crossing the street after exiting his sports car to hit on a random woman that passes his fancy.
There’s leaves blowing in the wind, kids on bikes, picket fences, and Cuba Gooding Jr. The opening of director Stephen Hopkins’ 1993 genre picture Judgment Night takes us to a bucolic street in suburban Chicago, shot in slow motion and set to the most gentile song on the film’s more noteworthy soundtrack. The opening line of the song that starts this entry also opens the film we will be looking at, and there are few lines more prescient to start off a film. “Hey yo, kids! Remember when I used to be dope?” – De La Soul and Teenage Fanclub, “Fallin’”
#JUDGMENT NIGHT SOUNDTRACK LIST SERIES#
It should also go without saying that this series will contain spoilers for the films being covered.
So without further ado, let’s dive right in to our first subject. While this series in no way means that the screening series has died (there are issues that need to be worked out and addressed, and they will be in the near future), these blogs will focus on a specific kind of cinematic dud: the much derided films that wouldn’t draw any sort of a crowd if I were to book them in a cinema. Welcome one and all to the first published edition of Defending the Indefensible, the semi-irregular series of blogs based around the currently stagnant film series, hosted by yours truly, where local film critics, writers, filmmakers, and bloggers defend some of their most beloved, yet critically panned films.
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