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Set in the year 2024 in Post-Apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War Four, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats. |
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A Boy and His Dog
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Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!A Boy and his Dog
Directed by L.Q. Jones, this movie stars Don Johnson before anybody knew who he was (at age 26, if my math is right), Susanne Benton (nobody still knows who she is*), and Jason Robards in another one of his truly bizarre characterizations.
The synopsis is that Vic (Don Johnson) is in the post-nuclear world in some bright future with a dog who reads Vic's mind and talks to him telepathically (Blood is voiced by Tim McIntire). Vic and Blood scramble around trying to survive in a lawless desert, peopled by other survivors, some good, some bad, some mutants. Blood is considerably smarter than Vic and given to limericks and puns, but his advice is always good. If Vic were smarter, he'd follow Blood's advice more often.
Meanwhile, some survivalists had hunkered down in a bunker and survived underground. However, something in their lifestyle took away their virility, so they need men from the surface to provide some vital fluids.** Lou Craddock (Robards) sends Quilla June (Benton) topside to seduce Vic and get him underground to make his contribution to society. Blood refuses to go, however, and despite Quilla June's best attempts, Vic declines to do his duty and escapes back to the surface and to Blood, his one true friend.
The movie is based on a novella by one of the best Sci-Fi writers of the 20th Century, Harlan Ellison, with the script by L.Q. Jones. The movie is uneven; I haven't read the novella,*** so I don't know whether to blame Jones or Ellison, but my money's on Jones. The good parts are excellent and the bad parts are sufferable, so "A Boy and His Dog" is worth watching. Pay attention to the dialogue -- it's often very funny. Often.
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reviewed by philip (Filmaster.com) on the 9th of March 2012
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Definitely original, but not really very satisfying. If only Harlan Ellison had not been suffering from writer's block and written the script himself