, safeguarding a culture that isn't relevant anymore.
First half hour of Book of Eli is a fantastic Fallout short film.
I think it was a crap story but really beautifully shot
If we r talking about survival so of course most of u have not heard about Alive(1993) based on real story of a plane crash in remote snowy mountain where 27 survivors survived for 80 days by eating bodies of rest of survivors who died in crash!!
What we see in most of movies, we know it aint real but what happened in that movie was so fucking real!!
I simply LOVED "9" so much. One of the most underrated animated movies ever
15 years left for terminator take over.
in the movie it happens in 2003
life as it is In the jungle, the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight.
life as it is but has the future been changed maybe its been delayed or will never happen but one things for certain never stop fighting and I never will the battle has just begun
or maybe its already happened ? what happened to atlantis ?
My toaster is a bad ass rebel already
The Road is so underrated.
The Road was incredibly good but dark. It is one of those movies you watch just once then binge drink to try and suppress the nightmares.
"The Road" is the only real post-apocalyptic movie. The others are all "post-apocalyptic fantasy" movies, save maybe for children of men.
Agreed. I doubt the reviewers ever watched it.
*****
Good point.
+Colonel Burton Children of men should be no.1.
The Divde.The Divide.O and The Divde.
Nathanial Roy
The Divide was sick. Great Apocalypse movie
the road was one of the most depressing books/movies i have aever seen
yeah, almost too depressing to watch. i would have liked some more hope.
What happened? Cause I only saw parts around the scene in which the man and the boy find a bunker stocked with food.
The Road is the bleakest
By far.
yeah, mad max, isnt an "apocalyptic" movie. its a dystopian movie, where society has collapsed. IMO, take mad max out, bump terminator back one, and put mad max 2 as number one. cause really, the book of eli, waterworld, i am legend, the road, and the majority of modern non zombie oriented apocalpyse movies are *Directly* inspired by george millers vision. mad max 2 is undeniably the greatest apocalyptic landscape, except for maybe, mad max fury road which was fUCKING FANTASTIC AND YOU SHOULD ALL WATCH IT TEN TIMES
+Trevor Hazen How is "I Am Legend" not zombie?
MerryJerry oops. forgot about that one.
It could be argued that the extent of social collapse seen in Mad Max 2 & 3 would count as the end of the world, since the old world HAS ended, & humanity is struggling to arise from its ashes. A dystopian world is where society's gone to hell: Blade Runner, for instance, or The Matrix. Matrix actually has both. The machine-ruled barren Earth & underground sanctuary Zion are post-apocalyptic; the false world inside the Matrix is dystopian, with its crumbling buildings & claustophobic highway.
The Lathe of Heaven is also another well-visualized dystopian society. There've been 2 versions on tv: the better one was on PBS in the 80's ; more recently, A&E did a version, both based upon Ursula K LaGuin's excellent novel. On an overpopulated Earth, a young man has realized to his horror that some of his dreams literally alter reality. He goes. to a dream therapist for help, wanting to stop these dreams, but the doctor sees the potential to create a utopia. Unfortunately, there's not much control over the content of hypnotically. themed dreams!
Also, usually dystopian settings take place as society rebuilds itself following an apocalyptic event, so you can say that the two almost go hand-in-hand...
The Road is the first (and probably the only) book that made me cry. You are scared before turning every page, usually the soundtrack makes you scared but in the book the atmosphere itself is terrifying. No zombie BS, just what you would expect people to become- they either commit suicide, turn into cannibals or the 'ethical' survivors (the one carrying the fire)
The Road is a movie that i will never watch again, simply too depressing and bleak.
Hello? "Logan's Run", anyone? The domed city, the Sandmen, the search for the elusive "Sanctuary"...and outside of their enclosed world, a world where nature has recovered and reclaimed the Earth. Washington D.C. covered in vines...took my breath away the first time I saw it as a child. The movie definitely deserved a place on this list.
The Earth shown in Deep Space Nine's episode "Past Tense" is very likely to happen soon. Sliders also showed a similar dystopia of the rich divided from the poor but did so around a Romeo and Juliet theme. Even the Earth of the Expanse shows this dystopia.
There's no fuel shortage in the first Mad Max movie. That doesn't come until Mad Max 2: Road Warrior.
There was a scene from one of the movies that shown the Sydney opera house covered in sand, they should have shown that instead.
and the xb falcon isn't turbocharged either very disappointed in the accuracy
***** The black Ford Falcon was supercharged.
the whine of the supercharger touches my naughty places every time
***** in the movie the police offer a supercharged Falcon to Max to keep him on the force and on the road. Watch before you whine.
When I first saw Planet of the Apes when I was a kid, the first thing that popped in my mind when they showed that "plot-twist" was, "Wait, we were supposed 2 think the planet controlled by apes *wasn't* Earth?"
Exactly! I thought I was the only one lol.
The Omega Man (1971) mainly because it was all done before CGI and looks so scary real.
The telephones ringing was awesome. You really were inside Charlton Heston's head. Compared to that, Will Smith did a very bad copy.
Correction: The apocalypse in the Book of Eli wasn't wholly nuclear. The general idea, if I recall, was that the bombs burned away the Earth's ozone layer, and without that barrier the sun burned everything. It's why they all wear goggles and sunglasses outside, and why there's a motif of blind characters.
True, but, looking around outside, you do see a bunch of craters, all over the place, so, I think it's pretty obvious that some probably MOST places on Earth were hit multiple times! It seemed long enough that some places were coming out of it to some degree. It could be that maybe inside some people's lifetime that the ozone may have been able to recover, since sunglasses would be enough protection if it were totally gone!
Besides some people reinterpret apocalyptic scenarios as any type of mass destruction, not just nuclear or physical warfare, but environmental disasters as well.
And it was filmed a few minutes drive from the Trinity site where the first nukes were detonated.
Children of Men is fantastic!
''Future australia'' more like ''australia''
ChestOfDoom fuck up American
Charles Gaming's comment is a nice acknowledgement of the current and deliberate ethnic "cleansing" of Australia, Europe and America. Only a few years ago, the people such as Charles Gaming used to just deny it. And now they say stuff like "why are you being a racist?". From denial to intimidation. Perhaps there's hope even for them after all...
ChestOfDoom I'm Aussie and it's all true apart from the think the don't mention like all the deadly animals that could easily kill you and the 50 degrees wether we have during winter
"No not tourists zombies" I AM LAUGHING MY ASS NOW
xD xD
28 days later is in my opinion the greatest horror movie ever made. Since its release 17 years ago I have yet to see a movie that captures this level of hopelessness and those haunting images of those empty streets are just so raw and the feel so real.
Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, John Carpenter's The Thing, REC, all arguably just as good as 28 Days, and most of those have a feeling of hopelessness.
Don't the empty streets feel real because they were? If I recall, they filmed in central London really early in the morning on a holiday Sunday or something similar, so the streets were as empty as they ever get.
Definitely agree with Terminator being number one, the movie is a great reason why we should think twice about being too reliant on technology.
"The Day After" hands down the most terrifying apocalyptic movie of all time.
TO: Rafal Wysocki
RE: ""The Day After" hands down the most terrifying apocalyptic movie of all time."
While The Day After was a pretty good movie, it can't compare to Threads, particularly concerning a nuclear war and its aftermath. With Threads, there was no Hollywood sugar-coating or happy ending - just things getting worse and worse.
@@spaceman081447 yeah at the end of The Day After they actually say that the consequences would be a lot worse than what was depicted in the movie.
A really cool post apocalyptic world was that of "Altered Carbon". It blew me away.
now do this with games. FALLOUT 3 #1!
If we're looking at new Fallouts, New Vegas provided a much more interesting post-apocalypse, in my opinion, with a lot more depth and character than Fallout 3. And I haven't even touched the first two games, so I can't say whether or not those are better, even. Fallout 3 was almost TOO apocalyptic.. like, the apocalypse had just happened yesterday, and humanity still hadn't started spreading out again. New Vegas was more believable, little settlements everywhere trying to reestablish civilization, and dozens of unique factions all vying for control, or just struggling day-to-day to survive.
Fallout 3 is more post apocalyptic though
Nick Hartless In terms of sheer destruction and decay.. sure, I could give you that. I didn't like how nearly all of the buildings seemed to be made of the same shitty spare parts.. like the knowledge of building structures had somehow been lost to humanity, but.. it was still pretty cool, walking and fighting through the ruins of DC.
Both are good though. New Vegas was atrocious and almost unplayable before patches. Poor playstation people still have frame issues.
Both do their own thing well. F03 feels more apocalyptic, and NV made me want to be a cowboy. Ammo too easy to get in NV, but all that atmosphere is lore friendly.
9:29 "Don't call us plucky, we don't even know what that means!"
Gabe Jones RNGMSKJFMXNSUR AVENGERS
The Road is easily the best of all these. It's such a realistic and morbid take on a post-apocalyptic world. Children of Men is another movie that does a really good job of conveying the grim reality of an apocalypse and is probably the second best depiction on this list.
Children of men should have been no1. You can see the effort put into even the smallest details (search Children of men advertisements) and it looks so realistic it's scary. I like Terminator 2 as a movie but the future parts are nothing special.
I'd have to agree on that. I love the Terminator movies and the setting in the future. But Children of Men is so spectacularly done
Agreed, the imagery is fantastic, i paused the movie several times to read ads and news paper heading etc
Not sure if ive ever seen better choreographing, some of those scenes amaze me with how long they stay with one camera.
It was a cool detail that there were lots of ads for suicide kits... that really helped the dark atmosphere.
***** Amen
what about blade Runner?
+steve b Bladerunner doesn't show postapocalypse but rather a dystopian evolution.
This is my Top 10 for best post-apocalyptic scenes in movies
10:28 Weeks Later
9:Train to Busan
8:I Am Legend
7:Oblivion
6:Planet of Apes
5:Chernobyl Diaries
4:The War of the Worlds
3:Avatar
2:Wall-E
1:Armageddon
HM:Independence Day,28 Days Later,Waterworld
Who thinks our world is actually an recovered post-apocalyptic world where before the apocalypse we had a lot more advanced stuff?
Nobody.
I have always thought of this...
Anything's possible I guess
Although if that were true, there'd be more obvious signs pointing in that direction
Actually, according to a lot of studies, if humans left the earth (or if the previous civilization left earth a long time ago), within 150 million years there would be almost no trace of them left.
If there was a nuclear war that destroyed our population previously we wouldn't be here, according to Threads humanity wouldn't be able to reproduce from at least 13 years after a full scale attack, and anyone born prior would've been retarded or deformed.
Threads... a BBC drama in the 1980s...
Jeez that was bleak!
Uk Documentary, The War Game.. (60s doco)
and 'The Day After'.
Yep I watched this a while ago.
Depressing, huh?
Bleak as f*** . As a child the melting glass terrified me....
escape from new York kinda, cherry 2000, a boy and his dog, judge dredd , solar babies are some I always loved. the omega man and soylent green.
8:13 It's supercharged not turbocharged, there is a big difference.
Huh…I never knew that mad max took place in Australia. Well…gives me an excuse to practice my apocalypse survival skills
lmao
+destuffilator nobody really gives a fuck.
+David Redden Nobody likes you
"9", "The Road", "WALL.E", "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes", "Terminator Franchise", and "War For The Planet Of The Apes" had AMAZING land scapes I've ever saw!
Also if anyone would wanna see the landscape of waterworld, just go on a ship and sail out to sea. Lol 😆😆😆
book of Eli soundtrack amazing.
I want a apocalypse to happen sooo bad. It'll be so fun and interesting learning to cope without the matrix.
"The Stand" (1990ish) will always be #1 on my list. Gary Sinise, Jamie Sheridan, Miguel Ferrer, etc were all great in it. Stephen King is a master at storytelling .
And Mojo finds every excuse to exclude it from their lists!
God, I grew up with all these 80s - 90s movies that all denoted 2025 - 2035 would be the apocalypse caused by super technology and overgrowth of humans, and when the movies were made, it felt like it really would be. Now it's already halfway to 2017 and those movie's ideas of what year the apocalypse would be seem so silly. xD I wonder what the generation in 2035 will feel if they ever watch those movies, if they even do. - Probably, "Wow, the CGI was bad... Wait, you mean your cars ran on gasoline?"
Thought "The Postman" should have gotten a little love as well with at least an honorable mention! Some great visuals in that movie.
Threads, Logan’s Run, Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Where Have All The People Gone? A Boy And His Dog, THX1138, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams ( Mount Fuji In Red, Blizzard) scenes. The Man In The High Castle.
i wish the gods would send me Fallout 4
I'm gonna rape Todd Howard if he doesn't at least announce that Bethesda is working on it in 2015.
IveGotToast Well Skyrim was announced at the VGAs, maybe this will be the year. It is not too late for a 2014 reveal. But Yes, I don't know how much longer I can go without any Fallout 4 news.
I came to this video specifically expecting to see comments about Fallout. You did not disappoint.
I live to serve
I wish the God's would send down a new elder scrolls game.
"The road" is disturbing yet awesome.
Me on 2020. 😁😁
The Road by far rises above all the others. I read the book, which was beautifully hopeless, never tells what caused the apocalypse. The movie brings this dark madness to life. The papa and his son have such a heartbreaking closeness and it's the only reason they find the will to survive. It's only the movie that could actually happen.
Did they do a top 10 apocalypse scenarios ?
if not they should :)
Is this what you meant?
Top 10 Movie Apocalypses
Daenerys Targaryen thanks :)
samoanXspartan no problemo ;)
what about the creative post-apocalyptic Germany in the year 2016, when solar flares have destroyed the earth's atmosphere and temperatures have risen by 10°C. The movie "Hell" from 2011.. includes cannibals, crazy survivors and the search for the mountaints cause "thats where the water is from.. haven't you seen the picture in the bottle water?"
They don't know every movie ever made, give them a brake, tho i will check that movie you are talking about and see if i like it, if i do i will come back and thank you...
lol i know i just thought since they had snowpiercer in there i figured Hell would be there too... i loved that movie
Jason Miranda I saw the trailer and it looks sweet tho somewat uninteresting, but i will give it a shot
CALVIN AND HOBBES AHHHHHHHHHHHH 😃😃😃😃😃😃😀😛
TheRobloxian09 do you like Calvin and Hobbes?
I'm so glad y'all included Book of Eli. It's probably my favorite movie of all time. It has everything. And it's so underrated.
Days of Future Past probably could have made an Honourable Mention
Nah the world wasn't really explored
Missing:
Cowboy Bebop
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Damnation Alley
The Quiet Earth
A Boy and his Dog
Zardoz
Things To Come
A boy and his dog, isin't that the one about the kid who gives his psychic dog food in exchange for guidance and the locations of women he can rape? I heard it was pretty good.
Justin Archibald yep that's the one
I wonder what the guy who came up with the idea was thinking when he thought of it, and also I wonder where I can get some of what he had.
KlunkerRider Your forgot The Divide en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divide_%28film%29
+KlunkerRider Reign of fire can be added too!
"The Road" is chilling, so I am glad it made it to the list. But the number one for me is "Threads". Makes "The Road" look cheerful.
I am so agree with number 1: Terminator. It traumatizes me as a kid, especially that explosion part that burns the woman into skeleton lol
that's called being too close to a megaton level nuclear bomb explosion. flesh would sear off your bones up to 8 miles from a 1 mt
TH-cam recommending me this from watching cornavirus videos
"Last Man on Earth" + Vincent Price. "Resident Evil: Extinction", "Land of the Dead", "Reign of Fire", and the "Mutant Chronicles" are just a few you missed that were awesome. All better than the cartoons you sited.
Have you ever watched "After the dark"? I love that movie
The road is most realistic and most breathtaking scenario :/