The Postman (film)/YMMV


 * Audience Alienating Premise: It's hard to explain the movie's premise in a way that makes sense.
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: When the Holnists almost stone a man to death for not showing the Sound of Music.
 * Bizarrely, this is meant to have a point. The Holnists are almost all conscripts and thus are not the psychopaths that you might initially think.
 * Also can be viewed as a Mythology Gag (the Augments in the novel) or a Take That. The film shown: Universal Soldier.
 * Critical Backlash: Upon release, it was shot dead in the water. Nowadays, it's regarded that despite the abusive length and pacing, it's not that bad.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The whole movie nowadays plays like something of a mix between Dances With Wolves and Fallout.
 * A survivor of the apocolypse working to rebuild society through the mail system? Hmm...
 * Narm: Along with Glurge, in quite a few places throughout the movie, particularly the  at the end and when Ford Lincoln Mercury meets
 * The scene where Shakespeare imagines owning a television set that functions.
 * The scene where he performs Shakespeare horribly with his Donkey.
 * The Shakespeare contest with General Bethlehem, which... honestly is so Narmalicious that even Kevin Costner seems weirded out he's doing it.
 * Shakespeare's attempts to make up a story even though he's a horrible liar.
 * Roger Ebert said the crowning moment of sap was when the Postman rides out to pick a letter from a boy's hands.
 * Hell, just the whole damn movie.