The Movie Thread

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

At the end of the first one, Mr. Walker shifts the car 4 times just doing a U-turn.

One of my friends defends the movies saying "it's precision shifting"

You only need one gear to turn around.

2 if you want to do a power donut

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

2 if you want to do a power donut

Yeah, but just a normal U-Turn....no.

Hollywood apparently doesn't realize how transmissions work.

1. Slam on the gas and let off the clutch as hard as you possibly can at the exact same moment
2. Rev up the engine until it's really loud
3. Shift dramatically 10 times
4. GO FAST

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

4. GO FAST

That's subjective.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Watched The Fast and The Furious again....

The first movie isn't as good as the sequels...

Probably not.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046969/?ref_=nv_sr_3

[swamprat69er]

I just finished watching the Dale Earnhart Story.

[Jimbuna]

Probably be watching American Pie: The Wedding after this afternoons BBQ if the daughter returns home as expected

[Rhodes]

Just come from watching X-Men: Days of a Future Past! Very good movie, possibly one of best one of the franchise.

[Stealhead]

It is pretty bad when a movie franchise takes the same story and uses it over and over and over again.

Of course the "Fast and Furious" franchise is not the first to do that and it surely pleases its target audience(13-22 year old males) so I recon when you look at it that way it is a highly successful franchise.

Not every film has to have a deep meaning.

Best racing film(really a documentary) hands down The Speed Merchants.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Best racing film(really a documentary) hands down The Speed Merchants.

Paul Newman's Le Mans runs a close second.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Probably not.

Wrong one there Chief.

Originally Posted by Stealhead

It is pretty bad when a movie franchise takes the same story and uses it over and over and over again.

Honestly, F&F is really just one long continuous story. It's not the same movie over and over again. It all builds up to this next movie when they merge the rest of the series with Tokyo Drift.

Of course the "Fast and Furious" franchise is not the first to do that and it surely pleases its target audience(13-22 year old males) so I recon when you look at it that way it is a highly successful franchise.

I'm sure there's a larger target audience than that when they decided to make the movies.

Not every film has to have a deep meaning.

Never said it had to. I just really like cars.

Best racing film(really a documentary) hands down The Speed Merchants.

I'll add it to the list.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Best racing film(really a documentary) hands down The Speed Merchants.

Originally Posted by TarJak

Paul Newman's Le Mans runs a close second.

On Any Sunday. Le Mans. Grand Prix. The Racers. In that order.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

On Any Sunday. Le Mans. Grand Prix. The Racers. In that order.

On Any Sunday is good, but then I'm less into bike racing than car racing. GP was my 3rd as well.

[Sailor Steve]

My friend Rocky had a video set called Lap Of The Gods, in which a French filmmaker in the '70s mounted a camera on various GP cars and filmed practice laps at all the major tracks of the time. Of course with today's mini-cams we see in-car views of actual races, but for the time this was quite impressive.

I see it's out on DVD now, but the price is a bit steep.
http://www.motorsportcollector.com/LapOfTheGodsDVD.html

A short clip.

[Red October1984]

Watched half of Tokyo Drift this morning before I had to do housework.

Never gets old.

[Schöneboom]

The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy (the original Swedish miniseries), aka Stieg Larsson's "Millennium". Highly recommended.