A boy and his dog

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:53 pm

Haven't just gotten myself to watch it, but now I did. Amazing movie! Do you guys know if the original fallout design team has admitted "borrowing" from it? It just felt weird to see it now after you've taken a lot of things in fallout to be completely original.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:54 am

George Miller borrowed a lot from this film when he made Mad Max. I'd be surprised if the Fallout team hadn't known about A Boy and his Dog when they made Fallout. This film has been one of my favorites for years... It is a classic.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:41 am

It is a great film, very much politically incorrect and full of taboo-issues. Also has great dialogue and dry, dark sense of humor. The connections between the film and Fallout are quite numerous and very well done! ... warning, SPOILERS ahead:

- One of the first spoken lines in the movie included the words "dog meat", aimed at the protagonist's canine companion. This is what really caught my interest as I was just about to stop watching, because the film seemed like a some cheap-ass flop movie at first...

- The whole Down Under, which felt like Vault City (times 10 the madness) still living in their vaults. If Quilla would've gained control of the place and would've been black, she would've been exactly like Lynette in FO2.

- Not to mention the "we've gone sterile, because we're inbred motherfuckers" -dilemma of the down under inhabitants. I actually laughed out loud when the protagonist thought he'd get to knock up all the dames of the underground society, but found himself strapped to some sort of a sperm milking machine for the purpose of artificial insemination of specific vault dw.. uh, women of Down Under.

- Small, town-ish gathering of people built from junk really reminds me of Junktown. Guards collecting people's weapons by the narrow entrance feels awfully familiar.

- The screamers, although they are never actually shown in the film, I've imagined as ghoul-like creatures. Something about the "green, radioactive appearrance" just hits the spot, so to speak.

- The search for "Over the Hill", paradise of some sort is of course a carrying theme in many post-apoc movies, but then again, water chip and G.E.C.K. were both supposed to bring paradise on earth to specific people, to some extend at least.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:51 pm

If, if and if, then it would...

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:57 pm

I probably missed the dog meat line. Down Under felt a bit too outdoorsy, if you know what I mean. The best scene in my opinion is the basement/warehouse scene where the boy meets the girl and the ensuing fight scene is like straight from Fallout(shotguns!). The ending is quite chilling, as well.

This movie is public domain, by the way. You could buy the dvd, but the quality is a standard b-movie crap release.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:08 pm

the "dog meat" line gave me a big grin

VasikkA wrote:Down Under felt a bit too outdoorsy,

ditto

Overall good flick, but I was tiny bit disappointed cause my expectations had been really high as my friend hyped the film so hard.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:01 pm

The short story it's based on is also quite good, you can probably find it online

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:11 am

The first five minutes tell me that this movie rocks ass.. A talking wasteland dog?!! That takes balls.

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:28 am

Wait... Franz is back?

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:58 am

Shut you hole, woman. The men are talking.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:11 pm

jetbaby wrote:Shut you hole, woman. The men are talking.

shut you* hole, baby. The grammar nazis are talking.

I checked out my local indie movie store, and they have it! I'll rent it Friday and see what the deal is. On a completely unrelated note, anybody ever played a boy and his blob for NES?

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:20 pm

Grammar correction fails at being correct.

Also, <3 Catman.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:58 am

A pretty ok movie.
The only thing I am wondering about is, that all the digging slaves have rifles but none of them gets the idea to kill the fat man. :peaches:

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:13 am

Does anybody know where a better quality version exists online? besides torrents?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:50 am

Dogmeatlives wrote:Does anybody know where a better quality version exists online? besides torrents?

Even the dvd is of shitty quality, so I doubt it.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:53 am

I saw this years after I played FO to death and saw a lot of influence.

I got the same feeling from Canticle for Leibowitz. More the inspiration for the brotherhood though.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:44 am

watched it last night, was pretty entertaining.

Do you guys know if the original fallout design team has admitted "borrowing" from it?

I believe they said it was a heavy influence in the Fallout Bible.

mixmastermind · Post by **mixmastermind** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:05 am

Cimmerian Nights wrote: I got the same feeling from Canticle for Leibowitz.

That's one of my most favorite books.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:13 pm

Fucking brilliant. Watched it last night and this will probably remain one of the few movies that I'll rewatch.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:00 pm

Watched it a few years back, awesome film, the dog rules. The ending is utterly bueno as well, serves the bitch right.

I can't be arsed to rewatch it, though. It's like all these other artsy Scifi films to me, I can't rewatch THX 1138 and that other New Hollywood stuff, either.