FUBAR Film Review: Hardware

So yeahe Ive been working on this new comic called Salvage and its gotten me into a taste for all things Cyberpunk.  A while back Id read a review in an issue of the  Darkside for a flick called Hardware. To me it seemed nothing more then a cheap terminator knockoff. Then I started working on Salvage and shelled out a lot of ideas for bio-mechs in the story. While doing this I got kinda intrested in techno cyberpunk horror and decided to check out some flicks and up poped Hardware agien. After reading up about it and how it was based on a 2000A.D strip called Shok! I decide being a comichead I had to get it and give it a shot.

So the fist part of the flick kicks off with the whole 2000A.D vibe of everythings fucked....the air, the sky and the cites. This nomad finds parts of a robot out in the nuclear wasteland and brings them back to the city ((Refered in some parts as Mega city one)) Who then sell to parts to war worn merc Moses "Hard Mo" Baxter played pretty well buy Dylan McDermott. Mo then gives the parts to his smoking hot girlfriend Jill potrayed in all her sexy stoner glory Miss Stacey Travis. So Mo comes back the bump uglies then fight....then Mo piss's off to find out more about the death machine gift he got his bird only for Jill to make it into a scultpture and get high off cockroach tea while her peeping tom neighbour gets his jollies off.
Mo finds out the thing is a M.A.R.K 13 and checks a passage in his bible Mark 13" No flesh shall be spared" Then he relises oh fuck .....just as the cazy ass deathmachine comes to life. Oh fuck me does it look fucked up...its Johnny five crossed with Peter Sutcliffe. I mean this things attmepts to rape Stacey Travis with its drill dick. At least the termintor just wanted to blow sarah Connors brains out....this thing was just fucking evil.  As a movie Hardware isnt groundbreaking buy any standerds but one can see why it has it cult status and its still a sweet looking horror movie. My only issue had with the plot was that most the characters were high....Jill gets high off cockroach tea, Shades gets high off L.S.D and Mo....well how Mo gets high is rather intresting but the fact was Iwas left wondering why. Okay the world they lived in was shitty hence why they might want to get stoned as fuck. Then I listened to the audio commentry buy Richard Stanly and it all be came clear. After several or so minutes of him ranting about how the army has robots the are just like this and how he used to drop acid and experience ever lasting peace followed buy never ending waves of sorrow I relised this guy has never been down to earth in a long time and in all lightlyhood never will.

So what am I going to give Hardware. Ill give it a 7/10. Its fun ,its gross and its....pretty fucking high.
Rent it if you liked/Aviod it if you hated: Terminator, clockwork orange and Dust Devil.

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