Seems like Fallen Earth had some good timing when it came to releasing this game, especially with Hollywood having 3 movies on its way containing different PA settings.

The Road www.youtube.com/watch

The Book of Eli www.youtube.com/watch

2012 www.youtube.com/watch

Of course this decade we also had Doomsday and I am Legend.

Seems like the 1980s all over again.

As for future MMO's with a PA setting as well.. Earthrise  and The Secret World

Now we all know what Blizzards new MMO will be about j/k

Originally posted by HiGHPLaiNS

Seems like Fallen Earth had some good timing when it came to releasing this game, especially with Hollywood having 3 movies on its way containing different PA settings.

The Road www.youtube.com/watch

The Book of Eli www.youtube.com/watch

2012 www.youtube.com/watch

Of course this decade we also had Doomsday and I am Legend.

Seems like the 1980s all over again.

As for future MMO's with a PA setting as well.. Earthrise  and The Secret World

Now we all know what Blizzards new MMO will be about j/k

The book of eli is the best looking one imo.

The other two look meh.

I was just watching The Road Warrior on the tv a moment ago, lol.

definately crazy timing, I saw Zombieland yesterday..more post-apoc/survival flick than an actual zombie movie. It was a good fun, movie. The zombies were more landscape/obstacles than anything else really. Shaun of the Dead was more of a Zombie movie.

then today while messing around the house/gaming I ended up watching Hardware (MARK 13) and The Last Man on Earth (the original B&W movie with Vincent Price,  based on the Matheson novel, that later was remade as The Omega Man with Charleton Heston, and then updated and remade as I am Legend with Will Smith).

maybe it's time I change up the movies I watch...heh. that's it, nothing but buddy action/comedies for me for a bit..bring on the Tango and Cash!

whoah...rambling, crazy post..yep I'm tired.

 The Road looked interesting. The others are either too much CGI or too much Macho. Only the road gave me the sense of grittyness and desolation you should get from this genre.

I think there hasn't been a well done post apocalypse film since the 80's. Do you remember Threads and The day after?......I remember soiling my armour to thoes bad boys as a youngster. May have been exasperated by the times we were living in at that point, but blimy! they were proper scary. Looking forward to the road, really enjoyed the book and would heartily recomend it to any fans of the genre.

Edit to prevent double post* Also looking forward to the film adaptation of World War Z my fave book of the last 5 years. The screenplay is beeing pened by J Micheal Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame. Have lots of respect for Mr Staczynski, hope he does it justice.

Originally posted by spookydom

Edit to prevent double post* Also looking forward to the film adaptation of World War Z my fave book of the last 5 years. The screenplay is beeing pened by J Micheal Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame. Have lots of respect for Mr Staczynski, hope he does it justice.

That movie has been in the works for awhile now, a good tide me over is the Audiobook if you can find it.

It's read by a full cast and pretty well done.

Originally posted by enzyme

Originally posted by spookydom

Edit to prevent double post* Also looking forward to the film adaptation of World War Z my fave book of the last 5 years. The screenplay is beeing pened by J Micheal Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame. Have lots of respect for Mr Staczynski, hope he does it justice.

 

That movie has been in the works for awhile now, a good tide me over is the Audiobook if you can find it.

It's read by a full cast and pretty well done.

Yeah man have heard lots of good things about the audiobook, not found a copy of it myself yet. Will def pick it up if I stumble accross a copy of it. :)

Originally posted by enzyme

then today while messing around the house/gaming I ended up watching Hardware (MARK 13) and The Last Man on Earth (the original B&W movie with Vincent Price,  based on the Matheson novel, that later was remade as The Omega Man with Charleton Heston, and then updated and remade as I am Legend with Will Smith).

I didn't know about The Last Man on Earth, I'm going to have to go find that one now. I haven't seen I am Legend largely because I regard the Matheson novella as a hallmark of 20th century literature. Does anything capture the persistent anxiety and alienation of Cold War society better than that book? I personally do not think so.

It seems like everything Will Smith is in is Disneyfied and from what I have heard I am Legend seems no different. To me, that would be an incomparable travesty. So I just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist. Like 99% of Hollywood. So sad.
 

I think that is also why we are seeing more PA in pop consciousness. I know America, and I might guess the other Europeanized countries all have high degrees of alienation going on resulting at least some from the general anxiety of the whole "War on Terror" fiasco. Creeping security-state governance feeds it. And as "globalism" (aka global corporatocracy) moves from the birth stage of the 80s and 90s to now where it is really coming into its own, expect to see it get worse.

Legally challenging such foundational concepts as torture-prohibition and (in America) the government's responsibility to be held by international law (the Geneva Convention), combined with the advent of the age of De-Industrialization (known in a "gentler time" (lol) as the Information Age) has people in general society feeling rightly uneasy.

Whatever your viewpoints, tell me you are not feeling generally anxious in some way about the next 20-50 years. Even if you are optimistic, the fact remains you are being optimistic in response to your unease. We all feel it.

And this is why PA material is only going to get more popular as a meme over the next 10 years. Then it will either fade because good things start to happen and people's unease lessens. or things get worse and nobody wants to be reminded in such  a stark manner what their real life has become.

EDIT: Also just saw the bit about World War Z, I highly recommend that. I would feel comfortable saying it is the I Am Legend of our time. I would hope also that is accurate in portraying those of us living now as being more optimistic than the time of our parents (which I Am Legend predicted so very well).

I loved Zombieland, but then again, my taste in movies aren't the greatest either.

You know it dawned on me as well and forgot that War of the Worlds (remake was released this decade as well), let alone a ton of them hitting the SyFy Network.

I really never bothered to put 2 and 2 together with a lot of PA movies until I started playing Fallen Earth. But did PA movies truly leave us? I recall ID4 in the 90's could be a PA movie as well, but guess that and War of the Worlds would fall under Alien Invasion as well as the movie, Knowing (Nicholas Cage 2009) and Watchmen.

Originally posted by HiGHPLaiNS

I loved Zombieland, but then again, my taste in movies aren't the greatest either.

You know it dawned on me as well and forgot that War of the Worlds (remake was released this decade as well), let alone a ton of them hitting the SyFy Network.

I really never bothered to put 2 and 2 together with a lot of PA movies until I started playing Fallen Earth. But did PA movies truly leave us? I recall ID4 in the 90's could be a PA movie as well, but guess that and War of the Worlds would fall under Alien Invasion as well as the movie, Knowing (Nicholas Cage 2009).

Everybody loves zombieland, its not just you :P

On topic, Mad Max. If you haven't seen it yet you should watch it.

I am a child of the '70s/'80s, I I have fond memories of the post apocalyptic movies that came out of that era. Most of what has come after with regard to PA storytelling/entertainment is crap though with the exception of some games like the Fallout series. As for the movies the OP listed... The Road looks awesome, I mean Viggo. The look and feel I got from the trailers feels right. The Book of Eli actually does look great, the cast has post apocalyptic written all over it, but I'm not sure if I buy Denzel in that role. I guess we'll see. 2012 basically looks like a "The Day After Tomorrow" with updated CGI. It'll probably look awesome in theatres though and surely will be fun to watch.

It's really no surprise that Hollywood is focusing on this genre right now, what with everything that's been going on... Considering the hysteria surrounding Y2K, I think 12/21/2012 is going to bring about the end of days simply from the hysteria it will create among the populous who are believing something bad is going to happen...