Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: CHERRY 2000
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2023
- Review of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie "Cherry 2000", starring Melanie Griffith. A story of love, death and sex robots.
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It's always weird when movies set in 'the future' are now the past. This movie was on to a few things though...
I love the movie Miracle Mile... but then again I have a thing for disaster, end of the world and post apocalypse movies...
I know, right? _cough _*_Idiocracy_*_ cough_ But hey, now we need _Galaxina_ to go along with this!
_"Don't shoot- you might hit the lord!"_ 🤣🤣
Don't forget best villain since Sho-Nuff
Yah Sam just take one for the entire team! Find a real very attractive lady. I probably laugh about that later.🤣😂😆😅😄💀🤣😂hahahahaha
I find the bar scene as a perfect conceptualization of modern dating.
"He would rather travel across a post apocalyptic wastland than try to date a real woman" Yea that sounds about right.
Who wouldn't?
Yep that's also not too far off from the current state of things.
Definitely a real look into the future
An old favorite of mine. Actually saw this in the theater.
Boy buys sex bot,
Boy falls in "love" with sex bot,
Boy breaks sex bot,
Boy scrounges around the desert for spare sex bot parts.
It is a story as old as time, ahead of its time even. Glad to see you spread it around for others to learn of it and watch.
This comment is almost as funny as some of Brandon’s riffs. Thank you.
I've seen the ending of this movie a million times, because it was recorded before Big on a VHS tape. My parents must've gotten a free trial of HBO
@@realDonaldTrump420 *LAUGHS* This is so damn specific and accurate to how things were that I *know* you're telling the truth. Man, can you imagine trying to explain this to a twelve year old these days? Heh take care Andy, be safe
Im jelly
Boy hooks up with pre- Prime Melanie Griffith.
"Well, you can go shit in your hat!" is one of the best lines of any movie ever.
Every time I watch it I have to replay that line 4 or 5 times. The line is funny on it's own, but the way Harry Carey Jr. says it make it hilarious.
Whenever my Grandma heard somebody say, "I wish..." she would come back with, "You can wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up first."
@@eduardopena5893your gramma know what’s up
@@eduardopena5893 Depending on your grandma's age, she could be of the same generation as my grandpa. He was fond of quotes like that.
Uncle Junior in the Sopranos also uses this line.
Fun fact: That deep quarry is still there just outside of Henderson Nevada, next to the "wheel of Misfortune" that was painted on that circular mining thing. The van they drove off the cliff and smashed at the bottom is still there and you can walk down to see it. You can also see it on Google Earth.
If been looking for it on Earth for a while and simply got lost, could you point me in the right direction @
@@lukasd.4389 Search for Three Kids Mine. It should be very recognizable.
It's always sad when a character dumps a robot in favor of a "real" girl. Robots have feelings too, ya know!
Not all robots do. Some just run programs that emulate emotion, but those bots don't actually feel anything.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh please!!
Not yet, but give it time.
A lot of people like robot girls hehehheeh
I love lilim girls tbh
Cherry 2000 is an almost classic everyone should see once.
My wife (well, ex-wife now) and I tried to watch this and we're disappointed about how little of the satire landed.
The movie spends way too much time trying to excuse Sam as a "romantic" rather than what we'd call him today-"an incel dweeb who's too scared of real women, so he can only fuck a robot sex slave!!"
Part of the problem with this movie is that it's predicated on the idea that Sam's point of view is a reasonable one in a society where sexual harassment laws have gotten out of control. When this movie was made in the 1980s, that was a very real concern for men who never had to deal with women objecting to being objectified before. Four decades later that point of view seems bizarre, given how frequently women are still sexually preyed on by men and how seldom that leads to any accountability.
Nobody did 'post-apocalyptic' like the 80's! I am surprised this movie ended up being so prophetic.
Love the cheap yet fun over the top films that Orion, cannon, and other small studios made in those days. Modern cheap movies don’t have the same feel
i watched so many i had no clue they were small low budget studios as a kid .
@@captaintony1227 That's because they always had a way to use every last cent of the budget to make it all work.
Even though this was clearly shot on a small budget, I loved Melanie's "Mad Maxine" type character. She was cool and sexy and I really wanted that Mustang. It was as cool as Max's car. I thought it was clever how she installed an early version of lane departure warning and the car warned David Andrews that he was going to crash. Never imagined that the technology would become real one day.
And let's not forget Timothy Thomerson's performance as the nutty Lester. He just ate up that role. Nobody else could have done that role as well.
PS: Sadly, Pamela Gidley, who played Cherry, passed away in 2018. Her family wished for privacy and wouldn't state a cause of death. Rest in peace. I also saw her in the murder mystery True Blue and the comedy The Little Vampire.
Seeing Melanie Griffith here younger even though I grew up seeing her this way
Her daughter Dakota does look alot like her and sound like her
I used to always get this mixed up with Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone as a kid. Some dude with a short-crop redhead travel a post-apocalyptic wasteland in a supercar to find some new ladies. Sandahl Bergman was one dye job away from making Hell Comes to Frogtown a trillogy.
That's a great movie ... the redhead was a young Molly Ringwald ...
I always thought Peter Strauss had WAY more personality & charisma than Harrison Ford! Also, that movie made me a fan of Molly Ringwald.
@1down4upworkshop61 I was expecting her to show up in this, so that's at least two of us muddling the two up!
Space Hunter definitely had similar vibes to Cherry 2000.
I'd seen "Spacehunter" in 3D on the original release.
As a kid circa 1983-ish it was really dope AF for the time.
Fun Fact: The guy who did the score for this movie is Basil Poledouris, who did the scores for RoboCop, Conan the Barbarian, Starship Troopers, and Hunt for Red October
Loved watching this movie as a kid back when it was on heavy rotation on HBO.
this is how i knew i liked red heads over blonds as a kid lol
Exactly! My first puppy love was a redhead so that didn't help things...
Yeah it is amazing how media influences us as adults, especially our "adult preferences." I watched this quite a few times as a far too young kid which explains my love of red heads. I am also very sexually attracted to giant transforming robots and girls that look like The Baroness from Cobra. The heart wants what the heart wants I suppose.
Same.
I always thought this movie was a hidden gem. Please do near dark next!
He's supposed to be doing bad movies, isn't he? Near Dark is a really good movie....in my opinion, of course.
Near Dark rules
Yeah, Near Dark is probably the best vampire movie ever made. Lance Henrikson should have won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for that role. Not sure it's appropriate for this channel.
@@llongone2 It's a really interesting move, too, where the villains are FAR more engaging than the hero. However, I think I now see the connection from the OP. Tim Thomerson is the dad in that, isn't he?
@@guyjpersonhe sometimes does good movies, if they fit certain criteria (cult, Kaiju, etc) and especially if requested by Patreon subscribers.
I always wondered what it would be like if the rat pack were villains in a Mad Max movie
That sounds like something that should be in a sequel to Six String Samurai.
All snappy Tom needs to do is start growing weed and he can change his sign to "Gas, Grass, or Ass"!🤣
You’ve always gotta love Tim Thomerson! I met him back in the Eighties when I tried my hand at stand-up comedy. Great guy! I later met him when he was on Xena: Warrior Princess, and he remembered me.
He always seemed like a real down to earth guy
I saw this as a kid in the 80's and loved it
Turbo Kid, The Final Girls, and Psycho Gorman all deserve cult status. Check those out. Thomerson was great in Cherry 2000. Favorite line to his murderous henchmen: "Just be yourselves."
Turbo kid was a fun watch and I laughed so hard I cried watching PG. Haven't seen Final Girls I'll have to add it to the list.🤙
"Turbo Kid" is fantastic. I tricked my brother and his wife into watching "Psycho Gore Man," hahaha!
what about *Manborg?*
That tire from that horror movie about a killer tire made a cameo appearance in this movie.
Rubber
A true cult classic. It should be given more attention...by Brandon!
I actually like this movie. I remember feeling bad for Cherry getting ditched, but then when she looks at the PBJ and goes "pretty", its like "nah shes fine" lol.
Well, she is among her own kind! I think everyone at the Sky Ranch and most of the people in Glory Hole are discarded robots!
What about the Pepsi?
Yeah, the ending and the actress playing Cherry really sell the idea of a limited AI quite well. Cherry really DOESN'T have the ability to handle many tasks outside basic housekeeping and stuff like that.
biggest plot hole: why was this never an issue before? how did the main guy live a life where that's all he needed?
@marhawkman303 was Treadwells human ex girl friend actually a robot? She said some pretty dumb stuff too.
'Cherry 2000' has a great soundtrack by Basil Poledouris who also composed scores for 'Conan the Barbarian', 'Conan the Destroyer', 'Robocop', 'Starship Troopers', etc. :)
80's Conans are still my favorite soundtracks all time. So many legendary tracks.
He was so underrated. I thought he did Total Recall, too, but it was Jerry Goldsmith. I swear Goldsmith was emulating Poledouris there, at least somewhat.
Basil was a musical genius
@@scockery that main theme is right on the line of plagiarism of the main theme of *Conan the Barbarian.* I'm okay with it.
The score feels weirdly out of place.
I've been waiting for you to review this for a while. It has been one of my favorite B movies for years. Ice Pirates (1984) would be another fantastic choice.
I agree. I watch Ice pirates regularly. The best zany Star Wars ripoff. I think it is actually better then Spaceballs.
Ice Pirates would be a great choice! Love that film.
Its amazing how The Road Warrior and Blade Runner really defined the Future for just about every 80s movie that followed. This one had a nice mix of both aesthetics.
Beyond just the 80s. I still don't think movies, TV and video games have gotten over the Blade Runner aesthetic yet.
It's amazing how many future stars began in SciFi/Horror flicks.
Ex: Steve McQueen(The Blob).
Yup and Jim Carrey in "Twice bitten"
Another reason for its "almost cult" status might be that it was hard to come by, because regardless of the genre it was filed under at the video store, the description and that cover art, had/have all the ingredients to convince people like us to grab it and watch it! 🏴☠️
Always check the I.P. rating and invest in a otterbox case for your sexbots.
This movie was always one of my favourite late night guilty pleasures.
Actually this pretty much 100% legit checks out. A historically accurate portrayal of life in the 1980s.
R.I.P. Pamela Gidley, the actress that played Cherry 2000.
No way. She was beautiful! Didn't know.
It was an amazing... if short role. she really sold the android angle quite well.
I rented the video about 89. It's a pretty decent movie! The one-night-stand legal negotiation scene is brilliant. It was cynical then and practically reality now as some colleges have students who want to hook up sign consent contracts. Some of those Japanese robots already have AI. It paints a future that's more believable now than it was in 86.
It's got a good cast of people that can actually act, unlike most of the others like this of the 80s. It's got good sets, good stunts, and great locations. No gaping plot holes and the characters aren't stupid. I like the plot. It's one of the better of the genre.
You should put Parasite (1982) on your list. It was directed and produced by Charles Band and it stars a young Demi Moore. It's tailor-made for your channel.
Whoever made that should sue Bong Joon-Ho for nicking the title
@@iwasanangryyoungmanCharles Band, and he should.
Nice. I remember this film, as it a video store staple back in the day. Not at all a bad film, and entirely understandable how its mix of genres and themes could make for difficult marketing. Looked at in hindsight, a few of the thematic ideas were actually somewhat prescient.
I watched this a few years ago and Tim Thomerson's post apocalyptic gang leader was definetly memorable. It's like someone crossed The Walking Dead's Negan with Fred from Scooby Doo; somehow wholesome and threatening at the same time 😂
Wish they gave Brion James a bigger part, as he was also a lot of fun in films like this.
I remember an old roommate made me watch this one AND Spice World one weekend.
Also, Strange Brew is dope.
Lovely movie.
Certainly a cult flick in my book.
Strange Brew and Miracle Mile are also great flicks!
I remember seeing this film on cable when I was a kid. It was so interestingly weird. Sort of reminds me of Highway to Hell in that aspect. It’s a weird story in a very weird universe.
One of my all time favorites. Epic review! Melanie Griffith with a mop of red hair...be still my beating heart! So damn adorable. There is nothing in this movie not to like. So many memorable moments and characters. I have watched it so many times, I can play the entire movie in my head.
I fell in love with Cherry 2000 when I saw it on HBO in early 90's. Melanie Griffith character was my dream girl for my pre-teen/teen years.
Damm,yea,that's when I first saw this movie back in the early 90s.
@@thedragonlee76
Yea she was one of my crushes too ...
I’m glad that you’re giving some awareness to cherry 2000 it’s one of my favorite movies I remember watching it when I was seven and it made me love postapocalypse movies and plus I had a slight crush on Melanie Griffith, when I was young but now looking back at it I should’ve never watch this movie as a kid 😭😭
I own this on laserdisc and enjoy it at least once a year :)
Fun movie that I grew up with.... man I'm getting old... Great review Brandon. Made me laugh a lot.
I was having a really bad day until 8:45 came up and I just couldn't stop laughing. Thanks man.
as a kid i always loved that part
Absolutely loved this movie! I watched this all the time on HBO when I was growing up. Still love revisiting every now and again. Big fan of some of the action scene score.
Amazing episode Brandon. Lots of good jokes and a legitimately interesting movie. I might have to *eventually* watch this movie lol
you should. im sure it still holds up but as a young boy it was life changing to me .
Your videos always manage to put a smile on my face. Thanks for another awesome video Brandon. Keep them coming!
Finally an obscure film review from Brandon on a movie that I have actually seen long before the days of RUclips etc. I remember thinking when I saw it for a second time in my 20s that it had all the bones for an actual decent film, but just seemed too disjointed and with writing that....seemed like as Brandon said, they didn't know what they wanted the script to be. Also, anyone else notice that 2017 was also the year the Running Man film was set in? One more and we have a hat trick!
Cherry 2000 is a pretty enjoyable film. Glad that you reviewed the movie.
Lol this one is such a guilty pleasure of mine, it's odd but charming at the same time. Melanie Griffith is a hottie and the stunts, especially the crane scene are awesome
This movie aired every now and then on cable in the 90s. And yes, multiple locations in Nevada where used. At the 7:58 mark, that is the ghost town of Rhyolite which is about an hour north of Las Vegas, as well as some scenes were filmed in Goldfield.
Not to mention the Three Kids Mine (the multi ringed pit). Been in the news lately because TPTB wanted to clean up some toxic substances there. I've been to Rhyolite and it's a hoot to visit! Makes for a great post apocalyptic setting. Funny that a little over a century ago, it was a happening town in Southern NV.
Nice review Brandon! I agree it has a quiet sort of charm to it and that Tim Thomerson is a show stealer as Lester. Despite having a career of B movies Thomerson was an excellent actor who could have easily been an A Lister given the opportunity.
unfortunately he got type casted. im surprised he was able to play this role but im glad he did.
Always enjoy your videos
Kenny 2000
Thanks for doing this one! 👍 Cliche or no they just don't make em like this anymore. It's a mixing of all sorts of drive-in staples with good diverse cast, nice tongue firmly in it's cheek script and enough budget (10M) to show some flair onscreen. It's an enjoyable little gem that most growing up in the 80's genre fans (myself included) remember fondly.
This movie deserves a re release, if not an actual redo. It's shockingly pretty dead on w/what is going on today. One of my favorite TV movies I watched growing up as a kid. Glad you got around to this one, it deserves more attention then it gets.
Yeah, this definitely seems like a film that warrants an updated remake.
These reviews are fantastic and I LOVE the art you commission for them. Thanks for supporting indie artists! Like most of the films you cover I saw this thanks to a family video store/jewelry store named Michael Gerard Video in Arctic, Rhode Island. I used to hang out with the owner's daughter & an employee named Ernie who recommended stuff like this to me knowing how much I love cheesy films.
Brandon’s wisecrack-fu is in fine form here. 😂
It really does take 10,000 hours to become a master. All the hard work has paid off! Very funny!
If you count the time wasted watching cable/movies rented from the video store growing up, I think I'm up to about 100,000 hours at least by this point.
Absolutely loved this movie when I was ten!
Probably because the main character and I had the same level of maturity...
Holy crap, that is so goddamn weird: It's been decades since I'd watched this film, that I watched it again tonight on a whim. After it was done, I wondered if anyone on RUclips had a decent review of it and WTF BRANDON DID A REVIEW THREE DAYS AGO
Perfect timing! Thanks, mate.
The story of a guy going on a crazy adventure for his waifubot is quite original and kinda cool.
I remember seeing this sometimes in the early 90's. My brother in law at the time would occasionally rent these B movies I never heard of before and would sometimes watch them. It's odd I was actually thinking of this movie recently and here it is!
You should review some Mexican wrestler movies like el.santo contra los mostruos or some blue demon stuff
"A Boy and His Dog' and "Miracle Mile" are fun romps as well
Always great stuff cant wait for your next one!!!
Yooo. Important question? What skin cream do you use? You haven’t aged since you started this channel!!
He's canadian, he's just in a perpetual state of beeing cryo preserved.
@@shinrailp1416 well now I guess I gotta move to Canada.
Just like Mark from Fanboyflick that also Canadian, bad movies are their fountain of youth
It really wasn't that far off, they did start experiment on the whole sex bot AI thing around 2010's, so 2017 was pretty close. Had it been around the beginning of 2020's then they would have been spot on! 😜
I do hope Brandon does a Dollman review cause I'm pretty curious about it (though I might as well watch the actual movie, which I might do since my vacation starts soon).
They started experimenting, but there are still no AI sex bots. Which is odd, because the hardware exists, and this year's new chatbots are surprisingly versatile. And yet, the closest we had in 2017, and the closest we still have today, is talking dildos.
I guess the problem could be motor control, but I thought Hiroshi Ishiguro had already solved that.
It's probably because the market isn't there. Human labour is still a lot cheaper.
"Cherry 2000" is just pure freakin' fun! Love the cast, love the script. Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, and especially Harry Carey Jr. are worth the price of admission alone.
ive been waiting for this one for soooo long !!!
The cult may be small, but I'm a member. For me, the weird mash-up of genres works to give it layers and make it more interesting. Besides, how else can you work a bar order of 'Rum... 151... and a cruller' into your movie?
Love this film so much! It's fun as hell. Been a huge fan of it for decades now.
yep Cherry 2000 a almost cult movie
That scene showing the actors in the multi ringed pit is actually the Three Kids Mine. From 1917 - 1961 is was actively mined for manganese. It's situated near Lake Las Vegas, which is a high end residential area. Funny to see that in this film!
I love 80's movies that look this good
I remember watching this back in 2019 me and my friends were just looking for a bad movie night and I was the only one that unironically liked the movie
A really neat little movie and that "Character actor" is Academy award winner Ben Johnson (best supporting actor 1972).
Man,I love your videos!and The Volta 🤘🏻.greetings from Argentina!
Favorite movie of mine since way way back.
For future reference, people who use silicone dolls prefer the term “companion doll” rather than “sex doll”, and they will 100% stand by the genuine feelings they have for their partner. The community tends to ignore and even ostracize those who buy them solely for physical pleasure. They will name them, give them a personality, often based off of a cartoon or video game character they love. At least, that’s what I’ve heard. From third party sources. Or fifth party.
Nothing really wrong with it, as long as they're happy. Most people who do that probably weren't interested in being with a human anyway, so they would have been alone if such things didn't exist. Now they at least have the doll to keep them company.
@@peytonmac1131 yeah no. people like that have serious mental issues.
@@Necrowolf81 Thanks for that expert diagnosis, Doctor.
But Cherry 2000 forms lasting memories, she's not just a doll, she's an intelligent robot, like the droids in Star Wars.
She seems a lot more intelligent when she doesn't leave the house though. At home she really does seem like a real person. The remarks by the guys who go to whores seem dishonest and ignorant when they say real women are better, because they are obviously unable to form relationships like the main character has with the title character.
It is only the twist at the end where she is too obviously a simulacrum which proves them right, technically. If their whores were robots, how would they even know?
Thank You! I absolutely loved this movie as a kid. I tried looking it up a long time ago but wasn't having any luck. Soon to be in the collection
Love your work Sir!
Some good laughs in this one.
Ah a movie I’ve actually seen!
Double take! Representing the mars volta... Absolute legend Brandon. Seen them on their comeback tour?
Finally you back. Good material. Keep carry on. Because of you I watched The carpenter and i really enjoy.
I guess I would classify this as a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk Western. I used to watch this about once a week when I was younger. Can't remember if it was on HBO Showtime or Cinemax, but I would always catch it on Saturday afternoon
I actually really liked this movie when I first saw it. I have a soft spot for post-apocalyptic films. Really glad you covered it. The blumpkin comment shocked me into hysterical laughter for a good minute. 🤣😂🤣
I love Cherry 2000! Great movie!
Been watching your channel for years now and I'm just now commenting Keep up the good work man!
I had forgot about the tire and immediately went to "Huh, is this a crossover with 'Rubber'?".
Your channel is the bees knees!
Please don't tell me you did that to an octopus
i've bought some of the monster movies you've reviewed - most of them i've already seen, but it's great getting someone else's views of them, and i love learning about new ones
Awesome shirt, love Mars Volta. De-Loused at the Comatorium is one of my favorite albums.
Your humor deserves a million subs IMO
Don't tell me, tell your friends!
I used to watch this movie all the time 😊 One of my fave movies.
This would make a great game actually. I kind of liked this movie. It has the same flavor as "A Boy and His Dog", with a little "Barbarella" added for good measure.
It's a man and his real doll
Holy shit! I freakin' LOVE this movie. I recently just mentioned it on Joblo's list of underrated car movies.
Melanie with red hair in a mustang... What else do you need for a cult classic?!?!?
I actually love this movie, the music is so good as well, it remembers me a lot a soft Mad Max. I really love post apocalyptic movies
I enjoy this movie! I watch it every few years since I first caught it back in the 90.s.
9:04 Do NOT tease Near Dark and not give it to us! That is one of the best vampire movies and one of Bill Paxton's most iconic performances - and nobody talks about it!
16:34 Fact that you know Lisa Ann and Brandi Love further confirms you are a man of culture
Thank you, Brandon, for your reaction to one of my favorite 80's cult movies. 👍