You guys must be young...
Movies- Omega Man(1971)*, A Boy and His Dog*, Escape from New York(1981), Mad Max, Roadwarrior, Planet of the Apes (the original 1973)*, 28 Days/Weeks Later, George Romero zombie movies, Delicatessan, Damnation Alley, Soylent Green, Red Dawn, The Day After and coming out this fall- The Road* (read the book, it is incredible and easy to read, by Cormac McCarthy)
Speaking of books, there is another book by Cormac McCarthy called Blood Meridian, it is set in the old west, but it is essentially an apocalypse story, it is easily one of the most violent, twisted, deranged masterpieces ever written. It will never be on Opra's book club.
I wrote up some of the film influences for Fallout 3 awhile back, here:
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^Includes screen shots in comparison to the lone wanderer and his dog to the films.
The thing about
I am Legend is, the films got better as you go backwards.
All
3 are adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel "I am Legend"....
1) The Last Man on Earth
2) The Omega Man
3) I am Legend
The recent one was okay....the 2nd, The Omega Man, was a bit better,
however the best by far is "The Last man on Earth" starring Vincent Price, 1964.
That is if you were to read the book - the first film is the best.
I agree that 90% of people liken the Will Smith character to Fallout 3 though.
I agree with all 3
Mad Max films, the armor and sawed off shotgun are almost identical,
as well as
A Boy and His Dog, where Harlan Ellison even wrote into the script in the first few
pages the lead character calling his dog Blood by the name of "
Dogmeat".
Set in post-apocalyptic USA, the star was born after the war, around 2018.
Don Johnson did an okay job back in the 70's, before starring in Miami Vice in the 80's.
Nice to see a weird version of the Enclave in A Boy and his Dog called "The Underground".
Original
Planet of the Apes film was 1968, based on the book by Pierre Boulle.
I can make some of the connections to Fallout 3, as well as Snake Pliskin
in the Escape From series, New York and L.A., but not like with Mad Max, or I am Legend.
Those two along with A Boy and His Dog are easily the closest comparisons.
About Cormac McCarthy, he is a brilliant author who finally gained the spotlight
after No Country for Old Men won a half dozen oscars. Kudos to the Coen Bros, as well.
Guy is a genius, I've loved everything that I have read by him.
One of the cool things about being an older gamer, it's like the old NBC Television logo
stated... "The More You Know".......and yes most gaming forums that I am admin or moderator
on are 99.99% kids, as most kids are gamers nowdays. Helps to (cough) not mention age.
Yet they wonder how we are able to find all these tricks and know all this stuff.
Well here is a bit of ancient technology that hasn't been mentioned much, and Bethesda
did a great job on this because we have no cars, and no modern music in Fallout 3.
GNR - ThreeDog, and why the music from the 1940's? I know people that (surprisingly)
never even heard of Billie Holliday. The simple fact that a nuclear detonation triggers
an EMP, or electromotive pulse, which renders any magnetic field useless. Cars die
instantly, the coils pop, and battery seizes. Any magnetic media would have to be
heavily fortified (aka The Enclave) or it would have to have been re-built after the EMP.
All tapes erased, so that the tapes in the game are labeled holotapes, as holograms have
not been perfected in our time period, obviously they had been by 2077.
So,
45-RPM vinyl is the only surviving music that the Dog can spin.
"What's a disc-jockey?" Hell if he knows.
Nice work,
hiplnsdrftr. Always loved those spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood.
