Doomsday

[Ferox13]

SPOILERS:

First of from the look of the trailers, i had a feeling this wouldn't be great.

In my opinion, Neil Marshell's career started with a fun and very enjoyable werewolf romp and continued with an atmospheric, sppoky and mature Horror film. Its should a great development of his directing skills. This film in many ways a feel is a step back.

Don't get me wrong, this is an entertaining, unoriginal post apocalypic flick and if it was churned out by one of the Hollywood director droids I wouldn't have been so dissapointed. Its just i expected more from Neil Marshall.

Plotwise the film starts off like 28day later (or any other virus/epidemic film) then it jumps 30-ish years later and turns straight in Escape from New York.

New york is now a walled city filled with a Road warrior postApoc scum. And by New York I of courrse mean Scotland. Any way the government think theres a cure up there and they send in a Special Ops cop (who is played by someone who is not Kate Beckinsale ) to find it it.

The rest runs pretty much to the book with scenes lifted straight from Road Warrior/Thunderdome and lots of other End of days flicks. There are lots of great little touches in it - the sign on the bus read 'out of fucking service' and a Gift shop sign on the wall of Kanes castle.

At the end of the day its a fun flick and i've seen a lot worse (the cider helped) but when some one can make a film like The descent then you think he'd come up with some thing a little better......

[Disease]

I'm going to see it this week, Untill then I must avoid this thread.

[Elvis_Christ]

Loved The Descent so I've been looking forward to this one hopefully I won't find it as disappointing.

[Ferox13]

Loved The Descent so I've been looking forward to this one hopefully I won't find it as disappointing.

This was pretty much my attitude too until I saw the Trailer which cushioned the blow a bit for me.

[urgeok2]

wasn't disappointed in the least.

the guy was obviously a big fan of the movies i was into several years ago and finally found himself in the position to make one of his own.

the same as QT/RR making grindhouse, the same as R Zombie making House of 1000 corpses.

none of these things felt like rip offs - they felt like love letters to specifig genres and i was with each of these projects all the way.

nice to see a good filmmaker having fun with the genre. I loved every minute of it.

[Ferox13]

I do understand its a homage to films that he loved but at the end of the day I think its a step back in terms of quality from his last film. Don't get me wrong i still liked it but expected more from Marshall.

As much as i tend to dislike Movie critics i did like the final line from the films NY Times review.. (http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/03/15/movies/15doom.html)

'Homage without innovation isn’t homage, it’s karaoke.'

[urgeok2]

to anyone looking for innovation every time they see a genre flick (let alone movie ... period) - good luck to them.


i always apreciate seeing something new ... but given the sheer amount of crap thats thrown the way of exploitation film fans ... i'm thrilled just to see something well made.

same as music. (since the critic went there)

there hasn't been anything new in 40 years, just the same things over and over again - borrowed from the past - sometimes slightly altered.
People influenced by things they heard and loved in the past.

do it well, and i'm all over it.

[Ferox13]

I wasn't agreeing with the whole review just liked the final line. (infact i dissagree with some of his particular gripes, the vernon wells one for example).

And I actually did enjoy the music (both the written Score and the 80's songs).
One of the things that particually annoyed me was the film treatment for the Road Warrior chase at the end. Marshall did embrace (to a certain extent) that this was not an American/Ozzie film by using the British Copar and Black Taxi for example then he makes it look like tis shot in an outback desert which was an odd choice.

I wonder too why he killed off Sean Pertwees character without him having much input. I think the film lost a bit on the cutting room floor, so this might explain it.

[The Mothman]

I'd say it was the most fun i've had in theaters in a very long time.

[Roderick Usher]

I thought it was fun and goofy and enjoyable, but nothing great. However, I took my 11 year-old son to it bacause I saw THE ROAD WARRIOR in the theater when I was his age.

He loved it. And he had the same gleeful "what the fuck?" expression that I had throughout THE ROAD WARRIOR. It was a great father-son moment, so the movie holds a very special place in my heart.

[Disease]

I'm going to see it tomorrow, so I have read nothing any of you have said. But I'm looking forward to it very much. It is set around my local area, so it should be fun...

[urgeok2]

I thought it was fun and goofy and enjoyable, .


that already puts it head and shoulders abouve 90% of the movies i've paid to see.

[the_real_linda]

i was sadly dissapointed, and i had really looked forward to it

[Vodstok]

He loved it. And he had the same gleeful "what the fuck?" expression that I had throughout THE ROAD WARRIOR. It was a great father-son moment, so the movie holds a very special place in my heart.
this reminds me of memories of seeing For your eyes only, the beastmaster and clash of the titans at the drive in when i was 5.that has always stuck with me.

Too bad i dont talk to my dad.

[Angra]

Pretty messy, but entertaining and very violent and bloody.

It was quite alright.


"The Decent" is still Marshall's strongest movie, imo.


Can't decide which comes in second, Dog Soldiers or Doomsday..

[Elvis_Christ]

Worst film I've seen this year. More of a homage to Escape From LA than anything. So many scenes had me shaking my head wondering if I had really witnessed something that lame.

[urgeok2]

Worst film I've seen this year. More of a homage to Escape From LA than anything. So many scenes had me shaking my head wondering if I had really witnessed something that lame.

fuck some guys are hard to please

:)

[Elvis_Christ]

fuck some guys are hard to please

:)

Yep!

I thought I'd really like it too. It starts off great but just turns into idiocy. A few scenes are just so dumb that I felt embarrassed for the director.
You're better off doing yourselves a favor and watching Escape From Absolom again cuz it totally kills this dire mess of a film.