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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
Finally saw "The Postman" after 26 years.
Loved every second of it.
Was it perfect? No. A lot of cheese. But a lot of heart, and you can't beat that final shot.
Also, David Brin's take on it will leave you happy it was made the way it was made. It could have been a LOT worse. There's also a fun site about the novel's backstory that's interesting to read.
And as a FORMER postman, it definitely hit me right in the feels. |
The Postman always got a bad rap. Much like Solo paying the price for Last Jedi, it got savaged by critics still angry over Waterworld, which truly did suck. Also, I think people were expecting radioactive zombies and mutated monsters, and Postman was a realistic portrayal of how a post-nuclear war society might actually function and had no sci-fi/fantasy elements.
I saw it in theater and enjoyed it. It wasn't great, but it was good.