Blast from the Past (film) - i had to review this

in #movie5 years ago

It wouldn't be fair to take a look at Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and not also look at the movie that they kinda stole the entire story from.

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Well i suppose unlike the Netflix series this one doesn't involved a cult. In the 60's there actually were people who had fallout shelters underground in preparation for nuclear war (some people probably still do) but that is the story here.

The Webber family believes that the tensions between the USSR and USA are going to escalate and the mutually assured destruction is just around the corner. One day Dr. Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) panics and rushes himself and his pregnant wife into the bunker and it just so happens that shortly thereafter a jet crashes into his house. Believing a nuclear bomb has in fact struck he activates the bunker's seal, which can not be opened for 35 years. No one knows that he has the bunker as he kept it a secret. Therefore when they are clearing the wreckage it is presumed that the entire family was killed.

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A baby is born in the shelter. He is named Adam and his upbringing goes by in a flash because that isn't really the main story in this movie. Adam Webber (Brenden Frasier) needs to go out to resupply one day when he is in his 30's to help his ailing father, he arrives on the surface with lots of protective gear to protect him from fallout radiation only to discover there isn't any.

He knows nothing about the modern world and his politeness and old-fashioned attitudes are found extremely appealing by the people that he interacts with. He doesn't really know HOW to be rude and of course doesn't even understand sarcasm since his parents didn't teach it to him. This can't really be portrayed correctly in pictures but check out the trailer.

Of course I failed to mention that the movie is primarily a romantic comedy and that is just fine. Blast from the past did very poorly and received mixed reviews, which you know, is kind of what everything that Brenden Frasier ends up getting. One of the cool things about this movie is that the underground bunker wasn't built for this movie, it is a real place that is still around today (last I saw it was for sale also.)

I liked it a lot more than the professional critics did. I give it a

6 / 10

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Haha I never even heard of this film. Wasn’t Brendan Frasier in something similar called California man but he was a caveman that was frozen . When they melted him they tried to blend him into the US school system to hilarious consequences ! 😂😂😂. Loved it as a ten year old . Wouldn’t mind seeing this one . I’d say it’s funny .

Encino man. Yeah, i didn't really think about how the two films are similar

Undoubtedly entertaining movie. Something that I especially liked, is that the character played by Brenden Frasier has much more general culture than the rest of the characters, however, for him everything is strange.

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Old but nice film

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Okay, but he said the series is even better, how about that?

Interesting fact that the series, stole the entire film.
Makes me wonder, is there anything original out there, or do they copy paste everything from the eighties and nineties?
Gonna watch the series for sure.

I have heard stories up till this day of persons building some sort of protective shelter and bunkers believing that world war three will soon commerce between the capitalist and socialist blocks of the world. And this makes it very interesting about this film because it portrays just to what mist people are doing to safeguard their families from nuclear war . To me this film is really nice to watch @gooddream

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