![]() Timeriderprobably owes its existence to Michael Nesmith, who was a member of The Monkees. ![]() Filmgoers were drunk on Blade Runner, The Wrath of Khan, Conan, Poltergeist, E.T., and more…so very many more. Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann came out in 1982, a fabled year when Hollywood pumped out so much quality that people were forced to conclude that The Thing sucked because they had no more bandwidth to process awesomeness. On the other hand, we did get a movie where Fred Ward plays a dirt-bike racer who travels back in time to the Old West. Fred Ward was born to play a wisecracking tough guy in a fedora (see Cast A Deadly Spell). The fact we never got such a thing is a travesty. Maybe said multiverse could contain a world where Fred Ward made a series of hard-boiled detective movies set in 1940s LA - movies full of femme fatales, car chases, gunfights, fisticuffs and mysteries. I have only one use for a multiverse, and it has nothing to do with superheroes. ![]() This time he’s talking about a little-known movie that features the recently departed Fred Ward. ![]() And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you… have read another Retro Review. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
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