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The Junkman — The Local Honeys

there's dried up blood on the dashboard and a handful of change layin in the floor the young people died before they should but them rear corner panels look pretty good

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smash or pass: the junkman (lost in space)

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You think the Junkman is compensating for something?

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The Junkman (1982)

Do you love cars? Crashing cars? Exploding cars? How about planes? Crashing and exploding planes, yes? Guns? Murder plots? Lots of films will deliver these things, dear viewer, but what if you find most mainstream offerings too scary. Do you bite your nails thinking of the civilian casualties our hero blithely roars past in his muscle car during the big car chase? Do you cry when fictional characters grieve? Is a well-crafted thriller just too thrilling for you to enjoy?

Try The Junkman. This delightfully cheesy “thriller” is the story of a junkyard owner turned Hollywood producer as he evades assassins before the premier of his next film -- written, directed, and starring the junkyard owner turned Hollywood producer who made the original Gone In Sixty Seconds. The guy knows a lot about cars. There are SO MANY CARS. This is the Guiness Book Of World Record holder for “most cars wrecked in a film.” This is Mad Max: Fury Road level nonstop car chases, but unlike Mad Max: Fury Road, we are spared the heartbreak and nail-biting inflicted by a skilled director building dramatic tension and narrative stakes, because The Junkman can’t stand the idea of innocent people getting hurt. It can’t even stand the idea of innocent people being upset. The film pauses in the middle of every car chase to show the occupants of every wrecked car climbing out unharmed, sometimes laughing hysterically at their brush with death to really sell the realism of their survival.

The only characters whose peril the camera dwells on are our protagonist Harlan, and the assassins pursuing him. The film can make the audience worry, a little, but it doesn’t want to. This is the lightest, gentlest, most heartwarming 90 minutes of car wrecks and murder attempts ever put to film.

I think it’s because the director/star, Harlan B. Hollis I’m sorry, Henry B. Halicki, had an actual job before he went into Hollywood. He salvaged cars, which included wrecked cars that real people had died in. With that in mind, the film’s car chases become 90 minutes of “if only”, the miraculous escapes he wishes had happened, and a visual argument for crush-resistant passenger compartments.

Also, he’s a professional car nut but an amateur storyteller. In this case, the amateurism provides the film’s charm.

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I am 50 minutes into The Junkman (1982) and 30 minutes into the second car chase. Written, directed, and starring the guy who did the original Gone In 60 Seconds (which I haven’t seen yet), this movie is about his self-insert OC, who is also a junkyard owner turned Hollywood director who is still obsessed with cars and equally obsessed with showing EVERY SINGLE INNOCENT PERSON survive EVERY SINGLE CAR WRECK unharmed. This has been like 20 car wrecks and the movie goes back to show the people climbing or being helped out of their wrecked cars. It’s sweet, and then it gets really sad when you think about how this guy has without a doubt disassembled multiple cars that people died in before he became a director.

It’s like the movie is saying to you, look at these cars! Beautiful! Watch these car wrecks! Astounding! But, viewer. Dearest viewer. Rest assured: human lives are even more precious than cars.

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