The first time I watched this movie was with my girlfriend at the time and my dog and apparently the stars were properly aligned because my dog looked right at her and licked his lips.
I’d bet she wasn’t your girlfriend after that, but the dog stayed by your side until the end, too. They’re the most loyal being a man could ever love, time immemorial.
It's important to remember that the antagonist was the one who lured the protagonist to the underground city in the first place. After incidentally falling in love subsequently, the protagonist is now confronted with countless shit tests ("do you love me?!") and endless pouting and acts of emotional manipulation. The boy's final disposal of the antagonist is his return to the Way of Peace.
I wont lie, just finished the movie earlier and it was satisfying as hell to see blood and vic walk away from the camp site laughing, all in all it was a good ending
I watched this for the first time recently and as soon as the screen faded to black I went from tearing up to laughing. Then when it faded into smoke it confirmed what I thought was happening and I laughed harder. Then the ending line and I laughed even harder.
I'm reminded of a COVID19 joke that I heard about, but haven't seen. Hannibal Lector looks right into your eyes and says, "After the soup's gone, we'll still have each other."
Yes, and don't feel too bad; I missed that the first time I saw this decades ago on broadcast TV...then AGAIN the second time I saw it a few years later! lol
I had read the story about a year before the movie came out. Saw it first run in 1975 and remembered the final dialogue changes. The original line "I know what love is...a boy loves his dog" is better but the movie goes for the laugh. Wikipedia says: Ellison had a reputation for being abrasive and argumentative.[a] He generally agreed with this assessment, and a dust jacket from one of his books[which?] described him as "possibly the most contentious person on Earth." Ellison filed numerous grievances and attempted lawsuits; as part of a dispute about fulfillment of a contract, he once sent 213 bricks to a publisher postage due, followed by a dead gopher via fourth-class mail.[54][third-party source needed] In an October 2017 piece in Wired, Ellison was dubbed "Sci-Fi's Most Controversial Figure."[55]
Yeah, I always thought it was a great fit for the wry/cynical voice of "Blood" the dog; the author however disagreed with us both - and quite strongly. I was honestly surprised the first time I found out about his distaste for the last line and how strongly he felt about it; but by that time I had seen the move 2-3 times already so the damage was done. ;)
This movie is like the games Wasteland and the Fallout series! And what great games they are. I don't know if we would've had those games without A Boy and His Dog.
Harlan Ellison, who wrote the novella this film was based on, was pretty unhappy with the ending (he thought the last line was bigoted and misogynist). He wrote a comic illustrated by Richard Corben called _VIC & BLOOD_ . Vic has an awakening of conscious and walks around in shock over the things he's done. Vic & Blood are separated again. Eventually he's almost killed by a raider gang, escapes from them, and is captured by a giant, mutated spider that cocoons him. Blood finds him, and tries to get him to escape, but Vic has accepted his fate. Blood runs off, leaving Vic to die. Ellison also planned a third installment, with _VIC & BLOOD_ and the 3rd part to be made into a film, but he died before that could happen.
I can't take the giant mutant spider thing seriously because it reminds me too much of Frodo getting caught by Shelob in the Lord Of The Rings. We're probably better off without a third part because I think old Harlan was running out of good ideas.
Don’t see how it was bigoted or misogynistic, I’d be more offended by the rapes than a bro picking his dog(whom both rely on one another) over an obvious manipulative and untrustworthy broad. It’s a great ending, it’d be more fucked up(and sad)if Vic abandoned Blood for some floozy.
@@kittycat5972 In the interview I saw, the author specifically indicated that it was due to this in ADDITION to the rest of the film and the hard-hitting nature of the "comic" last line (as I recall). Hell, I probably saw the interview here on TH-cam. :)
What did Blood actually say when he was coughing at 3:22. It sounded like "cough... I am satiated... Nothing. I am full.... " But I can't tell if I got it right.
It's like watching it for the first time every time. Fucking love it. 1st saw as a 14 year old. 'Hello partner', gets Me. Got a few best pals that hang about on 3 or 4 legs. ❤
hmm... not many (any?) comments from women on here. The film is so refreshing in these days of Political Correctness. I used to have a Bearded Collie (the dog). It also talked to me.
I'm a chick. I dig the ending. dogs before people is my motto so I didn't see it in terms of 'boy' necessarily. could have been girl and her dog, but a dude made the movie so he gets to call it whatever he wants. I'd make a movie and call it 'stink pretty and her 4 dogs' because that would be my movie and the protagonist would be pretty, but wouldn't shower enough, or wear pretty clothes, or act like a girl, and so boys never warmed to her, but her dogs thought she smelled divine. So she chops up all the boys and then her 4 dogs bury all the pieces in the woods so she doesn't get caught. the end of 'Stink Pretty and the 4 dogs'
You just described the difference between Science Fiction Writing as literature and Hollywood (over-the-top pandering). Using your own example of the over-rated series "Road Warrior" simply compare the first movie the last one. The first movie had (as I remember) not one, single, heavy metal jam in the desert nor any lactating woman. What crap that first "Road Warrior" movie must have been. Thank God they brought in Tina Turner to save the "franchise" (lol!). To each their own dude.
They were all great movies for their times and budgets. The only thing I didn't really like is how they brought back his V8 30 years later after we had seen it destroyed.
The people in the comments here lauding this ending for how "anti-woke" and "based" it is would probably do well to remember that Ellison himself hated the fact that Quilla's murder is played for comedy and the fact that Joanna Russ, a friend of Ellison's, criticised him harshly over it. The "unwoke" past you so desperately cling to doesn't exist, shut up
I could hit this from so, so many angles... but I would ask one thing first: Did you actually watch the entire movie? She got no less than she deserved...in a movie that had Jason (fing!) Robards in freaking "white face" in a bomb shelter pretending he is in Kansas... Again: did you actually WATCH this movie; because you did NOT bother to read my comments on the clip AT ALL THAT IS PERFECTLY CLEAR! :) Give them a read now, then maybe watch the movie (again?) Oh...btw that time has not past: The movie is set in 2024 (seriously). :)
Watching this as a teenager: this film is great Watching this film while being an adult with his own family: Damn this film missed the point 😂 the film was all about sexual needs. Not about what humans really fight for, not the real struggles of life in a world at its end. It shows that in the 80s all hollywood wanted was meat and pussy. It doesn’t represent humanity at all. Because imagine that at the end of all things when instinct and desperation take over? Will reproducing be the feeling in you? Because the evidence states animals don’t fuck when they’re suffering
@@SN00PICUSExactly. I love my dog, she is a posh lady herself, I and most other men would feed a thot or random guy to the dog. I thought about this btw, had a few gfs...so yes my dog comes first.
"I didn't bring you down here so THEY could use you. I brought you down here so *I* could use you." -- Quilla.
Women are common...
...A telepathic dog is something special.
I mean not in this world. Kinda the entire plot tbh.
@@bluejay7071 I think the point of the movie is to parallel the exact opposite so you can learn to apply this to real life
in every other movie the loyal companion or best friend (often a dog) always gets replaced with the girl for cheesy romance. this here is awesome
This here, is something approaching realism. Life is stranger than fiction they say.
I don't think I've ever been more satisfied with a movie ending in my entire life. 😃
You need to watch ******GLORY****** Then. Another great ending to a movie.
Totally didn’t see that coming either.
Its Fucking Magic.
Amen to that brother
They ate the girl bro
I love how Vic & Blood are laughing at the end before the credits.. ends perfectly.
Went from a Boy & His Dog, to “A Man, and His Best Friend”.
Seen this when I was 15. I think he made the right call then and 40 years later right call now!😂
They ate the girl 😂
@@robcarey4230 Hey Doggo's are more important that thots
A dog is a best friend
Honestly that ending shocked me more than anything else in the movie did
The first time I watched this movie was with my girlfriend at the time and my dog and apparently the stars were properly aligned because my dog looked right at her and licked his lips.
I’d bet she wasn’t your girlfriend after that, but the dog stayed by your side until the end, too. They’re the most loyal being a man could ever love, time immemorial.
@@freakingabagool3510 I just had to put my dog to sleep. :( A boy loves his dog.
@@MrEpz4321- sorry for Your loss Mate.. we had to do the same to one of Our Pack a couple of months back. ❤😢
It's important to remember that the antagonist was the one who lured the protagonist to the underground city in the first place.
After incidentally falling in love subsequently, the protagonist is now confronted with countless shit tests ("do you love me?!") and endless pouting and acts of emotional manipulation.
The boy's final disposal of the antagonist is his return to the Way of Peace.
I wont lie, just finished the movie earlier and it was satisfying as hell to see blood and vic walk away from the camp site laughing, all in all it was a good ending
...particularly Good Taste. 😂
Best last lime in any movie ever. At least in any sci-fi cult classic.
Cracks me up whenever I watch it.
Finally, the boy shows good judgement 😊
Still the best ending to a film anyone has seen.
Not quite.
I watched this for the first time recently and as soon as the screen faded to black I went from tearing up to laughing. Then when it faded into smoke it confirmed what I thought was happening and I laughed harder. Then the ending line and I laughed even harder.
They'll be together forever alright.
I'm reminded of a COVID19 joke that I heard about, but haven't seen. Hannibal Lector looks right into your eyes and says, "After the soup's gone, we'll still have each other."
Never try to get between a boy and his dog.
No wonder why Blood hated that thot.
She never cared for both of them, so they both returned the favor.
2:18 Homeboy already had his mind made up, lol!
XD
Best ending
When they say to eat your girl, they don't mean it literally.
I think they *do* 🍑🙋♀️
Vic made the right choice!!!
best...ending...ever
Well am I wrong for saying she kinda deserved it? I mean it's a wasteland,canibalism is probably common place there...
I had to explain the ending to my wife... She didn't get it until I had explained it.
Like “where’d she go?”
There is an ancient chasm between men and women, that we pretend doesn't exist. -C
man thinking logical, women thinking emotionally
Nom Nom Nom., lol!
@@hinz1 She didn't get it until I had explained it. Then she didn't agree with it.
Wait so they ate her?
Yes, and don't feel too bad; I missed that the first time I saw this decades ago on broadcast TV...then AGAIN the second time I saw it a few years later! lol
Yes.
yeah and not in a sexual way 🤪
Blood did not Vic
yup
I had read the story about a year before the movie came out. Saw it first run in 1975 and remembered the final dialogue changes. The original line "I know what love is...a boy loves his dog" is better but the movie goes for the laugh. Wikipedia says: Ellison had a reputation for being abrasive and argumentative.[a] He generally agreed with this assessment, and a dust jacket from one of his books[which?] described him as "possibly the most contentious person on Earth." Ellison filed numerous grievances and attempted lawsuits; as part of a dispute about fulfillment of a contract, he once sent 213 bricks to a publisher postage due, followed by a dead gopher via fourth-class mail.[54][third-party source needed] In an October 2017 piece in Wired, Ellison was dubbed "Sci-Fi's Most Controversial Figure."[55]
Wikipedia is trash tbh
well that's where chainsaw man got the idea...
This is not how I remember Adventure Time...
This film was wild in places but I'm glad I stuck with it till the end. I think the boy made the right choice lol
Man loves Dog, Dog loves Man, this is the way.
based ending
A dark and bold ending. You do not see it in film making today.
Karen didn't realise there was no room for her in the postapocalypse.
Thanks for posting the ending.
It saved me a lot of time.
You were warned. :)
Friend dog >>>> girlfriend
Best movie ending ever
@1:51 is "I got an idea" and @2:19 is "this is a done-deal"
The ending dialogue from blood is better than the novella idc what anyone says 😂
Yeah, I always thought it was a great fit for the wry/cynical voice of "Blood" the dog; the author however disagreed with us both - and quite strongly. I was honestly surprised the first time I found out about his distaste for the last line and how strongly he felt about it; but by that time I had seen the move 2-3 times already so the damage was done. ;)
The author wanted to get laid again at some point before the end of his life.
I guess this has a rather good, but also dark humor lesson to be learned never get between a man and his dog
This movie is like the games Wasteland and the Fallout series! And what great games they are. I don't know if we would've had those games without A Boy and His Dog.
Harlan Ellison, who wrote the novella this film was based on, was pretty unhappy with the ending (he thought the last line was bigoted and misogynist). He wrote a comic illustrated by Richard Corben called _VIC & BLOOD_ . Vic has an awakening of conscious and walks around in shock over the things he's done. Vic & Blood are separated again. Eventually he's almost killed by a raider gang, escapes from them, and is captured by a giant, mutated spider that cocoons him. Blood finds him, and tries to get him to escape, but Vic has accepted his fate. Blood runs off, leaving Vic to die. Ellison also planned a third installment, with _VIC & BLOOD_ and the 3rd part to be made into a film, but he died before that could happen.
I can't take the giant mutant spider thing seriously because it reminds me too much of Frodo getting caught by Shelob in the Lord Of The Rings. We're probably better off without a third part because I think old Harlan was running out of good ideas.
Don’t see how it was bigoted or misogynistic, I’d be more offended by the rapes than a bro picking his dog(whom both rely on one another) over an obvious manipulative and untrustworthy broad.
It’s a great ending, it’d be more fucked up(and sad)if Vic abandoned Blood for some floozy.
@@kittycat5972 In the interview I saw, the author specifically indicated that it was due to this in ADDITION to the rest of the film and the hard-hitting nature of the "comic" last line (as I recall). Hell, I probably saw the interview here on TH-cam. :)
Mysoginistic or not, I personally do prefer the last lines in the book.
But it certainly was not misandrist to depict men as violent barbaric brutes without any sense of morality.
Do you know what it is love?
"Yeah, I do, a boy loves his dog."
When I first saw this movie I thought Blood was gonna die and I about cried until the end, then I got real happy.
Blood is the goodest boy
Discovered this movie late at night when i was a kid, absolutely love this movie
This is, to date, the single coolest ending to a film I've ever watched.
What did Blood actually say when he was coughing at 3:22. It sounded like "cough... I am satiated... Nothing. I am full.... "
But I can't tell if I got it right.
It sounded like satiated.
Yeah, that's what he says. He rephrases because the guy doesn't know English too well.
Lmao just finished this movie and had to make sure the ending is what I thought it meant 😂 and yep it was
Greatest ending ever
It's like watching it for the first time every time. Fucking love it. 1st saw as a 14 year old. 'Hello partner', gets Me. Got a few best pals that hang about on 3 or 4 legs. ❤
I was not expecting the ending at all. Pretty horrifying.
Great film.
Wish they did a sequel.
Nah, some things should just stand alone as testament to the ages. Never put yourself between a boy and his dog. =)
So they ate here?
yup, well the dog did atleast
He made the right choice , you need to read the book to understand why.
go off king
Poochie>Hoochie
"Hi, Doll." Count why'd ail?
This ending is so similar to chainsaw man
knowing how much fujimoto loves movies this is probably where he got the idea from. denji even looks a little like vic lol.
He should let Pochita eat Makima
I can see Denji & Vic have similar personality
hmm... not many (any?) comments from women on here. The film is so refreshing in these days of Political Correctness. I used to have a Bearded Collie (the dog). It also talked to me.
I'm a chick. I dig the ending. dogs before people is my motto so I didn't see it in terms of 'boy' necessarily. could have been girl and her dog, but a dude made the movie so he gets to call it whatever he wants. I'd make a movie and call it 'stink pretty and her 4 dogs' because that would be my movie and the protagonist would be pretty, but wouldn't shower enough, or wear pretty clothes, or act like a girl, and so boys never warmed to her, but her dogs thought she smelled divine. So she chops up all the boys and then her 4 dogs bury all the pieces in the woods so she doesn't get caught. the end of 'Stink Pretty and the 4 dogs'
I think we need to call the fbi on you 👀@@wamsies
savage ending i liked it
Thanks Chaz
In Australia anarchy means flame-shooting guitars, hot breeders and V8 engines. How did America get this?
You just described the difference between Science Fiction Writing as literature and Hollywood (over-the-top pandering). Using your own example of the over-rated series "Road Warrior" simply compare the first movie the last one. The first movie had (as I remember) not one, single, heavy metal jam in the desert nor any lactating woman. What crap that first "Road Warrior" movie must have been. Thank God they brought in Tina Turner to save the "franchise" (lol!). To each their own dude.
@@GrumblingGrognard you must be great at parties.... fucking goof lmao
They were all great movies for their times and budgets. The only thing I didn't really like is how they brought back his V8 30 years later after we had seen it destroyed.
@@GrumblingGrognard Completely disagree with your assessment. Mad Max and A Boy and His Dog are two of the early post-apocalypse films.
yay harlan !!!! fab movie.....
The Thing borrowed from this ending.
Just realized they killed and ate her.
Magic.
Lol!
Carnivalism ☠️
Cutting the song of at the end is unforgivable.
Hello Partner....
Great ending… is it me or does it appear to be a little dark… naw… lol
Movies shape our cultural values.
The people in the comments here lauding this ending for how "anti-woke" and "based" it is would probably do well to remember that Ellison himself hated the fact that Quilla's murder is played for comedy and the fact that Joanna Russ, a friend of Ellison's, criticised him harshly over it. The "unwoke" past you so desperately cling to doesn't exist, shut up
I could hit this from so, so many angles... but I would ask one thing first: Did you actually watch the entire movie? She got no less than she deserved...in a movie that had Jason (fing!) Robards in freaking "white face" in a bomb shelter pretending he is in Kansas...
Again: did you actually WATCH this movie; because you did NOT bother to read my comments on the clip AT ALL THAT IS PERFECTLY CLEAR! :) Give them a read now, then maybe watch the movie (again?)
Oh...btw that time has not past: The movie is set in 2024 (seriously). :)
If the unwoke past did not exist, then nothing needed to change. You shut up.
What the hell? 😱🤣
WTF?? 💀💀💀
We need the secuele of the book
Watching this as a teenager: this film is great
Watching this film while being an adult with his own family: Damn this film missed the point 😂 the film was all about sexual needs. Not about what humans really fight for, not the real struggles of life in a world at its end. It shows that in the 80s all hollywood wanted was meat and pussy. It doesn’t represent humanity at all. Because imagine that at the end of all things when instinct and desperation take over? Will reproducing be the feeling in you? Because the evidence states animals don’t fuck when they’re suffering
I never liked the cruelty about this ending!
cruelty? what cruelty? i'm sure it was quick
@@SN00PICUSExactly. I love my dog, she is a posh lady herself, I and most other men would feed a thot or random guy to the dog. I thought about this btw, had a few gfs...so yes my dog comes first.
Boy I really don’t like this movie
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@@brianjordan3841movie's great man!
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THEY ATE THE GIRL AT THE END 😂😂😂
The boy did the right thing going MGTOW 😂
Best ending ever