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.
The Forbidden Dance - How we solve global warming
Roar - Joe Exotic's wet dream but our nightmare
Bare Knuckles - Pizza Hut's Bag o' Pizza for 2
Yor: The Rerun
Return of Swamp Thing - Stinker Madness Rerun
Swamp Thing - Stinker Madness Rerun
Dangerous Men - The Hunt for Black Pepper
Conan the Destroyer - You're Welcome, Zach Snyder
Looker - Stick to advertising, guys
Runaway - Roomba's gone awry!
Radical Jack - Stinker Madness Rerun
DOA - Wait, where's the jiggle physics?
Double Dragon - The Power of Robert Patrick's future hair
Top Gun - aka Third Grade
Iron Eagle - Plane Nonsense
The Demolitionist - Dark Angel or Dark Brain-eating Zombie?
Dirty Dancing Part 2 - Stalking Baby and Her Dad
Dirty Dancing Part 1 - Lawrence Welk's Church and Prostitution Camp
End of Days - The Devil IS the Reject
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