Happy New Year!
We finally hit the same year as L.Q. Jones's now defunct futuristic period in A Boy and His Dog (1975). The film stars rapey wanderer Vic, played by Don Johnson, and his telepathic dog Blood. Don't care if it inspired the Fallout videogames, as far as post-apocalyptic films go, it's never been one I've been particularly fond of, but I do consider its ending superb, regardless.
Weren’t familiar with L.Q. Jones as a director, only knew him as the actor who played Pat Webb, the Clark County Commissioner in the film Casino (1995).
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| R.I.P. Dog! |
A Boy and His Dog also makes me feel gutted that the greatest four-legged companion featured in dystopian cinema (and for that matter, cinema in general), 'Dog' from Mad Max 2 (1981), didn't get such a pleasant ending. Thankfully, the actual blue healer dog, which was rescued from the pound when cast for the film, lived the rest of its years with a crew member. Now that truly is a happy ending.
Top 5 fave dogs in movies:
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Dog in Mad Mad 2
Einstein in Back To The Future
Max in How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Barney in Gremlins
Nanook is another good one.
ReplyDeleteHave you heard of a French film from 1989 about a white bull terrier called Baxter? Keep hearing great things about it, but hard find an English friendly copy of it. Been on my watchlist for years.
Never heard of it. Just peeped the trailer. Doesn't give much away does it?
ReplyDeleteYou seen that the BBC have put season 4 of What We Do In The Shadows on iPlayer yesterday?
Noticed What We Do in the Shadows on the iPlayer hub, didn’t know about the fourth season being available to stream though.
ReplyDeleteMostly hopping through old Doctor Who, tbh. The Five Doctors really ought to have been called The Four and a Bit Doctors to be more accurate.
Ah, the one with the unused Tom Baker footage. I haven't seen that one since I was a kid in the 80s. It any good?
ReplyDeleteStarted off a bit messy, but I enjoyed it way more than The Three Doctors. Liked all the callbacks and the various tests that the Doctors faced inside the Tomb of Rassilon.
ReplyDeleteAlso watched the Amicus film I, Monster and it was something of a coincidence seeing both Richard Hurndall, who played the first Doctor in The Five Doctors, and Peter Cushing, who played the first Doctor in those two Amicus films, were both in that film too.
Sod Kevin Bacon, it's 6 degrees of Tom Baker.
ReplyDeleteBest Davison era story is his last story The Caves Of Androzani.
Weirdest story of the Davison era would be Kinda which features the bloke who played Reg Hollis in The Bill as an evil spirit who posseses Tegan,
😄 I bought some Making Of Doctor Who magazines about 20 years ago and they mention that story as being a complete disaster and Michael Grade wanting to cancel the show because of it.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe Tom Baker married Romana II rather than O.G Romana.
Yeah, that very clip was used on Room 101 when Michael Grade appeared as a guest. He definitely had a hate boner for the show.
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