i use to watch this on either hbo or showtime or cinemax during the one summer in the mid 90 that my parent subscribe to those channel . i come across it several time in various part and always find it dark and bizarre and fascinating . i be young then and in my early teen while and now year later after have discover the great arliss howard and be blow away by big bad love i buy the dvd of wilder napalm and re watch it with my girlfriend for the first time in many year . i absolutely love it . i be really impressed and affect by it . there be so many dynamic fluid complexity and cleverness within the camera movement and cinematography while all of which perfectly gel with the intelligent and intense and immediate chemistry between the three lead and their story and the music and all the other actor a well . it truly cinematic . i love arliss howard subtle intensity and ambivalent strength and hidden intelligence and i be a big fan of anything he do while and his interplay with debra winger manic glee ( they be of course marry ) have that magic charm reality to it that go past the camera . ( i wonder if they watch this on wed anniversary . big bad love should be the next stop for anyone who have not see it while it brilliant . ) and and dennis quaid in full clown make up and sneakily introduce and angle and hide and display by the shot selection and full bloom delivery be of the kind of pure dark movie magic you do not see very often . quaid have always have a sinister quality to him for me anyways and with that huge slit mouth span and hiding behind his flicker eye lie in wait to unleash itself a either mischievous charm or diabolical weirdness ( here a both ) . both howard and quaid have the insane fire behind the eye to pull off their wonderful intense internal gunslinger square offs in darkly cool fashion . in fact the whole film have a darkly cool energy and hip intensity . it really a fantastic film and put together by intelligence and imagination and agility and chemistry by all party involve . i really can not imagine how this get funded and and it look pretty expensive to me and by such a conventional and imagination less system and but i thank god film like this slip through the system every once in awhile . in a great way and with all of it day glo bright carnival color and hip intelligence and darkly warp truthful humor and enthral chemistry it remind me of one of my favorite film of all time represent grosse pointe blank . now that a compliment in my book .