the main character tells himself not to go to the concert with cheech and chong over here, while his mother is in the hospital. kinda funny seeing as cheech's first movie came out in 78 or so.
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I saw this movie last night & when the reference to Cheech & Chong was made I immediately thought this was wrong. This movie takes place in Oct. 69' definitely before they became famous.
Rick
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Cheech and Chong's first album, which was a huge hit on FM radio, came out in 1969. Sheesh!
shareWhen they first burst into prominence back in 1970, each had followed his own offbeat path to a nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, where they found they played well off each other.
Cheech, born Richard Marin in the barrios of East Los Angeles, earned his nickname from "cheecharone," a Chicano delicacy made of deep-fried pork skins, also known as cracklings. And "crackling" he was, by his own admission.
"I was a wise-ass in school," he says now. "I got away with it because I was little and cute."
He was also one of eight --children of a Los Angeles police officer, who eventually moved his family to L.A.'s San Fernando Valley, a suburb considered advantaged.
http://www.cheechandchong.com/biography.html
Riding the Bullet is an unwatchable film. It was made by hacks who know very little about horror... and even less about 1969. The film is FULL of anochronisms. For example, the word "radical" at that time was used to describe a campus dissident.
Good post. I noticed the "radical" part too. As a child of the 80's I clearly remember having to explain what radical meant (in slang) to my parents who were children of the 60's. In fact I think people started using "rad" even before "radical."
shareThe movie is filled with inaccuracies. Alan and his pals seem much more like weed smoking (as opposed to pot, or grass smoking) Gen X slackers than hippies, and, Alan in particular was quite the emo. They really should have nixed Alan's skimpy, little mustache and soulpatch, and given him longer sideburns instead ( which were virtually non-existent on him) ! As far as the term "radical", the appropriate and authentic word for that era would have been "heavy".
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Another mistake or misreference I noticed was the scene in which he is standing next to the railroad tracks, while a train comes by. The train consisted of "spine container cars" which didnt exist in 1969. Also the rear of the train was equipped with an E.O.T. (end of train device), which is an electronic device on the last car of a freight train to 1)communicate air pressure to the head end of a train and 2)to omit a red flashing light. Needless to say, these were not around in 1969, since they took the place of the caboose around 1985. It sounds like Im digging in too much, but I work for the railroad and notice things like this.