Movie Men,
This week #99 for the third straight week. We are really milking this 99th movie. We watched a movie that I knew existed, but had no real idea what it was about. I knew that it starred Mickey Rourke and that it wasn’t very good. But I was actually surprised, it was pretty well made it’s just that the plot didn’t make a lot of sense. Actually it kind of reminds me of that Nic Cage – WIllam defoe one we watched a couple ones back. It’s got some great scenes, they just don’t come together as a movie.
Budget : $25 million
Box office : $7.4 million
Plot:
Harley Davidson, Mickey Rourke in his pretty face days. Is some kind of modern outlaw biker robin hood mechanic. He’s a man, man’s man kind of man. The kind of man that would stop a convenience store robbery and get the number of the checkout girl. We also meet Don Johnson playing “The Marlboro Man”, does he have a real name? I don’t care. Does he have any real characteristics besides being good at pool, shooting and charming the pants off ladies? I don’t know either.
After a bar fight involving a pool bet they get back to their roots at a local bar in Burbank. The enormous bouncer, BIG JOHN STUD, isn’t too happy to see Harley, because he slept with his girl. A pretty hilarious fight breaks out. But they settle things like men, with sweet loving words. They learn that the bar is going to be shut down to expand the airport parking or something. So they get the gang back together for one last job.
* side note : The Burbank Airport has been around since the 1930’s and has never been international.
So they do the only thing they can think of, ROB AN ARMORED CAR. But despite their pretty awesome plan, the armored car is full of some new synthetic drug that the kids are hooked on. Billy Baldwin and the American Yakuza show up with machine guns and all black trench coats. Which makes me think, why weren’t they transporting their own drugs. There didn’t seem to be that many of them drogas to carry.
But anyway, I may have forgotten to screen shot some things, or there just might not be that much plot in this movie. But they regroup at the bar, only to have Lesser Baldwin show up and shoot most of the rest of the gang. They hide out in Vegas but are tracked by the trench coat mafia, Harley and Marlboro only make it out by jumping off the roof into a pool.
Probably skipping a bunch of stuff next, Marlboro dating a cop, etc.
They make a deal with the Yakuza to meet to exchange the drugs at an aircraft graveyard that is outside of Burbank? Vegas? not sure. Marlboro is shot once in the arm by the bad guys and another time by Harley in a pretty funny standoff. They pay the helicopter pilot to take them to the American Yakuza’s HQ. Where they meet face to face with Tom Sizemore and his secretary Tia Carrera. Luckily they gave the pilot and extra tip since he uses AIRWOLF to blast the whole office out Matrix Style. A fight ensues with Sizemore falling through some green screens to his death.
- Vanessa Williams is in this movie? Missed that!
- I missed a lot of the apparent background Bar Boobies, sorry!
- This movie isn’t bad, it’s just all made up of one liners and disjointed scenes
- everybody in this went on to make a LOT of TV and movies.
I don’t know what I’m going to pick tonight. I was thinking of something that is bad-good
- Super Mario Brothers
- Cobra (stallone)
- Solarbabies
wild card, A NIGHT IN HEAVEN. HDTGM did it recently, but they probably made it seem crazier than it really is.
-Mark
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is a 1991 action biker film starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, with a supporting cast including Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Tom Sizemore, and Vanessa Williams. It is directed by Simon Wincer from a screenplay by Don Michael Paul.
The film was a critical and financial failure, earning only $7 million at the domestic box office (the budget was estimated at $23 million).
source : wikipedia