DOOMSDAY (2008)

[Neville]

Yes, but only if done with the budget and the adequate talent.

[ToyMan]

or maybe they just make the sort of pallatable, accessible movie that applies to "the masses"...

[Yaddo 42]

I watched it the other night on DVD with the commentary subtitles on (I wish more movies had those BTW). Marshall namechecks the various movies and directors he is "paying tribute" to. Two characters are names "Miller" and "Carpenter" for a reason. Marshall also names The Warriors in the commetary as one of the films that he was emulating here. Mostly in the punk city scenes. If you look in the crowd during the cannibalism party/ritual there is a Basball Fury in the crowd. Marshall also says he wanted to find the woman DJ from The Warriors for Sol's intro. And even suggests he had thought about a certain actor from that film for the Kane role.

I enjoyed it for the popcorn action fluff it was. Nothing original going on here, which was fine, I needed pure entertainment. I was enjoying myself to not question the realism of the situation. Some good actors getting a paycheck for adding some weight to standard roles, and gore that was more extreme/exploitive than a typical movie but but still fit. I saw Death Race the day after I saw this, I wish I had caught this in the theater instead, even if it wasn't the unrated version. This film managed to get right all the things DR got wrong as far as being an entertaining trashy movie.

Marshall is obviously talented, and I enjoyed the film, I just hope he can grow as a film maker and find his own style rather than just aping his influences always.

I thought of Trevor when watching this since Marshall mentions how much of the film was shot in SA. The SA actress playing Viper was a hottie as well, apparently a kickboxing champ there. There was an odd disclaimer in the end credits something to do with some SA guild or trade union wrking with the film but not endorsing or condoning it's content? Is this a standard disclaimer, Trevor, or unique to foriegn production or just certain films? I may put the disc back in before I take it back, look it up and post it here?