After a week’s hiatus, Bad Movie Friday returns with a vengeance, as well as the most unnecessary use of a rocket launcher ever committed to film (c. the 1:20 mark). The ridiculous clip above is plucked from the 1987 Skinemax anti-classic Hard Ticket to Hawaii, in which several Playboy centerfolds play badass DEA agents. The acting is beyond atrocious; we remain convinced that at least half the cast was functionally illiterate, and thus had to memorize their lines by rote. And the Deron McBee-style hair throughout is memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Still, we’ll confess—as horny junior-highers at the time, we were fans of this movie. The action may be lame, but the (decidedly soft-core) jiggle factor is absurdly high. And, really, that’s all we ever asked for from Skinemax, did we not?
Gramsci // May 15, 2009 at 7:50 pm
So he skated all the way down the hill so he could…ride back up the hill? That’s just begging for a bazooka-ing. The whole scene, however, would have been redeemed if they had said “Take the cannolis.” But that Simpsonesque ironizing would have to wait for a couple of years.
Brendan I. Koerner // May 15, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I very much doubt the writer(s) behind “Hard Ticket…” were familiar with “The Godfather.” And if they were, they certainly didn’t wear the influences on their sleeves.
Tony Comstock // May 16, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I used to be able to do that.
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