This has kind of been floating around without us posting it, so here goes: poet-in-residence 4too pointed out the classic post-apocalyptic film A Boy and His Dog is now available as public domain on the Internet Archive.
See A Boy and His Dog now!
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I remember seeing this movie a long time ago, I found it rather strange.
Later when I talked about it with friends I brought up how the people of the underground complex dressed in the style of Archie and the Fonz.
The future will be like "Happy Days"
Later when I talked about it with friends I brought up how the people of the underground complex dressed in the style of Archie and the Fonz.
The future will be like "Happy Days"
I have the movie on dvd. It was worth the money. I think.
welsh
Junkmaster
Harlan Ellison is awesome.
This is great.
Love watching Don Jonson getting talked down to by a dog.
This is great.
Love watching Don Jonson getting talked down to by a dog.
i'd be overjoyed, were it not that i already own the DVD and have been enjoying it for years now. 
Series8217
First time out of the vault
SuAside said:i'd be overjoyed, were it not that i already own the DVD and have been enjoying it for years now.
x2
I love that film!
Having read the story (amongst Harlan Ellison's other work, I got the 50 years retrospective book that's absolutely massive) I felt compelled to watch the film.
Great stuff, cheesy with shakey acting, but that just retains Harlan's original campy piece.
Love how it didn't lose any subtlety near the ending, if only more book to film adaptations were this true to the source material while still being its own piece of work.
Great stuff, cheesy with shakey acting, but that just retains Harlan's original campy piece.
Love how it didn't lose any subtlety near the ending, if only more book to film adaptations were this true to the source material while still being its own piece of work.
DarkCorp
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
A little weird but good movie.
Plasma-pip
First time out of the vault
Gives me an error.
Uhm...what does?
Buzz Resonance And Media Convergence
Buzz Resonance And Media Convergence
Freshly dipped in THE VATS! http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43097&sid=8872f224e279a1f4e1a73e8cc627f251
A thread about "A Boy And His Dog" on YouTube, repeated that the 1975 movie was in public domain,
welsh:
Consider pointing the mere observation of an old movie on YouTube,
to a discussion of a movie rendition gone public domain spreading out,
to more web places for mouses to click and eye balls to see.
Perhaps this sci fi short story has more buzz resonance than the lowest common denominator of ^smart money^ might perceive.
Got a sci fi IP in 3 media, if you include 'graphic novels', with the clout of instant recognition. Guaranteed buzz.
Bethesda has grabbed this post apocalyptic theme of "A Boy And His Dog",
cut and pasted it into their Oblivion mindset and skinned it in FO3 textures.
Appears to be a snatch and run more successful in positive public reaction then many of their corporate interpretations / regurgitations of Fallout nuances.
Wonder if the "A Boy And His Dog" intellectual property would have cost 6(?) million to acquire? Less?
Grant that this is a game corporation seeing the world with game corporation tinted glasses, so might only see game IP's as worthy cadavers to deconstruct and reanimate in their own 'intelligent design-er' image.
Consider that "A Boy And His Dog" might have been a better creative base for Todd et al to expound on,
and 'do what they do best' with their Bethesda-Zenimax Oblivion production line,
then their pretense of emoting a RPG sequel and exploiting the media resonance of FO 1 + 2.
Other media for a metaphor?
'Teh harwd' to see Beth-Soft getting right '' ' the sound and the fury' '' of a straight stage script plodding of 'Hamlet' or 'King Lear'.
Think they, and maybe the solar system, might have more fun with an interpretative treatment like the movie, (another 1998 IP) ,
"Shakespeare In Love".
4too
Buzz Resonance And Media Convergence
Freshly dipped in THE VATS! http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43097&sid=8872f224e279a1f4e1a73e8cc627f251
A thread about "A Boy And His Dog" on YouTube, repeated that the 1975 movie was in public domain,
welsh:
Consider pointing the mere observation of an old movie on YouTube,
to a discussion of a movie rendition gone public domain spreading out,
to more web places for mouses to click and eye balls to see.
Perhaps this sci fi short story has more buzz resonance than the lowest common denominator of ^smart money^ might perceive.
Got a sci fi IP in 3 media, if you include 'graphic novels', with the clout of instant recognition. Guaranteed buzz.
Bethesda has grabbed this post apocalyptic theme of "A Boy And His Dog",
cut and pasted it into their Oblivion mindset and skinned it in FO3 textures.
Appears to be a snatch and run more successful in positive public reaction then many of their corporate interpretations / regurgitations of Fallout nuances.
Wonder if the "A Boy And His Dog" intellectual property would have cost 6(?) million to acquire? Less?
Grant that this is a game corporation seeing the world with game corporation tinted glasses, so might only see game IP's as worthy cadavers to deconstruct and reanimate in their own 'intelligent design-er' image.
Consider that "A Boy And His Dog" might have been a better creative base for Todd et al to expound on,
and 'do what they do best' with their Bethesda-Zenimax Oblivion production line,
then their pretense of emoting a RPG sequel and exploiting the media resonance of FO 1 + 2.
Other media for a metaphor?
'Teh harwd' to see Beth-Soft getting right '' ' the sound and the fury' '' of a straight stage script plodding of 'Hamlet' or 'King Lear'.
Think they, and maybe the solar system, might have more fun with an interpretative treatment like the movie, (another 1998 IP) ,
"Shakespeare In Love".
4too