The movie's Goodbye World and How I Live Now.

Watched it just now. Thanks for the suggestion.

It's like the survivalist's version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Funny no one has sun glasses. Of course, since its made by socialist Germany there isn't a single gun in sight. 2.75 out of 5 stars. Still worth a watch due to the excellent drearily hopelessly depressing scenery-atmosphere (must have been filmed in a formerly burned-out forest area). No one is well prepared except for the farmer. Not bad, but not good either -- required some fast forwarding due to slow pace, despite being well acted and suspenseful. Good ending with the psycho death camp matriarch. This movie's thought-provoking apocalyptic drought theme combined with the current historic California / Western U.S. massive drought makes one realize the critical importance of having a retreat land with PLENTY of water readily available.

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Now just watched the Netflix streaming post-apocalyptic movie '20 Years After': opening scene has a post-nuclear war Ham Radio operator broadcasting a lone 'radio' show from an underground bunker. There are rifles-handguns, and survival knives a plenty and an aquaponics fish tank... and one character warning the other that the lack of light discipline and smell of cigarettes will give away his location to bad guys. One character talks about being a history professor who suddenly realizes he should dig a well and start stocking up on iodine, paraffin and toothpaste and knows of a nearby spring-fed underground lake. One would hope the flick can't be all bad despite the 1.5 out of 5 stars Netflix reviews -- but indeed it is very boring -- had to fast forward a lot due to poor acting. While I don't fully agree with this Amazon review (Amazon), it REALLY is a 1.5 out of 5 movie. At least the people are better prepared than in the above movie Hell. I find if Netflix viewers say it is 2 stars or less, it is usually not worth watching. Whereas Redbox's streaming movie reviews tend to be overinflated and not trustable.

In the case of both above movies, I would say I prefer to re-watch Netflix reruns of Jericho, the British TV 2008 show Survivors or The Walking Dead.

 

That's what I find so interesting about the foreign made SHTF movies. It completely changes the game when you're left with nothing but golf clubs and shovels to defend yourself. With the BBC's Survivors, one pipsqueek bully with a shotgun becomes a kingpin because no one else has anything to equalize the playing field... and the majority of the others are so anti-violence that they'd refuse to use a gun if they had it anyway, ensuring the worst of the lot quickly rise to the top.

If the people in the movies were all prepared, it'd bore me to death to watch.

 

......That is because when the kingpin pulls his shotgun out and claims he is head honcho, the movie would have been over as his bullet ridden corpse hits the ground.

 

What do Y'all think about this remake?
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - IMDb

 

I am apparently one of the few who likes remakes. I have found that any "the original was better" notions I might have generally vanish when I rewatch the original and realize that what was awesome when I was 14 kinda sucks now in terms of special effects and that much of my attraction stemmed from being young and thinking everything was new and shiny and amazing. So I will probably love it with the no doubt vastly improved special effects and lack of dubbed voices.

Unless they cast Tom Cruise in it. Then I will hate it with the heat of a thousand suns.

 

Speaking of foreign made SHTF movies, I just finished watching on Netflix streaming the well-acted and excellent German-made three part miniseries drama about WWII told from the German side called Generation War (Amazon.com: Generation War: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte, Philipp Kadelbach: Movies & TV).

It shows a lot about the Polish resistance-partisan fighters sabotaging the National Socialists (a.k.a. Nazis or National Socialist German Workers' Party - Nazi Party - Conservapedia) army. The socialism Hitler advocated is much closer to that of Soviet communism than liberals are willing to admit, or than many people realize (Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian - George Reisman - Mises Daily especially those who think in terms of "right wing" and "left wing" politics.

A good drama -- 4.5 out of 5.
Amazon reviewer named Forczyk does a good review of it and points out the modern German film-maker's slight introduction of some guilt-based historical revisionism to make the modern German feel better about their evil past: Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Generation War
That review contains spoilers if you want to enjoy the unwinding of the story. Another reviewer said it is the best German film since Days Boot.

I like it a little more than the similar themed movie with Daniel Craig (Jame Bond) called Defiance (Amazon.com: Defiance: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Edward Zwick, Pieter Jan Brugge, Clay Frohman: Movies & TV ) -- This movie was based on the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec

 

Possibly....if he/she is dumb, and makes a lone wolf direct play for the leadership, confronting the whole group, and claiming the only source of presumptive coercive authority. An astute aspiring dictator will divide loyalties, reward followership, isolate opposition, and exploiting the weaknesses of the various factions involved, whilst building up support for his/her factional support base. All this is done well before making any gun play and purging the group of any threats to his/her leadership. Even if the whole group is armed, the aspiring dictator's challenge, and aim, is to have all of the guns pointing outward, rather than inward.

 

A pipsqueek bully with a shotgun, does not sound much like your dictator.

 

Just watched Time of the Wolf on Netflix streaming... or more accurately Le Temps Du Loup. French post-apocalyptic. While watching it, something that has never happened before... happened.

I turned it off before it was over.

OMG it sucks. I mean, if you like seeing captions on a black background or listening to a bunch of people stand around at a train station bitching for hours on end then this may be the holy grail for you, but dude. I've watched crap like Night of the Lepus and Alligator all the way to the end.... TWICE.... and I couldn't last this bomb.

French. Shoulda known.

 

The pipsqeak bully more resembles

Even pipsqueak bullies have to sleep sometime, and they can't afford to sleep/have their guard down without loyal henchmen/henchwomen watching their back and enforcing the bully's will.

 

There's always willing and able henchmen around for such things, and the clever pipsqueek will select the dumber ones who wouldn't dare to challenge them, but be content to bask in the spoils of the relationship.

 

CHELL, DUDE! Lay off our beloved Prez! He's all we got....................

 

True...although the present Prez was not the instigator of The Patriot Act...he none the less seems as happy as G Dybya and his gang to exploit the anti-constitutional fruits of it.

There is nothing to say that the USA may not throw up a conservative dictator...or emperor, given the right conditions. George Dubya's appeal for additional powers "to fight world terrorism" and prosecute that war is redolent of Big Brother's patriotic appeals in the perpetual war among Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia in the novel 1984.

 

@Chellovek,
Or a leftist dictator. It's not a 100% fixed outcome despite their efforts. Thank God for the unalienable rights enshrined by the Second Amendment.

 

I just remembered a movie I really enjoyed called Tooth and Nail. Tooth and Nail (2007) - IMDb I watched a while back on Netflix, however, it is no longer there. Good movie though.

 

And here's me thinking that Obama is the existant leftist dictator that you were thinking of!

 

I just watched a movie that messed me up a bit. It is on Netflix and it is called Snowpiercer Snowpiercer (2013) - IMDb
Good flick!

 

That's on my list to watch... watching Criminal Minds or some serial killer profiler series with a name like it right now.