Damnation Alley
1977 Directed by Jack Smight
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A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the freakish weather mutated plant and animal life and other dangers along the way.
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The fact that someone funded this film and then marketed it as aggressively as they did continues to boggle my mind. If you watch a pile of sand with a dead cockroach and occasionally scream, you will have an almost identical experience to watching this movie. I'm very happy that I didn't pay for it.
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It boggles my mind that this movie came out the same year as Star Wars, and was apparently more expensive and more aggressively marketed. It is a movie whose viewpoint is so mired in the Cold War that it was immediately dated upon release. It also posits what the results of a nuclear war would be and again, no one outside of the 70s would expect results anything like what we see in this movie.
Still, I'd be willing to give the movie some leeway, had it provided an interesting story. Sadly, it does not. Instead we watch a small group drive across a blasted and deserted country, continually acting with surprise when they come upon other survivors, despite the…
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[pass] (38min)
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The fact that someone funded this film and then marketed it as aggressively as they did continues to boggle my mind. If you watch a pile of sand with a dead cockroach and occasionally scream, you will have an almost identical experience to watching this movie. I'm very happy that I didn't pay for it.
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overly serious, ridiculously budgeted, but it's cast rises above the material.
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It boggles my mind that this movie came out the same year as Star Wars, and was apparently more expensive and more aggressively marketed. It is a movie whose viewpoint is so mired in the Cold War that it was immediately dated upon release. It also posits what the results of a nuclear war would be and again, no one outside of the 70s would expect results anything like what we see in this movie.
Still, I'd be willing to give the movie some leeway, had it provided an interesting story. Sadly, it does not. Instead we watch a small group drive across a blasted and deserted country, continually acting with surprise when they come upon other survivors, despite the…
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more like dullnation alley. the truck is great though.
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Postapokaliptična pustinja, oklopno vozilo i ŽOHARI UBOJICE. Koji su oklopljeni i u rojevima napadaju ljude i oglođu im meso do kosti. Što znači da je film koliko toliko fora.
Ipak, šteta je što nisu bili vjerniji Zelaznyevom književnom predlošku - jedan je od rijetkih koji bi bolje funkcionirali na ekranu.
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An utter train wreck of a film with hokey special effects and weak acting concerning a journey across a nuclear wasteland. And to think studio execs thought this was a sure bet and Star Wars was the sure loser.
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Peppard and Vincent, together, trying to survive the apocalypse, which has dangers that include killer cockroaches! If that doesn't make you rush out and see this, I don't know what will.
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If you squint, you can almost sort of see Roger Zelazny's novel in here. There is a bigass truck, and an attempt to get across a nuclear war-scarred America, and that's about it.