Mad Max stands out as such an early movie of an apocalyptic genre perspective. Some associated books I remember for my school bus journeys. Maybe got me engrained with all this. Terminator, Matrix, Total Recall, etc, are a bit lame to Mad Max, but all serve a purpose.
This statement was made all that time ago. Conflict & battling society when resources like food have run out
My first geography lesson told me that fuel / energy will run out in 50 years. That could have been imagination / fiction. Poignant that it was true, when I was 4. So we have a decade to go.
Anything apocalyptic suits me. 21 Days Later? Waterworld, Outbreak
Zombies...
So many more twists on apocalyptic base of people 'in the same boat' - where I've been more comfy in jail and hospital kinship
I know I'd love to have the chance to live through a grand scale kind of situation, naturally fighting to survive alongside others
The western world have experienced bombings, natural disasters - tsunami, floods in US East Coast, and a lot of the UK. Fairly local, not quite global. Standard society may have to submit to loss of luxurious belongings, ie. that glamour of mobile phones... let's get together properly
Nothing wrong with a bit of fantasy
but eventually reality
as for the recent Magic Mike, I prosper on thorough creativity in a movie which doesn't quite have a category