Zombies may roam the planet, but the cleaning service still shows up. Maybe it’s scarce because they ate it all? Also, this is another of those films where the world has ended but everything is still clean and shiny. This segment gets off to a horrible start as we hear the well-fed Rick comment about food being scarce before being attacked by a man with noticeable rolls of fat. Now he survives as a scavenger with one last task to complete. The first story “A Broken Promise”, written and directed by Derek Braasch (Mutilation Massacre, Murder for Pleasure), is the story of Rick (Justin Bauer, Slay Ride, Death is the Only Option), who lost his pregnant wife (Lillian Lamour, Hell’s Half Acre, Night Hunt) to the virus. His reading those stories and ranting about “Balrog” form Doomsday Stories’ wraparound Zorack (Phil Herman, Easter Bunny Bloodbath 2: No More Tears, Amityville Thanksgiving), a loner who has survived by avoiding what’s left of humanity, reads several stories from a notebook he took from a dead woman.
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I wouldn't recommend it though, it's not a film that's easy to like.Doomsday Stories opens with a narrator telling us how mankind was all but wiped out by a series of viruses that caused food shortages and high gas prices before a final virus called “Meanies” reduced the Earth’s population to a mere 8,000 people in 2025. It's not perfect, not even fucking close, but this is still a pretty good movie. I can't say I fully "acquired" it, but I still liked the movie.
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It's just a movie that's more of an acquired taste. It might seem like I'm ragging on this movie, but I genuinely did like it. Brian Charles Johnson and Laura Campbell, as Jaidon and Reyna respectively, are also good. Justin Rice and Leo Fitzpatrick are well matched. Though I guess that's a bit of a contradiction, since if the story goes somewhere then that means the characters have to be right there with you. That's fine if you have an actual story that goes somewhere, even if the characters don't. And I guess there's a point to that, but it's not a narrative that's particularly interesting to me, the characters don't really go anywhere from their initial state. There's a blurb on here that says the film is about the fantasy of, essentially, living a life without consequences. They film's events start on March 1st and they end on April 1st. It might as well have been a YouTube series, since the movie does feature title cards for each day. It's just these characters squatting in these houses and seeing what adventures they find themselves in. It's not a sketch movie, since you follow the same characters through the entirety of it, but the film doesn't really have 'a point'. And by that I mean the fact that the film doesn't really seem to have any sort of narrative. The movie is good and all but, realistically speaking, to me, there's not really a point to it.
Later on, Fred becomes sexually involved with Reyna and she also comes with the group on their.journeys.
On their journeys, Fred and Bruho, at first, come into contact with Jaidon, whom they take on as a protege-type. It's up to the viewer to decide as to whether or not they're wrong or right about what they say and what they do. I think the movie has a strong script and it does a good job at making you see Fred's and Bruho's perspective without trying to justify their actions. But, try as they might, the characters weren't actually that unlikable at all. Fred is a habitual liar and Bruho has some really bad anger problems. It's really difficult to make these characters likable and it's not like they even tried. I find that Fred's motivations are more about he's just an intellectual that doesn't actually want to work for anything that he wants, he'd rather just take it from someone else. I believe this is the case for Bruho, at least. They're, basically, doing this as a result of the fact that they feel, perhaps wrongly, that the apocalypse will come sooner rather than later and, therefore, them squatting is their preparation for such an event, since everyone will have to do it. Essentially, Fred and Bruho are squatters who spend their time living in unoccupied vacation houses. At the very least, this film relies on situations that are a little more believable. Parts of this remind me of Wes Anderson minus the overly quirky characters and situations. This will appeal to a certain type of crowd and that certain crowd will eat it up. I'm not saying it's unfunny or anything of the sort, but the comedy is of the sort that's more of an acquired taste than anything else. I mean, I thought it was pretty good all things considered, but it's one of those movies that's not even necessarily that funny. It wouldn't have been much different anyway, it's not like I thought this was a masterpiece or anything. This was meant to be the 2600th review, ah well.
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