mdg@ariel.UUCP (M.GALE) (04/29/85)
**NON-SPOILER PART** This movie is about a small part of the aftermath of WW III. Violence and shock value on such an order to put Mad Max in the same catagory as 'The A-TEAM'. Even more unforgivable is that this movie is BAD. It insults the intel- ligence of the viewer, it has bad acting, bad scripts, and a stupid closing scene(to be described in the spoiler section). My wife and 2 of our friends left when the movie was little more then half over, I stayed to be able to warn others. This is the first movie that I've wanted my money back since I went to see a second release of Return of the Jedi and the film was out of focus and jittered. I don't feel that I can say more with giving away who lives and dies, even though I don't think you'll care much execpt maybe for one. BTW: DEFCON stands for "DEFense CONdition" and it runs from 1( the day after Jeruselum is reistablished) to 5(the missles are on their way). ***SPOILER NEXT AFTER 30 NEW-LINES*** **DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YA!** The dumbest thing about this movie was how it handled the killing. We spent more than 60 minutes caring about Dr. Jordan and then the movie hardly noticed that it killed her off. Yet a bit part of an old women gets a tear jerk from the hero when she gets a stray shot in the back. The dialog was on the order of the worst jean commercial. Airplane didn't use cliches as badly as DEFCON 4 did, and Airplane was trying to be funny, DEFCON was just insulting. The characterzations just plain did not make sense. Why were all those people following a teenage whose father was a naval officer was beyond me. They also have a man with a broken back drag himself through the mud behind a crowd with no one noticing so that he could take a shot at this teenager for vengence sake. Damnation Alley handled the monitering of the war's "progress" much better. But when this movie ended with the only three surviving members of the cast standing on a sailboat watching a nuclear explosion from a few miles off as if it was a romantic sun rise I thought I'd puck. All in all I'd drather spend $5 to see Attack of the Killer Tomatoes then see this movie. This is from a person who use to go to the late show on Friday nite at the (Air Force) base theater as long as it was rated R just to be able to buy a large box of popcorn. Warmongers will prefer Patton or Apocalypse Now, holocaust lovers will prefer to rent an old Mad Max and RoadWarrior pair. Gore freaks should go see the latest teenaged hacker flick, special effect lovers will prefer Terminator with the 6502(?) assembler code listings. Trivia pursuit: was the program listed out from the NORAD box iAPX86 assembler or C? Send Flames, I love mail and the heats off in my apartment till next winter. Michael Gale If anybody thinks AT&T even has an opinion about this movie should be sued for slander and defamation of character.