"Joe" and other culture war-type movies

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I really want to see "Joe," a movie from the early 70s starring the dad from Everybody Loves Raymond. A construction worker and a businessman team up to kill hippies! There's a twist ending that was unfortunately revealed in one of the Amazon.com reviews!

Are there any other good "culture war" movies from this era (or later, I guess)? I've seen all the "Dirty Harry" movies, "Death Wish," and "Last House on the Left," but they're only secondarily about hippies/meatheads run amok. I need more meat!

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Wild in the Streets
Electra Glide in Blue

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Wild In The Streets. See it NOW.

x-post!

― m1cc1o (m1cc1o), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Hardcore

And that's Peter Boyle motherfucker!

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I did see "Wild in the Streets" years ago. I loved the last line -- "we're gonna put everyone over ten out of business!" I should rent it again though.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Putney Swope?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a bit of the take-on-the-hippies in Coogan's Bluff

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Putney Swope comin at it from the other end (pro-hippie, kinda)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

That's fine, so is "Joe" from what I hear.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Vanishing Point

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I've wanted to see Joe for years since I found the entry in Halliwell's Film Directory. I watched The Enforcer last week for the first time in ages. It fits the bill.

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Venom aka Gift

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha Vixen

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

The War At Home and Hearts and Minds are both really good if you want docs.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

if you ever get the chance exploitation flick "The Helter Skelter Murders" is a great mix of hippy beach concert jam and eerie b/w "recreations" of the Tate murders. Made before the trial, even.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw a nice "evil hippies" episode of Ironside once. Tons of 70s cop shows must've done this, right?

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

None as well as QUINCY would haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

CHiPs punk episode pwnz all

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

you need some *blue sunshine*. hippies drop experimental acid and years later they go bald and start killing!!!!!!

http://www.girlsgunsandghouls.com/bluesunshine.gif

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Cop shows are STILL doing this. I wonder which ridiculous Law & Order: SVU episode will be this generation's punk Quincy?

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DpYd7bOn52M

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Joe is good. It's creepy and seedy.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha wasn't there an Inspektor Morse with EVIL RAVERS?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was watching some of it the other day. The ravers weren't rilly evil tho, I think it was a sinister drugs company.

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AsVQlXhTf7s

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

everyone should see the Robert Hendrickson documentary entitled *Manson*. So fuckin' punk rock. It will make you want to join a cult tomorrow! the interview footage of the girlz is unbelievable. paul watkins video/music interludes. ranch footage. i love it and i'm not even a charlie fanatic or nothin'. i forget when it was made. i bought a cheapo copy on dvd.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe that CSI grime episode?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, is that the one where the two shaved-head Manson girls sing "Come and Get It" while holding rifles? Awesome.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UzmNeZwsLlM

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

YES! oh god they are sooooo cool. everyone has to watch that youtube thing. and then go get the movie.

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"Cholly has all the fear. Everyone had given their fear to Cholly."

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Blue Sunshine is possibly one of my favorite movies ever. Beautiful shots, awesome paranoia, crazy drugs and BALDIES! The soundtrack is also fucking awesome-- awesome scary, sometimes atonal bells and whatnot...and cheesy late 70s lounge music.

Also check out I Drink Your Blood. Satanic hippies move to small town, havoc ensues.

http://thefilmasylum.com/albums/I-Drink-Your-Blood/aad.jpg

― the table is the table (trees), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

and you didn't even mention the zalman king factor of blue sunshine:

http://www.reel.com/Content/fpb/dvd/dvd_fpb_zalman.gif

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

also, i guess, search out every biker movie from the 60's.

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to see "Over the Edge" all the time on HBO when I was a kid. Bunch of bored suburban kids doing dumb shit, parents getting, mad, etc. I haven't seen it in years but I'll always remember the kid putting on his giant 70's headphones and rocking out to Cheap Trick to drown out his parents.

― joygoat (joygoat), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

is Tribes on dvd?

http://i.imdb.com/Icons/poster_under_licence.gif

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

whoops, i had a feeling that tribes poster wouldn't show up.

FYI - Over The Edge is my favorite film of all time.

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, tribes is jan michael vincent who doesn't want to fight in the war, blah, blah, blah...

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

there are so many though. i mean, hello:

http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/ano_nimo/born-losers-billy-jack3.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

If we're talking punks/goths instead of hippies then Suburbia comes to mind. I loved that film when I was a kid.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 17 February 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

(I mean the original Spheeris film, not the later skaterpunks one)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 17 February 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.digiturk.gen.tr/tema/Film/IMAGE/falling_down.jpg

― amon (amon), Saturday, 17 February 2007 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link

joel schumacher nooooooooooooooooooooo

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Saturday, 17 February 2007 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL @ CHiPs. also bass guitar causes 10 car pile-up including the classic car-hitting-a-ramp-hidden-by-cardboard-boxes. "i dig pain"

― amon (amon), Saturday, 17 February 2007 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Taking Off (Milos Forman's first US movie) is kind of a Joe-lite.
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring - A made for TV movie with Sally Field.
Bless the Beasts and the Children - Young misfits try to free some bison.
And of course Easy Rider.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 17 February 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hai guyz its the punk episode of wkrp in cincinnati http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dez6W4ySt-E

― amon (amon), Saturday, 17 February 2007 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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