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When John Badham “Blue” Thunder went, I was just a kid, but the film sufficiently impressed me. I have not seen it. And I suspect that most of the children who told me long rambling stories about it is not any. He was one of those schoolyard legends, like the one about the woman in a flat opposite the high school who gets undressed in her window for the whole world to see, with one or the kid who was skateboarding swimming pool and machine gun found in the deep end. Blue Thunder was the only sweet that we could imagine. I mean, it was a helicopter that silently (so the story went), and it was all high-tech, and it could kill a million people in a few seconds. It was a time of the Cold War, and something like “Blue Thunder just seemed too incredible. It was Ronald Reagan in the secret weapon against the commies.

Of course, like all fairy tales school, he was too good to be true. “Blue Thunder” was not top of clandestine Commie-busting nuke firing super secret weapon, it was a cool outlook helicopters that police used to control rioters. When I actually saw the movie a few years later, I was bummed to say the least.

But there was a good reason for this. Blue thunder This intelligent, well-thought-out movie that is as satirical as it is macho tech. Scripters Dan O’Bannon (foreign) and Don Jakoby (Invaders from Mars) are more ominous implications respect the Blue Thunder copter than they are showing to leave its supreme firepower.

The film concerns Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider), an LAPD pilot, which was unpleasant We outbreak, and paired with a clumsy rookie named Lymangood (Daniel Stern). The two roped in a helicopter test pilot called “Blue Thunder that the police want to use to combat the insurgency, you, I mean urban violence. Murphy But no slacker, and he quickly catches on the fact that the” Blue Thunder has been developed for more nefarious reasons, and his connection with a secret military program called Thor.

The film does play up to distrust government vibe that has been so popular in kontse’70 s and nachale’80 s. (Now that the Earth that vibe went?) Murphy problems at first painted to be the result of mental illness, checked at the end. In the film, as cynical as it is. This is surprisingly topical today. Along the way we are treated well, some aerial shots, some pyrotechnics, and the scene is very soft nude woman doing calisthenics that will forever haunt prepubescent boys. Ah yes, and Malcolm McDowell plays a villain. Eto’80 s film in the end.

After 20 odd years, Blue Thunder is still a tonic and sardonic film. Badham pace in this place, the straight and narrow, the witty script and almost too smart. Oh, and the helicopter kicked some serious donkey, even if it is not super Commie destroyer.

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