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Jon Dieringer recommended Repo Man (1984) in Movies (curated)

Repo Man (1984)

1984 | Comedy, Sci-Fi

7.0

(6 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"Repo Man was one of the most important formative films of my teenage years. Later, when I moved to LA for a summer, I couldn’t stop thinking that I was actually living it out, because the city is such an extraordinarily strange place full of people who seem like their brains are being microwaved by the sun. Repo Man is a great movie about blue-collar weirdos in a wasteland of people living off defaulted loans, forming their identities through various “codes,” and searching for a sense of community in male fraternity, punk rock, religion, work, government, conspiracy theories, and/or outer space. And as time passes, the more jetting off the planet in a radioactive Chevy Malibu seems like a good idea."

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Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated Jean De Florette (1986) in Movies

Feb 4, 2021

Jean De Florette (1986)

1986 | International, Drama

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

The second in the series of films you would recommend to a visiting alien species in order to explain humanity. This is an effort to try and engage followers of The Wasteland a little more, both via WordPress on the actual page and through the instagram account thewasteland.art.blog

If you have an idea which film or films you would choose to explain the complex emotions and motivations of humanity then just leave a comment below. If I like your suggestion enough I will include it in the series. We are thinking big, complex storytelling with tons of heart, passion and soul. No need to explain it, let the film stand for itself!

No. 2 Jean de Florette – Claude Berri, (1986) – Switzerland, France, Italy

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Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)

7.1 (10 Ratings) Rate It

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Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of...

Science fiction

Storm Season (Olympic Cove #1)

Nicola M. Cameron

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Ian West has his summer all planned out—go down to Florida, stay in his family’s beach cottage...

MMM Menage Paranormal Romance Adult

Steven Sklansky (231 KP) rated The Bad Batch (2016) in Movies

Apr 15, 2018

Being in the wasteland is just as boring as this movie

I thought with a cast like Keanu, Jim Carey, and Jason Momoa this might have been a decent movie. I was so wrong. The movie started out so gruesome that I thought we were going to get a mad max type of movie. I slowly went down hill from there.

This movie is about a girl that joins the bad batch, a group of people that are sentenced to Texas. Ouch, talk about the perfect prison. This new wasteland, as far as I can tell is divided into 2 groups. Cannibals and Stoners. With the only plot being get a little girl back to here father there was not much else going on.

It seems like the whole movie was just setting up these 2 worlds that really didn't make much sense. Although The Comfort was definitely a better place to live, they really didn't say how they pick the people that can stay there. They are boarded up by shipping containers which leads me to believe they want to keep bad people out, but then again they are all "bad". So maybe the really bad. They just seemed to not care who came and went.

I think the only good thing in the movie was Jim Carrey. Funny enough he didn't even have a spoken line, I didn't even recognize him.

Eating people and getting high could not save this move. Like I always say, I don't want to hold anyone back from seeing a movie because of me. If you like it let me know why. And as always enjoy the show.

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Quinn Blackburn (3 KP) rated Svaha in Books

May 1, 2018

Svaha

Charles De Lint | 2018 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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Potential and Change

Set in a future where people have retreated to walled cities, if they are lucky. Between the cities lies ravaged wasteland, mutants, polluted landscapes, disaster. Only Native American Enclaves have avoided the pollution running rampant through land and society. Years ago they withdrew with their superior technology, waiting for the day when their skills are needed to restore the Earth and heal the people. Gazhee, dogscout of the People, has been sent from his Enclave to report back on conditions and serve as the eyes of his people. His first task is to find out what happened to the Enclave plane brought down by someone in the nearest city. Has the time for healing begun, or is all hell about to break loose?