Thursday, April 26, 2012

Condor



From what I can tell, future prisons of 1986 will be populated with android guards wearing motorcycle helmets and inmates who look a little like Patty Smyth in kung-fu gear. Also, prisons will store their jetpacks in a shed near the fence surrounding the prisons in the unlikely event a prisoner should escape. 

Here's another interesting tidbit about the future of 1986 I learned from the tele-film Condor. Cars will have a machine that plays the radio, gives you directions, makes phone calls, orders drive-thru burgers, swipes credit cards, and is the size of a microwave oven. They're shiny and silver and have buttons all over them. I can't wait for the future!

Fashions in the future of 1986 will consist of sportcoats with the sleeves pushed up, you'll have to pop the collar on your button-down shirt, and you'll have to tuck your pants into your ankle boots. Dudes won't mind this at all.

During action sequences in the future, Chrysler minivans can always outrun Porsches, laser battles, fistfights and helicopter explosions are unconvincing and awkwardly choreographed, villains wear 'laser-proof' vests, and the cop from Die Hard appears for some reason. 

Here's a clip:


Yep. That's exactly what that is.

I watched Condor on Netflix. It looked cheap and chintzy, but that's the 80s for you.

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