What movies show society collapsing as a result of things like a pandemic, zombies etc. I find that the worst part of zombie films is that they always skip to post-apocalypse
Movies that show society collapsing as a result of things like a pandemic, zombies etc
The very first Mad Max is set pre-apocalypse with a small and stretched police force trying to fight off the rise in anarchist gangs.
When you realize Toe-Cutter and Immortan Joe are the same actor
I like toe cutter more. I like understated villains
Originally Humungus was supposed to be revealed to have been burn scarred Goose from the first movie but the idea was dropped
hugh mungus?
He's a hugh guy
was it lucas' idea
They're the same character. The first Mad Max is the true story and everything after is iterations of his folk legend as society moves further into the post-apocalypse.
See above.
Instead of Max being a legendary, tall tale figure, try this on for size. My crazy idea is a bit Miller and a bit King.
Remember in Thunderdome how the kids have clearly been there long enough to develop their own myth system and language peculiarities? Shit like that takes time, far longer than it would take even the youngest of them to reach adulthood, yet there they are, still waiting for Captain Walker. I believe that's because the kids are quasi-immortal/ageless specifically because they're clinging to the past, putting all their hopes on that figure from the past coming to their rescue. That figure represents order, civilization, authority. And that's precisely what Max is - a cop in a lawless, chaotic land who is not only haunted by the past, but brings an echo of that old order with him wherever he goes.
I believe that in the absence of billions of people all reinforcing the world's consensus reality, that irderly reality has broken down, giving way to a new age if chaos. The Toe Cutter embraced that chaos and was changed by it, becoming Immortan Joe. Max rejects it and remains largely unchanged.
Mad Max 1 is technically already post-apocalypse, it's just not yet full on collapse yet.
nah
People don't go on pleasant family vacations when there's a worldwide nuclear war on anon
Mad Max’s apocalypse isn’t even post-nuclear
Originally a nuclear war was said to have happened between The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome, though that's apparently since been retconned to having occurred following the first film.
There's an ice cream cone purchased in this film I think you're wrong.
What a fricking dummy.
Did you go to public school or are you just trolling?
>dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.
>post-apocalyptic: existing or occurring after a catastrophically destructive disaster or apocalypse
North Queensland still has that same aesthetic if you ever want to live in Mad Max world.
Based.
90% of rural Australia still has that aesthetic
The Rover is shot in Australia and is set 10 years post collapse
>The very first Mad Max is set pre-apocalypse
>Mad Max 1 is technically already post-apocalypse, it's just not yet full on collapse yet.
No, society was getting shittier but hadn't collapsed yet in MM1, that would happen in between the first flick and MM2.
Interesting, he was supposed to have an AR instead of a shotgun originally
KINO
It's never actually outright stated that the world is in any sort of collapse in the first film. I'm convinced the apocalyptic scenario is actually a retcon from the second film and the first was just supposed to be a slightly futuristic film.
The first was just an ordinary Wednesday in Australia.
The Toe Cutter isn't real! Stop trying to scare me!
Yeah, but there's the other appendages. The Ear Cutter might be.
His name's Chopper, mate. Talk shit about him again, I dare u c**t
And it's fricking garbage. Can't believe I got memed into watching that snoozefest of cringe dialog.
I had never had sex
Society is collapsing
I have, and Western society is in a very clear state of stagnation/decline.
by what metric? Poverty? Hunger? Illiteracy?
Economic foremost, then social, demographic. In my opinion, I'm sure there are others.
Angry hyperbolic fricks on the internet.
You'll know when society actually starts collapsing, pissant mass shooting events and trannies whining about shit will be pleasant memories.
t. has TOTALLY been through a societal collapse guys and he knows what he's talking about alright guys stop questioning him
Cultural norms
More brown, no more good town
>metric
number of stupid people I encounter everyday
all of them
Nothing is collapsing. Comeme taught us that people will stay coompliant no matter what. Nobody's gonna riot because they'll be cold at winter because gas got expensive or hungry because groceries are getting expensive. They're just gonna be whiny on the internet.
>people will stay
kek, that's not the end game
>T-this'll be the straw that breaks the camel's back!
Cope. Three years from now you'll be posting on the government provided PrepHole alternative about how grateful you are for your weekly bug ration.
I'm gonna reverse the question because I'm genuinely curious. Is there a metric that shows society isn't in decline?
>Cost of living skyrocketing so that essentialsvwill become luxuries
>Consumer credit still out of control, average household owes thousands more than it can pay back
>Property is now beyond the reach of the average couple
>Punitive taxes being applied to travel/transportation as a way to somehow solve climate change
>Most economies in the developed world are zombified, no one knows how to fix them as the old solutions don't work and the cost/consequences of recession is now far beyond even the Great Depression
NO PUSSY NO PEACE NO PUSSY NO WORK NO PUSSY NO TAXES
>talking about the collapse of capitalism is a chud thing now
I feel 1000x worse about clown world now that I have a beautiful perfect baby son.
I went out and touched grass and have a little shit flinger that is half me now. And I feel like the world is even more dangerous and collapsing faster now that I have someone to actually give a shit about.
I followed your leftoid advice and now I hate you people with a passion I never thought I could feel.
The Sadness takes place during the apocalypse
>chink crossed
Probably the only way it’s getting made I guess. Kevin Spacey has the rights I think
>Probably the only way it’s getting made
it's already out
except it's not a film, it's a documentary
>Names the israelite in the first 5 minutes
How did he get away with it?
I agree with you OP. I like zombie movies where the film is the worlds reaction to the outbreak.
Contagion and World War Z are the only movies I can think of however.
I Am Legend has flashbacks but that's about it.
The Cured (2018) is an interesting take on the subject
These Final Hours (2013), not zombies but shows a societal breakdown.
>These Final Hours
>The Rover
yeah, both of those are excellent
dawn of the dead has the best end-of-all-things montage ever put to film of course
world war Z does the initial panic well, shame the rest of the movie is not great.
I can’t forgive them for trying to shoe horn a rape scene in a super market filled with people. I couldn’t believe the director/writer couldn’t think of a better way to show the father can fight and use guns. It was sooo fricking bad ahahahaha
cnn
ARE THESE PEOPLE ALIVE OR DEAD?
I wouldn’t mind it so much if they’d trip and stumble and were more uncoordinated but nah we do marathons now dog
Wasn't the second resident evil set during the apocalypse?
The problem with apocalypse films is you need to justify the military failing to coordinate properly. Zombie films rely on everyone being too stupid to figure out knights armour basically makes zombies a joke. A Doom style apocolyse would be far more interesting to make a film about, people dealing with society collapsing and the reality that hell is real.
Pretty much this or just an isolated incident such as The Crazies where the military isolate and contain the town
Third one and onward.
Nah by the time the third one starts it's already post-apocalypse, it is the second one where you see the fall of Racoon City.
>knights armour basically makes zombies a joke
That was actually covered in The Zombie Survival Guide. In the book it basically turns the wearer into canned meat as they'd be slow and loud attracting a lot of attention and would be overrun fairly quickly.
That's with extensive training in wearing the bastard stuff. Your average person's just likely to keel over from exhaustion and overheating after five minutes.
Fricking what? You don't need extensive training for that. Plate armors are like your second skin, you'd only need 10 minutes at best to get used to it.
that author needs his ass kicked
just wear motorcycle gear lol apocalypse solved
>canned meat as they'd be slow and loud attracting
real knight armor did not make you slow nor was it loud like people think that know nothing of it.
Good thing zombies can't use can openers.
>Zombie films rely on everyone being too stupid to figure out knights armour basically makes zombies a joke.
You have to protect yourself from human bites. You don't need metal armour, you just need a denim jacket and jeans.
>A Doom style
Stopped reading right there, homosexual
he has a point though, a force that could overwhelm modern military would be better than turning everyone into idiots for plot progression
You're the fricking homosexual, moron. When I first played it as a kid, I was scared just reading the introduction in the manual.
The whole point of the zombie apocalypse is you wake up one day and zombies are breaking down your door and eating you. You don't get time to set up armor smiths.
Look around you
Society Collapse became real, you're living in it
>Is that people seeking justice and equality?!? AHH I'M GOING INSAAAANE
>burn down cities because some Black person dies of a fentanyl overdose is "justice and equality"
Oh how simple your mind is.
First season of Fear the Walking Dead is pretty cool, seeing that aspect. Second season in foward is extremely shit tho
Yeah it was so fricking stupid they abandoned that concept after the first season. Dropped it immediately after
I thought it was pretty good right up until they walk through the gates of Alexandria.
Frick, I thought you were talking about the other one.
The showrunner got fired after season 1 because they wanted him to make 2x more episodes on 20% less budget.
What was that movie where there's a plague so the guy tapes all his house closed to keep the disease out. And it all seems to be going pretty apocalyptic, but then in the end it turns out to be fine, except because his whole house was sealed up and then later contaminated with the virus the virus in there has mutated into a new form so the military burn him alive
'Right at Your Door'
This show is pretty much about that. It's pretty enjoyable too.
This is the best zombie show because it doesn't get bogged down in character dynamics and tragic backstories, it's just about running away from zombies and other people.
>it's just about running away from zombies
The episode in which that (literal) moron was running away from that one zombie was hilarious.
He ended up running in the last episode again, Hope he is fine. And i normally can't stand morons.
What's the poz? I tried watching Slow Horses and Condor and I got sick of all the "The real terrorist's are the white people!"
there is none
>What's the poz?
Very low, to the point where you have to make assumptions about the writer's intent. There is two or three moments in the first season where an anti-White angle is arguable, but not clearly or obviously intended.
I couldn't stand how bad they fricked up the army uniforms, they didn't even try
Yeah, BS does it best I think. There is room for improvement in that the characters someitmes make moronic decisions, but the pacing and the way they kill everyone (minimal plot armor) is pretty great. I really wish they would do another season but I doubt they will
Alright, I'll give it a shot. Not like I have to pay Netflix for it lol.
Just started watcing and within 10 minutes a white woman is saved from her evil white husband by a strong black soldier and she hugs him
Alt-F4
Thanks for saving me 10 minutes.
I was just shitposting
Bravo, you massive homosexual
I kept watching and it's actually pretty good, please don't take my shipost seriously
Hes not a soldier, and her husband was a zombie.
I loved season 1. I read some bad shit about season 2 and never bothered
it's shit
>great show
>last episode turns into a huge shootout gunfight out of nowhere because Murika
The school episode was peak horror until they reveal they are actually super organized and have a tiny militia ready while the adults are still scrambling
Are they the zombies?
curly haired mutt has no trigger discipline, show is probably shit if the director doesn't care about details like that
Curly-haired mutt is a frickup who probably never held a gun before a couple of days ago. That's basically who he is as a character - a frickup surviving on blind luck.
I don't care what people say about Z Nation, it's an excellent show that genuinely has fun with its premise. Black Summer removed the fun. Still a good show though.
We can never return
I'm skeptical but I'll check it out
>We can never return
I don't see it anywhere
Overlooked and good film, especially now after covid shit.
>Overlooked
lol no, everyone saw that back in 2020
>that feel when watching this film for the first time on a plane
BASED
Bot posters
Yes you are
First 2 seasons of Fear the Walking Dead were decent and covered the outbreak but then the show fell off a cliff into pure moronation.
Society owes me sex
ywnbaw
not movies but black summer and the leftovers both do this pretty well
zombieland was pretty good I think, I guess I'll be considered reddit for saying that
It was good. It was a fun take on the genre
I didn't watch it for a long time because I thought it was reddit but it was actually decent.
Zombieland was post-apocalypse
it all kind of happened all at once, he wakes up and it's happening and he has to kill that b***h he was with I think I forgot
it basically goes into early stages and then he meets up with woody and the girls, it explains the "rules" etc
Exactly like all the rest. Read the OP again, he specifically excludes shit that skips ahead past the apocalypse part, moron.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Satantango
Terminator 3 hinted at it and it could have shown more of skynet's effects prior to the ending
It's one of the greatest PSYOPs of all time: You've been conditioned by Hollywood israelites and their CIA thinktank friends to think that societal collapse will look like zombies in the streets.
The simple fact of the matter is that these movies exist to keep you from realizing that YOU ARE CURRENTLY RIGHT SMACK-DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF COLLAPSE AS I WRITE THIS.
In precisely the same way that "fascist" was over the course of four years to keep you from recognizing a fascist takeover when it actually happened (during muh-COVID when BlackRock became the fourth arm of the US Gov't), they will keep you distracted with ZOMBIES and ASTEROIDS and all sorts of HORSESHIT while they steal every last penny from you and give you a bunch of CBDCs in the form of UBI and stick you in the metaverse.
You'll own nothing and be happy. Literally nothing. Literally happy. You'll never even notice.
Take Meds
He is right though
If you honestly believe this why not just have a nice day?
>Biden is saving the economy!
the post
Why are you so defensive?
Why are you?
You've got the market cornered on that, troony.
this is just describing what it's like to grow old
>2013
Nailed it.
>People will start hanging onto clothing longer and longer
Damn dude, yeah fast fashion is definitely the thing that means a prosperous society.
Straight up schizo posting from this homosexual.
Based schizo
Threads is amazing in that regard. Wish more pieces of media did the 'post-apoc medieval society' thing.
Reminder without water and energy humanity will disappear in less than a month and this is a fact. Doesnt matter how much you know about survival skills you know or how much canned food you have storaged.
Wrong
https://www.emergencyfoodstorage.co.uk/categories/25-year-shelf-life-emergency-food
Look at how I'll be eating
>without water
Good thing water is the most abundant thing on this entire planet then huh moron
Itll just be random frickin jungle ppl in SEA or some pacific islands still chillen that never even knew what happened
Watch the news
The Walking Dead
>society collapsing
oldie but a goodie
honestly cant think of any movies.
for shows dont forget Jericho
Maryland Chambers eh...
Idiocracy, even though it's a documentary.
non-/misc/ answer here
Threads (1984) or the remake are a good look at shit going bad real fast. The post-bomb scenes are incredibly depressing, but at very plausible. The American remake has more of a rural, midwest US feel to it.
Virus (1980) is more about politics before and after a world virus. What keeps it interesting is that it goes from macro to micro-politics.
Nightmare City (1980) (tons of alt titles, dir by Umberto Lenzi) is a bit silly, but still a solid look into societal collapse at a city level. You got shit going bad in a tv studio, hospital, army base, etc. It's a giallo style zombie film, but well worth it if you looking for social systems under pressure.
>Nightmare City (1980)
This looks great, thanks.
The birth scene has always stuck with me. That dog ready for a hot meal.
Assuming you want like the moments of collapse, horror/thriller/etc because you're comparing to zombie pandemics and shit, and don't necessarily care how it turns out after. The Mist is probably the only good example I can think of off the top of my head. Children of Men arguably in the genre. Red Dawn, old one better, if military invasion is in line with what you want.
There's a frickpile of schlock garbage that has this though, The Happening, 2012, Knowing, basically any bargain bin disaster movie will follow this with explosions. World War Z at least is a shitty zombie movie that covers the part of the arc you want to see.
The problem with the genre is that the amount of people who want a big budget smart exploration of society collapsing is about zero, most people prefer either pure brain damaged bullshit or filmed-for-$15-in-a-minimall claustrophobic suspense movies like The Mist.
Picrel is my recommendation for a classic collapse movie. It's good
Good film.
Ray Milland is badass in this.
>What movies show society collapsing
Mad Max 1.
>show society collapsing as a result of things like a pandemic
Just look out the window.
I want to see more *Post* Post-Apocalypse, where society is getting back on track.
End of Shaun of the dead
I really wish that was what 28 Weeks Later was about. The re-outbreak was completely uninteresting. Would have been cooler if it was just about rebuilding while the guy dealt with his survivor's guilt.
The Stand '94
>starts off great
>oh the devil you say? surely this is just allegory haha
>really goes off the rails with the harriet tubman pitstop
>ends with...some capeshit
horrible payoff for sitting through the whole thing
Reminds me of Devil's Advocate. What a shit film that was.
That's too bad, the book was really enjoyable and the paranormal stuff was revealed early on. It's also one of the longest works of fiction in one volume, I doubt that they were able to give it the punch it needed on ABC.
The 1980s Day of the Triffids adaptation is good for this. It shows a collapse in progress and what a recovery might look like.
https://archive.org/details/robertkiyosakirichdadpoordaddisc101track01
great show, tragically unknown
Yo homie how about you step outside and film your neighbourhood or city. You wanna see a civilization collapse and you're living in the midst of it irl.
I find it very comfy to watch movies and TV shows that display the literal collapse of society.
just watch any movie set in a 3rd world country to see what the intermediate stage between civilization and anarchy is like. The saddest thing is that it's not inevitable for 3rd world conditions to collapse into Anarchy, and then for people to start rebuilding civilization from the ashes. Things can just remain in 3rd world conditions forever, with no collapse, and no rebuilding of civilization.
Nuclear holocaust is preferable to this.
Oh shut up, you're a homosexual shitposting on PrepHole, how bad if your life? Just don't want Netflix and you won't have to see Black folk in your media
I think anon was referring to the post he replied to.
Dilate
Not trying to be edgy. I'm just saying if we're going to continue to decline forever then it's preferable to tear it down and hopefully something better can be built from the ashes.
lmao people like you are why the water is undrinkable in my town (in the USA) and why we have fires yearly that burn down the entire coast.
I will paypal your family 1 million USD if you respond to this post with proof you removed yourself from global discussions for life.
What society?
War of the Worlds
This entire thread is just /misc/ nonsense when OP is asking for movie recs
There's fricking plenty of recommendations itt moronic frick we've probably recommended every apocalypse movie that's ever been made.
>/misc/ nonsense
Obsessed
These Final Hours
Never finished watching it myself, but it looks ok. I never finish anything these days.
The movie with e-girl Angourie Rice has society completely breakdown because a tidal wave is engulfing the entire planet, probably from a meteor strike.
These Final Hours
my diary tbh
>tfw the last V8 made in Australia was years ago so we're already on our way towards a mad max 2 style apocalypse
how does that correlate?
The Interceptor in Mad Max 1 is the last V8, I can't remember if a reason is given but I assume fuel shortages are part of the reason for the mad max apocalypse
Oh and another second part of that, Holden and Ford stopped making cars in Australia 5+ years ago so no more V8 family sedans
Current year United States. It's already in a Civil War, they just don't call that yet. Politics is devolving into personalities dog whistling white nationalists and BLM-types into street violence. Mass school shooting happens every week, sometimes multiple times a week. The level of random violence in everyday life is at level unseen since the end of the Wild West. It's going to be like Brazil or South Africa soon where multiple parties are raging de facto guerilla wars against each other but they're technically in a civil war because a civil war, de jure, requires well-defined parties to formally declare wars against each other.
Take your meds
The homeless camp that didn't even exist in 2020 has grown into a homeless town and is exactly 0.8 miles walk to my house. Things are fine though right guys, what is it like where you live?
cat food doubled in price in that time. I'm gonna kill some politicians if I can't afford to feed my cat.
You cat will thank you for the extra meals when it eats your face off after you starve to death
First, there were just a few tent cities in major parks. The police cleared them out and libtards cried about it for a few days and even put signs in front of their houses ("Don't Evict My Neighbors" when they lived nowhere near where the tent cities were). They moved away from the city parks but now have large encampments in reservoir areas (nature trails) that are more wooded. They also have a large encampment around the railroad tracks in a pretty busy area of downtown (but it's mostly hidden by buildings--it's elevated land and the main streets in that area fun below the rail bridges so it's almost invisible save for just before the bridge starts).
But, really though, what society? You guys took lurk more to the extreme and now "Verbal" is just a hotel app with a Kermit The Frog song in it.
the best one is Rover but there's no meme habenning
Can't think of many movies. But Devilman comes to mind.
it's the central theme of The Mist
Watch threads bro.
i really liked Stake Land, The Battery was pretty neat, Carriers (2009) was alright, and The Rover was phenomenal
>Stake Land
never got around to watching this
>What movies show society collapsing
some old distaster films had these scenes where some rich moron with a cash filled briefcase tried to buy this way through amidst the chaos but the money had no value.
you dont need a movie to see societal collapse
just look at the US
Not a movie but watch Station Eleven
We need a Yor prequel and a Yor remake.
>What movies show society collapsing
Children of Men