I'm not a fan of Luc Besson films, but I've just rented this on Blu-ray: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085426/

"In the post-apocalyptic future, only a few humans are left."

It sounds totally different from his later stuff (Subway etc), and any film featuring Jean Reno (as 'the brute') can't be all bad.

I'll watch it tonight or tomorrow, if I can tear myself away from New Vegas ...

If we're posting Apocalypse films then Kubrickian classic Dr Strangelove is on Sky Classics at 12:50 am this Wednesday.

Also, read A Canticle for Leibowitz, supurb, clever post-apocalypse novel, it was what the concept for the Abbey was based on!

Dr Strangelove is one of my favorite films, but Last Combat sounds (very) vaguely a bit like Fallout.

I've put A Canticle for Leibowitz on my reading list (I've heard of it, but never read it).

How could you have never heard of "A Canticle for Liebowitz"? It set the standard for all epic post-nuclear fiction. My therapist recommended it to me years ago because he wanted me to distract myself from negative thinking by reading something truly horrifying, yet uplifting.

I said I had heard of it, but not read it.

You've seen Threads too right? Damn chilling film, and people say The Day After is realistic and scary, ha!

Unfortunately not, though I have seen The War Game. I've ordered Threads from my DVD rental account.

By they way, The Last Battle was quite good, almost an arthouse film by Luc Besson's standards!

A Boy And His Dog is a very good Post Apoc movie. It's almost identical to Fallout.

I second A Boy and His Dog. Reminds alot of Fallout. Just think less rebuilding, less settlements, more desert, more raiders/rapists (because there are few women), food as a currency, a scary underground vault with scary people and androids, some kind of monster that reminds of a Glowing One (although you never see it). And a boy who can speaks with his dog.

I liked the novel "On the Beach". Very moving story and it was somewhat Fallouty, given that it was written during the 1950s and deals with a Nuclear War (although it deals more with the as yet untouched country of Australia rather than the rest of the destroyed world).

Also I thought the british animated film "When the Wind Blows" was really good too (very sad though as it deals with an elderly couple who stuggles to survive Nuclear holocaust).