<![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome! - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome! - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Why I loved this film so much? There was no stupid fucking magic. Sure there were lots of unanswered questions, but for some reason, the film really made it seem that Eden really was a fucking badass who could achieve anything she sought out to do.

And who could say they truly didn't enjoy the Good Thing scene? Pure camp. Delicious even.

DarlingMagpie

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> TOTAL NONSENSE and NEVER EVER EVEN FOR A SECOND AWESOME!
Like you poured yourself a tumbler of John Carpenter and let it sit on the dashboard until the ice melts to a tinny flavor of regret, yes regret for the sandwich i could have bought instead of seeing this flick.
Don't get me wrong -- I expected it to be bad, and so didn't think twice about trying to dim the more critical parts of my brain legally and otherwise.

Neil Marshall, you owe me a tuna sandwich, ass.

schmattakid

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @aspiringexpatriate: Were you in the meat section?

Saw this at weekend - it was brilliant. Myself, my girlf (who usually has a very low gore tolerance) and the twenty-odd other people in the cinema were in stitches from FYC on.

kstop

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Yes, the day after I saw it. I heard "Good Thing" at the supermarket. Oh the wonders.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> I loved this movie in ways I can't express with my limited vocabulary.

It was like a post-apoc movie, done in the spirit of burlesque. I can imagine being pretty depressed with it if I went in hoping for a serious film, but as a homage/satire/brain-off-gore-on film it was perfect. I don't think I ever have, or will again, laugh out loud while watching a man be cooked alive and then eaten.

Yenner

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> oooo! I loved this, er... movie. Yeah, that's it, movie. Well, maybe 'flick' would work better in this case. I think I'll use flick for this.

I loved this flick.

Do not wait for the rental people!
I plan on buying the DVD whenever/if it comes out.

The eyeball, the dancing, the cars, the gladiator duel, the crappy tank windshield, the guy with the axe, everything was magic about this movie.

fray

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Actually, Hoskins didn't use telepathy to find Mitra's character. She gave him an envelope with some personal information on it (which she probably memorized by that point) before she set off on her trip.

The mint-condition Bentley gag made me wonder if Marshall was tossing in a nod to Woody Allen's "Sleeper." Remember the Volkswagen in the cave joke?

Mrreader

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @edosan: I'm pretty sure it will get the RiffTrax treatment.

thorshammer

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Oh, it was awful, and it made no sense (the term "plothole" doesn't begin to cover it). But as many others have mentioned, it was completely worth it. I think the moment where it tipped into ridiculous but grand for me was the extraneous exploding bunny. Dada is the perfect description. I can't wait until it shows up on cable. I'd love to kill a lazy afternoon watching it again, this time with the bad dubbing and editing they do for broadcast to make it even better as long as they keep all the severed heads in.

chr0me

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> I think any movie with chicks, fire and fast cars can't be all that bad... as in bad ass kewl but hey that's just me and option of my pet monkey... say hi "crunchy" to the nice bloggers and don't shit on the damn keyboard again.

Crunchy

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> This review makes me miss Mystery Science Theater.

I think it looks like a rental.

edosan

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @ceejeemcbeegee (just debatin' not hatin'): You're right it would've been a much cooler movie if they saw the Bently, it didn't start, they said, awe crap and then promptly got murdered by nouveau Robin Hood and we didn't get a car chase. Stupid lack of logic in movies about walled off plague ridden Scotland, really ruins it all.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @Scotus: It's pretty much an unwritten post apocolypse rule that if you take out the leader of a group you become the new leader.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Maybe I'm a post-apocalyptic mayhem apologist, but upon further review, the movie kinda makes sense. If I was stuck in Scotland, unaffected by a deadly epidemic, I'd probably head straight to the nearest castle (after all, those things are built to last), plunder the exhibits for weapons and armor and play house.

SnowWhitesLegacyofLies

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @Scotus: I think that was the Batman: Dark Knight Returns moment, when he takes over the group of murdering loons after taking out their leader.

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> I'm more worried that Bentley's have tougher windshields than APC's... Typical Brit engineering.. Although with Lucas ignition, i can't believe the thing started after thirty days, much less thirty years...Shoulda hada Toyota.

codydog

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> "...makes some decisions that I can't fathom at all," is an understatement.

Why does Eden just assume that if she heads back into cannibal land, everyone will be totally cool with her tossing out Sol's head and declaring herself queen or whatever the hell it was she did? I mean, they really seemed to like him. Wouldn't they have been much more likely to become enranged, and then promptly kill and eat her?

Scotus

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> i enjoyed it only because i was under the influence at the time.

antimatty

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Wait how did it end? Please please spoil it for me. Now I'm dying to know but there is no chance I can stomach the gore and watch the movie. I prefer the amusing breakdown provided by others.

Little Time Bomb

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> My friends and I were really, REALLY trying to reserve judgment and see where this movie was going. Actually, I was holding back giggles the whole time, but the fellas in my crew seemed to be into it.

But when the 30-year-old Bentley with the fully charged battery, active spark plugs, and mutant healing power showed up, we all totally lost it and let out a collective What. The. Fuck!

But I must thank the filmmakers: my friends and I will be laughing about this one fore years.

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> My blurb review...

"Neil Marshal threw it against the wall... and everything stuck."

I can't remember the last time I came out of a movie theater this happy and surprised. I mean, I expected to like this in a, yeah its pretty awesome way, but this far exceeded my expectations. Is it high art? Yeah it is as far as post apocalyptic crazy fuck all movies go.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Saw it Saturday night. A pretty good time. Actually, one of the funniest moments was that they ran Horton Hears A Who by accident, and the place went wild, people charging out of their seats, swearing. A small teenager working for the place placated everyone and promised to have it fixed quickly. And then a guy in front of me said, "I better get my goddamn previews."

cassidy2099

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @codydog:
Yeah, when I saw the previews all I could say is "Where's Snnnaaake?" because it was just 80s redux.

Don't get me wrong, I LIKED Mad Max, Road Warrior, and Escape From New York. Silly, but fairly well written within their genre, Great direction (it seems The Road Warrior chase sequences are the working model for everyone making a film since 1981). And, the added bonus of breakout performances from Kurt Russell and (the now unfortunately insane) Mel Gibson.

And, sweet jebus, there's an Escape From New York remake on the way in 2009.

victheremin

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Utterly ridiculous, totally absurd and derivative of no less than half a dozen other science fiction movies...and I loved every fucking second of it.

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Saw Doomsday... Don't waste your time unless you really need a dumb movie with too much gore.. should have called it "Escape From Mad Max" It's got it all, and they're all cliches at this point.

great tattoos, i must admit.

Honorable wife person nearly revolted. Mutterings were heard above the splatter.. Not good. I will have to placate with chocolate.

codydog

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> "And then Bob Hoskins develops the power of teleportation and becomes mildly psychic."

That sentence won it, for me.

Sharpless

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> This was possibly the greatest movie I've ever seen. I thought Charlie's review made it out to be worse than it was. Most everything made perfect sense to me, except for the very very very end, when Ed Asner did just seem to sort of appear out of nowhere.

I also got a huge kick out of the fact that the movie became the Fellowship of the Ring for about 20 minutes, right down to the Boromir death scene.

Our one real nitpick - that sweet, modern, mint-condition sports car couldn't outrun all those pieced together junkers the punks were driving?

As far as the train thing, of course the punks couldn't follow them. Their leader was busy duct-taping his girlfriend's head back on!

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> omg- its 5fast5furious+ mad max+ apocalypto
i'd wonder what their target audience is but i'm pretty sure it's the same as aeon flux or ultraviolet hehe

looks fun but i won't pay $10 unless its better than daredevil (much better)

unplugandrun

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @fartron: Agreed. Why is this movie not a total rip-off of RW? Maybe they got a deal on the used costumes.

StevieQ

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @aspiringexpatriate: Ah, but which car?

doctor_cos

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Does that mean I've got either a month to live or a month before I sign up with Malcolm McDowell in Braveheart World?
Shoot me now. With a shotgun. In the bath.

Discodave

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> The really funny part, was on the walk back from the theater, my friend said 'they escape in a train. how hard is it to follow a train? it only goes one direction!'

And I was stupified with hilarity.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> The biohazard stained glass was the best part.

The major drawback from me, was that the action sequences were completely incomprehensible. Silly Neil Marshall and his desire to edit his own movies.

Otherwise, I liked it. And it was fun. As for the logic and the rest of it, well, they're not strangers, and they stay as they lay.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @thorshammer: Seriously. It's an instant classic! I'm really hoping it surprises everybody and makes $100 million this weekend.

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> We just got back from seeing this. It. was. AWESOME.

Every bad post-apoc movie from the 80's rolled into a dystopian future virus film. Frankly, we enjoyed the hell out of this film. From the cliche Indestructible (but still destructible) battle trucks right down to the wide variety of decapitations, this movie screams enjoyment.

This will join the ranks of Warriors of the Wasteland and A Boy and his Dog (among many others) as our B-Grade Post-Apoc Guilty Pleasures.

thorshammer

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Must see this.

brundlefly

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Malcolm McDowell just doesn't give a shit about anything, does he? I'm so psyched for this movie.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: This movie has no soul.

Einstein-Intersection

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> I know what I'll be doing come bargain matinee time on Monday...

GentlyClubBillPart2

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Wow, that sounds like a terrible combination of 28 Days Later, Mad Max, and Lukacs' Gay Nazi (skinhead) porn paintings in action, complete with supra-post apocalyptic Hitler parade car.

botanicidal

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> I think I'll just rent Road Warriors.

fartron

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Bah! More spoilers! I want the whole confusing mess laid out like barf on sidewalk.

Eeew. Weekend time.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> @MrJellytree: You have no soul.

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> The TV ads made Rhona Mitra look like Mad Maxine.

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Cannot. Wait. To. See. Movie. BOOM.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> That first clip was a very convincing argument to never see this movie.

MrJellytree

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Sounds like just what I wanted:
A confusing & mindless plot; dystopian, 'splodey Scottish cannibals v. a cyclopean hot babe w/ big guns; and Malcom McFreakin'Dowell. I believe the term is "sqee".


Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> Who would have thought a bus could be that flammable.

After the week I've had, I totally need to see this movie this weekend.

Gopherit

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> I just KNOW you were trying to make this sound stupid good and fun- but, ya know- you just didn't.
Valiant effort though.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Doomsday: Total Nonsense -- But Awesome!]]> That's one tough Bentley. Tougher than a schoolbus.

Nice Rockford she pulls with it at the very end of the second clip.

EBone

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