Stinker Madness - The Podcast for Bad Movie Lovers
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Its a straight-up western, but because its from 1987 it has to be set in a post-apocalyptic world and instead of cowboy hats, we get hair-spray helmets. Despite everything there might be a good movie buried in the sands.
So its Shane, Once upon in the West, Star Wars and Fallout 4. Ok, maybe Fallout 4 is Steel Dawn. Clearly, Fallout 76 is Steel Dawn. Anyways, this is a hot mess.
The music doesn't fit. The world doesn't make any damn sense. The plot doesn't make much sense. The hair makes no sense. The action is ludicrous. The Stranger's one-liners are silly. It's just a pile of not doing a good job and yet...somehow it feels like there's something good here.
The tone of the whole movie is a fairly conventional western theme. A lone wanderer with a dark past shuffles into town, where he meets a widow and her son along with their jealous and lonely foreman, and has to defend the farm from a rival who wants their resources. That's about as western (or Japanese samurai, of which most spaghetti westerns are imitations of) as a movie gets. Atop of that is solid camera work that highlights this tone and story. It seems like there's a good movie buried here.
Yet because its a PA film, you've got a bunch of nonsense; like sand-people, cool looking but useless weapons, crappy and dirty sets and future cars that mostly suck. You've got characters who don't make sense and motivations that are dubious at best. Sprinkle in some scenes that are bonkers like the romance in the dirt, the party crashers at "the gathering", inept henchmen and why they live in the wasteland in the first place makes this an absolute must do and likely a favorite for many a viewer.
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Supergirl - Now with Derp powers
Prelude to Supergirl
Superman IV: The Quest for Sanity
Prelude to Superman IV
She - Genre mashup with Toren Atkinson
Prelude to She
Purple Rain - More Prince, Please
Prelude to Purple Rain
Tomboy - When exactly did rape become illegal?
Gods of Egypt - Bad Movie Field Trip
Year 2: Year in Review Part 2
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Deadbeat at Dawn - Violence and Vanity
Prelude to Deadbeat at Dawn
Gone with the Pope - When Quality Levels Collide
Prelude to Gone with the Pope
Vampire's Kiss - Insane Role = Insane Performace
Prelude to Vampire's Kiss
Street Trash - An affront to morals and bums
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