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Summary: Funny and thought-provoking ... a look at one possibility.
Review: (First seen in the theater in '75) A young Don Johnson and his cyber-dog scrabble for food and sex in a post-apocalypse wasteland. Kidnapped into an underground "River City" headed by Jason Robards, Don thinks he's found heaven, until reality slams him in the face. The dog has sarcastic commentary on humans in general and what they've done to the planet, but loyalty for his human, and the human's devotion to his best friend make for a surprise ending. This is a fun movie!
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Summary: Who let the DOGS out?
Review: A BOY and His DOG is a good screen rendering of a typical DANGEROUS VISION by sci-fi master Harlan Ellison. A younger-than-yesterday Don Johnson plays Vic, survivor of nuclear Holocaust. He wanders the desert seeking food, female distraction and whatever sates appetite or secures survival. Accompanying him is BLOOD, a junk-yard mongrel who is no mere "hound dog". Blood is a telepath and the intellectually superior mentor to his frequently hapless "best friend". BLOOD's interior monologues and psychic dialogues with Vic are hilarious. The BOY & HIS DOG genre-satire ("Old Yeller"; "Lad"; "Lassie"; Rin-Tin- Tin")is astute. As is much of the pre-MAD MAX plot. Jason Robards has a memorable appearance as BAD GUY leader of an Underground Society of WW III survivors whose male population is sterile. He is recruiting suitable studs. "THICK VIC" is ready to COME...as it were...to the rescue. Director L.Q. Jones and Harlan Ellison have put a wicked twist on the meaning of post-Apocalypse marriage and "here comes the GROOM!" as a liberated honey-moon tune. This is a a hip, flip, low-budget sci-fi fable that well deserves the cult status it presently enjoys.
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Summary: One of the more interesting SF movies around
Review: A cult favorite for years, this faithful version of Harlan Ellison's classic novella enjoyed some mainstream popularity in the mid-'80s when its star, Don Johnson, hit the big time with "Miami Vice." In recent years the movie has settled back into cult status, which is for the best. Johnson (in an excellent performance) is Vic, a simple-minded survivalist who wanders what's left of post-apocalypse America with his dog Blood (played by Tiger of "The Brady Bunch," with voice by singer Tim McIntire), with whom he has a telepathic bond. Vic's main ambition in life is to, well, find female companionship; he demands that Blood sniff out girls for him. He meets a seemingly innocent young woman who leads him down to a strange subterranean civilization where all the men are sterile. Eventually, Vic is presented with a hard choice. The decision he makes has remained controversial; the one-liner that ends the film is even more so. (Ellison didn't write the line and has expressed discomfort with it. I think it's one of the great final lines in movie history.) If you haven't seen this film, chances are you've seen a dozen better-known SF movies it influenced (like the "Mad Max" series), and Kevin Costner's "The Postman" was a windbag '90s variation on the same theme. If you've only caught this on television, you haven't really seen it.
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Summary: One of the more interesting SF movies around
Review: A cult favorite for years, this faithful version of Harlan Ellison's classic novella enjoyed some mainstream popularity in the mid-'80s when its star, Don Johnson, hit the big time with "Miami Vice." In recent years the movie has settled back into cult status, which is for the best. Johnson (in an excellent performance) is Vic, a simple-minded survivalist who wanders what's left of post-apocalypse America with his dog Blood (played by Tiger of "The Brady Bunch," with voice by singer Tim McIntire), with whom he has a telepathic bond. Vic's main ambition in life is to, well, find female companionship; he demands that Blood sniff out girls for him. He meets a seemingly innocent young woman who leads him down to a strange subterranean civilization where all the men are sterile. Eventually, Vic is presented with a hard choice. The decision he makes has remained controversial; the one-liner that ends the film is even more so. (Ellison didn't write the line and has expressed discomfort with it. I think it's one of the great final lines in movie history.) If you haven't seen this film, chances are you've seen a dozen better-known SF movies it influenced (like the "Mad Max" series), and Kevin Costner's "The Postman" was a windbag '90s variation on the same theme. If you've only caught this on television, you haven't really seen it.
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Summary: EXCELLENT MID-NIGHT MOVIE FARE
Review: ALTHOUGH DECIDEDLY LOW BUDGET, THE MOVIE IS A CLASSIC. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DOG AND HIS BOY IS HUMOROUS AND ENGAGING. I'VE YET TO MEET A WOMAN WHO LIKES THE END OF THIS MOVIE.
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Summary: A quirky and heavily layered masterpiece
Review: Any sci fi fan who has never seen this needs to. Its inspired every post apocalypse film you've ever seen, and it means a lot more than any of them. A truly satisfying movie, with great commentary from the director LQ Jones, who not only reveals that 'Blood' came within a few votes of getting nominated for best supporting actor, but also reveals that he wanted to make a sequel with a very disturbing premise. You'll have to get this DVD to find out what that is. The transfer is clearer than the video copies I've got, but there are still a lot of scratches and brightness changes. The full widescreen treatment makes up for it though. A must have.
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Summary: Looking forward to it
Review: At the time of my writing this review, the new DVD has not been released. Hopefully it will address some of the quality concerns from earlier releases. I remember "A Boy and his Dog" being a thoroughly enjoyable film and would love to have a quality copy on DVD. More intellectual than a lot of other "Post-apocalyptic" films. Don't expect action-packed "Mad Max"-type stuff. This is more of a thinker's film, a fresh, clever story, lined with dry, dark humor. I reccomend it.
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Summary: Low Budget Classic
Review: Classic story of Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl..... um Boy Eats Girl
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Summary: Great low-budget Sci-Fi
Review: Don Johnson plays "Vic", the boy of the title and the brawn of a due led by a telepathic and psychotic dog named "Blood". After more global thermonuclear wars than anybody can count, America is a wasteland, covered up by mud. The remains of most cities are buried under ground, as are most of the products (canned peaches being a favorite; weapons and ammo and porno films also being top draws) that postwar denizens actively seek. Blood, we learn, was one of the technological innovations of the wars - an intelligent if still vicious animal bonded telepathically to a human to form a hunter-killer team. With the wars over, the wasteland is covered with canine-human duos like Vic and Blood - with the humans providing the muscle to find food and to protect the dogs. In a set-up that gives a new spin to the term "tail wagging the dog", the canine half provides the real end of the team - Blood uses his telepathic powers to "sniff" out women, who in the post-apocalyptic setting are seen as fit for nothing but temporary pleasure. Blood proves his worth early in the film when, while the two take in a porno flick along with dozens of other teams, Blood is the first to sense the nearby presence of a woman. With Blood's help, Vic traps the seemingly virginal Quilla June. Unfortunately the headstart isn't long enough, and Vic and Blood find themselves in a firefight over the woman, too embroiled with the other HK teams to realize that Quilla June has plans of her own - plans for Vic that don't include Blood or the wanderers' life that is the only existence Vic knows of."A Boy and His Dog" (aka "Psycho Boy and His Killer Dog, Blood") is a pretty thin story, which is why it's the director's credit that the flick is just so much fun. The settings are cheap, but not unconvincing - it could very well have been filmed by denizens of the post-apocalypse. This could very well have been one of the movies filmed for the fun of the rape-teams (they would've severely dissed the lack of gratuitous sex and nudity, but the flick ends on a subtly shocking dark joke, one they'd definitely appreciate). In any event, the flick beats any of the similarly themed and more expensive flicks (barring the "Road Warrior" flicks, but definitely including "The Postman"). Beyond the novelty of a young Don Johnson, you've got the sarcastic and bloodthirsty reparte of whoever plays the voice of "Blood", though I'd see this again Sussanne Benton who, as Quilla June, manages to be emulate innocence, ambition and seduction very well. I've seen this flick on TV once - and that was back in 1987. If you want to see this flick again, you're not going find it on TNT.
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Summary: An Great Science fiction Premise with Dark Sense Of Humor.
Review: Don Johnson, for most people is not your favorite actor but in this film, he gives one of his performance in this film, his another best is Paradise. This film, its works for the actor. I seen this film in the internet and i was surprise this film is really good film with Apocalyspe Premise and the Dark Humor is one of the best thing, worth watching in this Cult Classic. I did like the Plot, between friendship-a boy and his much smarter dog(voiced by Tim Mc Intire, he sing the film title), looking for food and for sex. We don`t see that in film these days. Well Directed by Actor-L.Q. Jones, we seen him(The Wild Bunch, The Edge, The Mask Of Zorro). Harlon Ellison did the Screen Play, Based on his Novel. Actor-Jason Robards has a Small Role in this film in the last half-hour. This best about this film is First,Two/Third of the film and Last half-hour is about a bizarre bunch of people are living together, liked Cult Members doing the same thing, every day is bit of a letdown. But the Black humor is funny at the end of the film, but i won`t tell you, what happen. See the film for yourself and you dediced is it a Great Film or Not. Grade:B+. Technovision.
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