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puinaI just finished watching Damnation Alley- another movie to strike from my JEH movies list as watched. I have mixed feelings about it, because it's just so chock full of cheesy goodness. The effects were terrible by today's standards... and maybe if it hadn't gone against Star Wars it would have fared even better back in 77. I guess we'll never know.
I'm no movie expert so I'm not going to give you a valid review or anything of the sort. It seems that the citizens of the US woke up one fine morning and ate 30 H-bombs for breakfast. We don't get an explanation why, but we can all assume they must have been in conflict with some country or other (Russia, I'm looking at you).
This nuclear holocaust, compliments of the Third World War, left the planet tilted on its axis, covered by a cloud of dust and plagued by wacky weather. Basically, the world is now a desert and the sky looks like one of those Windows Media Player random computer-generated visualizations, with slight chances of acid rain and mega thunderstorms. Chaos ensues, obviously, and after a while, the remaining survivors start to emerge. Got it? Good.
We already met the protagonists at the beginning of the movie: they were on a military base when the warheads started dropping in unannounced- in fact, two of them were responsible for turning the keys that launched the US's retaliation. One of them, Tanner, has a motorcycle and enjoys racing the giant mutant scorpions because he's just so bad ass.
As always, human stupidity takes the lead and somebody blows up almost everyone else who had managed to survive inside the base. Cue in the Landmasters; these bitch ass rides will surely get them across the nuclear wasteland to... Albany. (I don't know, they have their reasons) Now our main characters, Tanner and Denton (who hate each other), are riding together. DUNDUNDUN!
I was laughing so hard when "Alan Moore" (thanks forever for that awesome association![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frostious ) showed up that I almost missed Billy's clever plan to save the day. I do love the dysfunctional family unit they end up developing, and that the only female character isn't linked romantically to any of the men (who haven't seen a woman in over two years and are still perfect gentlemen. The world was a much nicer place in the 70's, apparently). Sadly, just like many other sci-fi movies before -and after- it, they commit the unforgivable sin of assuming that a couple of hours of water and sunlight will make the grass sprout back greener than ever and materialize chirping birds out of nowhere. Let's just say it's part of the fantasy and let it slip, shall we? They did try to make it as good as possible with as little budget as possible (I'm assuming, because that would explain the Monopoly hotels posing as houses being dragged away by the muddy flood).
All in all, I enjoyed it. Although those flesh eating roaches will be giving nightmares. Screw Freddy, that was scary!
Some of my favorite lines:
"You son of a-!"*PEWPEWPEW*
"I don't know what we're gonna find, but gettin' there is the only way we'll ever know."
"Nothing good ever just happens by itself. No matter how much you want it to." He was wrong, but who could blame him? Billy <3
I'm no movie expert so I'm not going to give you a valid review or anything of the sort. It seems that the citizens of the US woke up one fine morning and ate 30 H-bombs for breakfast. We don't get an explanation why, but we can all assume they must have been in conflict with some country or other (Russia, I'm looking at you).
This nuclear holocaust, compliments of the Third World War, left the planet tilted on its axis, covered by a cloud of dust and plagued by wacky weather. Basically, the world is now a desert and the sky looks like one of those Windows Media Player random computer-generated visualizations, with slight chances of acid rain and mega thunderstorms. Chaos ensues, obviously, and after a while, the remaining survivors start to emerge. Got it? Good.
We already met the protagonists at the beginning of the movie: they were on a military base when the warheads started dropping in unannounced- in fact, two of them were responsible for turning the keys that launched the US's retaliation. One of them, Tanner, has a motorcycle and enjoys racing the giant mutant scorpions because he's just so bad ass.
As always, human stupidity takes the lead and somebody blows up almost everyone else who had managed to survive inside the base. Cue in the Landmasters; these bitch ass rides will surely get them across the nuclear wasteland to... Albany. (I don't know, they have their reasons) Now our main characters, Tanner and Denton (who hate each other), are riding together. DUNDUNDUN!
I was laughing so hard when "Alan Moore" (thanks forever for that awesome association
frostious ) showed up that I almost missed Billy's clever plan to save the day. I do love the dysfunctional family unit they end up developing, and that the only female character isn't linked romantically to any of the men (who haven't seen a woman in over two years and are still perfect gentlemen. The world was a much nicer place in the 70's, apparently). Sadly, just like many other sci-fi movies before -and after- it, they commit the unforgivable sin of assuming that a couple of hours of water and sunlight will make the grass sprout back greener than ever and materialize chirping birds out of nowhere. Let's just say it's part of the fantasy and let it slip, shall we? They did try to make it as good as possible with as little budget as possible (I'm assuming, because that would explain the Monopoly hotels posing as houses being dragged away by the muddy flood).All in all, I enjoyed it. Although those flesh eating roaches will be giving nightmares. Screw Freddy, that was scary!
Some of my favorite lines:
"You son of a-!"*PEWPEWPEW*
"I don't know what we're gonna find, but gettin' there is the only way we'll ever know."
"Nothing good ever just happens by itself. No matter how much you want it to." He was wrong, but who could blame him? Billy <3
