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We saw a commercial the other night, and I could only say, "The Road: The Feel Good Movie of the Eighties!"

I should probably give the last question more thought, but I think the only EOTW movie that has ever really moved me is the old 1984 BBC TV movie . The results on the UK and society following a massive nuclear war between the US and the USSR. Absolutely devastating. Everything I'd seen before or since pales in comparison (though I love the '64 film "Fail-Safe").

I kind of like "Miracle Mile" (1989), but it feels so... eighties. But its very local point of view "the world is about to end, what do we do" was nicely executed. So to speak.

"12 Monkeys" and "The Road Warrior" are more post-apocalyptic than EOTW, but I think they really stand the test of time.

Oh, and "Children of Men"! Brilliant. The EOTW, not as you'd expect it, expertly portrayed.

Does "Kairo" by Kiyoshi Kurosawa count? It certainly feels like the EOTW at the end there, and haunted me for days.

Okay, so much for "Threads, nothing but Threads". But seriously, "Threads" was the kind of film that really scared the hell out of people about the reality of nuclear war.

Few movies are worse than "The Happening".

"The Rapture" is mostly useless except for Mimi Roger's "talents" and an end sequence with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that was pretty trippy.

Anything like "The Core", "Day After Tomorrow", any of those stupid asteroid films from 10 years ago... just useless melodramatic trash.

Good rundown, MechaScorpio......, and there's also a 2003 Toho movie Dragonhead, that is aggressively bleak, I just remembered!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y_hRZf2 ... re=related

Best to ignore the Japanese pop song in the trailer.


Threads , I also believe, was the ultimate EOTW movie, spun circles around The Day AFter, which I thought was adequate.

I've read the book before and loved it. Haven't seen trailers yet, but I've been really jazzed about this. What I really like is that they are not going to rely too much on CGI stuff to make it look like the end of the world... they're just filming in wintertime Pittsburgh, PA because it looks "bleak and desolate" that time of year! I used to live near there, and I got a good laugh from that. Not really the kind of advertising you want for your town.

I've been amped for this one for quite a while now.