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Aftermath DVD review
"Aftermath" DVD review
Like a modern "The Day After", the movie "Aftermath" seeks to give a glimpse of life after a nuclear attack.
Slightly more modern is the zombie like refugees who are attacking the house where the survivors are held up however.
The group is an ad hoc thrown together group of largely 20's and early 30'ish people. One kid looks like he's 12. Oh and then out of the blue as they are in the basement you notice "Fat Tony" the "grandunk" of the Harry Potter 12 year old looking kid. "Fat Tony" looks like an old fat mobster and you expect him to start ordering hits from the comfort of his chair.
Largely the message is the same as "The Day After"- it's hopeless to try to survive, the living will envy the dead, blah blah blah.
Actually it's not as crazy as that, but the message is there.
One guy, who is walking nonchalantly down a dirt road in the middle of BFE, Texas listening to an Ipod right before the nukes hit, is a doctor or in doctoring school and all. He's the go to guy for everything and the closest to a survivalist than any of the rest of them. He runs into a girl and kid brother, they get together. They run into some other people, who run into some other people, and they end up in Harry Potter Jr.'s basement with Fat Tony and Eddie Furlong of all damn people.
Now you'll remember Eddie Furlong from his only other acting jobs- 1. Terminator 2- the annoying young John Connor- " (squeeky voice)" but aren't the Russians are friends now? " No Eddie, the Russians are never our damn friends, what the hells the matter with you? That statement would get you five minutes of knuckle pushups in my house, LOL. 2. Detroit Rock City- equally annoying, same stupid looks and voice...
So Speddie Eddie is there with his prego wife. I'm sure they are on WIC, Peachcare and probably getting food stamps from the look of him.... His wife has complications and dies with the baby, about the only truly sad part of the movie. Sad that the gal was stupid enough to procreate with Eddie Furlong and said that he died because of it.
The doctor/doctor student and some random chic they run into make it to the end and defeat the rabid zombie refugees with a combination of gunplay, cricket bats and whitty comebacks.
It's a B+ movie. Everyone gets along well for the most part, so the "I'll throw together with some schmoes I don't know" crowd will love the movie. Realistically Eddie Furlong's body would add a slight bit of Protection Factor when killed and laid in front of the basement window...
I think it was $9. so it's kinda sorta worth it.
Like a modern "The Day After", the movie "Aftermath" seeks to give a glimpse of life after a nuclear attack.
Slightly more modern is the zombie like refugees who are attacking the house where the survivors are held up however.
The group is an ad hoc thrown together group of largely 20's and early 30'ish people. One kid looks like he's 12. Oh and then out of the blue as they are in the basement you notice "Fat Tony" the "grandunk" of the Harry Potter 12 year old looking kid. "Fat Tony" looks like an old fat mobster and you expect him to start ordering hits from the comfort of his chair.
Largely the message is the same as "The Day After"- it's hopeless to try to survive, the living will envy the dead, blah blah blah.
Actually it's not as crazy as that, but the message is there.
One guy, who is walking nonchalantly down a dirt road in the middle of BFE, Texas listening to an Ipod right before the nukes hit, is a doctor or in doctoring school and all. He's the go to guy for everything and the closest to a survivalist than any of the rest of them. He runs into a girl and kid brother, they get together. They run into some other people, who run into some other people, and they end up in Harry Potter Jr.'s basement with Fat Tony and Eddie Furlong of all damn people.
Now you'll remember Eddie Furlong from his only other acting jobs- 1. Terminator 2- the annoying young John Connor- " (squeeky voice)" but aren't the Russians are friends now? " No Eddie, the Russians are never our damn friends, what the hells the matter with you? That statement would get you five minutes of knuckle pushups in my house, LOL. 2. Detroit Rock City- equally annoying, same stupid looks and voice...
So Speddie Eddie is there with his prego wife. I'm sure they are on WIC, Peachcare and probably getting food stamps from the look of him.... His wife has complications and dies with the baby, about the only truly sad part of the movie. Sad that the gal was stupid enough to procreate with Eddie Furlong and said that he died because of it.
The doctor/doctor student and some random chic they run into make it to the end and defeat the rabid zombie refugees with a combination of gunplay, cricket bats and whitty comebacks.
It's a B+ movie. Everyone gets along well for the most part, so the "I'll throw together with some schmoes I don't know" crowd will love the movie. Realistically Eddie Furlong's body would add a slight bit of Protection Factor when killed and laid in front of the basement window...
I think it was $9. so it's kinda sorta worth it.