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Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire
Whoa whoa whoa folks...
We could open this up to a giant Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, and Dystopian thread.
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What I was trying to do is create a thread for the most plausibly realistic-type post-apocalyptic movies as a broad guideline (i.e., The Road, Book of Eli, and Walking Dead as the pinnacle of post-apocalyptic movies).
I should've specified in the OP. I think Sci-Fi should stay away from this thread since it's a piece of crap genre.
I'll accept dystopian, if it's more heavily on the post-apocalyptic side of the spectrum (not stupid Sci-Fi).
Also, thanks everyone for the suggestions. GreatWhiteEbola, I want 2:28 of my life back. That Cherry 2000 movie looks ridiculously funny, but downright awful.
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Huh? I think a pretty strong argument can be made that all post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction is science-fiction.
science fiction (abbr.: SF or Sci Fi)
noun
fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and
major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
Maybe you have a more narrow definition of science fiction than most. I will admit that a lot of sci-fi is cheesy or weak but horror and fantasy suffer from the same problems. Being partial to sci-fi I will find average sci-fi flicks more tolerable than average flicks of genres I am not as partial to (like horror.)
But I don't know how you can be into post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction/movies and hate all sci-fi. Kind of an oxymoron.