http://cinemagogue.com/2008/03/19/appropriacalypse-now/ redefining entertainment Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:16:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://cinemagogue.com/2008/03/19/appropriacalypse-now/comment-page-1/#comment-198 D. Taibi Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:21:45 +0000 http://voxpopnetwork.com/cinemagogue/2008/03/19/appropriacalypse-now/#comment-198 I just watched this movie on in DVD release. I completely agree with your review. It is nothing but derivative, yet is surprisingly watchable. Maybe I enjoyed it because of having seen most of the movies Marshall "borrowed" from. Still, I have a little disappointment because I think this film could have been very good if it had one predominant sensibility throughout and used the homages as salt and pepper, rather than changing gears as often as Sinclair in her Bentley. Even the music of the film was disjointed from sequence to sequence, switching between John-Carpenteresque minimalism to 80's New Wave to orchestral bombast. But for all that, it has a Joe Cool (...er, Jane Cool) ending and is a fun ride. It'll be interesting to contrast this to the next apocalypse with a girl hero- Blindness- coming out in October. I just watched this movie on in DVD release. I completely agree with your review. It is nothing but derivative, yet is surprisingly watchable. Maybe I enjoyed it because of having seen most of the movies Marshall “borrowed” from. Still, I have a little disappointment because I think this film could have been very good if it had one predominant sensibility throughout and used the homages as salt and pepper, rather than changing gears as often as Sinclair in her Bentley. Even the music of the film was disjointed from sequence to sequence, switching between John-Carpenteresque minimalism to 80’s New Wave to orchestral bombast. But for all that, it has a Joe Cool (…er, Jane Cool) ending and is a fun ride. It’ll be interesting to contrast this to the next apocalypse with a girl hero- Blindness- coming out in October.

]]> http://cinemagogue.com/2008/03/19/appropriacalypse-now/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Cinemagogue | WANTED parties like it’s 1999… again. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:19:56 +0000 http://voxpopnetwork.com/cinemagogue/2008/03/19/appropriacalypse-now/#comment-197 [...] his waste of a friend, and pretty much ALL the powers that be. Much like this years apocal-epic Doomsday, it seems more like an homage to successful films that have come before it… but this one [...] [...] his waste of a friend, and pretty much ALL the powers that be. Much like this years apocal-epic Doomsday, it seems more like an homage to successful films that have come before it… but this one [...]

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