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Out Of The Blue
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Final Verdict: [Irredeemably Awful]
Out Of The Blue
Drama / English / 1980
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
The next installment in my quest for punky girl movies, we have a drama. Let's check it out.
WHAT'D I THINK? *SPOILERS*
WHAT'D I THINK? *SPOILERS*
Gotta admit, the title's pretty apt; just like anything else that comes right out of the blue all you can do is:
Even so, I think a better title for the movie would be "A Series Of Unfortunate Decisions" because I didn't see a single sane character anywhere in this movie.
Our main character, Cindy, is riding with her dad, Dennis Hopper in a semi when she distracts him, he takes his eyes off the road, and he gets a Killionaire! ramming into a schoolbus full of children.
He goes to jail and so begins Cindy's decline. She laments the loss of her Dad and she laments the loss of Elvis, her favorite musician, and it's around this point that I start thinking...
Does she think Elvis is punk? This movie is made by Dennis Hopper, does Dennis think Elvis is punk? He's... not.
Anyway the movies seeks to endear us to Cindy by showing her hitchhiking and giving anyone who doesn't pick her up the finger. We're off to a great start.
We have some scenes showing her rather strained relationship with her Mom and Husband #3 (of which there are two others including Hopper). Turns out her Mom is taking hard drugs for some reason and Husband #3 is wet towel. Despite that they seem pretty nice and well meaning, but then her Mom very thickly advertises that Cindy should go to school...
so she can meet boys...
because boys will become men...
and men are "providers".
*EARTH-SHATTERING GROAN*
SO NOT ENOUGH PUNK UP IN HERE, let's get some punk music goin' in the soundtrack, alright? Alright, and that's... not punk music...
That's not even Elvis. WTF am I listening to this for?
Anyway, the first half of the movie sees Cindy try starting fights and threatening violence on reasonable people, she runs away from home, she hits up a cab driver for pot, she almost gets molested, she magically gets backstage at a concert, she gets arrested for...
Hold on, they're not telling us yet.
...
...
...still waiting...
...
...
Car theft. She stole a car. That's why she was arrested.
After that she's late to school one day, swears, and pushes a nosy girl into the grass-WHOAHOHOHOHO!!! NOW HOLD ON THERE, THAT'S PUSHIN' THE LINE LITTLE MISSY!
After the halfway point Hopper gets out of jail and you expect that this is the point where we see a change right? Her new rowdy behavior is looked down on by the dad she used to emulate? His influence reels her back in and calms her casual hate for hippies and disco? Maybe her living dangerously clashes with his now gunshy approach to life since he screwed up once and doesn't want to see her go down the same road?
He immediately brings Cindy along for rides again, he regularly takes his eyes off the road, he begins drinking and driving, drinking while operating heavy machinery, stealing dynamite, demolishing company property, getting fired, assaulting his employer, robbing his employer, and you know? We never even see his employer again so maybe he's just dead? They cracked him over the head in the middle of the street so maybe he legit killed the father of one of the kids he accidentally killed.
Intentionally.
After he'd given him a job.
Nice.
Then, OUT OF THE BLUE, there's some debate between Hopper and Husband #2 over whether they should have sex with her??? OR her mom??? That her mom misconstrues as calling her a dyke??? And Cindy starts yelling "I hate men"??? And then we have a weird dream-like transition where she stuffs her underwear in her dad's mouth??? And forces his face into her crotch telling him to "smell it"??? Then she stabs him in the throat with scissors??? And she blows up her mom and herself with dynamite??? While stating that it was punk??? Credits??? ??? ???
???
??????
?????????!?!?!?
Even so, I think a better title for the movie would be "A Series Of Unfortunate Decisions" because I didn't see a single sane character anywhere in this movie.
Our main character, Cindy, is riding with her dad, Dennis Hopper in a semi when she distracts him, he takes his eyes off the road, and he gets a Killionaire! ramming into a schoolbus full of children.
He goes to jail and so begins Cindy's decline. She laments the loss of her Dad and she laments the loss of Elvis, her favorite musician, and it's around this point that I start thinking...
Does she think Elvis is punk? This movie is made by Dennis Hopper, does Dennis think Elvis is punk? He's... not.
Anyway the movies seeks to endear us to Cindy by showing her hitchhiking and giving anyone who doesn't pick her up the finger. We're off to a great start.
We have some scenes showing her rather strained relationship with her Mom and Husband #3 (of which there are two others including Hopper). Turns out her Mom is taking hard drugs for some reason and Husband #3 is wet towel. Despite that they seem pretty nice and well meaning, but then her Mom very thickly advertises that Cindy should go to school...
so she can meet boys...
because boys will become men...
and men are "providers".
*EARTH-SHATTERING GROAN*
SO NOT ENOUGH PUNK UP IN HERE, let's get some punk music goin' in the soundtrack, alright? Alright, and that's... not punk music...
That's not even Elvis. WTF am I listening to this for?
Anyway, the first half of the movie sees Cindy try starting fights and threatening violence on reasonable people, she runs away from home, she hits up a cab driver for pot, she almost gets molested, she magically gets backstage at a concert, she gets arrested for...
Hold on, they're not telling us yet.
...
...
...still waiting...
...
...
Car theft. She stole a car. That's why she was arrested.
After that she's late to school one day, swears, and pushes a nosy girl into the grass-WHOAHOHOHOHO!!! NOW HOLD ON THERE, THAT'S PUSHIN' THE LINE LITTLE MISSY!
After the halfway point Hopper gets out of jail and you expect that this is the point where we see a change right? Her new rowdy behavior is looked down on by the dad she used to emulate? His influence reels her back in and calms her casual hate for hippies and disco? Maybe her living dangerously clashes with his now gunshy approach to life since he screwed up once and doesn't want to see her go down the same road?
NEEEEEEEEOPE.
He immediately brings Cindy along for rides again, he regularly takes his eyes off the road, he begins drinking and driving, drinking while operating heavy machinery, stealing dynamite, demolishing company property, getting fired, assaulting his employer, robbing his employer, and you know? We never even see his employer again so maybe he's just dead? They cracked him over the head in the middle of the street so maybe he legit killed the father of one of the kids he accidentally killed.
Intentionally.
After he'd given him a job.
Nice.
Then, OUT OF THE BLUE, there's some debate between Hopper and Husband #2 over whether they should have sex with her??? OR her mom??? That her mom misconstrues as calling her a dyke??? And Cindy starts yelling "I hate men"??? And then we have a weird dream-like transition where she stuffs her underwear in her dad's mouth??? And forces his face into her crotch telling him to "smell it"??? Then she stabs him in the throat with scissors??? And she blows up her mom and herself with dynamite??? While stating that it was punk??? Credits??? ??? ???
???
??????
?????????!?!?!?