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Turbo Kid – 2015
“This is my weapon! This is my gnome stick!”
Fresh off of Mad Max, the Distinguished Professors (and their producer) dive into the totes-80s Quebecois awesomeness of Turbo Kid. 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 Community, parallels with Rey’s life as a scavenger in The Force Awakens, 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 Galaxy Lords, “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 Rad, differences with Ready Player One, 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 Galaxy Lords, water as currency and differences with Dune, Soylent Green references, our selection of Lynch’s Dune as the next movie pick, our ruminations on the souls of robots, comparisons with Mad Max, the gawkiness of our hero, parallels with Hobo with a Shotgun, the hero is a boring and nerdy teenager, parallels with City Limits, and “Eyes! Throat! Genitals!”
