Product: Idaho Transfer (1973)
Rating: 3.0
Yes, dated, but a pleasure and haunted me for 30 years
Hey, Peter, if you're out there, I liked your unappreciated film.Look, I like Fellini and Antonioni and DeSica and Scorcese, but this early, unsung effort by Peter Fonda has some eerie spell, and a haunting litte music theme that was ahead of its time. Yes, it has 1973 written all over it, so what. It's competently done, and I found myself ... transported. The ending is sick, twisted, funny, and hey, considering how the yuppies behaved in the 80s and 90s, I don't see it as altogether improbable.It's not a popular film to like - even then it was hushed away by Big Money, even after Jay Cocks gave it a great review in TIME. The prognistication for man changing his greed was dire, and no one in SUV-Consciousness still wants to hear anything bad about their football team. I mean, 'Get With the Program! 'Ummm, to quote the little kid in the UltraLexus at the end,"What happens when we run out of them, Daddy?"