Post-Post-Apocalyptic Film

[tongodeon]

Sometimes, old films will make a big deal out of something that that was a big deal back in its day, like interracial couples. Modern films sometimes feature interracial couples but they're no longer a big deal - they're just another unremarkable part of the contemporary cultural background. Same-sex couples are beginning to turn that corner. "Oh

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[occlupanid]

Depends what your definition of post is. Plenty of science fiction relies on an apocalypse to give human society a clean break with the past. The Buck Rogers TV show in the '80s comes to mind, what with its Domed Cities and mutants in the ruins. Even Star Trek made use of how bad things got before they got better. But those usually are events in the far past, as opposed to your Leave It To Beaver Compound concept, which is a more recent scenario. I guess you could argue that, depending on who's counting, our handbaskets have already made the journey, and have a show where people causally wear urban camouflage gear to avoid civilian drone strikes...

[mmcirvin]

There's an old tradition (going back at least a hundred years) of sword-and-sorcery fantasies set in postapocalyptic futures, in which our age is spoken of in dimly remembered legends. James Nicoll calls these "backswing stories", in which our civilization got exterminated just to clear out some room for the hero's backswing.

[mmcirvin]

...Nicoll claims to have gotten the term from Andrew Wheeler.

[erikred]

One wonders if John Christopher's The White Mountain trilogy would qualify as backswing or post-post-Apocalypse.

Crap, now one wonders where the John Travolta version of Battlefield Earth fits in that schema, and one further wonders where on can quickly obtain enough booze to erase the memories of that movie.

[lordjulius]

Hiero Desteen!

[rwx]

The 'hunger games' series, which is currently the most popular media of various sorts, is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland in which few people survive. there are occasional references to this, but all of known surviving north american humanity lives in roughly a dozen enclaves in small clumps. they don't even mention in the books what the original disaster was, and it's "triple digits years ago," although they mention once or twice that there was a nuclear exchange post that. It seems to meat your criteria for fun times.

[xtingu]

Things that sound dirty but aren't:
meat your criteria

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[lordjulius]

I think in general that movie producers find the apocalyptic occurrence much more interesting than the post-post-apocalyptic experience, such that you will find many apocalypse movies, fewer post-apocalypse movies, and zero to one post-post-apocalyptic movies.

There's probably also a large lack of imagination on what a post-post-apocalyptic world would be like. By definition it would be a normal world with some horrific event that has receded into the background, like the 2000 presidential election, or Zardoz.

[cpr94]

Now I want to see a movie that involves the phrase "leisure radiation suit".