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Who Were the Machine Gun Chicks?


Who are the 2 girls with the machine guns that board the helicopter? Didn't really get that.

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co workers/friends of landas

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Yeah, but who was Landa exactly? A governmental official? What exactly did she do, and why would her friends look like 80s fashionistas with machine guns?

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by vukaroo » Wed Apr 29 2015
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Yeah, but who was Landa exactly? A governmental official? What exactly did she do, and why would her friends look like 80s fashionistas with machine guns?


Maybe they were contemporary Hedy Lamarr types, cartoonishly punched-up with waay more gravitas. I think somewhere in the newscast voice-over, near the beginning, the announcer can be heard reporting on a drive-by shooting (this gives the viewer a frame of reference to how violent day-to-day life was in Los Angeles at the time)

Landa was a spook or an analyst at the very least. Didn't someone mention she had the governor on speed dial? (I might've heard that elsewhere, I just watched Miracle Mile, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Deep Impact, 2012, Skyline AND San Andreas!)

I agree with someone else on another thread, this is overdue for a remake. Wasn't it charming to see Harry's 5-6 OTA TV stations signing-off with some already showing, of all things, TESTPATTERNs?



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Yeah, but who was Landa exactly? A governmental official? What exactly did she do, and why would her friends look like 80s fashionistas with machine guns?
Whatever she was, why would she be toting a copy of Gravity's Rainbow cliff's notes? 

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LA in the 80's, Machine Gun Chicks ten a penny, nothing unusual.

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Of all the dated 80s stuff in this movie, that outranks all of the others by miles. I love this movie but I can't help laugh at that when I see it.

Clearly Steve de Jarnatt was trying to put as many of the different "wacky characters" of Reagan-era LA (as he saw it) as possible.
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Of all the dated 80s stuff in this movie, that outranks all of the others by miles.


I'd rank them second. The trip through the fitness club, with the hairstyles and the outfits and the music...oh god, the music...that was the most 80s scene imaginable. I loved it.

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One thing that's totally (yes, totally) accurate about this film is the "wacky characters" that it includes. Trust me, I lived in L.A. during that time and those kinds of strange people really exist there (and still do).




People believe what they want to believe. One term for this is Faith. Another is Delusion.

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Check credits for Beverly Hills chick. I think one of them was the super tough, female Marine in Aliens.

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One of those machine gun chicks was played by Jenette Goldstein, who played the macho marine babe Vasquez in Aliens.

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My guess is they were actresses the producer wanted to give a speaking/credited role... for whatever reason.

Glad to see one of 'em made it: Jenette Goldstein, the hot Marine from "Aliens."

That whole helicopter scene stunk. All that crap, water, people,weapons, etc wouldn't fit in a Jet Ranger. Plus it's all gone when Harry and Julie get there, then the helo comes BACK??? Why?

Dumb.

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