Since FO3 was released many people have made reference to books,songs, games, and movies that resemble the FO style, retro-futurism, or post-apocalyptia, has anyone complied all these things into one compound list I could check out? If not please post any you know here, and ill create a list and give thanks to you in the thread.

List so far...

Movies

A Boy and His Dog
When the Wind Blows
Mad Max
Mad Max:Road Warrior
Mad Max:Beyond the Thunderdome
Silent Running
Escape from New York
Escape from LA
DefCon 4

Books
A Boy and His Dog
The Road
There Will Come Soft Rains
On the Beach
Level 7
The Folk of the Fringe
The Long Tomorrow
Dawns Uncertain Light
Alas, Babylon
Earth Abides



thanks to Laura Jay, RobotMilk, Enclaves Shadow,Pubik Vengeance, Cold_ Dead_ Hands, Salival

I watched 'Where the wind blows' after discovering Fallout 3, it's an animated film from the creators of 'The Snowman' about what life is like in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The story focuses on an elderly married couple, it's pretty morbid and saddening but a very well done movie.

The Onion just made a video asking whether or not current video games are adequately preparing children for the Apocalypse:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games

You could check out the video for Fallout-esqe games.

I know, off the top of my head, a few of the movies too add too the list would be?

"Mad Max"

"A Boy and His Dog"

"Silent Running"

There's a lot more though.

the sewer mutants worshiping the nuke in futurama
just like those guys in megaton

Well what im really looking for are posts like RobotMilk and Laura Jay, you know the things that have similar feel, mood,setting, of Fallout or things that the FO universe was inspired by.

The second and third, definitely - but I still don't see how the first one fits. Yeah it's a rather dystopian future, but he's a cop in a working law enforcement agency, there are working hospitals, there are vacationers . . . . the second movie's intro pretends it was post-apocalyptic but in the end it's a cop chasing bikers in the outback.

When I watched that i thought that as well, but its a classic and people who have OCD like me may feel the need to see the first in order to watch the second two.


Still looking for more.

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfI69DC_jaw

Mirelurk King's are a tribute to The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

http://elviswomen.greggers.net/images/lagoon05.jpg And http://www.theothermovies.com/images/Wallpaper/WPcreat4800.jpg

"On the Beach" is very interesting book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)

It was written in the 50s so fits the Fallout theme pretty well. It is about a nuclear war that ravages most of the world, but the most southern parts of the world aren't yet affected, so mainly Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Chile/Argentina. The story is set in Australia, and it is just about them waiting for the nuclear radiation to slowly travel through the air and kill them.

It hits close to home for me because they end up going to Seattle after it has been ravaged by war, and that is my home town. But, very good book.

Maybe not fallout-esque exactly, But I found the STALKER movie verry good.

Maybe "Escape from New York" would be nice to add to your movies list, if you've ever seen it. Snake Plissken is a classic anti-hero.

don't forget Escape from LA

I collect post-apocalypse fiction, but my whole collection is in storage at the mo', but here are a few obscure references that may whet your appitite

Books
Level 7 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Level-7-Library-American-Fiction/dp/0299200647/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238164858&sr=1-1 Life in a failing vault.
The Folk of the Fringe http://www.amazon.co.uk/Folk-Fringe-Orson-Scott-Card/dp/0812500865/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238165477&sr=1-2 Four stories span several generations of Mormons in post-apocalypse USA.
The Long Tomorrow http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Tomorrow-Leigh-Brackett/dp/0345288858/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238165674&sr=1-5 Young lads on the run in a low tech USA dominated by Amish.
Dawn's Uncertain Light http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dawns-Uncertain-Light-Neal-Barrett/dp/0586212744/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238165948&sr=1-1 So if all the food animals in the US are destroyed in the Apocalypse, how do you maintain a civilization?
Alas, Babylon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alas-Babylon-Perennial-Classics-David/dp/0060741872/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238166358&sr=1-1 Small town in Florida rides out an early 60's apocalypse
Earth Abides http://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Abides-Masterworks-George-R-Stewart/dp/1857988213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238166543&sr=1-1 The life of a man in the US after plague wipes out most of the world's population.

Films
Haven't seen it for a while, but DefCon 4 is so bad it's almost good. Suggest several beers before veiwing, if you are allowed.

Thanks for all the posters ill revive the thread now that ive got more items.

A Boy & His Dog was honestly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Yeah it has a slight Fallout feel , and may have even influenced the game series, but it's no Mad Max. If you really want to get psyched to play Fallout, you need to watch The Road Warrior.

I'm shocked nobody's mentioned the movie "The Day After" yet. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/

That one episode of family guy where Peter is told by that chicken that the world will end when the new year begins, it does and Peter and his family explore the destroyed world.

Remember never eat a years worth of dehydrated food all at once and then drink water..

Yeah, The Road Warrior is awesome. Love that movie. I wish one of the modders would make a Lord Humongous mod for Fallout 3. He would make a very cool boss..