The Road Warrior
Junkfood Cinema
Brian Salisbury
4.6 • 705 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The guys discuss the stunts, the film's legacy to both Austrailian genre and Italian knockoff cinema, and why George Miller is the Stanley Kubrick of action films. Also tangentially discussed are Han Solo in a road western, Wiggles on The Enterprise, and why Sixpence None The Richer is cheaper by the dozen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Dick Miller. |
| 0:22.5 | You're listening to Junk Food Cinema. |
| 0:45.3 | Who were these guys? It's time to get this show on the road. |
| 0:50.8 | It's junk food cinema, brought to you by film school rejacks.com.com. |
| 0:51.6 | Dot com. |
| 0:58.3 | Dot guzzaline. I'm your host, Brian Salisbrain. I'm joined as per usual by my friend and co-host. |
| 1:03.6 | He's a novelist. He's a screenwriter. He is definitely a warlord of the 21st century. Mr. C. Robert Cargill. Hi. How's it going? It is, uh, it is raucous. It is rowdy. It is. It is all of those |
| 1:10.0 | things. And it's interesting that we are talking about this movie instead of any of the innumerable movies that ripped it off that we've probably covered before talking about this movie. |
| 1:18.1 | We've covered so many. |
| 1:19.4 | Well, kind of. |
| 1:20.8 | Because that's the thing is, you know, a movie that most people would argue that something like battle truck ripped off the road |
| 1:30.8 | warrior i'm sorry did you just say battle truck battle truck battle truck um uh but instead battle truck was made |
| 1:38.1 | before the road warrior um uh it was ripping off mad max and going to the next evolution that everyone |
| 1:44.0 | was going to uh it was part to the next evolution that everyone was going to. |
| 1:45.4 | It was part of the post-apocalyptic revolution. |
| 1:47.4 | But most people, you know, but after that, once we get to the mid-80s, everything is fucking ripping off the road warrior, including a TV show we talked about previously a thing called the highwaymen. highwaymen, the highwaymen, the highwaymen, |
| 2:03.8 | Highwaymen. |
| 2:05.0 | Uh, but no, we are of course talking about the single, last week we talked about one of the |
| 2:12.3 | greatest, arguably the greatest Western of all time. Today we were talking about inarguably |
| 2:17.1 | the greatest Osploitation film of all time. Today we were talking about inarguably the greatest |
| 2:18.6 | Osploitation film of all time. |
| 2:20.5 | A film so good, a lot of people... |
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