What Films Have You Seen Recently? - Page 3842

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**38411** 22nd September 2016, 10:24 PM

Doomsday (2008)

Following an outbreak of the deadly Reaper virus in Scotland the country is walled off and it's inhabitants left to die. Decades later the virus returns to threaten London, so battle hardened Rhona Mitra is sent with a military team into the wilderness that is now Scotland to seek a cure.

Director Neil Marshall's third film is a hard as nails mix of Escape From New York, Mad Max 2, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and 28 Days Later.

Filmed on a much bigger budget than previous efforts Dog Soldiers (2002) and The Descent (2005), Doomsday is a rampaging post apocalyptic action / road movie, full of breathtaking stunts, gory horror and scene stealing performances from the likes of Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell and David O'Hara as a politician whose as corrupt as they come. Mitra handles a tough role well and it's a shame her career never really took off to the level of superstardom she might have deserved.

Doomsday has it's critics that suggest the film is too derivative of the many post-ap films that came before it, but i see it more as a homage from a director who is a fan of the genre, and i love it.

J Harker · #**38412** 22nd September 2016, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Doomsday (2008)

Following an outbreak of the deadly Reaper virus in Scotland the country is walled off and it's inhabitants left to die. Decades later the virus returns to threaten London, so battle hardened Rhona Mitra is sent with a military team into the wilderness that is now Scotland to seek a cure.

Director Neil Marshall's third film is a hard as nails mix of Escape From New York, Mad Max 2, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and 28 Days Later.

Filmed on a much bigger budget than previous efforts Dog Soldiers (2002) and The Descent (2005), Doomsday is a rampaging post apocalyptic action / road movie, full of breathtaking stunts, gory horror and scene stealing performances from the likes of Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell and David O'Hara as a politician whose as corrupt as they come. Mitra handles a tough role well and it's a shame her career never really took off to the level of superstardom she might have deserved.

Doomsday has it's critics that suggest the film is too derivative of the many post-ap films that came before it, but i see it more as a homage from a director who is a fan of the genre, and i love it.

Amen brother!!

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**38413** 22nd September 2016, 11:41 PM

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Amen brother!!

It's been a couple of years since i watched the dvd. I was a bit stunned to discover a forty page book about the film inside the case.

Nowadays it would be classed as an Arrow limited edition and priced at £50.

Buboven · #**38414** 22nd September 2016, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It's been a couple of years since i watched the dvd. I was a bit stunned to discover a forty page book about the film inside the case.

Nowadays it would be classed as an Arrow limited edition and priced at £50.

I am afraid i have to agree with the critics, homages can be very good good in my opinion, but you have to bring something fresh to hold it together to stop it being derivate. Hobo with A Shotgun is a good example in my opinion. Doomsday is almost the very definition of derivative and average to me.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**38415** 22nd September 2016, 11:49 PM

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I am afraid i have to agree with the critics, homages can be very good good in my opinion, but you have to bring something fresh to hold it together to stop it being derivate. Hobo with A Shotgun is a good example in my opinion. Doomsday is almost the very definition of derivative and average to me.

Boo, Hiss On yer' bike.

It does bring something new - Scotland as a wasteland over run by cannibalistic savages.