01-11-2010, 11:31 PM
Mad Max meets Gideon. The film has two morals, both of which I heartily approve. Moral #1: After the apocalypse, it'll be good to be literate. Moral #2: After the apocalypse, it'll be good to know how to use a sword.
I couldn't get past Jackie from That 70's Show (especially because I've always been more into Donna). Dear Mila does little to help. Everyone is all dirty and scabby and she's still got perfect eyeliner on those big puppy dog peeper of hers. Apart from that, it's a good cast: Gary Oldman, Jennifer Beals, Tom Waits, Malcolm McDowell. Too bad Eli never dELIvers. Way too much sepia tones. I felt I needed to look at something green after, just to clear my retinas. I kept hoping there would be more religious overtones but that's only touched upon, which is surprising considering the topic.
There's this scene with a poster for A Boy and his Dog in the background, and I couldn't help but thinking, now that's a post-apocalypse flick.
SPOILER ALERT
For a while, I was thinking that it was supposed to be those left behind after Judgement Day, but it just turned out to be a normal apocalypse. The mcguffin (as Hitchcock puts it) was very zatoichi and I totally should have seen it coming (slight pun intended) but didn't. Nevertheless, it underwhelmed me.
I couldn't get past Jackie from That 70's Show (especially because I've always been more into Donna). Dear Mila does little to help. Everyone is all dirty and scabby and she's still got perfect eyeliner on those big puppy dog peeper of hers. Apart from that, it's a good cast: Gary Oldman, Jennifer Beals, Tom Waits, Malcolm McDowell. Too bad Eli never dELIvers. Way too much sepia tones. I felt I needed to look at something green after, just to clear my retinas. I kept hoping there would be more religious overtones but that's only touched upon, which is surprising considering the topic.
There's this scene with a poster for A Boy and his Dog in the background, and I couldn't help but thinking, now that's a post-apocalypse flick.
SPOILER ALERT
For a while, I was thinking that it was supposed to be those left behind after Judgement Day, but it just turned out to be a normal apocalypse. The mcguffin (as Hitchcock puts it) was very zatoichi and I totally should have seen it coming (slight pun intended) but didn't. Nevertheless, it underwhelmed me.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse