At this point, for me it's a toss up between Brazil, Catch 22, and Airplane!

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), August 08, 1999

Answers

A cross between Ingmar Bergman's "Seventh Seal" and George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead".

Just kidding,maybe

-- flora (***@__._), August 08, 1999.

In October 1999, 3 students filming a documentary about y2k disappeared....

one year later, their footage was found.... in the ashes...

-- tafka superlurker (Slfsl@yahoo.com), August 08, 1999.

Three Stooges---guess who is which character?

-- catherine plamondon (souldancer@pop.spkn.uswest.net), August 08, 1999.

Godzilla!!! W I L D L Y OVERDONE.....but still sucked.

-- flora's teen (***@__._), August 08, 1999.

Koyannisquatsi (sp?)

Just bought the new soundtrack by Phillip Glass - awesome dud/ettes!!!

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 08, 1999.

Liar, Liar, The Postman, and a movie that needs to be made after the book "Lucifer's Hammer."

-- bambam'schoice (bambam'schouce@bambam.com), August 08, 1999.

"Life out of balance" - see thread on this movie in the archives...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 08, 1999.

link here

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000QrZ

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 08, 1999.

Link:

Koyannisqatsi
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch- msg.tcl?msg_id=000QrZ


-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), August 08, 1999.

Andy,

I've seen that film several times. It appeared as a reflection of our days as we now spend them, do you see a difference?

Is this truly the film you'd choose to represent what we have ahead of us?

-- flora (***@__._), August 08, 1999.

Can I enter with dual citizenship?

In honor of my ties with LA --BLADE RUNNER-- God Bless Frank Lyoyd Wright for the set pieces.

Really, I'm an optimist.

-- flora (***@__._), August 08, 1999.

Flora - i guess I was referring to the "Life Out Of Balance" aspect (as in - now), if you want a serious choice it would have to be...

drum roll please...

TITANIC

(note... there were SOME survivors :) )

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 08, 1999.

Poseidon Adventure

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), August 08, 1999.

Soilent (sp) Green

-- flb (fben4077@yahoo.com), August 08, 1999.

Yup Soylent :)

-- andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 08, 1999.

The Sting. The ending is not only unknown, but may very well be a surprise.

-- daryl (rushmore@dailypost.com), August 08, 1999.

Titanic, hands down....

-- in the know (iknow@so.com), August 08, 1999.

a cross between "wag the dog","soylent green",the ruby ridge documentary,and "the lorax"

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), August 08, 1999.

... with overtones of "Wag The Dog" and "Nightfall"...

-- andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 08, 1999.

What's wrong with you people? Have you not done enough research on Y2K? It is a cross between the all time classic The Trigger Effect and The Road Warrior.

-- Butt Nugget (nubuttet@better.mousetrap), August 08, 1999.

The dilemma of Y2K is best represented by 'Titanic' or perhaps 'Apollo 13'. The potential results of Y2K has me thinking 'The Postman', 'Red Dawn' (perhaps replacing foreign troops with civil war), 'Trigger Effect' (pumped up considerably....it was too tame), 'Soylent Green' (Heston's career appears somewhat insightful, God knows he's on the money about our current political environment!)

For ME.....the numero uno potential Y2K result is BEST represented by THE STAND! Thanks Tim, this is fun!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), August 08, 1999.

Star Trek V.

-- (oh@please.no), August 08, 1999.

Although many of the above mentioned movies are good ones, nothing beats the oldie (1960?) Panic In The Year Zero, in my opinion. About a family doing a fast bug-out to their rural vacation cottage after nuclear war begins, and starred Ray Milland as I recall, and still sends chills up my spine when I think about it. And, of course, the fact that the title should contain "The Year Zero" makes it all the more fascinating.

-- Jack (jsprat@eld.net), August 08, 1999.

I think after 1/1/00 this whole Y2K thing is going to resemble that old hoax radio program more than anything...

War Of The Worlds

-Orson Wells

Prepare to look very foolish oh little Doomers...

-- (Whacky@ little. Doomers), August 08, 1999.

To start with: The Trigger Effect, to the NTH--then fade into the Postman...

-- mar (derigueur2@aol.com), August 08, 1999.

I think it was called "Omega Man" with Charleton Heston

-- Gia (laureltree7@hotmail.com), August 08, 1999.

INFERNO!!!!

-- smitty (smitty@sandiego.com), August 08, 1999.

Gone With the Wind.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), August 08, 1999.

2001 A space odysey?

Dave, I am not programmed for that function.

The Time Machine?

-- Brian (imager@home.com), August 08, 1999.

I remember that "Panic in Year 0" movie. At the end, you think the family are goners, because they are suddenly surrounded and outgunned, ordered to throw down their weapons, which they do. Then, the wife says, "Hey, its the Army! Thank God!" And everybody is real happy that the U.S. Govt has "saved" them.

Now THAT is an old time movie. She should have been thinking, "Oh my God, I am going to be raped for sure."

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 08, 1999.

"Rollover"

Never seen it? Check it out. The foreigners decide not to invest in the US and the economy collapses.

Grim stuff.

-- cgbg jr (cgbgjr@webtv.net), August 08, 1999.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

-- adam smith (as@econo.my), August 08, 1999.

Mad Max

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), August 08, 1999.

No one here saw "A Boy & His Dog"?

In a "post-apocalypic world," the dog helps the boy locate women to rape, & in return the boy finds food for the dog. Simbiotic relationship.... Small problem develops at the very end: The boy actually falls in love with a girl, but the dog is injured & desperately needs food.

Maybe you can guess what happens.

If you have a sense of humor, rent this one. If you don't, then skip it.

-- some (other@stuff.happens), August 08, 1999.

For those bugging out to extremely isolated rural areas:

...DELIVERANCE.

Some other weird near-future, semi-apocalyptic visions of the future at your friendly neighborhood video store, with apologies to those who already mentioned the stuff:

THE DAY AFTER

THE TRIGGER EFFECT

GLEN and RANDA (--LOTS of gratuitous sex scenes and most of it in very bad taste. But the vision of what society looks like after a collapse seems pretty dead on target.)

STRANGE DAYS

THE POSTMAN

WIZARD OF OZ ("Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore..." ACtually this is a huge political satire of the politics that was going on at the turn of the LAST century, a time many many people think that is quite similar to our own now...)

NIGHT OF THE COMET (really really bad, but kind of cool in a cheesy, 1980s' style retro-campish way)

MAD MAX

ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES (well not really...just wanted to see if you were awake..)

ALAS, BABYLON (was that made into a movie? If not the book is a pretty easy read, one that i enjoyed in junior high many years ago.)

BLADE RUNNER (This is a GREAT movie visually, absolutely stunning sounds, light on dialogue but there are unforgettable lines. What does it have to do with Y2K? Well, if you use your imagination, you can picture what happens to a world that has been through some REALLY hard times [like y2k?], recovered, then rebuilt a kind of megacorporate- fascist society with nightmarish technology running around.)

...there's this FANTASTIC movie by French director Luc Besson, DELICATESSEN. This is a ghoulish and visually dense surrealist masterpiece about what people do when they are really hungry. I mean REALLY hungry.

Along similiar lines, there's a great movie about how a bunch of people react under duress and hunger and starvation called "ALIVE," about a South American soccer team that crashes into a snowy mountain peak near the Chilean/Argentine border. What these men and women went through is astonishing.

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), August 08, 1999.

"Night of the Living Dead"

-- jjbeck (jjbeck@aol.com), August 08, 1999.

jj,

I picked "Dawn of the Dead" for the setting of the shopping mall. The zombies congregate there because it was such an important structure for them in their human lives.

A movie so terrible it's great.

-- flora (***@__._), August 08, 1999.

beyond 2000 = lost horizon

-- (seeking@mountains.to.climb), August 08, 1999.

Tim,

It all depends on how far in the future you want to go.

WACO Rules of Engagement for awhile.

Than perhaps we move on to Niqueragua.

Than we get into Postman/Mad Max/The Stand.

God help us if we reform with the same system before the fall.....

-- R. Wright (blaklodg@hotmail.com), August 08, 1999.

The Rolling Stones Rock N' Roll Circus!!! When it first arrived - It seemed true and made sense. 30 Years After it was over - It appears ...weird...

-- Hippie In Training (.@..com), August 09, 1999.

DELICATESSEN - fantastic, the bed spring scene is hilarious!

Saw a documentary about the ALIVE Rugby survivors, what they had to do, how they coped with eating their old compadres, how one guy trekked out for days, nearly died, to save them...

Fast forward to 1998 and they interviewed the survivors - some coping better than others now, remembering what they had to do ... look out for it on PBS.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 09, 1999.

The Postman mainly. However, if they ever made a movie out of the book Patriots, I'd vote for that as closest. Hope, how I hope, I am wrong!!!

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), August 09, 1999.