My dad had a biker friend I loved that he called "Doc" because of the Doc Savage pulps he always used to read.
It didn't end there in our home. Remo Williams was a beloved family film and...we had a couple old paperbacks about him laying around the house. And Dumas and Claremont and Doyle and their creations.
And of course Elmore Leonard was always somewhere to be found along with Louis L'Amour and Marv Wolfman and....
The point is that pulp was a common thing in our blue collar home and especially if that was an adventure pulp. My father loved trash like that and it rubbed off to my sister and I.
Jake Speed is trash like that. It is not only trash like that it references trash like that. It pays homage to trash like that. It spoofs trash like that it's, well, it's brilliant.
In fact, it does for the pulp action hero what "El Diablo" did for the pulp western hero...
And at the same time it is pure adventure...
...you have to love it...
...that is unless you are the type that has to have everything absolutely serious and only read stories about murdering your family with an axe, turning into a beetle, and only if they are penned by suicidal novelists.
If that is the case you are going to hate this movie...
But if you are the discerning gentleman or lady that has a respectable library...and a Kindle full of Sabatini with a password guaranteeing that no one will ever know your childlike love for high adventure...
Then "Jake Speed" is bound to be one of your favorite films.
Not Everything has to be "Citizen Kane" you know...these are movies, they are made for one singular reason...to entertain.
It didn't end there in our home. Remo Williams was a beloved family film and...we had a couple old paperbacks about him laying around the house. And Dumas and Claremont and Doyle and their creations.
And of course Elmore Leonard was always somewhere to be found along with Louis L'Amour and Marv Wolfman and....
The point is that pulp was a common thing in our blue collar home and especially if that was an adventure pulp. My father loved trash like that and it rubbed off to my sister and I.
Jake Speed is trash like that. It is not only trash like that it references trash like that. It pays homage to trash like that. It spoofs trash like that it's, well, it's brilliant.
In fact, it does for the pulp action hero what "El Diablo" did for the pulp western hero...
And at the same time it is pure adventure...
...you have to love it...
...that is unless you are the type that has to have everything absolutely serious and only read stories about murdering your family with an axe, turning into a beetle, and only if they are penned by suicidal novelists.
If that is the case you are going to hate this movie...
But if you are the discerning gentleman or lady that has a respectable library...and a Kindle full of Sabatini with a password guaranteeing that no one will ever know your childlike love for high adventure...
Then "Jake Speed" is bound to be one of your favorite films.
Not Everything has to be "Citizen Kane" you know...these are movies, they are made for one singular reason...to entertain.