#hardware (1990)

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Hardware (1990)

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I do not understand how Hardware (1990) got a reputation as a mediocre movie distinguished only by vfx, because that was shitting awesome. Post/ongoing nuclear war society with the general mad max style, but more heavily into the mechanization look versus car using primitivism. Female lead, excellent, Ripley style character who takes a beating but won't go down, and she's some avant-garde sculptor of trash.

So it's her versus extra-unstoppable steroid enhanced almost fully mechanical VFX Terminator and along the way help is her deadbeat scavenger boyfriend, his partner who is tripping balls the whole way, and a random voyeur. Every new step feels an additional layer of fully bonkers and of course the machine just keeps tanking all the hits. By the end it's just 20 minutes of knock down drag out woman vs machine brawl to the finish.

A little cheesy, weird in a good way, some near 80s cringe but only a bit versus most 80s horror. Feels like someone made this movie to cater exclusively to me.

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Hardware (1990)

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Hardware by Richard Stanley.

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Trifecta.

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