World Gone Wild (1987)

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*Spoilers Throughout*

What’s This About: After the nuclear war in 2012, the Earth is drier than a Saudi Arabian desert gin joint and has not seen rain in over 50 years. One town that has fresh clean water run afoul of a pseudoreligious cult and hire mercenaries to defend them.

Here are some of my observations as I watched the film:

• The year is 2087. 75 years before that WWIII started. 2012 huh? Guess we lucked out right?
• I recognize this voice-over! It’s Laura Dern’s dad!
• So after nuclear war and most of the Earth was scorched and most of the population gone, the big issue is no rain.
• Bruce Dern’s voice-over goes on to say that he lives in a place called Lost Wells that actually has fresh usable water. Vernon Wells has twinks on the back of motorcycles.
• In this ramshackle town straight out of Road Warrior, there’s a little girl running around getting ready to go to school. The school is in a broken down school bus and the teacher is Catherine Mary Stewart! The little girl sadly looks like Rocky Dennis.
• The town have visitors! Why is everyone excited? They are probably not friendly and a smart community would be on the defensive if they are the few places that have clean water.
• Wouldn’t you know it, they’re just Mormons.
• Just kidding it’s just Adam Ant in a military helicopter that is being hauled on another military vehicle with an army of white-robed dudes. Subtle innuendos follow. Must be something inside.
• After a lengthy introduction speech from Derek Abernathy (Adam Ant) about their perilous journey to promised lands, he then shoots a hapless rube that offered him a glass of water in the face. Not the goody two goody two goody goody two shoes if you ask me.
• The rest of his white robed minions expose their machine guns and tear up the town!
• Told you dummies. If you have a valuable resource in a post-nuke world, never trust anyone.
• Abernathy is sort of this flick’s Humongous. Which is ironic Abernathy is played by someone named Adam Ant.
• Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do? Kill innocent defenseless people and rape the women. Must be something inside.
• Keeeerist, I could’ve done without seeing anyone, much less Adam Ant give that Kate girl a rough kiss on the lips as her mom is about to get violated.
• Aw shit. Bruce Dern is here now. Looking like an aged hippie with that usual Bruce Dan crazy look in his eyes. In other words, a normal Tuesday.
• Nice. As one minion approaches him, Dern flicks a metal disc with a stick upwards to slice the minion’s neck! Andy Sidaris would be so proud.
• Dern politely asks Abernathy to release a boy he has hostage and while this is happening no one attacks a defenseless Dern after killing that minion.
• “I’m just an ordinary man.” No way Bruce! You’re a national treasure!
• Here I assumed that Abernathy and his minions were here to take over the town because it obviously has clean water. But nope, he takes a few people and gets back onto his helicopter and nicely leaves.
• An old man asks Ethan (Dern) what they should do and Ethan quotes the Bible and the old man has zero idea what he’s quoting.
• Ethan: “I need a doobie.” Way ahead of you Brucie.
• “I may not have enough lead in my pencil to dick ‘em, deck ’em, and dunk ‘em by myself.”
• “Man, that Derek really blew it. He should’ve killed me when he had the chance. I would’ve kill me.” Yeah that whole scene with Abernathy and Ethan chatting for a moment was strange, especially after Ethan killed one of his.
• Ethan describes Abernathy’s minions as “the people who used to sell books at airports.”

• On a drive around the barren wilderness (not Detroit), Ethan and Angie (Stewart) are discussing getting help from a mercenary that Ethan knows about. Angie asks if Abernathy will come back for the water and Ethan tells her no and that they will return to kill them and kidnap more kids. I wonder where Abernathy is getting his water?
• An Ice Cream truck? Nope. That’s just a truck but the music sounds like it could be an ice cream truck though.
• Children of the Damned! And they are parched!
• I dunno, if there hasn’t been rain in over 50 years as Ethan states, I highly doubt mankind would last a year much less 50. I’m no scientist or anything but rain water isn’t just for drinking. Also, are the oceans all dried up too because if I learned anything from 3rd grade science it’s part of the cycle of natural water for the planet. Perhaps I’m going off course, let’s continue. Shall we?
• So 100s of feral children are running around this dead city just screaming and moaning “water” every 2 seconds. In this case the squeaky wheel ain’t gettin’ the grease.
• Of course there’s plenty of gasoline and fuel.
• There’s two women wearing lingerie. I guess there’s plenty of hookers too.
• So this small truck rides in and there’s like 3 guys in makeshift hazmat suits, gas masks and army helmets barking at the thirsty denizens to move back and stay calm. They apparently bring the poor glasses of water in exchange for cash. Yes glass for some reason and not plastic or anything else that won’t break. A Liquid Death aluminum can would be better. Also the “cash” are water coupons but they look like greenbacks.

• This makes towns like Lost Wells even more unbelievable that they’re not raided and attacked like every day since water is so scarce.
• The water merchants or whomever they are, refuse anyone water that does not have water coupons even sickly mothers with sickly infants. No dough. No H2O.
• As an old man thanks the merchants for the water he bought and starts to walk away, a small motorcycle gang (like 3-4 bikers) rolls in and the leader demands the old man to give him the water. In front of everyone else in line waiting. Dumbass bikers could wait until the crowd dispersed to plunder these hapless folks from their water.
• As tensions rise, one of the water merchants starts to take off his attire. The old man slowly starts to hand over the water but purposefully drops them, shattering the glass on the ground.
• The leader of the pack says it breaks his heart seeing an old man wasting water and punches the elder dropping him like a bad cheque. He then tells another biker to “buy him a drink” and the biker starts to piss on him. Shocked anyone even has urine in this flick.
• The water merchant who was taking off his duds is none other than Michael Paré, Eddie and the Cruisers himself! And he starts blasting away the bikers and the other water merchants with his shotgun.
• The Drink side’s callin’ now, Nothin’ is real.
• If you haven’t guessed it yet, Paré is the mercenary that is friends with Ethan despite the 22 year difference between them.
• “I’m George Landon. I can’t read.” That’s a pick-up line that gets every woman moist in the loins.
• Also George Landon? That’s Paré’s name? So generic. It should be something like Buck Youngblood or Tom Cody.
• Good opportunity to mention how fucking awesome Streets of Fire is. I unabashedly adore that flick. I can’t recommend it enough.
• Michael Paré, however, is not the greatest thespian.

• So, like Yojimbo, Fistful of Dollars, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider (damn did Eastwood basically make 3 of the same flick?) and especially Deadly Reactor, Paré will be hired by a community to help defend themselves. This classic trope has been done to death. And I’m actually curious, has this ever happened in real life at any point in history? You’d think a couple of them would be talked about along with the fictional ones.
• Getting back to the flick, will there be any consequences to Paré killing those water merchants? Many minutes has gone by since that scene and they are just chatting like nothing ever happened.
• Also, why was he undercover being a water merchant? What was his mission actually other than dramatic introduction?
• Landon is whisked away by the biker leader’s whip that he wrapped around Landon’s legs and he then points a gun in Landon’s face. He then says, “Give me one good reason not to kill you.” And Landon says “Water” and the biker uncocks his pistol. Glad that deescalated quickly.
• Landon takes them all to what could only be confused as being a strip club, gay dance hall and gambling den where dudes duke it out for water coupons. It’s quite the revelry.
• The hostess is wearing a tinsel wig with fairy wings and a glass bowl bra and she introduces the champ Exline. But two guys enter the stage and one is black and completely flamboyantly gay wearing a purple unitard with matching cape and he’s throwing tiny explosives while a rugged and tough-looking cowboy struts the stage.

• Looking at ol’ dependable imdb, Exline is the cowboy which means the black guy guy is Nitro. I guess Nitro is Exline’s “assistant.”
• Holy shit! Nitro is Julius Carry! Sho’Nuff!
• The hostess is asking the rowdy crowd who has the “balls” to be the next challenger. “What about you dickhead!?”
• It just dawned on me that in a world virtually without drinking water, that means no booze. I wouldn’t last 2 months in this sort of hell.
• One fella steps up the plate and the hostess says he’s challenger #9,211. That’s a very specific number. But there’s no way this Exline cowboy cosplayer has beaten over 9,000 other people. Len Wickwar is a boxer with the most wins in history and he only has 342. Muhammad Ali only has 56!
• So basically it’s a quick draw duel with the two men standing roughly 20 feet apart on the stage and the crowd counts down from 10. At 1, Exline draws and fires and kills the nameless idiot. And that’s it.
• Maybe he did kill over 9,000 of these fools. If he killed like 6 people a night he would have over 9,000 in about 4 years.
• Anyway, if this is what passes as entertainment in this dry thirsty future, definitely count me out.
• Ha! Landon tells the gang that Exline hasn’t lost in 5 years so here ya go! But now I wrote like 6 sentences and even googled most boxing wins for my joke only to waste my time!

• Two years water rations to the winner!? And how is this deadass city even getting two years water rations from? Some backwater boggy creek?
• When Ethan volunteers Landon to be challenger #9,212, Ethan explains that there’s someone else doing the shooting behind a curtain next to where Exline stands. He shows him the feet peeking under the curtain. When the countdown gets to 1, Landon shoots the curtain while Exline and the whole crowd are stunned in silence. A moment later, some dude falls out of the curtain with a headshot wound. The crowd goes bananas saying this is all rigged just like the 2020 election!
• Am I the only one questioning this whole set-up? Why would Exline risk his life in case someone shot first or before 1? Why isn’t the other gunman behind the curtain not the one being the champion since he’s so good? Exline does not shoot the gun and no one notices no smoke from his barrel? I need someone to explain this to me like I’m 4 or a MAGA supporter.
• Pandemonium ensues and the gang along with Exline (and his guns with blanks) and Nitro escape the town. I don’t know what Exline is going to do to help them since he claims “Guns are dangerous” and Nitro is probably out of his little firecrackers. Man, what a motley crew.
• The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Manson is a book that Derek is using as a prayer book in this religious ritual. Is that even a real book?
• It’s been over a half hour and Catherine Mary Stewart has barely done a thing.

• Yeah, so I forgot to mention early when Ethan and Angie were driving to wherever town that Landon was in, they past a “cemetery” where all the “tombstones” are machine guns like M16s. I assumed they were defunct or broken but now Landon and his crew are collecting a bunch for their eventual war with Abernathy. So besides dinky towns that have drinkable water that are hardly attacked (for that water) and now we have a plethora of weapons just lying in the ground for anyone to take. This is surely a World Gone WILD!
• Angie runs afoul of 2 unsavory dudes but are stopped by Landon. One of them is friends with Landon so I guess they’re gonna be part of the crew as well. It seems like we’re going more in the Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven territory soon.
• Holy Shit! This guy named Ten Watt is Hector Savage! (Seems I can use the same Tex Colorado gag again.)

• “George! He’s a cannibal!” “Nobody’s perfect.”
• Besides Ten Watt he had a buddy who was also snacking on a dead body. Landon punched him out cold after they jumped Angie. Now they are being attacked by a dozen other cannibals and Nitro puts a grande in the out cold guy’s mouth and when the cannibals go to eat him the grenade takes them out. Did Landon punch out that guy or kill him because what the hell?
• After the grenade goes off the other guys start bursting out in laughter! Fucking hilarious.
• Angie is disgusted by them laughing and Ethan says that she’s getting a dose of reality. And that he prefers being stoned out on magic mushrooms as much as possible. No argument there.
• I missed the part where Ethan acquired a large hitch wagon for his car as well as 6-8 large cargo boxes on top of his station wagon (another station wagon?!). Must be supplies but we never saw him get anything other than new friends.
• So they’re just going to casually drive away from these cannibals? Ethan even jokes to them that it’s time for lunch!
• I think it’s high time that Nitro stops wearing that weird silver chainmail page-boy wig. It’s ridiculous.
• Exline complains that this town is indefensible. How the fuck would you know Mr. Guns-Are-Dangerous?
• Nitro calls the other dudes over because he found a small puddle of water. The dudes are happy and saying they’re rich. Do they plan on selling this water?

• I’m a little curious how this dirt-water town has the construction equipment to be able to stack broken down cars on top of each other to make a defense wall. They just had a large forklift handy it seems.
• “What we have going for us is surprise.” Surprise of what? I don’t think Abernathy will be surprised next time he attacks.
• Landon thinks that the folks in Lost Wells have played frisbee with hubcaps like most people do.
• He tells them to sharpen the edges to make … you guessed it, Andy Sidaris frisbees!
• Fucking A Nitro, can you please change into anything else other than your tight purple unitard and chainmail wig. We can all see his little Nitro sho’nuff!
• So Landon is training the folks how to use deadly hubcaps to defend themselves. What happened to all the machine guns they gathered a few scenes back?
• Exline is complaining about having to shovel trenches for defenses and he’s still wearing his leather cowboy outfit and sweating like a pig. Dumbass.
• Speaking of, what the fuck is an Exline? Apparently it’s a town in Iowa with a population of 160.
• Some rube is asking Exline about the city and how the women are. Exline says they smell bad. In fact everyone smells bad. He then asks the kid if anyone ever gets drunk. Hey, um, what’s the main ingredient for booze Exline? He then says what do they toast with at Xmas and the kid has zero clue what Exline talking about. Has Exline ever left that bar he was scamming folks in?
• Nitro is dazzling the kids in town with his firework display like he’s some sort of sorcerer. He’s probably wasting valuable firepower or at the very least distractions for when Abernathy returns.
• By some crazy coincidence or miracle the magic mushroom or whatever psychedelic drink that Ethan made Landon consume its giving Landon visions of what Abernathy’s group is doing. That’s one way to speed up the plot.
• He even sees Abernathy torturing someone and it’s Landon! It’s just like when Luke went into that cave on Dagobah! (Yes! Another Star Wars reference!)

• Anyway, it’s poised as a dream that he just woke up from and this is the scene where he and Angie bond and fall in love. However, this film, unlike the others I complained about, is actually having them chat and get to know each other and their histories and such. So when Landon saves Angie later on and they kiss it will make somewhat sense for them doing so!
• Steve McQueen! Angie has a photo of the legendary actor (One of The Magnificent Seven!) and she doesn’t know who it is, she jus found it and liked how handsome he is. Landon says he gives him the creeps. Sounds like sour grapes from Michael Paré. Or maybe Landon prefers Yul Brunner?
• Well never mind on the romantic arc being worthwhile since Landon tries to be too aggressive with Angie and she kicks him in the balls (Omega Cop would be proud). I’m sure Landon learned his lesson though.
• Hold up, because now he’s trying to be all sweet with Kate but she’s giving him the silent treatment.
• So Lost Wells stacked up a bunch of cars as a barricade wall; 3 cars high in some places. However, that wall is only two incomplete walls wherein the rest of the perimeter of the town is pretty much open from what we see in this helicopter shot above Lost Wells. Two/three cars high is a great blockade but if you don’t have enough cars for your entire perimeter maybe only use one car high which I would think would also be a decent blockade. It’ll certainly slow down Abernathy and his minions. They all seem low IQ.
• Hank, the biker dude that killed the old man for the glasses of water and then threatened Landon before becoming an ally, is now trying to rape Angie. 53 minutes, surprised it took the film this long before a sexual assault. But she seemed like such a great guy.
• Landon threatens to shoot him unless he leaves Angie alone and Hank apologizes and says that Landon could go first.
• The actor that plays Hank seems familiar but he only had minor roles in the films I’ve seen him in. However, he was quarterback for the Green Bay Packers for 3 games in ‘76 and mayor of Fresno in the early aughts.
• Angie stops the fight between Hank and Landon by firing a warning shot. Hank then gets on a motorcycle, says he’s coming back in a menacing tone and leaves. I don’t know how long or far he rode but next scene he’s trying to get chummy with Abernathy.
• The way Abernathy’s eyes lit up when Hank mentioned Lost Wells has fresh water leads me to believe that Abernathy had no idea that Lost Wells had water and he was just there to harass them and kidnap some folk. Which makes Abernathy one of the worst villains in modern cinema.
• Abernathy basically rejects his partnership since he’s a mercenary who has no loyalty. As the minions are praying out loud in unison, a couple of them in the background take away Hank. Few seconds later we hear a Wilhelm-style scream.

• Landon also enters Abernathy’s camp stealthily and sees the corpse of Hank hanging upside down just like Landon saw himself in that nightmare he had earlier. He says, “Jesus, these guys are serious!” Dude, you were hired specifically because Lost Wells had dozens of people slaughtered by this group. Yeah, I don’t think they’re messing around.
• Oh wait, Hank’s still alive and begging for death since Landon noticed that they cut Hank’s balls off.
• Landon doesn’t have the opportunity to fulfill Hank’s wishes since some minions are shooting at him now. Anyway, Landon gets away and that’s all.
• Landon returns to warn Ethan that Abernathy is coming soon while Ethan is smoking a doobie.
• Ten Watt and some townsfolk have been gathering up rattlesnakes and scorpions for this pit they dug. Not sure how that’s going to help in a battle with guns. Even if a minion falls in the pit and gets bit, it takes anywhere between 6 to 48 hours before someone dies from rattlesnake venom.
• Also so far, they never explained how or why he’s called Ten Watt. Maybe that’s how bright he is.
• Exline is such a lush that he’s making moonshine. It must taste amazing in the one day he distilled this shit.
• On the verge of battle (Abernathy and his minions is already en route) Landon freshened up, shaved, combed his hair nice and brought Angie flowers. Where he got these flowers in a barren wasteland devoid of water is beyond my comprehension.
• He then trips on this electrical device that Angie made to teach the kids about grounding wires making the thing go haywire and spark up. Why is Angie teaching these 8-year-olds about grounding wires!?
• Anyway, everyone has a good laugh before Nitro tells Landon it’s time for fighting.
• Exline is sloshed. Not that he’d be any good in a fight anyhow.
• Not sure what Landon said to Ethan but Ethan responds with “Does Pinocchio have a wooden dick?”

• Abernathy is wearing an eye patch now because one of the Lost Wells people he kidnapped sliced his face. And he brought her dead body back with both of her eyes missing! These guys are serious!
• So the plan starts with Abernathy entering the Lost Wells camp. Nitro blows up a gate of cars so that the main entrance is blocked, seemingly to keep in Abernathy and his minions so the townsfolk can ambush them. But like I said earlier, there’s plenty of open exits where cars are not.
• Things seem to be going in Lost Wells favor. Kids are hitting minions with hubcaps, Ethan is using his weird stick and blade weapon from earlier, even Exline is shooting guys! (Guess his whole “guns are dangerous” schtick was a non-starter for his character arc)
• Even the snake pit is doing some harm!
• One of the kidnapped townsfolk is slowly approaching with his gun drawn while one of the townies is trying to convince him that they’re old friends but no dice—the brainwashing was too strong. Exline shoots the kid instead. (Again, giving the dude who’s afraid of using guns the opportunity to rise above his fear and save the day would’ve been more rewarding but fuck it!)
• As Abernathy sees defeat and tells the remainder of his crew to retreat, Landon positions himself to shoot the rocks outside of the town that Nitro hid TNT under but Landon was out of bullets!

• Ten Watt can’t wait to eat Abernathy’s minions apparently. The town does actually have food.
• Nitro, Exline and Ten Watt say they are done because for some reason the well actually dried up. They try to convince Landon to leave too but he sho’nuff says he’s staying.
• In the span of 30 seconds the guys reconsider and stay since Landon is staying. Glad that crisis is over.
• IT WAS A TEST! Ethan turned off the water to test the mercenary’s loyalty.
• Landon tells Angie: “Listen Angie, I think dad will give me the keys to the cave tonight, you up for it?” What?
• How sweet, a little post battle dance date. But again, at least this flick is taking its time with the romance build-up.
• Catherine Mary Stewart is a very pretty woman and I always liked her. Wished she was in more movies although the 4-5 that I’ve seen her in are all some of my favorite ones. Maybe I should check out The Apple.
• Before they get the chance to kiss, fireworks are going off and not in Landon’s pants. And they’re not from Nitro’s unitard either!
• They get that kiss after all at the last second before Landon has to fight again. More of a good luck kinda kiss.
• Abernathy is back and in greater numbers. Although it’s hilarious seeing some of his minions on motorcycles going like 9 mph in a circle where they could easily be picked off like ducks in a shooting range.
• In what could’ve been an interesting scene is Exline getting cornered by his “distillery” and the minions ask him what that is and he just says “None of your fucking business” and then is knocked out. If only the distillery machine had a better purpose to take out the minions or something. Like why highlight it in this scene if it doesn’t matter?
• I really would like to know where Nitro is getting all his grenades and dynamite. He never seems to run out.
• I also would like to know where all these bullets and ammo is coming from. Don’t tell me the machine gun tombstones were still loaded in some capacity.
• This film had the big brass ones to let Mr. Goody Two Shoes himself call Ten Watt a motherfucker!
• When Abernathy asks Ten Watt where Landon is, Ten Watt just quotes from House of the Rising Sun, which confuses Abernathy. Probably should’ve quoted Strip.
• Oh, so in the quick few moments since Exline was cornered, the minions are now completely falling down drunk from the hooch. If only getting blasted that quickly was true. At least that previous scene now kinda fits in.
• Ethan saves Landon’s skin and then tells Landon that he’s outta here and probably going to heaven. He also tells London that he already won while there’s still mayhem and chaos happening all around.
• Landon pleads with Ethan to stick around but Ethan quotes Casablanca’s infamous “We’ll always have Paris.” Then he walks away.
• Abernathy is still wasting time beating Ten Watt for information in the middle of a gun battle where Landon is but then Nitro calls over saying “Why don’t you ask me?!” Before shooting 3 minions but missing Abernathy, of course.
• Abernathy then jumps in a truck and starts to retreat again but this time, Landon has that last bullet to shot that same rock while he drives by and blows up the truck.
• If you watch it in slo-mo, the truck explodes first before the rocks but hey, I’m just waiting for this flick to end.

• Dun-Dun-DUN. Abernathy wasn’t in the truck when it exploded. Now he’s pointing a gun right in Landon’s face! Let’s see what unlikely hero shoots Abernathy because he’s stupidly hesitating. My money’s on Hank, who returns at just the right moment to redeem himself…and his balls!
• This is so dumb. Abernathy is pointing a gun right in Landon’s face. Ethan somewhere quiet starts to play Hendrix’s Star Spangled Banner which takes both Landon and Abernathy by surprise. Landon takes this opportunity to punch Abernathy in the face but Abernathy recovers quickly and continues to point the gun in Landon’s face. Even after getting punched in the kisser he’s still not shooting him? Why?!
• Now Abernathy is kicking Landon’s ass while everyone basically watches.
• The two drunk minions with Exline say that he’s going to hell but Exline lights a cigarette and says ”I have a better idea, let’s go down together.” And lights his hooch on fire and ignites one minion while he stabs the other one with a broken glass in his throat.
• But the heat was too much making the shack the distillery was in explode. A flame-engulfed Exline runs out and charges at Abernathy, also engulfing him in flames killing them both.
• So Exline is the real hero here? And it wasn’t any sort of sharp-shooting but simply setting someone on fire. Weird.
• Ethan then grabs some fire from Abernathy on a stick so he can ignite his funeral pyre that he built for himself. He lights it while everyone watches. Lost Wells folk are very simple folk.
• After a minute the sky opens up and pours rain.
• It put out Ethan’s funeral pyre but he’s actually happy about it.
• Wait, is the film implying that Ethan’s funeral pyre (which didn’t burn him at all, AT ALL, was the reason the sky opened up? Not once was the pyre even talked about until he went into it. And there has been a few large explosions and fire already shown like when Nitro blew up on of the enemy’s trucks.
• Cue theme song! Roll credits!

 

What year?!: 2087

Who are the Enemies: Derek Abernathy and his cult army, Cannibals, Sharp-shooters behind curtains, Surly bar hostesses, Nitro’s unitard and chain-mail wig, Hank the biker dude, Michael Paré’s acting skills. 

What Happened to the Earth?: Nuclear Holocaust!

Final Thoughts: I actually kinda liked this one. If I saw it back in 1987 I probably would’ve loved it. It’s the perfect Saturday afternoon cable flick. Sure it has a ton of flaws but it also gets things right like an over-the-top villain (albeit a rather dumb one), a decent romantic arc as well as some character development. It was shot well and edited professionally compared to most of the schlock we watch that makes a huge difference. It was produced by MGM so it had major studio backing, which like most of the schlock we watch are independent and cheap. The story was a mixed-bag and clichéd as hell but again, most movies are that way. It wasn’t a slog to get through, however, I would’ve liked more action scenes. After they leave the city to go back to Lost Wells, not much action happens and the end is a two-part battle that wasn’t the most exciting action scene ever. Anyway, compared to all the other apocalyptic flicks I watched, this one was the most professionally done one and I did appreciate that. It’s an interesting cast sho’nuff and probably worth a watch due for that.

Score: 6 Doobies For Bruce Dern (out of 10)