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Doomed from the start
posted by Strange BedfellowsSTAFFMOD on July 20, 2019 at 1:26 PM
So a bunch of soldiers headed by an empowered female (Major - at the age of 32) has a mission to enter the hot zone in Scotland where all the inhabitants were left to die of a virus thirty years ago. However - life has been spotted - which means there has to be a cure to be had so intrepid female and crew are sent to retrieve it. They are in two armoured vehicles - which seem to be made of cardboard because they cannot withstand an arrow through the windshield and are quite easily set on fire by the inhabitants of the hot zone who seem to number thousands - considering that there was no food or water and people were eating each other they seem to have no difficulty is finding hair dressers to give them Mohawk hair cuts dyed pink. Of course a wounded girl appears and a soldier leaves the safety of his vehicle to let her in - as you do - she then attempts to kill him - as they do. This is as far as I have got - and as far as I want to go. What a load of rubbish.
Reply by VHS-VANDAL
on July 20, 2019 at 3:20 PM
WOULDNT HAVE MUCH TO DISAGREE ABOUT HAD YOU LEFT YOUR HANGUPS ABOUT FEMALES AT THE DOOR...
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on July 21, 2019 at 7:20 AM
I always thought Neil Marshal to be an incredibly overrated director. Dog Soldiers was dumb macho-geezer posturing and The Descent was ok but quite clichéd and nowhere near deserving of it's classic status. And his editor is an absolute clown. (Though fair play, his battle scenes in Game of Thrones are great).
Bizarrely I quite enjoyed Doomsday despite it's dire reviews. It is trash and in the usual Neil Marshal tradition it is badly edited. But somehow I enjoyed it. Possibly because I was expecting it to be terrible. I liked the Mad Max vibe. I liked how it seemed to be a throwback to those unpretentious, silly, violent, sci-fi actioners I watched when I was young.