In many ways Blue Thunder was very, very weird. The technology in it is absurd. In fact, it's completely incredible (by which I mean not believable), and the film itself is strangely sexist – not that sexism is strange, but this film is sexist in ways that I thought were really weird.Also, this film's politics as related to policing are not very well considered. The villains are (as far as I can tell) fomenting racialized violence in Los Angeles as a way to get funding for militarized helicopter patrols for the police... or something like that.
And our hero defeats them, although it is decidedly unclear whose idea this is or whom this militarized police force would benefit.
In other words, this film was still completely relevant 37 years later.
Either way this has some fun editing – there are good car chases – and the effects are pretty cool.
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