Turbo Kid (2015) - Because You Watched Starcrash

<p>Follow us on Facebook!&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BecauseYouWatchedStarcrash">https://www.facebook.com/BecauseYouWatchedStarcrash</a></p> <p><em>Turbo Kid</em> – 2015</p> <p>“This is my weapon! This is my gnome stick!”</p> <p>Fresh off of <em>Mad Max</em>, the Distinguished Professors (and their producer) dive into the totes-80s Quebecois awesomeness of <em>Turbo Kid. </em>It’s the far future of 1997, and everyone is BMX-biking everywhere! Topics include Clink looking as old as the rest of us, the limits of surprising post-apocalyptic plots, Dr. Berres still hasn’t watched <em>Community</em>, parallels with Rey’s life as a scavenger in <em>The Force Awakens</em>, diegetic sound, Apple as a parody of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the greatest of Michael Ironside, why the gore works here but didn’t work in <em>Galaxy Lords</em>, “Strike first, strike hard, show no mercy!” and Cobra Kai, the “No Tomorrow” short and “Friends don’t dismember friends!”, manly bubbles, the silent menace of Skeletron, the song taken from <em>Rad</em>, differences with <em>Ready Player One</em>, retrofuturism, J. J. Abrams’s focus on pointless action and movement as plot, why we’re better at talking about bad movies, clarification that Vanderpool was the one who selected <em>Galaxy Lords</em>, water as currency and differences with <em>Dune</em>, <em>Soylent Green </em>references, our selection of Lynch’s <em>Dune</em> as the next movie pick, our ruminations on the souls of robots, comparisons with <em>Mad Max</em>, the gawkiness of our hero, parallels with <em>Hobo with a Shotgun</em>, the hero is a boring and nerdy teenager, parallels with <em>City Limits</em>, and “Eyes! Throat! Genitals!”</p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/because-you-watched/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/because-you-watched/support</a>