Forgotten Apocalypse: Stryker

[00:00:00] The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain.

[00:00:28] Okay, welcome back to The Outer Reels, where two friends and somewhat industry film unprofessionals who have completely different opinions on film find middle ground in all of these weird forgotten little movies that we watch. I'm Sam and Jason is here. Hello. In our ever continuing wonderful adventures through the wasteland, we are just watching Apocalypse movies and we don't really know when it's going to end as we typically do our seasons eight episodes,

[00:00:58] but we're just going with it because we're having a good time. Yeah, this is our 18th forgotten Apocalypse. And I am game to go the whole year. We have so many more in the tank, so we're definitely going through the summer at least. That's what that's how these are going to go. But yeah, we like to bring you guys some of the stuff. Most of the time everybody's seen this probably hasn't remembered it in a long time. So we enjoy scraping the bowels and bringing these things up out of memory.

[00:01:28] Well, a few of these for me are just like I just remember seeing the posters of video stars and never actually saw them. So it's a good excuse. Like I said, like so much of this stuff, I can't remember if I rent it. I look at it and I'm like, there's no way I wouldn't have rented this. But then I'm like, I can't remember seeing it. And then there's, of course, all the late night TV stuff as well.

[00:01:49] So somewhere along this chain of events, we've been exposed to a lot of these, but in our adult lives, certainly not sat down, watched and discussed each one as we do. So it's a, it's a good real deep dive into these. So tonight we're watching Stryker with a Y creatively enough from 1983.

[00:02:12] And we'd like to welcome back Zero H Santiago once again for his fourth and certainly not lost appearance on the show. That's our gotta be our new record, right? Like, no, I think BTS might be five, but oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. All right. Uh, Santiago is gonna, you know, Oh, he's out of the water. But he is in BTS is defense. We only did eight Australian movies. Yeah. Right. Exactly.

[00:02:38] So the other thing too, to remember that, like we've talked a bunch about Zero H Santiago. I don't need to talk anything about him. You can hear that in all our previous episodes that we've covered on him. This is his very first entry into the world of the post apocalypse. So didn't realize that. Yeah. So this is a tentpole film for him in the sense of what he became through the eighties. Because it's not that Mad Max looking.

[00:03:07] Um, it's the wheels of fire is certainly much more. Yeah. Uh, wheels of fire came two years later in 80, in 85. Has this has more of the first Mad Max look. I'll give it that. Where wheels of fire is definitely road warrior. Yeah. But this is definitely meant to be inspired and ripped off from road warrior. I liked the look of this movie better. I watched a horrible version of this on YouTube, unfortunately from 14 years ago was the upload date.

[00:03:37] There is a newer upload on daily motion, but I just didn't want to deal with the commercials. So yeah. So yeah. So I watched this on, on the Roku channel and it looked great. Yeah. So because I enjoyed visually what I was seeing in this movie and it was like, I like the look of this movie. We talk about it a little bit, but I think this look changed from, you know, 79 Mad Max to the early eighties, all of these ripoff movies.

[00:04:03] And then the early nineties, which we got doing warriors and steel frontier and all the other stuff we've covered. They had that brighter stage look in the wrong way. This movie still feels gritty and grounded and dusty. If you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. Well, it's yeah, it's, it's definitely got a similar vibe to some of the other Santiago movies.

[00:04:28] We we've seen, although it doesn't have quite all the same sort of familiar locations and things that we would get later on that we'd see much of this one's a little more unique looking and a pretty, pretty sweet poster. Yes. The poster is actually kind of cool. It has a, it tells a good story. It's got a cool perspective on it. I would like to welcome back our dear friend, the quarry who's appeared many times as there is one shot where I'm like, Oh, this is the exact same damn quarry.

[00:04:58] Otherwise you don't really notice it, but there is one single wide shot when they're on that road, this multi and you're just like, that's it. But we don't get the dunes and stuff, the sort of mini sand dunes and things that we've got in, in some of the others that we like, including last week. Oh yeah. Friend dune warriors. Um, but, but even still like wheels of fire, uh, they're all blending into my brain now.

[00:05:22] Blending between each other and they have similar looks in different, which ways, but I've been next week, by the way, I'm doing something a little bit different. We needed a palate cleanser. Okay. I mean, as long as it's not another Roddenberry remix, I don't care. I found Genesis three. Son of a, so no, what is this movie? How do you pitch this again? I'm not good at this, but it's, uh, it's post-apocalyptic and guess what? No one's got any water.

[00:05:52] Cause that's what we do. Uh, and like do warriors, uh, pants seem to be a bit of a commodity as well in this film. Yeah. Yeah. But just with the women this time, but they all, they all got short shorts, but I guess it was 83. Um, but, uh, yeah, I don't know. Doom and doom warriors and all the rest of them. Same, same kind of idea. They need water. You got a bad guy that wants it. I jinx ensue. Yeah.

[00:06:18] I, uh, basically look at this like, as it's an optional side quest that you would do in the wheels of fire world or some kind of secondary adventure that you would do. Like again, in dune warriors, I'm war gone wild. You can't fault these movies for saying that water is the commodity because it absolutely is. And in the apocalypse, what do you need? You want water and you're on gas. Yeah.

[00:06:46] And so everything's going to revolve around the water in some way or another. Do you find it funny that we've had now, was it, I can't remember, was it three in a row that we've had where, where it ends with, with rain? With spring. Yeah. With unexpected rain. Exactly. And, and even just based around a natural spring to some extent. Well, and even Mad Max and even road warrior don't even really talk about water to that extent.

[00:07:11] Like it's, it's traded and people are looking for it, but there's no discussion. I'll talk about something Fury Road is a bit of a plot thing, but that's, you know, I mean, again, that's, that's, that's what, 10 years ago. So. Exactly. I mean, in Morton Joe's whole bit is that he has control of water and he can release it and everything, but it was never in any of these Mad Max movies and these other movies kind of hang on it. And it's all about the spring and this small town that has availability or has a spring

[00:07:39] and they don't want other people to know, and they don't want other people to come and raid them or whatever, and take their sacred spring. But it does feel like it's the same thing over and over again. The other thing. The other thing. Because it has been the same thing over and over again. Yeah. But again, I can't fault it because what else, what else do you make it an apocalypse movie about cleverly enough? Again, Mad Max didn't really go there. You just know that they get water here and there and this net. It's, I mean, it was funny.

[00:08:09] The thing about Mad Max, the first one is that it's not really post apocalyptic so much as it's the beginning. It's the beginning of the end. Yeah. They're civilization is crumbling and they're just kind of still trying to hold on. So. It's funny. I find it ironic that water world is more about trying to get water than these movies. Because water worlds are a much bigger deal when they talk about fresh water.

[00:08:37] Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Yeah. Again, another installment where it's all about water and they, they don't talk about gas. They don't, they, they certainly have plenty of bullets and ammunition and tanks and everything else, which should be a higher commodity in some ways. Cause you don't have any manufacturing plants, you know, any ways to produce brass. You can't, you know, but in whatever way they flip it on its head and now we'll have people looking for water.

[00:09:04] And this, I would like to say, welcome our third installment of midget jaw was in a film. Yes. Am I correct in saying that? This would be their first time in the Santiago movie. Technical appearance. Yeah. Continuing the theme, but, uh, or so he would go on to continue a theme, but yeah, they play a much bigger role in this one. I got to give them credit for that. They actually, I, I still don't know what they do and I'm still curious about them, but

[00:09:33] this is their biggest, the most utilized in this film outside of the others. And it's almost like they show up in the other ones now seeing this almost as like a nod to this one or something. Yeah. It's quite strange. Yeah. We probably shouldn't, we probably should have watched these Santiago movies in chronological order. I would have never thought that there was a form of coherence between all of these in this kind of order to be honest, but totally.

[00:09:58] Uh, but the official plot summary for this is the world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. And that made me laugh so hard. Like they're not even trying at this point. Like they're just trying to get the movie out of the door. There's no, isn't there, isn't it? Isn't there a single nuclear bomb at the start of this one? Or am I thinking of something else? Yeah. There's our, there's a hard opening on a bomb, but this is the plot summary. It says due to some sort of apocalypse, which is just funny. Like they're like phoning him, whatever.

[00:10:28] And this is his first one. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs guarded by a group of Amazons, a road warrior, quote unquote, like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture. The hero parentheses striker unites with some of the remaining good guys and the Amazons and freeze. They refer to the Amazons.

[00:10:53] I think as this whole collective of people, not just these women that have bows and arrows, by the way, and it says, and the Amazons and freeze a woman. They go on a road warrior again, type of concluding battle with the bad guys. This is a really broken plot summary. I, I don't understand if this was a bad translation or something, but this is the official one on IMDB. Yeah.

[00:11:18] Clearly, if this was the real one in 1983, they're trying to mention road warriors many times to grab people out of the newspaper or however it's being published. Cause that's the only reason it could be written like this. No, exactly. That's what it is. Or whoever came in and edited this later made a point of making sure you knew there, they were definitely like watching Mad Max and the road warrior. It's just some sort of apocalypse is, is kind of phoning it in right out of the gate though. I thought it was kind of funny. Yeah.

[00:11:47] This movie is written by Howard R. Cohen. Wow. Wow. So he wrote death stalker who we've talked about a lot. And of course that film's important because Mr. Rick Hill plays the death stalker. And we were just talking about him cause he appears in dune warriors last week. So I also noticed he was the second unit director on dune warriors, which I didn't mention the first time we discussed it. So I thought I mentioned that, but the director of photography from this movie, Ricardo Ramirez,

[00:12:16] 1983, he's the DOP on this movie. 1985. He's the DOP on wheels of fire. 1987. He's the DOP on equalizer 2000. So he is. Mr. Sir H Santiago's right hand man. I also did notice in 1981, he was DOP on the excellent enter the ninja, which I was very fond of as a child. Also. Movie stars in this movie. Welcome Steve Sandor playing striker.

[00:12:44] Who we all know from literally one episode of everything, but he's in one episode of the original star Trek gun smoke, stars, and Hutch three episodes of the streets of San Francisco, which is one of my favorite TV intros of all time chips. Dukes of hazard TJ hookers. So it comes back again. Shatner, the fall guy, Knight Rider, hard cost, and McCormick. It just, it goes on and on and on.

[00:13:10] But he did the voice for dark wolf from fire and ice, which is awesome. There you go. Yeah. It's just really, really cool. I love the design of that character. I always thought he looked so cool. Check this out though. Here we go. You ready for this? He was, he was cyclist. Number one in the ninth configuration. Yeah. He's the guy who's like, who's beating down cut shore and came comes in and crushes the

[00:13:40] beer glass and he's had the guy with the eyeliner and the makeup and stuff. That's all. There you go. Right. Of course. Yeah. Of course we've, I've, I've put that up on Tik TOK. You've put that up on Instagram. It's a, I didn't. Yeah. There you go. I should have recognized that curly hair. Okay. Yeah, exactly. It's his hair that clued me in on it. I was like, wait, really? But I thought that was great. I mean, you can't get a better wormhole right here than we give it the outer reels. So I got it. I mean, this is exciting. I love this stuff so much.

[00:14:08] I was going to say we should play six degrees of the outer reels, but everyone would be like within two. Seriously. Every single thing between, especially if we go into cast into filmmaker crew as well. Like there's so many things that go back and forth. So also William Ostrander is the bandit in this film. He is strikers right hand man. He's like buddy. So William Ostrander plays buddy and Christine, and he's like the main bully against Arnie.

[00:14:38] I mean, Christine is one of my favorite movies. I've seen it hundreds of times. There's the move. The moment you probably remember in the shop class where they're picking on Arnie and Ostrander who's playing buddy. He like grabs Arnie's lunch pail and like stabs it with like a switch blade and like all the yogurt comes out of it and everything. And he throws it on the ground. The whole scene's amazing because, uh, Mr. Casey, who plays the teacher, he's played by David Spielberg. Mr. Casey like turns out, he comes down to buddy and he's like, he's a lot smaller. Right.

[00:15:07] And he's like, he's like a teacher and buddy's like huge and buddy standing over more menacing, you know, cause he just had his pocket knife out and everything. And Mr. Casey just says, Hey, turn out your pockets inside out. Cause he wants to check if he's got a knife. Right. And buddy Ostrander, he's a huge and he stands over him and he's like, try it. You bold. Fuck. I'll push you through that wall. Like super aggressive. And what's cool is Mr. Casey's just so cool, calm and collected and he's tiny. And he's like, go to my office.

[00:15:36] He just says nothing else. That character alone. This guy is being on like four tours in NAMM or something. And he isn't scared of nobody. And it's such an awesome scene, but, um, it was funny to see that Ostrander is in this, but I, I love, I love Christine. It's such a good movie. Ostrander does a voice in Fire and Ice as well. Yes. There you go. Oh, Mike Land is in this. He plays Curtis. I want to mention him because he played Frankenstein's monster twice, which is sometimes a rarity,

[00:16:06] but once in Frankenstein, 1970 from 1958, confusing enough, but the movie Frankenstein, 1970. Then once again, in 1962, in season two, episode 18 of the monkeys, he played Frank. Awesome. I do love the monkeys. I unironically love that show. I used to watch it every day after school. It was on. I do. I do really enjoy it, especially because George Barris was the guy who built their car, the

[00:16:33] GTO into their car and fame of, you know, Knight Rider, Batman, Dukes of Hazzard, everything. Did you ever remember Circus Boy that came after the monkeys? And it was, uh, it was the monkey who always wore, who had the beanie. Uh, was it Mickey? Mickey Dolenz? Yeah. I guess it's Michael Nesman or Peter York is who has a goal. He would, but he would always ride into town on this elephant or in the show. Um, the monkeys is always an interesting discussion because they are truly the first like fabricated

[00:17:03] by studios in every which way with a plan. Yeah. They were, they were created for the TV show. And then I think only, um, Nesmith, I think was the only one who had the ability to play any instrument. And then, so they all had to kind of frantically learn because suddenly they were going to go on tour because the show became so popular. I didn't know that. I thought they were a good plan. That's funny. Yeah. No, it was my dad told me that. Well, onto the movie, I guess, as you mentioned, it is a hard opening with just an explosion. There's a Joshua tree in the foreground.

[00:17:32] It's actually nice footage of an explosion, but then we get our prologue finally. Finally. Which I had to transcribe. 14 seconds in. Yeah. I, I'm thankful it wasn't that long. This one wasn't great either. None of these prologues are great. And if I've learned anything through watching all these apocalypse movies and listening to all of these prologues, the shorter, the better, because when they go on long enough, you already forget what they're talking about halfway through. And then you just tune out and you're like, I don't care.

[00:18:02] I have to listen to it. Cause I have to transcribe this crap. But the last war began an error. Whose error? Nobody knows. Nothing matters now other than survival. The nuclear Holocaust knocked out all symbols of rhyme and reason. It obliterated farms. It devastated ecology. In balance, all that is left is a parched wasteland where what little there is, is hoarded and kept under heavy guard for water is power.

[00:18:30] Whoever controls the water controls the world. It feels bigger in this narration than the film is the scope. Yeah. I mean, we are talking about a town with a spring, uh, about a dozen people. And we are talking about a bad guy with an army of about 19 people. So yeah. And that's it. Oh, and then, then we got our, our Jawas. Yes. There's about a dozen of them.

[00:18:59] I, after all these movies, I want to know more about the Jawas. Where do they come from? What do they do? Why do they, yeah. Why do they interact with them? Why do they like the main character every time and help them every time so much? They like him in this. There's a reason in this film. He gives them water. Sure. So, so they instantly like, it doesn't explain why they come to his aid later. I guess. Cause they do kind of treat these guys as not much more than Anna. For the most part. No. Yeah. So. Well, immediately this movie does look better.

[00:19:29] The costumes, the leather and stuff that people are in, it looks a little more, there's more grit. There's more dust. It almost feels like these people were wearing this stuff out there for a while. And it kind of starts where there's some raiders that are chasing this woman and she's in leather underwear, the entire film. And she's got a coat and boots and everything else, but there's only like one or two women

[00:19:56] in the entire movie that actually managed to have pants and all the rest are in short shorts or, um, I don't know. I guess they're, they have, they're wearing bathing suits or something. Yeah. It's like in the apocalypse, gasoline is scarce. Water is almost unobtainium, but pants seem to be the hardest thing to come across. Yeah. Every time. So the way that it's set up is she's being pursued by some raiders and they look more uncomfortable anywhere.

[00:20:23] Cause they are head to toe leather, gas masks, the whole thing running through the sand. She has this little shack built out of animal hides out in the middle of the desert. It's a horrible place to set up camp, but she is out there and they chase her down and they find that she's got a couple bladders full of water and they want to know where she got it from. And it's kind of set up where we see our main man striker. He kind of just stops and comes to her rescue, but she's also being pursued by another guy

[00:20:52] who is the bandit William Ostrander. So Steve Sander is striker, our main guy. And then Ostrander from Christine is the bandit. It seems like striker is trying to help her cause you see she's in distress. Ostrander is a bandit is seems to have been tracking her beforehand, but he lets the raiders kind of get ahold of her before they attack. And these two guys jumped the raiders to try and help her. And then she splits and hops in striker's car immediately and takes off.

[00:21:21] And by the way, welcome to the first installment ever is striker's Mustang, which we've seen now in three movies, but this is the first time it showed up. And also my favorite rendition of it. I think this one looks the coolest. It's not as butchered up. It's got cool pipes and stuff on it. It actually looks pretty cool. It's before they really started tearing it apart. Yeah. Right. And I think they're trying to make it look slightly different in the preceding films. Yeah. So she just basically jacks his car and takes off. And then these two guys are left in the desert for dead. And they're like, well, they have her water.

[00:21:51] They've killed all the guards, the the guards or the raiders or whoever her attacking her, but they have no really way to keep moving. And this is where this movie falls apart really quickly. There are a bunch of scenes tacked together, but you don't know how people got between those scenes because she's long gone in the car. The car shuts off. And then what ends up happening is they immediately catch up to her somehow on foot.

[00:22:19] And then the Raiders show up and then the Jawas show up again. And the Jawas help Stryker and his buddy. And then the Jawas like jumping around Stryker like, thanks, thanks. And he's like pouring them water. It's he's kind of like when he's standing there with the with the Jawas drumming and he's holding the the bladder of water and giving them some. It reminded me of Barbara Bach in Island of the Fishmen when she's out with all the fishmen like the meth. And she's like feeding them, you know, and I was like I had that same sort of vibe.

[00:22:48] They're like fiending over her like give us our stuff or whatever. But again, this is a perfect mix of like three real midgets. And then the rest are just children. The way they move under the things you can tell. I guess in the Philippines they had a shortage of midgets, but they're or that's like the same three that they use. And then they just use everybody on set's kids or something. Could be or, you know, tell labor cheap. Yeah. Yeah. I would imagine mid midget labor is cheaper because it's half off. This is a small joke.

[00:23:18] Yeah. Okay. Get short with me. I'm like you get nothing. You get nothing from the on crap like that. Well, not just a little. No. Admirable effort though. The dubbing in this movie is absolutely terrible. They don't even try. It's for whatever reason. Yeah. It's so bad. It's, it's some of the worst. And I liked the movie, but I, it's some of the bad. Maybe it, it kind of was a little comforting.

[00:23:48] Sure. Well, it just, just reminds me of being a kid. Like it just reminds me of watching stuff like this on TV all the time, whether it's Westerns or whatever. It just feels comforting in its own way. Yeah. I get, I get that, but it's just, um, you know, it, it's the case of this as it's so common, like these voices do. Do not match these, these actors we're seeing on screen. No, just there's no way. And for the most part there, these are English actors, American actors.

[00:24:16] So they could have done it, but maybe they just didn't want to pay him or something. I don't understand the thought process here, but yeah, I don't know either. It's kind of funny because I mean, it may be that they're not all, but he's just like Rodriguez when he did El Mariachi and he just didn't record sound. Like they just didn't record sound while they're doing it. And they did it all after the fact, but it's, uh, it's none of it's good. And you just kind of have to accept it and go along for the ride, which for me is hard.

[00:24:42] Um, I could, I could be spent, I started my career sound sinking daily. Yeah. It's, it's, it's really hard for me to turn that part off, but eventually I do. It's why I don't generally watch dub movies. I'll watch subtitles. This is an offensive version though. This is a hot, like it's really, really bad. It almost sounds like somebody on YouTube dubbing this as a joke. Well, the first time it pops up, I'm like, Whoa, like, yeah, just, it just hits you. You get kind of used to it. It's so out of place though.

[00:25:12] But, but, and then, then you get, then you get back to the Oasis or whatever. And Della's dad starts talking and I'm like, that voice is not, does not match that dude. And it's like, he's got this super deep voice. And for a minute I'm like, is that, was that guy in clash of the Titans? He did have that look. No, but he totally looked like the guy. In the robe too. In the hair. Yeah. Uh, I'm, I'm curious about Andrea Savio who plays Della. Who's like the main girl in this movie.

[00:25:41] She has a star meter of 70,000 and she has four credits from 1982, 1983, 1987 and 1988. And it's death screams striker. This movie beach fever and death chase. I don't understand where this is coming from. Like, what is the movie here? That's generating. She shows her boobs in this one. You may not have been able to tell with the crappy version you saw, but she does show them. Oh yeah. On, on death chase.

[00:26:11] She's known as peep show girl. So my guess is she shows her boobs each time. And hence that's why. I mean, how many times are people looking? I took my shirt off when I get a higher, uh, a higher number. Cause she's, she's got me by like a factor at 10. How many times are people looking her up per week to put her at that rating on IMDB when she hasn't done anything in three decades? Well, we both clicked on her this week.

[00:26:37] So I guess, but I mean, does two clicks constitute putting her well into the realm of consistently working? I mean, I want to point out, I have fallen dude. She is, she has just destroyed me. I am over 3 million right now. Oh, so yeah. Like I'm off. I'm, I'm not even a factor. So I guess, uh, look for my man boobs in a, in a movie coming soon. Gotta spike that rating. Gotta get that rating up.

[00:27:07] Like, yeah, I'm sure that's all it is. Is, uh, she's cute and she goes to hopeless and that's all it takes. I mean, that's all it takes. It's an amazing. It's an incredible, I would understand if she's in a TV show from a year or two ago, but nothing for over 30 years. Amazing. But anyway, well, you know why? Cause I think she had a, had a thing with, um, with Tony Curtis as well. Oh, there you go. Yeah.

[00:27:35] Cause when you, if you do a general search for her, a bunch of pictures come up of him and Tony Curtis or sorry, her and Tony Curtis. Yep. So it must've been a thing for a while. So, uh, so essentially what it is, is this man girl, Leah, Dela, Dela, Dela, however it's pronounced. She's on the run. She knows where the water is. Everybody wants to get ahold of her because she's clearly got water, but there's also a

[00:28:02] group of girls who show up on motorcycles and trikes and they're looking for her too. And they're trying to stop striker and bandit from apprehending her. And then we find out that this team of girls is actually part of her. I don't know what they call it. Do they call them? Do they call them? They don't call them outposts. What do they call their groups in this movie? It's like, it's not their band. It's their tribe. Maybe. Yeah. But it's kind of, it's kind of set up that everybody's looking for her and one group

[00:28:31] are trying to save her and stop the other people from getting ahold of her. But she has the key. She knows where this water is. She has an abundance of it and they're trying to figure out where, where she's getting it from. But this, all this stuff is cut so weird when the girls show up in the trikes, it's just out of nowhere. You don't see them on a road. You don't see anything. And then they're just there and then you cut and they're gone. And it's almost like it's an insert. Like they were shot on different days. I really don't understand it, but we get an intro to our bad guy and he kind of looks

[00:29:00] like Timu Sean Connery from Zardoz. He's like not showing as much chest, but it has the same like leather and stuff. And he's got this like bandolier. It's the only way I could describe it. And that must be Cardus. I believe played by Mike Lane. Yeah. That's like, that's Cardus. Cause they reference him a bunch. Right. So he is, except he's got a shaved head in this. So he's hard to identify, but yeah, he's the guy who plays Frankenstein twice.

[00:29:29] As I mentioned before, we get this flashback with Cardus and he has, we only, we only know it's striker because of the way strikers having flashbacks. It's really poorly done, but basically striker is a prisoner. Yeah. It's, it does have a little bit of a sepia tone to it or a darker. No, I get no, sorry. They go black and white or something like this. Don't they? Yeah. Except on the version I watched, it was like, what, what is it? It is a bit sepia, but it's definitely meant to be black and white. It's just tore up. Yeah.

[00:29:59] Yeah. You should have watched it on the Roku channel too. I really should. Fun fact, Sam, on the main, like regular IMDB page, it'll tell you where it's streaming. Oh, really? Yeah. So if you go there, like I'm looking at the striker page right now, it's just streaming on Fossum, on a fan Fossum and Roku channel. Shit. Why aren't, why aren't, why not add that to the pro? Like why, why remove good, the good things from the pro page? I guess.

[00:30:26] Because pros for pros and pros don't want to watch the regulars for, for the plebs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just dumps it straight into, I didn't need anything. Wow. Look at that. One click, huh? Mm-hmm. Yeah. But this flashback is this black and white flashback and like strikers like tied up and Cardus has this girl, presumably strikers wife, girlfriend, whatever, somebody he's intimate

[00:30:55] with or cares for and starts torturing her with a sword or starts attacking her. We don't see all of it right at this moment. They show another part later, but we presume he's hurting her with the sword. Striker breaks out and then he gets a sword and he attacks everybody. And in a classic Kung Fu style movie, crashes him, cuts one of Cardus's hands off and it flies off.

[00:31:23] And then we flashback to current time and Cardus is standing there. He doesn't have a hand. And you're like, Oh, there's the backstory. It's trying to give some kind of history between these two, but there's nothing there. I mean, this is better than some of the movies we watch. We have some kind of thing. There was an attempt here, but it's not, it doesn't say. Yeah. It's like, why was, I want to know why Striker was tied up in the beginning. Like what, why was he captured already?

[00:31:50] You know, that's the more interesting part of the story, but there is one shot and it's only a couple of frames in that flashback and it's a wide shot. And there's a car parked there and it's so quick. I couldn't even see what kind of car it is, but it has a white skull and crossbone painted on the hood. And it's like, we know Tarantino loves these movies. We know he loves C.R.H. Santiago films as we previously discussed.

[00:32:15] And I gotta say like the skull and crossbones on the hood of this car, like very much resembles the Chevy Nova from death proof. Yeah. And I was like, I wonder, you know, cause there's no other link to it. Tarantino says over and over again, he just steals from everything. Yeah. So yeah, this is so tiny. And this, this is almost not even like, I mean, this is the most hardcore nod to this be like, Oh, let me put this in here.

[00:32:41] Cause it's in it for like one second and only a few people actually get the reference. But I think we actually finally get the reference. I, you know, I mean, it's gotta be a nod. It's gotta be something to it. I mean, I'm not a Tarantino film maniac. Like most people I am. I don't care that much for his films in general, but I, this is not my kind of movies, but I, I love death proof. It's slow, but it's great when it's great. It's, you know, it was a great role for Kurt Russell and I love car stuff. So it was, uh,

[00:33:10] I've liked all the Tarantinos that I've seen, but I haven't seen all of them yet. Like I haven't seen kill bills volume two for some reason. I don't know how that happened, but I realized after the fact, so I still gotta watch that. And then hateful eight, I still haven't watched. It's like, yeah, fix that. I know that's, that's the one that I keep thinking if I'm going to like one, this is going to be the one. And for some reason I haven't watched it yet, but. Oh, Django Unchained. I haven't seen that yet either. I've watched either of his Westerns for some reason. So, yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

[00:33:40] I was just, I was just a little neutral that I just, I want it to be good and I want to like it, but it's, it's like. When, um, like, um, when high planes drifter exists, why would I watch any other Western? Cause that is, that is the ultimate Western as far as I'm concerned. It's, it's a Twilight Zone Clint Eastwood movie. It's the best of the best. It's it is good. And it's one, that's one I haven't watched in a long time. I remember watching it on TV in the early eighties and, uh, early mid eighties. I think the same moment.

[00:34:10] This is really good. Yeah. It's one of the first movies as a kid where I had that. Oh my God ending. Like it's, it's either that or Planet of the Apes. And I can't tell you which one I remember seeing first, but both of them had that same. Wow. Moment, you know, of, of course I'd watched a lot of Twilight Zone. So it felt instantly, Oh, this is just like a Twilight Zone episode. There's, there's so much goodness in both of those.

[00:34:39] Uh, and you know what? Also speaking of endings, the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes, I think is fantastic. I thought that was, I don't know if it's fantastic, but it is unexpected, which, you know, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, something there. It's like when you would least expect it, that's the way to flip the script on a movie you would, cause you've already done that. You can't do the same twist in there as the original cause everybody knows. And then whatever it caught me off guard and I liked it. Also love the score. Danny Elfman did the score to that. Well, yeah, it was Danny Elfman.

[00:35:09] Um, it makes no sense though. So like whatever. And I not, and I, I say this is, you know, only seeing the movie once and not watched it since and barely remember it. So yeah. If we talked about Paul Williams when he was coming off the set of anyone. We have. Okay. Yeah. And then you, I did, did dig that up and. Oh, isn't it so good.

[00:35:31] So the girl, our girl deal gets captured finally by these Raiders and striker and bandit are like, let's go get her. They break back in to the bad guys layer and this stuff actually looks okay. It's all nighttime. It's not day for night. It's in tunnels. It's lit pretty good. I mean, I was thinking, man, this probably looked good. If I had a good copy of it, cause it wasn't horrible to look at. And they, they rush in there. They unchain the girl. They save her.

[00:36:00] They drag her back out. And while they're there, striker has another flashback when he sees the girl chained up. And that's when you get the, that's when you get the final flashback of him seeing this girl of his be beheaded by Cardus. And that's supposed to build the world of why these two are at war for whatever reason. And we never really go back there, but they take off, they save her. So then we go to another bad guy camp. And this is what I mean by this movie just jumps around.

[00:36:28] And you don't see where we're going or why we're here. We go to another bad guy camp and there's a guy buried up to his neck in the sand. And there's these two writers. And one of them starts pissing on the guy. He's like an old man. He's like, oh, you want some water? Yeah. He needs water. So this is where I was like, man, this is another direct influence. I swear to fist of the North star.

[00:36:49] There's so many of these little moments in these apocalypse movies where the, the, the outfits or the way people die and all this sort of stuff all lines up with the fist of the North star manga. It just looks like they plucked everything out for that, which is a fantastic movie. And, um, some of the greatest animation in that, not like polished ninja scroll level, but really good, really good sort of stuff for a little bit earlier. Yeah.

[00:37:18] Um, long time since I saw that. Yeah. Don't watch the live action version. God. Uh, it was like a direct video. I was so excited when I saw it in the video store in the nineties and then I got it and it was horrible. It had, uh, Rufio from captain hook in it or hook as it used to be. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but some of the best head explosions and gore animation, I think are in fist of the North star. I think ninja scroll, everybody agrees is best of the best, but also think like stuff like that.

[00:37:48] Like Geno cyber, even wicked city had some really cool stuff. I, I love all that. Like, I think people call it anime now. I think I just think of it as like manga. Like it was just eighties hardcore action and just great. Yeah. It's anime manga is the, is the comic. I don't really know how this happens, but there's a shootout that breaks out and the job is all show up and they dig this old guy up out of the sand immediately. And striker puts him in his car and they take off.

[00:38:15] And then we find that this guy is the head of one of the towns. I don't even know why they're going to get him because it seems to be right now. All it's about is that Della, the girl, her father, the story goes is that her father has found water and they have a spring. And her father had a deal with this other guy who was buried up to his net, who runs the other town that if either one of them found water, they would reach out and contact the other. It was like a deal.

[00:38:45] And then, so striker in the, the old guy who's director saved and the jaw was saved. He's like, you, you really did. He's like, that's great. He's like, I knew he would come through. And she's like, well, he found it seven years ago. I escaped. And then you find out that this guy's wanting to keep it all into himself. And the daughter is like, you know what? We've got enough for everybody. Why are we doing this? And so she's finally broken out. And then this team of the girls on the tracks with the bows and arrows are chasing her down by order from her father.

[00:39:14] So there's an attempted story here. It's not amazing, but there's some, you have a reason on why all these people are in the same area together or intertwining their, uh, their paths are intertwining. I guess you could say there is a backstory about striker being gone for threes. Well, and then we cut to the camp at night and it's nighttime. And then striker sitting there and he's fixed, he's cleaning his gun. And the old guy who was buried up to his neck, he's like, man, you've been gone for three years.

[00:39:42] And striker's like, yeah, but I came back. And it's like, okay, well, again, they say this stuff to say things are, yeah. But it's just, so there's some dialogue. It's right. It doesn't mean anything. Unfortunately, it should, it should give us some backstory, but it doesn't. Yeah. I think actually through all of these movies, watching all of these back to back, I think this is the genre that has dialogue.

[00:40:08] They use as shoe leather because they don't like go anywhere with it or they don't actually do anything. It's just to fill stuff out, but it's not even entertaining to watch or listen to. No, no. So, and the dubbing so bad that you don't want to listen to it. Yeah. Again, maybe some of the lines weren't even this bad. Maybe there was more stuff. We'll never know. This movie is pretty short too, by the way. It's like 82 minutes or something or not even. Something like that. Yeah.

[00:40:35] So it's, it didn't need to be longer, but if you made it longer, you might be able to add some time in there to make it, to flesh it out somehow with some backstory. Yeah. Nobody gets a backstory and we don't know why anybody's doing anything. They do, they finally, Stryker and the girl and everybody, they go to this town and this is where there's a little bit of production value. And the town is like built into the side of this like volcanic rock or like lava molten lava.

[00:41:01] And there's actually a drawbridge that comes out of the wall and there's some guys like turning the trundle and it lowers down to make it feel like, it's like this actually feels like a fortress. Like this actually feels kind of impenetrable compared to that, like styrofoam thing we saw in world gone wild. It's, it's the opposite of that. And this movie does make those little components better and it's not a quarry. It's not something we've seen before. Cause it's all like volcanic looking rock, right? Like it's not anything we were. Yeah.

[00:41:32] Yeah. It's a little bit different, but I gotta give it credit for that. So now they're at this, this colony or this camp and our main girl dial it. She's telling everybody, Hey, like we got spring water. You gotta come. It's abundant. We've got everything you need. Everybody's happy there. It's only just over the mountain. And then we cut to that actual place. She says that, and then they all band up in their cars and everything. And then they hit the road.

[00:41:59] And within the next shot, they're at this next town. It's like, how did you not find this town that has spring water? If it's so close, but it could be days away. It could be weeks away. We don't know. Cause you just don't have a feel or sense of time in any of it. But they do should be that far though, because everyone who's been involved in the movie, including the Jawas and everything else, they all, they're all there. They will just show up there. Right. So it really isn't that far.

[00:42:26] There's times we intercut back and forth with Cardus here, the main bad guy where he's like readying his troops. And he has a bunch of tanks by the way, which is up there in production value at this point, which is cool. Like no one, there's like five tanks or something. Yeah. They're tiny little things, but, uh, but they are tanks. So they arrive at the town. I wish I could remember what they call these things, whether it's there. I, I don't know what they refer to their towns as they did say a word, but they arrived

[00:42:56] there and this is like a, this is the slowest part of the minute. It's like a 10 minute scene. Everybody getting acclimated to the town because the spring is underground in this cave. And there, there is an awesome, um, line with one of the Amazon women. It's talking to another girl. And it's just this 80 yard thing after the fact, before they, before they go over the mountain to the town and you hear her say, Oh, and by the way, it's, it's always cool in there because it's in a cave. Right.

[00:43:25] It's just like crazy. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like laughing hysterically at that. It's so yeah. Cause the, the content, the inflections are so bad and out of place and it just doesn't. Yeah. It doesn't track very well, but when they get there, it's just the sound design in this movie is probably one of the worst that we've come across. And it's because when there's a sound effect, it starts hard and it ends hard. Everything's cut.

[00:43:54] And I know they're doing this with tape and film and everything. Yeah. So it's expensive and time consuming to put fades and stuff in, but you can do it. If assuming they did a proper mix, but yeah, it can be done at this point. I mean, we've had star Wars like five years before this. So it it's completely possible. It's just, they choose not to, but it's very grating the way it pops in and out when they're getting introduced to this town, we get this love scene with bandit and the other girl.

[00:44:22] I think it's Lauren's and she is talking to him about how in love she is with him and they're down in the cave and it goes on for so long. It's this two shots, like back and forth and back and forth. He reaches up to her and I had to go back and watch it again because he, he runs his hand over her hair. And I didn't realize I didn't catch it first. Like he's taking off her headband. I told her. Yes. Yeah.

[00:44:52] So he's wearing this thin headband and he reaches up. I thought she was going to pull off a wig. That's what I thought too. And she was going to be bald. It was like, no. Yeah. So yeah. What is he pulling off with some really thin, like burgundy colored headband? I mean, it's the eighties. So it's so dark. I guess it's so darkly lit in the copy. I watch. I couldn't even see the head. It wasn't that bad in what I watched, but still it looked like he was pulling her hair off. I thought the same thing. And I was like, Oh, this is cool.

[00:45:21] We're going to find out that everybody's like got all this radiation poisoning and they're, they're not doing well. It could have been like this cool extra level of detail, but it wasn't. It was, I'm so glad you felt the same. It's funny, but that is a horrendously long scene. And I mean, and I don't know how else to describe it, but have we not learned in all of these movies in any kind of apocalypse situation in every one of these, when there's

[00:45:48] a spring, people want to have sex in it and it's the worst possible thing every single time. Oh man. Yeah. Don't, don't, don't have some rules drink from there. It's so weird. And it's everything. It's just nothing. Put a giant cage around it. Just like they put the cage around the access to the devil's hole where the pup fish were, where Charlie used to go that I told you about that cage. Nobody could swim in that. That would be safe spring water in the apocalypse.

[00:46:17] And anyway, it's yeah. There's also a scene here where Dyla, the other chick, she's after striker. So they kind of intercut it. Like it's our, both our main guys and these chicks hitting on them. And like every good action hero strikers, just wants to be on his way. And I was like, okay, I like this. He's not interested in anything she got to offer. I was like, this is cool. He's actually a cool hero in this. Like he's got this cool cowboy hat and stuff. He looks kind of cool. Yeah.

[00:46:45] I mean, I was wanting more dialogue and more exploration of him. I was like, this guy could be a cool hero. And he just turns the girl down. He rolls out. He's like, I'm done. I'm out of here. It's like what every hard and tough guy should do. Like, especially in an underground grotto, like just don't compromise him. It makes him a weaker character. Just let him become this entity. He rolls through town and helps people and moves on. Of course, as soon as he leaves, he gets jumped by the bad guys.

[00:47:13] I don't know why they're, they're waiting for him with a net, which is really weird. Yes. And he's just, well, it's funny because he's just kind of wanders off and then he's like, suddenly he's very mindful of where he is looking around and stuff. And then just this net falls on him. Like how long are these guys waiting there by that rock? It's so weird. And so there's 15 minutes of the movie left here. And we cut to a Jeep that's ripping down the road, dragging a body, much like what we saw in wheels of fire.

[00:47:41] And then we realized it's striker. He's like being towed across the gravel, but I'm like, this is presumably miles and miles and miles. But again, this movie doesn't show you how long time span. So they could have went just 10 feet down the road. Like, and maybe the bad guys pink camp is that close to where the spring is. We don't understand. We don't know why, but they drag strike or all the way there. And he survived cause he's like the ultimate tough guy at this point. He's proven. And, um, so they have like 16.

[00:48:11] What happens here? Yeah. So the bad guys all round striker up the main guy is about to kill. So the main guy, Cardus is about to kill striker. And then they just come under attack from Jawas and the kids in a little coats and they come storming down the hill. They tackle the bad guys and striker gets let free. And I was like, this is where the hand striker is done. They like, yes. Oh, no, no, no. That's right at the end. That is awesome.

[00:48:40] When they bucket brigade it to him. I love that scene, but this is how weird it is. He's almost going to get killed. The Jawas show up. They saved the day. The bad guys are in all these tanks. It's just, it's bizarre. And then I don't know why, but striker gets out of there. We don't know how we don't see him leave. And then the bad guys roll up on the town in their tanks. And then they just start blowing it up. They're just shooting shells into the side of this. Cause it's like a big hillside town that they live in.

[00:49:12] And I still don't know how they found this place. Like, why would they, how did they find any of this or how do they know it's here? Nobody told them it. It doesn't make any sense. And they read it in the script. That's about it. I do like this village setting a little better though, than all the other ones that we've seen, which are just like in these apocalypse movies, they build this dumb outpost in the middle of the most visible area of the desert. So people for a hundred miles around can be like, we should go there. They have stuff.

[00:49:40] This actually feels like it's tucked into the side of the wall or into the side of the mountain. And it feels like it's a good place to defend, or it feels like a smart way to set something up. I think. I guess. I'm detecting the lack of enthusiasm here, Jason. Uh, you know, I, I, I, I was pretty checked out by this point. So it was like, let's just go through the motions. Let's just get it done.

[00:50:05] But the final attack happens and it's, it's this full on battle and the jaw was come flying in. They slide down this hill in like a whole drove. And it looks like somebody just pushed a bunch of kids off this sand dune. Cause they all just like tumble uncouthly down the thing. And it's just all going. And the jaw is a doing more damage than anybody else. There's just wrecking shop and all these guys. And there's all these tanks. And there's one moment where the bad guy, Cardus is radioing in each tank. He's like, crawl or walk, crawl or two. And it cuts to each one.

[00:50:34] And there's just bodies around it. So you're led to assume the jaw was have just gone from like tank to tank and killed all of his crew. And he's like super upset. People are like fleeing like crazy. And. There's actually some kind of cool music that starts playing here. And then this is where they're like, there's like one moment. And then they have like striker. They have this huge machine gun, this M60, and they're passing it to each other across the cliff side. And then they give it to striker.

[00:51:05] And he's like covered in dust and he's all tore up. And then he just starts blasting people. And this is the action hero moment. Cause he's got this thing and he's like hip shooting it. Right. And it's like a big bell fed gun. And he's just going ham on this thing. And I was like, this is like the action shot of the movie was that like one leg up on the rock. And he's just like mowing down all these bad guys. It's actually a cool moment, but I, uh, this was the moment in the movie.

[00:51:32] Cause I'm like, okay, well what else is happening? And then the main guy of course is the only one who gets away. Everybody else is dead. Striker follows him into the spring and he sees him there. I'm like, okay, showdown. And then striker just shoots him like three bullets. Like there's not even any words. He's like, I got you back. There's no revenge. I shouldn't complain about this. Cause usually my complaint is when there's a showdown between two guys, they talk out all their beef.

[00:51:59] In this movie, there's so little descriptive stuff in this movie that this is the one time I would have been okay. If the good guy and the bad guy had a heart to heart before they went at it. Cause you just don't know anything. Like this is your chance to learn something. Yeah. And nothing. He just blows him away. Yep. And then striker's buddy bandit, his girl gets shot. She gets shot to pieces and bandit doesn't even blink an eye. And which is really weird as well. Everything's disconnected.

[00:52:27] Then striker looks down after shooting. And he lets off a bunch of rounds from this rifle in the cage. Cause you gotta remember they're in a cave. He's got this big M60 and he just mows down the bad guy. And then silence. You hear a baby crying and striker just looks down and there's like a baby just in a, like a wooden crib right at his feet. Yep. And then he just picks it up and he walks outside the cave and everybody starts cheering. And the baby stops crying.

[00:52:57] And then. It starts raining. Raining. Like the spring explodes or something. It's the strangest. It just starts raining. I, is it really actual rain? Cause that makes no sense. I think it is. No, no, it's not. It doesn't make any sense, but I think it's actually raining because the bad guys, um, are, there's still some bad guys left. They're just outside. They're washing the grime off their arms with, with the rainfall and stuff. And it's just like, everybody's happy.

[00:53:25] And then we pan over to everybody's getting rained on. I thought the spring, like a Fisher broke in the spring and it was just spurting out, but yeah, no, I think it was actually raining. Yeah. Great timing. You picked up the child and it's divine intervention. And now you can have rain. And my favorite moment that cracked me up is the camera pans around all these people in the rain, dancing and being happy. And it goes over to the midget, the same midget, like our main hero midget that's in all of these movies. And he stands there and he smiles.

[00:53:54] It's a closeup on his head. And he puts a whistle in his mouth and he just blows the whistle. And then credits roll. Like he's the last shot in the movie. And like this whistle has no significance in any which way. And then there's actually kind of a ripper baseline that comes in as the credits roll. Let's fly up. And I'm like, what is this movie? And I don't know if it's, it's not a good movie, but I, I kind of felt good after it. I just, I don't know why I was energized about watching it. I just, you did.

[00:54:24] It did nothing for me, but, uh, anyway, I was glad to be done. Well, this kind of proves that Ciro's films. They're there. They're his earlier ones are better than his later. And maybe as he got more invested in these high volume production stuff, like he was still a little more invested with this movie. Like they're on set, same with wills of fire. But I think doing more years, he's more phoning it. And he knows the formula. He's doing the Roger Corman things. It's like, Hey, go make this movie.

[00:54:54] I've raised the money. Shoot it. Do whatever you gotta do. I just really, out of all of it, my question are like, what are the Jawas? Where do they come from? Why do they show up in all of these movies? Unexplained in every movie. That main, main guy's gotta be a buddy. Ciro, Ciro. I'm sure. I, yeah, he's like some little Filipino dude, but I, I think what's more curious is like, maybe they were thinking that they could put this stuff in a trailer.

[00:55:22] And if you've got Jawas out in the desert, you've got all the popularity of star Wars that might trick some people into going and seeing it. I don't know, but there seems to be some intent here in, by the way, these things look the weakest part of this film. There's a lot of weak parts, but the sound mix itself, it's just so minimal. And it's these hard cuts. There's no mix. It's, it just sounds like clip sound clips attached to parts of the film. It's a, it's not very good. The car sound, the Mustang sounds entirely different.

[00:55:50] Every time you hear it driving, it's like not even the same thing. It was like, what? It just throws me off every time. The music's okay when it's there, but it's, it's kind of non-existent and it just sounds like it's out of a library. It's not composed. There's nothing made for the movie. There's no core theme. There's nothing that comes back. It's just an assembly of bits of stuff. It's a guy at the back of the room, learning how to use it. Then synthesize her for the first time. If that was the case, if it's the first time, I think it's awesome.

[00:56:16] Cause I still, there's some tunes in there and some stuff that I like, but, um, this movie exists on Blu-ray long out of print. It can be yours on Amazon right now for the low, low price of $141. You've been hovering over that, adding to your cart. No, because I found one for $22 on eBay and I bought it. I was going to say, I'm sure you found something on eBay. I did buy it because I wanted to see the higher quality one.

[00:56:42] It has a real restoration on it from 2015, but it also has a commentary on it by Jim Wynorski, which is awesome. Yeah. So he directed the remake of this, which is called water wars from 86. Oh, okay. But I mean, so why Norski considers this remake or considers water was a remake or a followup to striker.

[00:57:07] And it gave him a, there's a, a, uh, like, um, what I'm trying to say here. He's, he's done a ton of stuff. He, he directed chopping mole return of the swamp thing. Again, the absolute gold standard of movie sequels. Like you have terminator two, and then you have return of the swamp thing. As far as I'm concerned, it's one of the very few sequels that is better than the original movie.

[00:57:37] And I know there's a lot of people who argue like alien versus aliens. Cause they're two different kinds of movies, two different kinds of people. Yeah. But with T2 terminator and T2, they're very much the same kind of moving. And I think swamp thing is the same thing, but the fact that this guy, he, again, directing return of the swamp thing is all I need. As far as qualification for anything, it's such a fantastic film. And of course, chopping mole as well, but tons of stuff. This guy's everything.

[00:58:04] So he is really good friends with Ciro Santiago. He'd done tons of work with him over the years in everything else. And Ciro Santiago died in 2008 from lung cancer. So he was a 72, but I have no doubt this guy was a chain smoker, this gentleman, because all these movies, you just know he's just there. Just cramming these things all day long. You can just tell with his movies.

[00:58:31] But the reason that I got this Blu-ray is because it has a commentary by Wynorski, who is really close to Ciro. So it'd be cool to listen to him. Well, he's a good friend of his to have a take on it, even though he wasn't directly involved in the film. The VHS is abundant on eBay. There's a very cool version of it from stag media for $9 right now. You can get it. But the cover artwork on it is awesome. And I've not seen any other examples of that particular one on the VHS.

[00:59:00] The poster we look at, which has the leg and, you know, presumably Stryker standing there. The one that's on eBay, it looks like battle truck. Like there's this giant truck with spikes on them. Like, where is this in the movie? Yeah. Warrior of tomorrow on the highway to hell. It almost seems like a bootleg. It's so different, but I'm sure it's the same movie. Maybe they just couldn't get licensing by the original artists. We know that happens a lot. I did mention the sound in this movie.

[00:59:29] We both agreed that isn't very good, but Franklin Jones Jr. was the dubbing mixer on this. Did you know? He's also credited in the sound on the wonderful Demolition Man. So this guy can do no bad. So he clearly is good at doing his job. He probably just was limited. Everybody else crew wise in this movie are on equalizer 2000 wheels of fire or doom warriors. I'm not even kidding. Like I went through it and like wardrobe everything. It's just the same people over and over again. I was very happy to find out.

[00:59:59] We did get some information on this movie because a lot of times there's just no info on it. This is a 30 day shoot. And as mentioned, it's Santiago's first apocalypse movie. This one left maybe left. This is off IMDB. This film is a knockoff of the road warrior. How is that trivia? Obviously. It didn't pick that up at all. Yeah. And this is the only other one. This movie received a negative reviews from critics.

[01:00:29] Also true. Like, why is this trivia? It's who bothers to put this in is it's a weird thing to enter. I don't understand. But anyway, um, IMDB, uh, 4.4, which is high, uh, for 928. So nice, nice one there. Look over on letterbox. We're at a 2.8, which is very high. It's high. Uh, for 1100. So still we're still in the wheelhouse of lesser watched stuff. Oh, very much though.

[01:00:58] I don't, I don't know what else to say. I enjoyed it more than I should. It's not a great movie, but I still had fun with it cause it was short and I liked the look of it. Yeah. Okay. I get, I go. I get it. It didn't work for me. No, I, it's a better movie than doom warriors. Like, I mean, if you remove Carradine, this is a better movie. Maybe. No, no, no, this one's too, it's too disjointed. I mean, at least there was like a flow. You're right. Yeah.

[01:01:28] Story wise to do warriors. Actually, if you know, I'm right. If you took dune warriors and made it when this was made, I think dune warriors would be the better movie. It's just dune warriors has that. And I love my mid nineties, big vibrant Warner brothers, Joel silver films. Yeah. There should have been better, but should have been better for what it was. Yeah. No contestant there. It just, it just looked. There's like two kinds of look from the early nineties.

[01:01:56] There's that glorious last action hero. Look, you know, uh, last boy scout look, all those big movies, demolition man, everything else. But then there's also these kinds of movies like steel frontier and doom warriors that just look forced in the wrong ways. And I think if this had a, if I think of doom warriors or something had to be made back this time, it would have had a bit more grit and I would have liked it better as a movie.

[01:02:22] I should say I much prefer how this film looks over doom warriors, but maybe do more years is the better movie is the better package. Yes. I think so. But, um, again, doing word movie. So no, well, we're trying here, but, um, hopefully you got something better for us next week. Uh, I have something different for us next week, next week. So, you know, there's, there's that different is not always better.

[01:02:51] It's a lateral move at best at this point. All right. Well, but, uh, yeah, we're going to shake it up a little bit. Okay. Well, as always, we really thank you guys listening. We've had a lot of new people tuning in, so we appreciate everybody checking in. Following up with us and sending emails and all that sort of stuff. As always, you can listen to these episodes commercial free for free on our website, theoutofreels.com. And we're just happy to come along and watch anything but casino. Thank you guys.

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