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#3046143 6-Mar-2023 04:53

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Books/Games I'd like to see become movies/tv shows

A Canticle for Leibowitz
Emberverse series
The Postman (without Kevin Costner!)
Fallout Series (apparently a tv series is coming)

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#3046153 6-Mar-2023 07:41

quickymart:
Forgot to add, The Day of the Triffids - the 1981 BBC version.

I still freak out at that movie, I hate sunflowers or any other plant that size from that movie

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#3046159 6-Mar-2023 08:38

Batman:

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This is not a genre I like. The plots are often very similar with predictable characters.

May i suggest Warm Bodies

"There's a lot of ways to get to know a person. Eating her dead boyfriend's brains is one of the more unorthodox methods, but..."

Really enjoyed that movie.

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#3046354 6-Mar-2023 16:52

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic are two very different genres.

Apocalyptic - "Dr. Strangelove"
Post-apocalyptic - "Dead Man's Letters"

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#3046410 6-Mar-2023 17:05

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#3046426 6-Mar-2023 18:24

See also The Day After Tomorrow which is an American equivalent. I saw this probably at around 8 or 9 years old and the scenes of people being lit up like x-rays was burned into my eyes.

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#3046427 6-Mar-2023 18:26

Yes I've seen both of those, but the British one is far better - although I do think the American one was a pretty good effort too.

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#3046431 6-Mar-2023 19:41

MadEngineer:

See also The Day After Tomorrow which is an American equivalent. I saw this probably at around 8 or 9 years old and the scenes of people being lit up like x-rays was burned into my eyes.

I sincerely hope you mean "The day after"

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#3046435 6-Mar-2023 19:48

Yes indeed 🤣

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#3046437 6-Mar-2023 19:56

I really like the old BBC TV show from the 70s "Survivor"
It's almost comfort TV for me . . . although, if you cast a critical eye over it while watching, it's actually garbage. 😂

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#3046489 6-Mar-2023 20:23

Well not really end of the world.
Set in a time when the average person's world was very small.
So it would have seemed like it

"Black Death" (2010), directed by Christopher Smith and starring Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

It is a bit uneven and no blockbuster but a decent watch, which these days can be rare enough.

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#3046492 6-Mar-2023 20:36

fav post apocalyptic film in recentish years . . .
The Road

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#3046625 7-Mar-2023 08:30

farcus:

I really like the old BBC TV show from the 70s "Survivor"
It's almost comfort TV for me . . . although, if you cast a critical eye over it while watching, it's actually garbage. 😂

This was remade in the 80's as well, still an enjoyable watch.

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#3046644 7-Mar-2023 09:19

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Good call.. I've re read that series many times!

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#3046853 7-Mar-2023 13:29

gzt:
quickymart: I just finished re-watching The Quiet Earth and it's a good Kiwi movie, although I never understood the ending (did anyone?)

I'd like to see this again. It was in pop culture recently. I'd prefer 4K - it deserves it. Ending? It's a good start for a sequel or a series.

I bought it on Blu Ray couple of yrs ago along with Utu.

My take was all the living people were transported somewhere? Another planet?

And the second event happened just before Bruno was thought killed by the explosion so he was transported somewhere, alternatively he could have been killed and he awakes in afterlife

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