Re: The WEIRDEST post-apocalyptic movies of all ti « Reply #15 on Sept 16, 2011, 7:56pm »
Don't know if it's really Post-Apocalyptic or zombie or something else, but Pontypool (2008) is different. I actually liked it. I guess you might call it the thinking person's horror movie.
Yeah, A Boy and His Dog is regarded as a classic, but I could never get into it. Those crazy masks the underground guys wore were just too strange. Great catch for this particular thread though.
I have to admit I got strangely into it, um I think because it reminded me of Fallout 3 so much. You know the whole dog as a companion thing, but heres what was the weirdest thing through out the whole movie.....the "dog talked". And that dog was no mans best friend, I'm sorry it was one S.O.B. of a dog.
Then the underground people started to loose me big time, reminded me of crazy people in a insane vault in Fallout. But the end of the movie was the biggest thing that peed me off!
So in the end I rated it a C for crap. I mean the whole strangeness of this PA world in the desert was cool but it was very much like, a example how bad choices play into effect.
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In those days....everything we once knew is gone, but the beauty of a broken world is still seen. Life has meaning....when every little thing we think is so dare to use fades away, and we for the first time again since ages that have passed...see our world in the view of a child.
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Re: The WEIRDEST post-apocalyptic movies of all ti « Reply #17 on Sept 20, 2011, 4:52am »
Although I haven't actually seen it so I can't be sure, I think "Glen And Randa" might fit into the weird category. IMDB link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067141/
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May the road gangs never meet you. May the wind be fallout-free. May the sun shine through the ashes, hot rain not fall on thee. And until we meet again, may no one hold your flesh in the palm of their hand.
"This is not a Test" from 1962 if I remember correctly. I'm not sure if it's weird or really really bad.
I've got the 1962 version on DVD, (anybody seen the 2008 namesake?) It's bad but still worth watching because it deals with a group of people caught out on the highway when the attack starts. They're held together by a single police officer who slowly cracks under the pressure. Definitely not weird but it's a different treatment to the usual apoc/post-apoc movies we see. It suffers from having been made in the paranoia of the late 1950s-early 1960s and I suspect on a budget. Like I say, it's bad but still worth a viewing I think.
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Re: The WEIRDEST post-apocalyptic movies of all ti « Reply #23 on Oct 13, 2011, 3:40pm »
"I suspect on a budget"
My hat is off to you sir as a master of the art of understatement. As I recall the budget includes a couple of cars, a couple of trucks and a road. Still - I'm glad it's in my collection.
Now if I can just find a copy of "Testament" that I saw on PBS many years ago......
My hat is off to you sir as a master of the art of understatement. As I recall the budget includes a couple of cars, a couple of trucks and a road. Still - I'm glad it's in my collection.
Now if I can just find a copy of "Testament" that I saw on PBS many years ago......
Yes I'm glad I have a copy specifically because it is a different story to what we usually see and it's also a refreshing change from the "atom bomb causes animal to mutate into giant creature" movies that were a big feature of the 1950s.
It's the same kind of reason for why I own the Roger Corman flick "The Day The World Ended". It's another bad movie but what can you expect from Corman!
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Re: The WEIRDEST post-apocalyptic movies of all ti « Reply #25 on Oct 18, 2011, 6:14am »
Okay I got another one, I ordered it from the Movies Unlimited website and it arrived today. It's called "Bleak Future", I haven't watched it yet but the reviews say it's "Rude, unapolegetically ghetto and insanely funny".
It's a straight up B-movie and the blurb on the back says this about the story: - Slangman, a travelling salesman of words and relics from the 21st century (like soda cans and Twinkies), teams up with a tongueless Scottish warrior, a stupid blonde actress and a hippie, to battle madmen and savage mutants as they cross the post-nuclear wastelands in search of a legendary place called "The Source", an oracle of ancient wisdom rumoured to hold the power to enlighten the world... or destroy what's left of it.
I'm hoping to watch it this weekend but it promises to be, if not weird, then at least very trippy!
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Re: The WEIRDEST post-apocalyptic movies of all ti « Reply #26 on Nov 14, 2011, 10:49pm »
NECROPOST!
Saw A Boy and his Dog night before last. Needless to say, the movie is without a doubt among the weirdest I have ever seen. Am I a bad person for laughing during the last scene? I don't necessarily feel bad for admitting that I found it funny. Aside from Blood's telepathy, I thought that the movie portrayed a realistic sense of how people could become. Food and sex. I guess Maslow's hierarchy did some slimming when the nukes dropped.
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Okay I got another one, I ordered it from the Movies Unlimited website and it arrived today. It's called "Bleak Future", I haven't watched it yet but the reviews say it's "Rude, unapolegetically ghetto and insanely funny".
That sounds great, let us know how it was when you watch it.
Edit: Here's the Bleak Future trailer. I'd definitely watch it, but not sure if I would pay $15 for it. Maybe I need to re-subscribe to DVDs on Netflix.
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Re: The WEIRDEST post-apocalyptic movies of all ti « Reply #28 on Nov 15, 2011, 6:07am »
Bleak Future Okay I'm not much good at writing reviews but I did enjoy this movie. It's lame but it's funny and when I wasn't laughing I was still grinning. The main character is called Slangman and he revels in the idea that he is the smartest man in the known world, something that everyone else seems to believe as well. He wanders around a desert that used to be prime residential land in the USA before the apocalypse and allows the inhabitants to listen to his knowledge, all for a suitable fee of course!
He meets up with a mute Scottish warrior who uses the sharpened shafts of golf clubs as spears - yeah, from that you might guess the movie is a little whacky, a Scots warrior carrying around a golfbag in the middle of a desert in what used to be the USA... Later he buys a woman he sees acting in a rather lame play (he's smitten by her and simply "must" have her). It turns out she's not just ditzy, she's just plain dumb and this plus another event that shows that she's not all that she appears means he's not so happy with his purchase after all.
Between the three of them, they embark on a mission to save humanity (because it's Slangman's destiny don't you know!) but are opposed by the evil archaeologist Dr Obvious. You can tell they were not trying to make a serious movie here but they obviously had some fun doing it. The end is a major spoiler so I won't reveal it here but the movie is B-grade fun and I got more than a few laughs from it.
Okay I got another one, I ordered it from the Movies Unlimited website and it arrived today. It's called "Bleak Future", I haven't watched it yet but the reviews say it's "Rude, unapolegetically ghetto and insanely funny".
That sounds great, let us know how it was when you watch it.
Edit: Here's the Bleak Future trailer. I'd definitely watch it, but not sure if I would pay $15 for it. Maybe I need to re-subscribe to DVDs on Netflix.
Re: The WEIRDEST post-apocalyptic movies of all ti « Reply #29 on Nov 25, 2011, 7:09pm »
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Yeah, A Boy and His Dog is regarded as a classic, but I could never get into it...
Then the underground people started to loose me big time, reminded me of crazy people in a insane vault in Fallout. But the end of the movie was the biggest thing that peed me off!
Word, those underground vault people were pretty damn creepy, especially with that makeup they wore. I loved the ending though, thought it was perfect.
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