There's a documentary called Life After People. It shows the ruins of a city in Russia that suffered a nuclear meltdown from the nearby power plant. Apparently almost everyone there died, and the children birthen from the survivors were severely mutated. The footage of the area inside the now deserted city looks exactly like some areas in Fallout 3 in many ways.

I've got this on DVD - it was made by The History Channel and if you've not seen it I urge you to go find a copy. It was very very creepy but also fascinating to find out what would happen to the world if we suddenly blinked out of existance. The Russian city I found particularly interesting because it seemed very Fallout, since they showed a school and there were toys and things strewn about the place. I'd imagine the Fallout team got a lot of imagary from these kinds of places...

I just remembered another one.

When Wall E first starts and pans down into the abandoned city, I felt that had a bit of a Fallout vibe to it too. And the scene where Eve shoots the ships and they all go crashing into one another reminded me of it too.

lol, love that movie. I have it streaming to my xbox, and your right about it being very falloutish....though the robots seemed a bit more friendly and productive than in fallout! :twirl:

I'll have to check out the other history channel show of life after people, sounds pretty interesting.

My two year old nephew loves that movie....every time he sees the dvd case he says "Wall E". Yeah I thought that two, I saw Wall E before I played Fallout 3 but still any then it reminded me of a Fallout world. Any the style of the music or styles of technically was a little set in the 50's era kinda.

Wow, that movie was terrible. No offense. The Omega Man (based on the same book) was better, IMO.

Fallout was actually inspired by the http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/ films and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/...at least those are the two movies that the original devs cited in interviews. The Bethesda devs also mentioned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118736/ captures a bit of the humor as well, although Wasteland and Fallout were already both around when that film was made.

I don't know if some of you watched this movie: "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/".

I recently came across it and I think it is one of the finest post apocalyptic movies ever made! I even dare to say it was better than "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037705/"

Although "The Book of Eli" is also very good. :foodndrink:

Wikipedia offers a whole list of nuclear holocaust fiction, much of which i have seen, but most of the movies mentioned do only relate to fallout in that they depict post-apocalyptic events, while not having particular resemblences with Fallout. Personally i found that "The Day After" was very good.

Nobody has mentioned "28 Days Later." While it's not a nuclear fallout apocalypse, Fallout 3 kind of reminds me of it. There's also Stephen King's "The Stand" which is sort of like "28 Days Later," except it gets a little weird in the end.

If you haven't played Fallout 1, there is a reference to Mad Max when you first find dogmeat.

Fallout is basically combination of three things, fifties red scare, b-movies from same era (both sci-fi and horror) and more mainstream post-apocalyptic sci-fi.

When we start discussing mainstream PA sci-fi we have to acknowledge it's roots, spaghetti western. It is basically that where horses, revolvers and lever action rifles have been replaced with cars, motor cycles and machine guns. Imaginary, dialog, pacing, stories and mood are basically same, desperation, corruption, brutality, prostitution and deserts. Budgets and production values are also very similar in a way. There is few high-production value high-budget spaghetti westerns like Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in The West. There plenty of spaghetti westerns made with fairly decent production values, movies like Keoma, Django and Great Silence. Then there is lot of trash.

Italian movie productions were often exploitation movies, that side of exploitation where they make cheap clones that are usually more violent and have far worse actors than originals. Currently Asylum is US production company that works in sort of similar fashion, produce cheap copy straight to DVD markets, someone might accidentally buy or rent it instead of movie they are actually looking for, them and b-movie fans create big enough audience to make it profitable. Mad Max and Escape from New York were followed by legion of cheap copies. Same happened to Conan the Barbarian, as side note early 80's Italian barbarian movies are absolutely hilarious. You can guess what happened with The Warriors. All of these movies became popular at same time as home video emerged on mass markets, that provided market for crappy straight to video movies. Couple Italian post apcalyptic sci-fi movies worth mentioning are Equalizer 2000, Wheels of Fire and New Barbarians. These are movies that are that crappy that they are good, like usual in B-movies productions were bashed together with extremely low budgets and very tight schedule. With Italian b-movies is also hilarious that same dirctors have done classic movies like Keoma and on flip side of coin there is absolute trash like New Barbarians, both are directed by Enzo Castellari.

There is also plenty of US post-apocalyptic b-movies. Some of those have semi-decent production values, Cherry 2000, Hardware, Blood of Heroes and Steel Frontier are good examples and definitely worth watching.

Edit: Almost forgot about something... sixmission. Polish post-apocalyptic sci-fi comedy from communist era. Cult classic for very good reason. It's events also take place mostly in very vault like environment.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/ great movie. The dogs name is even dogmeat.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085935/

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2796749081/

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9pi4n_defcon-4-1985_webcam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwteCwCSMw - Really corny but Falloutish humor. Can't go wrong with Rowdy Roddy Piper wearing a booby-trapped explosive codpiece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfTWYP4bE28 - Another cheesy movie ( Fallout: Las Vegas anyone? )

http://www.thoughts.gr/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/roadwarrior1.jpg

Waterworld was great, but the main reason I quoted this was for The Postman.

It's really a "love it or hate it" type of film, but I for one loved it. If you can bear with the 3 hour run time, it's definitely worth looking into. One of my favorite post-apocalyptic films outside of the Mad Max series.

I thought "The Postman" was brilliant!

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I've been digging through a lot of post apocalyptic movies thanks to Fallout. I found 2 cool classics: "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/" and "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/"

Damnation Alley was quite enjoyable but a bit cheesy. This movie features giant scorpions and cockroaches, ring any bells?

The day after was a genuine movie IMO reflecting on the fear that excisted in the eighties about the cold war and the horrors of a nuclear aftermath.

These movies are on youtube: Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5aP9HhL848 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwfWvBqkPu4 to watch.

Enjoy!

Well... Mad Max of course, Escape from New York, The Omega Man. Of the three I think Omega Man is the best.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/

However, b-movies are sometimes the best in my option. What makes a good movie is not the greatness in the graphics or the great effects, or ether the the money going into the production..but what makes a good movie is the written story line. The story or plot is what creates a good movie.

Movies:

• Escape From New York
  
• Some of the Planet Of The Apes movies from back in the 1970s? It's been a long time since I watched them but I do remember the statue of liberty bit
  
• Cherry 2000 (fun movie, btw)
  
• Space Hunter, Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (I think they got the architectural style of Megaton from this one a most excellent movie)

TV shows/series:

• There was a Planet of the Apes show back in the 1970s. I don't remember it well enough to say for sure, though.
  
• Logans Run tv show (more so than the movies, if my sketchy memory can be trusted)

Though this next is off topic, I've seen a ton of books from the 1960s and 1970s. Seems they (SF writers) were obsessed with Post-apocalyptic & post-global-scale-disasters back then.

Well, the Book of Eli. In fact, that's the reason why I watched the Book of Eli, because it sounded like it would be a bit like Fallout. And another movie that reminds me of Fallout is Fallout the movie. Oh trust me, it will happen!

Omega Man -- Incidentally, I Am Legend was a remake of this movie.

The Pitt kind of reminds me of Deliverance

Toss in bits and pieces of these others:
Judge Dredd (esp. the scenes outside the city)
Bladerunner
Escape from {LA/New York}
Logan's Run
The Stand
Soylent Green
The Running Man
Andromeda Strain (think FEV Virus)
The Day After

the book of eli looks like it was copy, pasted direct form fallout 3.
aboy and his dog is very similar in some ways (especially since it was part of the inspiration of the game)
mad max series
i am legend scenes remind me of fallout 3 in alot of ways

Wow, a movie I just saw, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_%282009_film%29, really reminded me of Fallout 3.

Post apocalypic world, 40's-ish newsreel clips, mash-up type creations and more.

Mad Max, obviously. I can't think of any others - maybe Waterworld? I haven't seen it, but it sounds vaguely similar.

Not really..... besides "I am legend" is a remake of "The Omega Man" 1971.
plus the only thing that is the same is they both have a dog.