One of these days you’re going to be sitting around and you’re going to say to yourself,
One of these days you’re going to be sitting around and you’re going to say to yourself, “I want to watch a bad 80s action film, and I want it to have cool battle cars, uzis, squibs blowing up everywhere, practical effects, cyborgs, flamethrowers, hilarious 80s punk rock fashions, and maybe some futuristic drug called Edge or something. It would be great if this movie had Pam Grier, Malcolm McDowell, and Stacy Keach as a mulleted albino.” Well look no further! This is THE movie to watch if you want mindless 80s good stuff. Supposedly a semi-sequel to Class of 1984, itself a loose remake of 1955’s Blackboard Jungle, this movie asks the question “you know when a school goes wild with punks? Well what if we brought in cyborg teachers with flamethrowers and missle launchers for arms?” Will the robots obey their principal, or go on a killing rampage? I won’t spoil it!One of the battle cars in this movie is made from a 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, which I don’t need to tell you was the greatest station wagon ever made.My only gripe is that the movie’s sequel, Class of 1999 II, missed the excellent opportunity to call itself Class of 2000! If the first one “1984” is referencing Orwell, and the “1999” refers to the far-off future where robots rule, then why the hell not “2000” for the return of the robots?It’s weird to think of a time in the not-to-distant past (1987 or so) when Seattle was a bombed-out, depressed, cheap city to film in where the crew was “allowed to do anything they wanted”. It’s a great glimpse into the environment that spawned grunge, when you could rent an entire floor of a building in Capitol Hill for $300 bucks a month.Questions: If Stacy Keach is an albino, why is is mustache black? If kids are blowing each other up with uzis in the streets, why is attendance so important? Why go to school at all? -- source link
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