I found myself watching The Dead Pool on the treadmill this weekend. TDP of course being the final Dirty Harry movie released back in 1988 (hey, back off - the streaming Netflix options are very limited). It was full of 80s action cheese, but it put me in quite the nostalgic mood as it featured two things I was very much into in 1988: R/C cars and Guns N’ Roses.
The movie has a great car chase scene with Harry trying to evade a C4-loaded, gas-powered R/C Corvette:
The GN’R members themselves had a couple of cameos in the film:
What I didn’t realize was that a very young Jim Carrey had a small part. He played a strung out rock star shown here (badly) lip-syncing Welcome to the Jungle:
