Cinema Suicide

Fallout is a very popular post-nuke themed video game. In anticipation of the latest installment in the series, Fallout 3, which is in the extremely capable hands of Bethesda Softworks, responsible for the extremely ambitious RPG series, Elderscrolls, Bethesda has teamed up with Geek Monthly and American Cinematheque to bring residents of Santa Monica, California, a film festival featuring a whole handful of bleak future and radiation poisoning.

Starting August 22nd at the Aero Theater you can catch screenings of the Ralph Bakshi animation, Wizards, Don Johnson and his psychic dog in A Boy & His Dog and George Pepard and Jan Michael Vincent in Damnation Alley, featuring giant scorpions attacking armored party vans.

Following those on the 23rd is The Last Man on Earth, the virtually identical I Am Legend adaptation, The Omega Man and finishing up with Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys.

I really wish they had consulted me on this matter because I probably would have turned out a program of movies a lot more in tune with what the game is about rather than these rather tame end of the world scenarios. You’d think they would have hit up The Road Warrior, at least. I would have fleshed it out with all manner of nuclear suvival from Italy, too. But hey, I’m sure it’ll be a good time.

Tickets on sale July 25th at Fandango.