when they stop at the Detroit junk yard, then all of a sudden a tidal wave hits and they are swept away and emerge in the middle of a peaceful and untouched lake surrounded by lush green mountains which is supposed to be "Albany".
shareFunniest part for me was: When they hit the road and the Hippie guy asks the major "where do you get all the fuel to drive with it?" and the major goes like "..." and changes the topic :D that was really self-ironic, they knew it made no sense and was a major plothole. Way to go!
shareWhen Vincent's character calmly takes a smoke when the nuclear holocaust is taking place during the beginning if the movie. Yeah why not, while your country is being nuked.
It's funny in a morbid way.
George Peppard's moustache!
Giant scorpions!
"Oh my god!" (Cut to extremely fake skeletons on the ground)
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Major Denton trying to kill the bugs with a fire extinguisher is pretty good. Then he finds Keegan (Paul Winfield) still alive in a car. It looks like Keegan might be saved, but Denton instantly decides to leave him.
The whole sequence with the survivalists or whatever they are is entertaining. At one point two of them have Tanner and Denton inside the vehicle while the third one is in the cafe with Janice. Tanner says something like, "Hey, that's my wife in there." One of his captors replies, "Don't worry mister, he's only doing what the rest of us will be doing but he's doing it in the wrong order." There are different possible meanings for that, none of them reassuring.
The ending in "Albany:" It doesn't look anything like upstate New York, but then Michael Cimino isn't directing. The residents look quite well fed and clothed - how far out does the "safe zone" extend? They must have picked up some farming and weaving skills rather quickly.
Then the movie abruptly ends as if they didn't bother to film the last ten minutes or so.
I dunno, when the people at the other end of the radio were at a heading of 81 degrees and he was going to go to them on a reverse heading of 261 degrees...
That was pretty funny.
Fortunately, 18 degrees error over < 20 miles probably wouldn't miss the target, but it was still funny (IMHO).
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