Mattias

I don't usually recommend people to see Baywatch episodes but this particular is well worth watching because of its tongue in cheek look at the production of a TV show, "Rescue Bay", about lifeguards on a beach in Malibu. The show includes a cast that is chosen more because of their looks than acting skills: Dolph Apolganger is the lifeguard lieutenant Mike Tower, police officer Sly Hutchinson is patrolling the beach with a revolver that would impress Harry Callahan and we have the budding romance between two of the lifeguards, a perky blonde and a beefcake.

"Rescue Bay" also includes a lot of female lifeguards running around on the beach in skimpy swimwear. Finally the Baywatch cast shows that they don't take themselves and the show too seriously.

I have always heard that The Postman is a stinker but after 11 years I had the opportunity to see the movie for myself. I had my doubts of being able to sit through a 2h 50 min movie but the plot managed to keep my attention the whole way through. This is a post apocalyptic story but I could very easily see this as a 1950s western - set in the Wild West in 1873 with Gary Cooper playing a lone postman, Dan Duryea the leader of a gang of thugs wrecking havoc on a small town without a sheriff and perhaps Ann Blyth as the young widow who reluctantly falls for our hero.

Perhaps the patriotic themes that the film associated with the post service was a bit over the top, it looked like the movie was trying to do with the mail man profession what Backdraft did for firefighting. I'm not saying this is a very good movie and I certainly found Dances with Wolves much better but I think it's worth the time to see it.