I remember watching an old sci-fi movie as a kid in the mid 80's and it seemed like it was a little old even then, maybe from the early-mid 1970's?

It was like a sci-fi Rip Van Winkle story about a guy who was put into suspended animation underground but a war or accident happens and he gets buried and forgotten. Then he's rediscovered and reawakened like 300 years later and the society is much different, the US is gone after WWIII happened, etc.

There was some sort of fancy high speed subway/underground train in the movie that still worked apparently.

Anyone?

Try looking thru this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ms_of_the_1980s#1980

Linky

Let us know what you find out.

Gene Roddenberry's "Genesis II"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_(film)

(Never seen it. But I Googled 1970s movie suspended animation subway, and it was the first result, and hits all your plot points exactly.)

Blast From the Past?

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Originally posted by fpuhan:
Blast From the Past?

Unless PASig has secretly invented a time machine, it'd be kinda tough for him to watch a 1999 movie in the mid-1980s.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Gene Roddenberry's "Genesis II"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_(film)

(Never seen it. But I Googled 1970s movie suspended animation subway, and it was the first result, and hits all your plot points exactly.)

Bingo! That's it.

The Gene Roddenberry story "Genesis II" was a pilot for a new show that never made the cut. They eventually re-worked the script and made a movie called "Planet Earth" in 1974 starring John Saxon. Interestingly, the lead character's name is Dylan Hunt and the basic premise would be used for the 1990's TV "Andromeda".

Genesis II trailer



Planet Earth trailer



Here's a little documentary about the two films.

What’s funny about this thread is that someone asked for help finding this movie before. It must be an interesting movie.