[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]
After a two week extension of Bad Movie Night while Kay was in Italy, the nights are back with a crappy sequel to a crappy movie we watched a year and a half ago: "The Exterminator 2". The first one was pretty devoid of plot, a revenge story with some side vigilante justice done by a guy with a flamethrower, and the sequel is, well, almost the same movie just more 80s than 70s.
The Exterminator is still living in New York and maintaining his secret identity while lighting some murdering liquor store robbers on fire. He meets up with another Vietnam War buddy who drives a garbage truck and we know nothing is going to go wrong there. He's also dating a go-go dancer at a club he likes to go to where everyone dances like they are listening to a different song. Life is pretty great. Too bad about the uprising of a gang of street kids, mostly break dancers and new wavers, who all follow this "Road Warrior" styled dude who calls himself X and thinks he's Jesus reborn. They go around murdering, stealing money, and getting drugs from the mob to sell and somehow (the plot wasn't fully clear to us and Sarah wasn't around to explain it) they end up encountering the three good guys and decide to be evil to them. The girlfriend and the garbage truck driver get killed and then about one third of the movie ends up being the boss fight between Exterminator and X. Exterminator wins and goes off to presumably find a third Vietnam War buddy to start the revenge cycle again.
When the movie was over, Adam said it reminded him a lot of an old video game called "Bad Dudes" where you walk to the right a whole lot and fight ninjas until you have saved the president from ninjas thereby proving you are a bad dude. Watching 15 minutes of a 23 minute walk-through of this game was more captivating than most of this movie.
Quote: "I don't like that shit. Guys like that are freakos."
[Originally posted on Facebook on December 10, 2013]
Yesterday movie of the week was "The Exterminator" (not to be confused with "The Terminator", 'The Destroyer", or a movie about a pest control specialist). After surviving Vietnam with his BFF, two guys stop the warehouse they work at from getting robbed and the robbers paralyze said BFF. The Exterminator goes on a killing spree of everyone even vaguely associated with his friend's problem as well as some evil pimps. There's a lot of incongruous background music (half the time the film thought it was a romantic comedy), a boring romance subplot because the cop on the Exterminator case and a vaguely British doctor, and a lengthy boring scene (as in tools but appropriately, the most boring scene in the movie). The worst missed opportunity occurs when the Exterminator goes to kill a bunch of people listening to "Disco Inferno" and he chooses to forsake his flamethrower of the previous scene for a gun. Also, he didn't say, "Disco is dead and so are you." So sad.
Adam's grandma's review: "Good. We should watch 'Exterminator 2.'"
