I had to get up leave the theatre on this one. The
movie was way to *power ranger* with all the neon
nippons whining and moving in unison. The American
muscle sound was almost non-existant and every car
was a rice commerical. Its a Great force fed marketing
strategy tho.
GS -
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Marty Galyean <mgalyean@acm.org>wrote:
Went and saw 'The Fast and The Furious' at a matinee today.
The dialog alone makes it worth walking out on.
I was going insane listening to all those whiny 4 bangers.
I almost walked out when they would show the scenes of them pirating the
big rigs. Like mosquitoes buzzing around a, well, around a Kenworth.
Cripes any trucker would know right off that he didn't have to put up
with that shit. A big rig could swat each one of those puny toys from
the rode with a jerk of the big wheel and every trucker would know this.
The part where they shoot the cable through the windshield and then the
guy climbs across: Let's see, guy is halfway across the cable, trucker
slams on brakes. No more cable as 18 wheels dig in, and as a bonus, no
more guy on cable (where'd he go?). That would be in real life.
I definately learned a new respect for neon lights though. I didn't
realize how fast they could make a car go.
The Charger/Challenger was nice (sorry, couldn't place it exactly. I'm
an idiot). They had to kiss some real muscle butt I suppose.
I hope there are no cops like the one in the movie on my local force.
Lives could be in grave danger and there would definately be a tax hike
to pay his bills.
I don't know why I sat through the whole thing. When I was a teenager
I'd get laughs by joking that "when you go to hell, you have to sit and
finish all the t.v. shows and movies you didn't finish because you
thought they were too stupid". Maybe I just didn't want to have to sit
through the movie in hell all over again. I watched to the bitter end.
But hell should be more pleasant now.
Here is a joke I just thought of:
Q: How can the average ricer lose .1 second?
A: Remove the 150 lbs in stickers, things that glow, and exhaust tips.
Apologies if it's not that funny.
Marty
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