Best Realistic Apocalyptic Movie

...I might vote for "The Stand." :-)

But I wanted realistic portrayals. Showdowns with the devil are 700-club territory.

That being said, I did like "the Stand"

I added "realistic" to the thread title.

In that case I vote for "The Day After." Guess I didn't really consider the "supernatural" content there -- I wrote a paper for one of my television classes in college about apocalyptic TV and theatrical movies, and didn't really give it much thought. Of course, I was looking for the similarities within various representatives of the genre, talking about its "internal language" or some such. :-)

I'm with you on "The Stand". Not so much in the Randall Flagg/Mother Abigal stuff, more in how it happens, by human stupidity.

Unless it was a two-hour-long, single-episode miniseries.

I used to show it in a class I taught on Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear War and Arms Control.

I first saw it back when I was 13 or so. I had nightmares for weeks afterwards, and to this day, I still have occasional nighmares about nuclear war. The more I learned about it, the scarier it got.

I've seen that, Lol. What is it, something like Long Island is the only place on the planet the wasn't 'touched' by the war?

Since I couldn't think of many truly realistic endathaworld flix.

"The Rapture" for supernatural (hell. it has the four horsemen trotting down PCH)

look like a Disney flick.

"The Day After" was a fucking joke.

The Day After made it all look like a walk in the park.

Threads was horrifying and probably a lot closer to the truth.

But it's been on my wish list for some time.

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Armageddon isn't even vaguely realistic - in terms of science, plot and characters.

There is no way in hell what happened in that movie would actually happen.
If it was real, the asteroid creams us and we're all dead.

The future it depicts is extremely bleak and cruel (with a few exceptions), an environmental and moral nightmare from which there is no waking.

And those who manage to get by have big money. It could all go this way, which is why it's so unsettling.

The city scenes seemed peaceful compared to real modern urban existance.

It's not a major theme in the film, but in the book ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") the Earth was being depopulated by plague and emigration to colony worlds. So if LA in 2019 seemed peaceful, it was because there weren't as many people there as one might otherwise expect.

I voted for Threads, on the assumption that the more "realistic," the better, according to the way the poll is phrased. "Threads" is far far more dreadfully real than The Day After. I remember Jason Robards picking through the wreckage of Kansas City a few days after the bombs fell in "The Day After," and there was a bright blue sky overhead. Um, no way...the relentless horror of Threads is more likely, IMO.

As I recall, fallout from nuclear war played heavily in Dick's story. That's what the "dust" is that made people chickenheads.

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Thought provoking, and for its time the most frightening..

"Threads" was horrifying. TDA is just a little too Hollywood.

The post-apocalyptic Don Johnson/Jason Robards classic!

Well i think they really depics a interesting future.

Like the fallout games

Maybe we have differing definitions of "Apocalypse"....

It's on the Encore Action Channel as I type.

I have a feeling Threads would be winning. That movie just freaked me out cold.