I
checked out the 1986 movie The Hitcher at the suggestion of the same
coworker that suggested The River Wild and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. This movie has a very simple premise that goes right off
the rails as the movie goes on. Don't get me wrong, this was a cool
80's movie I'd heard of but never seen before. But at a certain point
I just kept going “These are cartoon characters!”
It
starts off with this young guy named Jim played by C. Thomas Howell
who is driving a car from Chicago to San Diego. He is falling asleep
at the wheel like an asshole when he spots someone hitchhiking. And
that someone is John Ryder played by Rutger Hauer who is in full on
crazy mode. Within moments of being in the car he whips out a knife
and threatens the kid. He eventually boots his crazy ass from the car
while its moving and cheers.
Its
not over because he spots this son of a bitch chilling in the
backseat of a family wagon. He tries to warn them and almost gets
killed only to later find them all dead. This Ryder guy is just
hopping from car to car killing people and somehow making sure Jim
stays alive and free. He's just fucking with him. Jim meets this girl
played by Jennifer Jason Leigh and as soon as I saw her I said “I
see a victim!” Every time she is on screen the movie stops to have
her be dumb. I was not upset at her death. That isn't even a spoiler.
She is there to die!
Like I
said, as the movie goes on it gets weirder and more like a cartoon.
There's a scene where Ryder dives from a prison bus he escapes after
killing about three cops, goes through the window of Jim's stolen
police truck, says hello, gets shot out the window from which he
came, gets up firing a shotgun, gets hit by the same truck, flies
through the air, and stands right the fuck up smiling! This movie was
fucking insane.
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