‘Riders of the Storm’

This 1988 release is a surprise: A little ragged blast of a science-fiction film that packs more energy and ideas in its shots than many pictures twice its size. Some will find it crude, misogynistic, tasteless and, in parts, just plain bad. But the best of it has an almost raving, full-throttle comic intensity. A chilled-to-the-bone Dennis Hopper (pictured) and a planeload of counterculture Vietnam vets run the ultimate outlaw TV station from a bomber in the sky, and they bombard the airwaves with rock ‘n’ roll videos and terrorize evangelical broadcasts and news programs with unannounced incursions of sex and violence. Hopper, director Maurice Phillips and writer Scott Roberts give the film something extra: a song for aging children that pops, burbles and wails (ABC Saturday at 11:30 p.m.).