<![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> @aspiringexpatriate: They didn't? Looking at those clips you could have fooled me.

IntoAshes

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> Where's Kurt Russell?

"Snake Pliskin? I heard you were dead!"

"Yeah, I get that alot."

QuasarErazar

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> I haven't seen 'Skinwalkers' yet, but I liked Rhona in both The Practice and Boston Legal, so I will give her a shot as an action star.

No monsters though?...meh. Maybe I will go watch 'The Day After' or 'Threads' again.

I wish some one would come along and make a decent post-apoc. movie along the lines of a Gamma World setting. Talking cats and mutants with eyebeams and all that radioactive fantasy goodness... ;)

Cantonkid

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> @mechno: Cause she's hot.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> I've got nothing against a good post-epoc movie, but there's something about this movie that is bugging me.
The people of Scotland get the "kthxbye" when they get sick. Then later when the rest of the world gets sick. The rest of the world then gives them the "Oh Hai" and tries to shove in and take the cure. How can I possible root for the jerks?

mechno

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> @onscreen: Yes, but that's not this movie. This movie is post-apocalyptic about survival. That movie is about zombie-like infestation of an oil rig. And couldn't tarantino in planet terror be a zombie sex scene?

The fun thing about marshall, is that he couldn't give two shits about convention, he just likes making fun movies. Let's just hope they're good or at least funny.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> It should be about human survival, because the day the next big global pandemic arrives, there won't be any zombies running around

So you wouldn't be planning any zombie movies of your own would ya Neil?

[zack-is-coming.blogspot.com]

No, didn't think so....

onscreen

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> @IntoAshes: Because they didn't. What are you blathering about?

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> Wait... the Sci-Fi Channel remade Beyond Thunderdome in 1995? Why am I only just now hearing about this?

IntoAshes

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> @Macloserboy: Er, I was referring to Vasquez, not Ripley. And I wonder which is better, a butch heroine woman who looks like a size 0 with big boobs but cries a little or a butch heroine character who might cry at the thought of cold bloodedly killing someone, but who looks like she could take on the guvernator in a fight.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> Marshall likes his apocalypses with no monsters.
And with no original ideas either, it seems.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> @aspiringexpatriate: Oh, you know that's coming too. But Cameron also did that. Sarah Connor breaking down crying, unable to waste Miles Dyson. Aliens was better because it just seemed like she was protecting the kid, which is what any hero would do, not just a female one (yes, I know she was supposed to have had a daughter who died while she was in suspended animation).

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> Looks like the Yul Brynner ULTIMATE WARRIOR (or Van Damme's CYBORG) crossed with ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK.

BadUncle

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> "...the day the next big global pandemic arrives, there won't be any zombies running around, I can promise you that..."

Wow...thanks for taking the fun out the apocalypse...

Citizen Kang

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> @aspiringexpatriate: Feminity doesn't mean that the plot will, at some point, hinge on her changing her tampon?

She's definitely skinny, but she also has some broad shoulders.

I might be able to suspend my disbelief.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> @Macloserboy: See, I thought 'femininity' meant she'll break down at some point because there's something she can't deal with, and she'll take care of her teenage sidekicks as if they were her own children.

But yeah, whatever happened to the buffed out Sarah Connor and Private Vasquez. James Cameron ushered in the butch tough woman heroine, only to sweep it under the rug again with Alba in Dark Angel.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> sweet

Also, his first film, Dog Soldiers, did not have a female heroine, hell it had one female character, and she was pretty flat.

But Kevin McKidd rocked. And so did the line "There is no spoon."

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> "It should be about human survival, because the day the next big global pandemic arrives, there might not be any zombies running around, I can promise you that."
Fixed!

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> While I'm totally down for seeing this just to see a hot babe with an accent kick ass, I never cease to be amused by men who make statements like "no matter how rough and rugged they should never lose their femininity" because their definition of "femininity" usually winds up being particularly sexist or stupid. In this case it seems to be skintight black pants, a tank top and no muscles to speak of.

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters]]> doomsday is about what happens in scotland after you shut it off from the rest of the world? why didn't anyone tell me that? now i have to see it.

tetracycloide

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