Somebody somewhere said that seeing something bad is going to do much more to spur creativity than something good. If you watch a bad movie, you can think about ways to improve on it. You watch a great movie and all you can do is imitate it.
R.O.T.O.R. came on a science fiction channel on broadcast TV. A really terrible low budget movie made in the late '80's apparently meant to imitate both Robocop and Terminator 2. Someone accidentally fires up a robotic motorcycle cop in Dallas. It pulls a young couple over and murders the husband for speeding, then it chases the wife (Margaret Trigg) and tries to kill her, too.
I'm usually amused by bad movies, but this one wasn't even funny.
I stopped paying attention halfway through and looked it up on IMDb. Directed by a guy whose other credits were mostly Saturday morning cartoons.
Margaret Trigg got top billing. She went on to do a couple of other things including a TV series, but she died in New York at age 39 of a heart attack caused by prolonged use of amphetamines.
I googled her and found a long article about her in New York magazine. She had come from a small Texas town. She came to New York and was actually successful performing stand-up. She was offered a role in Dana Carvey's short-lived TV show but turned it down. She instead starred in a sit-com which paid her twice as much.
Mental illness, eating disorders and an addiction to plastic surgery destroyed her. It sounds like she could have done pretty well otherwise. But she ruined her health and eventually died in Bellevue hospital.
R.O.T.O.R. was apparently popular in Argentina. Available for $1.99 on Amazon Prime.
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