Reviews

Why it is worth watching this movie, is to compare it to the movie from whence it took inspiration and derivation, the British masterpiece "Scum." This is a tale of a hard young man (Penn) sent to a youth offenders institution. But that is all that there is to say by comparison to the original story. In Bad Boys the scared aggression of imprisoned young men is faux-macho, always expressed as verbal and physical rage. No emotional subtlety nor human tangibility, no invitation of discomfort to the viewer as to why a society would allow the gross mistreatment of so many young people. Bad Boys is lock stock yank jock, typically missing the point of emotional shading and realism in movies of this fare. Comparing Penn's O'Brien to Winston's Carlin... Yer 'aving a laugh intcha?

This notoriously hard to get (at least legitimately) movie follows the travails of five nuke apocalypse survivors in the late 1970s. Their task is to drive their armored personnel vehicle cum Winnabago from Bakersfield CA to Albany NY. On the way they stop off in Vegas, Salt Lake City and Detriot bumping into maniac mutant cockroaches and some radioactive hillbillies along the way. 99% of the time the sky is a swirling orangish red that transfers its Gatorade hues to most sequences in this movie. The locations are all dust, sand and rock... this is after all Damnation Alley and the Earth has been tilted off its axis. An absolute trash B movie that I'm sure many of those associated with would rather forget, it is nonetheless hugely compelling. After viewing you can appreciate the cult classic status of this film, yet to not be entirely sure why that is so.