Sigh... why do all apocalypses feature GQ models with mohawks?

[viktor_haag]

Having just seen the trailer for Neil Marshall's Doomsday, I must say, I have little urge at all to see this film. It looks like a Cormanized mashup of Road Warrior, 28 Days Later, and Escape From New York. What does it have going for it?

Well, Bob Hoskins, I suppose. And presumably pouty-temptress-du-jour Rhona Mitra must be seen as an advantage by some (as, presumably, is Nora-Jane Noone).

But any "sci-fi/horror/action/drama/thriller" that takes as its premise that a deadly virus can be stopped by re-building Hadrian's Wall... well, let's just say that the "plausbility" usually associated with well-written science-fiction isn't high on its list of priorities...

So, what we get (presumably) is yet another entry in the "horror == sci-fi" camp, and a rather campy one at that.

I rather liked Dog Soldiers; it had a certain low-budget charm, and had at least the good graces to not attempt to be plausible at all. But it looks to me as if Neil Marshall has just been given too much money.

Comments

[thebitterguy]

Apparently he's describing it as an homage to '80s action, so Road Warrior, Escape from NY and Highlander probably fit strongly in this film's DNA.

I borrowed a copy of Dog Soldiers from a friend after not being able to find it, and the darn thing won't work in my xbox.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

This might work: http://www.watch-movies.net/movies/dog_soldiers/

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Oh God. Has no-one learned anything from "Escape From Planet Terror"? ::shudder::

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm tentatively looking forward to it - more so before I saw the trailer, true. Although I haven't seen the descent, which I understand is his calling card but I saw and liked DOG SOLDIERS quite a bit.

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen The Descent yet, either, though not for lack of trying. It was apparently quite good. And I liked (and own) Dog Soldiers.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

IN THE DARK FUTURE, ONLY THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE!

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Indeed, but apparently, strange piercings, hairdos, and tats, are required apparel of the anarchic land-beyond-the-wall. I half expected them to be all adorned in woad...

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Oh, so it would be the Woad Warrior?

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Ba-Dum-Bump

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

How else will you know that it's the anarchic future unless they wear those things? In twenty or thirty years, we will laugh at that (well, laugh harder)--it will be the equivalent of whatever 30s movies used to indicate "future".

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, I may have thought that "Children Of Men" was fundamentally silly, but at least it had the courage to think pretty hard about what a (relatively) anarchic future would actually look like. Ditto "Code 46". ::sigh::