'Get It Done'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
The speedometer in The Chase Scene is not exaggerating. They did an initial pass with nobody on the road to make sure that they could hit those speeds, and then put the stunt extras in place and turned the stunt driver loose.
I love that the city let the filmakers run rampant while making that movie.
The trivia from TBB is so very awesome. Like this bit: '
Before the falling-Pinto scene could be filmed, the filmmakers had to get an "Air UN-worthyness certificate" from the Federal Aviation Administration for the Pinto. This was done by conducting preliminary drop tests to ensure that it would not behave as an airfoil and drift from its target line, but would drop "like a brick" when dropped from a great height.
The speedometer in The Chase Scene is not exaggerating
Oh that's so neat. I will have to tell my 12 y.o. I just showed him that part of the movie and he loved it.
It's so much more fun when it's real and not CGI
I love TBB. I will stop whatever I'm doing and watch that friggin movie.
I especially love it if I can catch the movie before they go to Kokomo.
Blues Brothers & Midnight Run are probably my favorite crazy let's-watch-cars-flip movies.
Man, now I need to see Midnight Run again, it's been ages. Blues Brothers has the whole cult thing so it turns up every so often, but I feel like MR has sort of been forgotten.
MR is a great movie. TBS/TNT was having a run on the film a few months back.
Midnight Run is one of my all time favorite movies.
Tonight, I watched Escape from New York, because I think John Carpenter was supposed to have made good movies back in the day. It was really boring and cheesy. I thought it was supposed to be an action movie. There wasn't a lot of action. I enjoyed the "Heard you were dead" gag, though. And Adrienne Barbeau's breasts deserved their own credit.
Then I watched The Blob, with Steve(n) McQueen. It was much more entertaining. But sillier.
Love Midnight Run!! Charles Grodin was just awsome; I don't think he ever had a better role. And he and DeNiro played off each other perfectly.
Ninety-nine bottles of beer. On. The. Wallllllll!
There were some good looking chickens back there, Jack.
I want chorizoan eggs.
Also love TBB, of course.