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Director Checklist - Neil Marshall
Neil Marshall
Doomsday (2008)
The Descent (2005)
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Combat (1999)
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Re: Director Checklist - Neil Marshall
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Doomsday (2008)
The Descent (2005) 
Dog Soldiers (2002) 
Combat (1999)
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Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Adventures of Robin Hood, Beowulf, Cool Hand Luke, Dark City, The Doors, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, How the West Was Won, The Hunt for Red October, Iron Man, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Mist, The Mummy, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pale Rider, The Sixth Sense, Starship Troopers, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Thunderball, Transformers DVD: Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Road House, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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12-29-2007, 01:38 PM
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Re: Director Checklist - Neil Marshall
My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Tokyo Story (1953,Yasujiro Ozu) 5/5, Tokyo-Ga (1985,Wim Wenders) 3/5, The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965,Zbynek Brynych) 1/5, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987,Kazuo Hara) 5/5, Searching for Debra Winger (2002,Rosanna Arquette) 2/5, I for India (2005,Sandhya Suri) 3/5, Vacancy (2007,Nimród Antal) 3/5, Lady Chatterley (2006,Pascale Ferran) 5/5, The Prefab People (1982,Béla Tarr) 2/5, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984,W.D. Richter) 2/5, 20 Centimeters (2005,Ramón Salazar) 3/5, Early Summer (1951,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5, Late Spring (1949,Yasujiro Ozu) 5/5, A Story of Floating Weeds (1934,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5, Passing Fancy (1933,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5
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12-29-2007, 05:26 PM
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Re: Director Checklist - Neil Marshall
Ratings on a scale of * to *****:
1: Dog Soldiers (2002) ****
2: Doomsday (2008) ***½
3: The Descent (2005) **
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12-29-2007, 07:07 PM
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Re: Director Checklist - Neil Marshall
The Descent (2005) - 6/10
Dog Soldiers (2002) - 3/10
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12-29-2007, 08:37 PM
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Re: Director Checklist - Neil Marshall
Doomsday (2008)
The Descent (2005)
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Combat (1999)
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05-09-2008, 12:51 PM
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Re: Director Checklist - Neil Marshall
Jim, 3 years since you started the checklist series and it's still going on, I'm stunned. 
Doomsday (2008)
The Descent (2005)
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Rankings
1) Dog Soldiers
2) The Descent
3) Doomsday
Ratings out of 5
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Saw Doomsday, the new film by British director Neil Marshall, who's films btw all begin with the letter D, Dog Soldiers, The Descent and Doomsday. The film is basically a melding of Escape from New York and Mad Max 2. A terrible disease called 'Reaper' infects most of Scotland and the entire country is walled off and quarantined. Years later it starts to spread outside of Scotland and a crack team is sent in to see if they can find a cure. Rhona Mitra is the heroine, in the Mad Max/Snake Plissken mould. The film is almost non-stop violent action, and includes enough exploding bodies and decapitations to make Rambo jealous. The exciting car chase finale is a direct lift from Mad Max 2, though the main punk villain is more annoying than threatening and cannot compare with Vernon Wells nutjob villain Wez in Road Warrior.
So, to sum up, Doomsday is Neil Marshall's 100min homage to the films he loved as a kid, but for all it's gory mayhem I was disappointed. It was too derivative and lacked style.
3 out of 5.
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