Quintet

October 6, 2025

Quintet Poster

Holy Hell! What even is this Robert Altman?? So I guess the setup is like, frozen earth apocalypse and Paul Newman... "Essex", is trudging across the tundra with his pregnant gf (not sure about legal marriages in this frozen hellscape). Her name is Vivia. They make their way to a frozen, um, MALL(?) with no doors and its full of lots of dogs and people in furs hanging out around 55 gallon drums on fire like apocalyptic hobos. They go inside, or kind of inside. I guess all the doors are blown off or something. 

(Spoilers ahead)

So then they like go past a bar with a game being played by five people that Essex knows but he's like "I don't play that anymore" and it looks like a really stupid game but they all have little trinkets of their own like pool players with their own cues. So anyways, his pregs gf gets blown up almost immediately and he doesn't seem to care that much. A bunch of people give him `BOOZA` which I assume is alcohol. It must be really far in the future if people forgot the other hundreds of words for liquor.

Anyhow, he gets roped into the game QUINTET and shoot if he's not really good! Then the other players, all dressed like they are in the Decameron in Alaska, start BEING KILLED? LMAO. Some other bird tries to seduce him and she does kind of... No time for mourning. Oh, also the dogs seem to eat all the dead frozen people littered about Woodfield. I'm not kidding. Lots of dogs but like, if people are starving to death, why not eat the dogs?

The women all suck their thumbs too. I won't spoil the ending in case anyone actually wants to watch this but I don't know if I'd recommend it (except to like one or two maniac friends I have).