Bleak Future

Bleak Future: 4 out of 10: I have had friends that would constantly quote their favorite movies (In particular Caddyshack.) and one of the sources of these quotes was that vast work of Monty Python. The Python oeuvre is so influential it has spawned its own adjective Pythonesque. Bleak Future is often a Pythonesque movie. Unfortunately sometimes it borrows a little too much.

It consists of chapters broken up by a video on how the world ended. (The video is a definite nod to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy but it is so well done and entertaining I didn't care.) The chapters however are another story.

Filmed in super-8 in a desert wasteland they are a spot on parody of all those mindless post-apocalyptic movies of the last thirty years. These scenes consist of three main characters, a mute Scotsman warrior with a Billy Baldwin haircut, a very pretty blond girl without an original thought in her head, and that guy who won't stop doing those Monty Python impressions.

It's the third guy known as Slangman that gave me fits. His shtick is on display throughout the entire film and it drove me to distraction almost immediately. Every other character is fine. Sure some of the jokes are flat and overdone and there is a scene with the mutants so derivative of Python I thought they were going to ask for a shrubbery, but it is Slangman whose every utterance became the nails on my chalkboard soul.

Other than the small fact that the main character, who is in every scene, is a complete tool this is a fairly entertaining film with a genuinely funny ending. Worth a look if you are a fan of post apocalyptic movies just beware of the mutants that say Nee.

Man this movie blew me away! Shot on super 8 with no budget, but it looks great. Slangman is the "Smartest Man In The Known World." He crosses the desert dunes with the tongueless Atlatl and beautifully-dim Femme in search of "The Source" and comes into contact with all sorts of mutants, monsters, and mayhem, until they come face to face with the acid-spraying Malathion Man and the rocket-launching rival smart man Dr. Obvious. Great comic-book cinematography, top-notch mutant special effects, and a great music score!

Sweet movie!! Love it, love it, love it! Unique & originality, excellent stuff. Can't wait to see what else O'Malley will produce in the future. Love the characters and everything, the actors were cool & original, so was the plot. Lots of nice action, not a boring moment.

Funny, Fast, entertaining, creative, one of a kind....Make up and special effects are exciting and the original music rings true to the show... Feel the love, feel the hate, laugh and wonder about the future.. We enjoyed the hell out of this film..We were totally appreciative of the "genious" of thought throughout this movie adventure. An exciting experience in the future, witnessing, changes in mankind of every sort. Physically, mentally, spiritually etc..Anything is possible and this movie states it just so. Can you imagine having all that power in one small little "thing?" Well, we couldn't either until it was made believable in this movie. Each character is unique and has his own story to tell. Kudos to you Mr. Filmmaker and crew..Many more to come like this.!

Why is it this little gem of a film is not in every rental store in the country? Why is it inferior films of the same genre (6-String Samurai, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, etc.) get more airplay? I love this movie, and I wish there was more of it.