Tried to watch it, the casual attitude towards rape turned me off.
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Literally at the beginning, same
They made an unwatchably-bad movie based on this, too, with Don Johnson. I tried to watch it a month or so ago, and the acting, pacing, and set-work was so cringey I only made it a few minutes in before noping out. (I only skimmed the interview, but it sounds like they intended it to be bad?)
unwatchably-bad movie
Beg to differ, it's bad, but in the novel "so bad it rounded the bend back to good" variety. Perfect riffing fodder, a la MST3K.
I tried, I really did. It just made me uncomfortably bored. (Which from someone who's rewatched every MST3K I could get my hands on a dozen or so times each, is saying something. :)
I love bad movies as well. This one was too far over the line for me, I just wasn't interested in its specific brand of "meh". (Admittedly I have never read the book, and have never heard anything good about this author before, despite reading a ton of sc-fi. Maybe you need to know the author to enjoy it?)
I rented this just to make my friends watch it, and they loved the ending.
But it definitely isn't a good movie.
My friend and I are B-movie afficionados. A Boy and His Dog is a long time favorite of ours, going back to the original Fallout days.
He recently bought and sent me this amazing knockoff poster with a bunch of weird shit that isn't even in the movie:
(The name of the gallery, Deadly Prey, is a reference to another fine B-movie masterpiece.)
I had watched it before, and I watched it with my adult son last night.
It holds up. Good times
The ending of A Boy and his Dog is what brings everything together in kind of a punchline sort of way. People that said they could not watch very long need to watch it in its entirety to appreciate the movie as a whole.
Is it a great movie? Hell no, but it is an interesting and slightly thought-provoking movie.
Who knows what future awaits us after society goes to shit. Survival would be number one. Think about what happened in 28 Days Later, or how social norms quickly break down in The Mist.
I’m tired and I hope I was succinct enough.
You were, and you're right. Without the ending the movie fails; with it, it's a movie about love vs lust, compassion vs conquest.
Is it misogynistic? Yes, but in a world of violence there is only room for predator and prey. When the protagonist tries to buck that system and pursue love, he is betrayed. He becomes the prey. He becomes objectified, his sexual power taken from him against his will, without pleasure, as it had been from the women he hunted.