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A Boy & His Dog

A Boy & His Dog

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A boy and his telepathic dog roam the wasteland. EXELENT!
Review: Fans of post-apocalyptic flicks and low-budget films will enjoy this. I rented it for 49 cents and kepted it a week. great movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Review of the DVD presentation.
Review: First, I really like this movie for lots of reasons. It's tough to grade it with stars. Maybe 4 stars is accurate. It wisely switches gears in the middle with a weird setting change. Very affective to keep it interesting. And...it has one of my favorite endings of all time. Quite shocking! Don Johnson was a good choice for the lead. He was a natural this early in his carear. Kevin Coster only wishes Waterworld and Postman were this good (and at a fraction of the cost...ha ha!). This is just a good sci-fi movie.

3 out of 5 stars for the DVD presentation. I didn't expect the picture quality to be very good when I bought this and low expectations paid off. It's a mixed bag with the first half of the film being in the worst shape. It's a shame that better quality prints don't exist (or DO they?). But, what's here isn't that bad. The sound is okay too.

Extras: 2 great trailers stuck on the end (the first one is my favorite because it doesn't give the movie away). Also, audio commentary from the director L.Q. Jones & some other folks that worked on the film. I thought it was funny when "Q" said that Blood the dog was almost nominated for a "best supporting actor" Oscar and somebody said: "Best supporting dog?"

The DVD case gives part of the movie away on the back so don't read until you've seen the flick at least once.

If you like low budget sci-fi with a first-rate story and good cast...or if you have a furry best friend of your own then "A Boy And His Dog" is worth trading a few cans of peaches for!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Really fun movie
Review: For those of you who have yet to watch this movie, I highly recommend it. It's humorous and to watch a pre-stubbled Johnson is a treat. My favorite scene is when he is told he was picked to inseminate the women and he immediately assumes it's jolly time but this society has other plans and to watch the expression on his face when he is told the truth is priceless. Awesome movie.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Was there a point to this movie?
Review: I despised the main character, a nomadic rapist. There was nothing at all worthwhile about him. The movie sets him up as being a survivor only by very contrived writing. He is able to raid a gang only because the gang is the apocalyptic equivalent of the Keystone Cops. He waves his gun around in town - this will get a loner shot 100% of the time.

The "choice" he makes between the girl and the dog is also contrived. If you actually stop to think for a moment (warning, having a mind and using it destroys any chance of ejoying this film!), he had plenty of choices (there was food right behind that door if he made a quick raid).

Frankly, the only way I can see that this movie would have any appeal is if your emotional development stopped at 12, and you like having sex with women, but really dislike women themselves.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Don't come exepectting 'Miami Vice' Don Johnson,,...
Review: I did finally watch this, and let me say, I was plesantly suprised.
Based on a Harlan Ellison novella, the story wazs actually entertaining!
Robards plays the leader of a cult. A judeo Christian cult who claims the hero, Don Johnson, for their own. He is to impregnate the women, the males having all become sterile. Don Johnson falls in 'love' with a member of the cult, and facilitates his love by sharing her meat with his dog!
A truely great post-appocaliptic love story!
'A boy loves his dog.'

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Old Favorite
Review: I saw this movie in college, and couldn't figure out why my friend Phlippy wanted me to watch it. By the end, you are sitting there, not believing what you just saw. My friend Matt bought me the Director's Cut DVD- what a great gift. You definitely need to be in the right frame of mind for this one, which usually means a beer or two. I actually found a website where you can watch the entire movie streaming online, and that was a treat until I got the DVD. This is a movie that needs to be in the collection of any B movie fan with a twisted sense of humor about the world. And it's a movie you probably don't want to watch with your girlfriend. It sheds male bonding in an all new light.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Boy and His Dog
Review: I saw this movie when it was first released and several times since then. I have never forgotten the movie nor have I failed to recommend it to friends while discussing what we felt were cult classics. This movie is still one of my favorites and I never tire of seeing it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: cult classic? why not wider interest...
Review: I've loved this film from my first watching many moons of Jupiter ago...watching it again has me appreciating it even more, the true hallmark of a classic film! [one of my] fav quotes of any film ever just has to be: "you're starting to sound like a g-dd-mn poodle!" and the entire dialog subsequent in that same scene bears comparison to the finest Woody Allen...see it and weep! w/laughter...Alex 'just another bleary-eyed vidwatcher'

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Cult Classic
Review: If you are into cult classics this is one for the collection. You should add this one to your collection of Harold & Muade, King of Hearts and Pink Flamingos-- your call on Rocky Horror. It is low budget but which of there werent. You got to love it for what it is.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Interesting...
Review: IF you liked Mad Max then this is a movie for you. An almost humorous look at the post-apocalyptic world of Phoenix, Arizona. The story of a "boy"(don Johnson) and his telepathic dog. In this time dogs can search out females so the basic story line is survival and finding females. Still fun and a little confusing at times but as I said before if you liked Road Warrior then this is for you.


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