Ever seen "A Boy And His Dog"? - 1974

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/boyanddog/

The Characters

Vic - Don Johnson - A solo who survives in the wastelands left after World War IV, he is constantly hunting for food and women.

Blood - Highly intelligent and telepathic mutt who pals around with Vic, in addition he has radar.

Quilla June - Brazen girl sent to lure Vic underground, though she wants to replace the ruling council by using the solo. Ends up as dog food.

Mr. Craddock - Jason Robards - Senior member of the ruling council and a very dour man.

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The Plot

Armageddon is a difficult thing to rationalize, lending itself to outlandish scenes of violence and debauchery. The idea of a pubescent Don Johnson wandering the lonely wastelands guided by an intelligent and telepathic dog is a new one on me, but for some reason it all fits. Particularly so when the pooch in question has a bottomless stomach and spouts an endless stream of acidic criticism at Don Johnson. (Often complaining about Vic's libido. A dog complaining about a teenage boy's libido, I love it!)

The two lead an idyllic life, scavenging for food and water in the desolate landscape, but sometimes Blood is able to sniff out a female companion for Vic. For some odd reason all the women are in hiding, other than a ravenous and horny Don Johnson hunting them I can't imagine why.

Well he ends up following Quilla into an underground fallout shelter, there the last "civilized" remnants of society are carrying on tradition. Country fairs, ice cream, and prizes for the best canned goods in addition to trapping fertile males from the surface to impregnate the young women.

Before you start thinking this is not a bad deal let me explain. Vic is immobilized and his genitals attached to the equivalent of an electronic milking machine. (Aiiiieee!) In short succession the lucky brides are wed to him, presented with a bottle of special sauce, and sent on their way. Nearly incapacitated by blue balls the ferocious young man stages a retreat from the complex after being freed, taking Quilla with him. The first (And last might I add.) marital problem results when Vic discovers his faithful pooch waited outside the shelter's entrance this entire time and is on the brink of starvation.

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[Blue-Jay]

1. The book was quite good. Never saw the movie, though.

[The Zanti Regent]

2. Definite RAZZIE™ or STINKERS™ material!

Plain Bad movie.

For more go to http://www.razzies.com or http://www.thestinkers.com/

[REP]

3. Read It

Harlan Ellison.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Ditto.

I used to read a lot of Ellison.

[Syncronaut Seven]

4. Funny Movie!

But only if you have a severely warped sence of humor like me. Visions of the underground haunt me even now. Scary in that the underground culture looks more like the US every day.

I did like Quilla June however (Burp)

Harrad.

[ret5hd]

6. Saw it several times at midnite movies...circa '75, '76...

the era when you could bring a bong into the theater and have a real party w/ a group of friends at the midnite movies.

Excellent movie, under those circumstances (16, stoned, naive, etc)

[dweller]

7. Sure

along with Harold and Maude
Brewster McCloud
strawberry statement

King of Hearts was my all time favorite tho.

nothing like the free-for-all-late-nite-late-show.

dp

[kodi]

8. never meet a woman i dated or lived with who liked the ending

but considering i have always had at least one dog while dating or married, i can't imagine why.

[NNN0LHI]

9. Only dated and lived with one woman since it was made. My wife

She didn't care for it either. I got a kick out of that. The dog stole the movie too.

Don

[hunter]

10. A woman took me to that movie on a date...

Later, after she was no longer my girlfriend, she took me to see "Eraserhead" at the Victoria Street Theatre in Santa Barbara.

That was just one of the things I can never forgive her for. I still have Eraserhead-ex-girlfriend-Victoria-Street-Theatre nightmares, probably because she grabbed my crotch during that scene where... oh hell...

But I still think "A Boy and his Dog" was interesting, and my ex-girlfriend loved it, and she knew Harlan Ellison, and she introduced me to him.

I was much taller than he was, and I looked like a wild man, and he looked a little disturbed and vulnerable wearing his leather boots and bomber jacket, but I think he was really afraid of my girlfriend, because as he shook my hand this intense feeling of "Let's run, man, run!!!" passed instantly between us.

It was good advice, but advice I did not heed it for almost a year, not until it was almost too late. I eventually did escape, shortly after Eraserhead.

Then I met a woman at work who hates both those movies. I married her.