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Need Some Assistance Locating Post-Apocalypse Movie

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Hello everyone! Saw a Mad Max-style movie back in the late 70s/early 80s, I'm trying to find but I can not remember it's name! Here are some things I recall about it:

1. I think there had been some environmental disaster and there was little food.

2. The three main protagonists were a guy, a girl and an Army dude who looked like Santa Claus and had an Uzi.

3. They were chased by a gang of bad guys. I don't know why though.

4. The good guys link up with a group based on a beached ship. There is a fight with the bad guys at the ship.

Thanks in advance for your assistance!
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Hm, can't say I know that one...
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Cyborg series?
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My guess:
Ravagers (1979)

The title appears to be the most exciting part of the movie.
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Though when you (O.P.) said little food, my first thought was "A Boy and His Dog" with a very young Don Johnson, hilarious in its own right, the survivors thought nothing of cannibalism. The Ending, the first time I saw it, couldn't stop laughing until the end of the credits and only a handful of other patrons got it.

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Can't say I recall it, but I know the feeling. I can remember this one scene from a movie I saw when I was no older than 7 (1984). I've wondered for years what the film was but never succeed in locating it.
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Heh. Found this little gem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Am ... ms_of_1984
You could copy/paste into excel and filter, if you remember the genre, I suppose.... :wink:

edit: I'm going to assume there are obsessive fans doing the same for Australia....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Au ... ms_of_1984
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@Kojiro
Harlan Ellison wrote the original book IIRC of unconnected stories, though the movie makers concentrated on the one character.
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Patrick Ogaard wrote: 2017-05-30 07:52am My guess:
Ravagers (1979)

The title appears to be the most exciting part of the movie.

That's it!! Thanks!

Kind of starnge, I didn't recall Richard Harris was in this flick...
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can this topic be turned into "looking for old / lost sci fi movies " ??

I have two films that i rememer from my childhood

1. one is about soem guy and a woman on some frost world and they are trying to get to some space ship in a hangar and when they reach the hangar there are little probes that stick out of the earth and scan stuff.. There is later a scene where they get to the ship and somethng gets burned by the engine blast. This movie i saw 20 years ago

2. Second movie has some buffed muscular girl wandering around a waste land in californa type sunny weather and she is stalked by some invisibel robot/something , they do battle near a water ( lake / river)

these two are probably some B class sci fi's but they got inprinted in my childhood memory ...

if anyone knows what im talking about it would be nice ... :D
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The first movie sounds a bit like Screamers starring Peter Weller. Its been forever since I saw that movie but I remember there being little robots in the ground and I think it was set on a ice planet.

The second movie definitely sounds like Nemesis 2 starring Sue Price. The whole Nemesis series is some gloriously cheesy sci-fi starring ridiculously muscular people including surprisingly a female body builder for the later movies. Kinda devolves into soft-core porn for all the sequels so be warned. Also you get to see a young Thomas Jane's bait and tackle in the first one.
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1. YES that is the one :D i will definitely be watching this one tonight the Teddy bear at the end was scary for me back then :lol:

2. this nemesis series looks so bad that its actually god lol :D

thank you so much for this :)
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Oh man, Screamers. That was a good one. Many nightmares were had, even rewatching in my 20s.

And "Boy and his Dog" is pretty terrible, but I liked it. Dug it up as a precursor watch when looking into the origins of the Fallout series.

I was going to post and ask about a movie, "Cherry" something. Turns out I remember Melanie Griffith was in it. Found it on imdb "Cherry 2000." Has one of my favorite lines:

"You guys want some sandwiches?"
"Lester's dead."
"Well then, no sandwiches for him."

It's not a great movies as far as I remember. Some rich dude in a semi-rundown 2017 (ha!) has a sexbot/companion bot. Sexbot breaks, he wants the same (discontinued) model so he hires Griffith to get him to an abandoned facility. Bad guys try and stop them for reasons.
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