“Revolution” Podcast Movie Review

By Daniel Barnes on August 21, 2018

Revolution (1985; Hugh Hudson) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 15

“This is the medical tent of the Revolutionary War: This movie’s chopped to pieces, it’s ugly, it will make you scream, you’ll want to look away several times and you might catch sepsis.”

Redcoat haters and rope factory co-workers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell get forcibly conscripted to review Hugh Hudson’s 1985 box office bomb Revolution, starring Al Pacino as an 18th-century Scottish-American hunter-trapper who just wants to sell his “fuhs up da rivah,” and co-starring Nastassja Kinski as Daisy the Manic Pixie Dream Coquette.

Resisting the urge to dump the film into Boston Harbor, Daniel gives props to Pacino’s Rambo hair, Corky professes his love for powdered-wig lechery and both hosts wish that the film was a Blaxploitation movie starring Pam Grier and Bernie Casey.

REVOLUTION FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 25, 1985

Domestic box office: $358,000 (production budget: $28 million)

Critic scores: 10 on Rotten Tomatoes

IMDB synopsis: “A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.”

This week’s craft beer: New Glory Brewing’s DDH Galactic Worms IPA (7.2% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Corky McDonnell

Why did Corky dare himself to watch this movie? “This is a movie I’ve been wanting to watch for 30 years. I can remember seeing Gene Shalit on The Today Show slamming this movie. I remember seeing this get panned, and I knew that meant something.”

This week’s referenced movies: Chariots of Fire; Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan; Sweet Liberty; Scarface; Dog Day Afternoon; Can’t Stop the Music; Predator; Collateral Beauty; Coffy; Shining Through; James and the Giant Peach; Rob Roy; Eyes Wide Shut; Billy Budd; Saving Private Ryan; The Basketball Diaries; Aloha; Thelma & Louise; the Rambo movies; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; American Sniper; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; The Godfather; Goodfellas; Smokin’ Aces