Here's a forgotten movie from the 1980s that should get more attention. I watched this one several times after my first viewing because it was so unexpected and subversive. It's about a crew of former vets who fly around in an old B-52 bomber fitted out with a mobile pirate TV station and they go around the US jamming local broadcasts and inserting their own counterculture programming. The captain of this airship is played brilliantly by Dennis Hopper and they go up against a nasty Republican, proto Sarah Palin type presidential candidate. It's a fantastic stoner movie as the scenes where they jam out local TV shows (like evangelical shows suddenly being interrupted by some Satanic dude with rats crawling all over him) are pretty psychedelic. The anarchic message of this movie couldn't be more timely, so if you ever come across it, don't miss out!
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