The Losers

The Losers aka Nam's Angels.

Retreading old territory for motorcycle movie night. We checked out the Losers again. I think we'd only seen it one time before. It's got good ol' William Smith and his massive arms. It's got the infamous 'karate chop' move that was oh-so-prevelent in the 70's. It's got racism, blackface, and crappy motorcycles.

Not so good. But some pretty funny moments. Less of a biker flick and more of a crappy army flick that stars bikers.

Here's my original post from 2013.

Dig.

Wild Riders

I managed to dredge up an old biker flick that we hadn't seen before. I got copy of Wild Riders from 1971 and we fired it up on Wednesday night.

It opened with bikes and boobs. Some pretty awesome freakin bikes, to be honest. And a nice set of cans. But after the first minute or so it went downhill for the majority of the flick. And then BOOM it redeemed itself in the last minute of the movie in glorious style. Many of these biker flicks have a common component; a totally random / wacky / unexpected / shocking / nonsensical ending. And this movie really came through with a classic. The audience (all six of us) were pretty much on our feet. It required some rewinding for additional views.

The movie starts off as a biker flick in all the right ways but then after a couple of the dudes bugger off they leave the biker movie behind and it's pretty much a rape-y b-movie for an hour.

It was worth it for the ending.

Innovation by Design

I'm really interested in furthering the concept of Design Thinking at work. I'm working on a strategy for adoption. This is the first book that I've read specifically on the topic and I was hoping it would give me some insight on how to frame it and have it successfully implemented at work.

It was so-so. There were some good nuggets. But I felt it fell short of legitimate actionable steps to walk away with. I need to read some more books on the topic and formulate my own plans...