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1->''The movie takes place in a future world in which all civilization has been reduced to a few phony movie sets. Leather-clad neo-Nazis stalk through the ruins, beating each other senseless and talking in Pulpspeak, which is like English, but without the grace and modulation. It's cold in the future, and it's wet, but never so cold or wet that the costumes do not bare the arm muscles of the men and the heaving bosoms of the women.''
2-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', review of ''Film/{{Cyborg 1989}}''
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4-> ''"Eden is strung up and tortured by the leader of this band of ruffians, Saul, who like the others has gone straight back to the days of punk. Hell, half the people in this room have brightly dyed mohawks, is this what they spend their spare days doing? Why is it that when the apocalypse happens in films, instead of hoarding things like water and food, everybody starts pulling out hair dye, make up and bondage gear? Does the apocalypse make everyone kinky? And where are they getting their thirty year supply of make up from? "''
5-->-- '''Film Brain''', ''WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown'' review of ''Film/{{Doomsday}}''
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7->"I really like the setting of this sort of punk-apocalyptic future. What'd be the word for that, [[TitleDrop 'apunkalyptic?']] I don't know."
8-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', review of ''Film/TankGirl''
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10->''"It was 1906, but we screwed the timeline up.''\
11''It wasn't just for kicks, but I'm afraid that the jig is up!''\
12''We traipsed through time at the count of jump,''\
13''Smashed the past, and messed the whole thing up -''\
14''Now there's nothing left but Post-Apocalypse Punk!"''
15-->-- '''Music/AbneyPark''', "[[SteamPunk Lost Horizons]]"
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17->''Razor-blade boomerangs and iron hands\
18Crossbows and hockey pads are in demand''
19-->--'''Music/TheAquabats''', "Radiation Song!"
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21->''Who would have thought that gasoline--like [[CockroachesWillRuleTheEarth cockroaches]]--was impervious to apocalypse?''
22-->-- '''WebVideo/DiamandaHagan''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqZw79ttqsQ review]] of ''Film/RatsNightOfTerror''
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24->"Gangs roamed the streets like characters in a ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' rip-off, only to discover it was impossible to maintain their gas-guzzling vehicles without a massive support infrastructure."
25-->-- '''Buster''', ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
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27->...And it's escalating! Pretty soon it's gonna be ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'' on the freeway. People with twin .50 caliber machine guns mounted on the front of their Chevrolets, going, "Look, Helen, a slow Chinese driver." And he's going, "No you don't, you wonton asshole!" ''WHOOSH!'' Flamethrower in the trunk! And a little old lady in a Volkswagen bus with a grenade launcher going, "Make my day!"
28-->-- '''Creator/RobinWilliams'''
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30->There were five of them. Dressed outlandishly.\
31"Like rejects from a ''Mad Max'' movie." [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] thought to herself as she and ComicBook/{{Rogue}} skimmed across the rubble.
32-->-- ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheOtherverse''
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