Eh, I can live without car chases. Too much collateral damage--it's one reason I walked out of Batman Begins quite disgruntled, and haven't seen any of the others.
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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Consuela - May 21, 2011 12:39:15 pm PDT #14504 of 30000
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le nubian - May 21, 2011 12:50:54 pm PDT #14505 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh, I LOVE car chases. I've seen a whole lot of bad movies on the promise there are good car chases.
Connie Neil - May 21, 2011 5:10:21 pm PDT #14506 of 30000
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I've been known to just fast forward through The Blues Brothers to see the car chase.
Cowboys and Aliens had me at Daniel Craig as a cowboy with some bit of high tech on his arm.
And then they threw Harrison Ford on a horse, and I went "Oh my god, he's doing another western! But with space ships!"
Such utter glee.
tommyrot - May 21, 2011 6:06:42 pm PDT #14507 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Folks who love car chases have to check out Bullit, if they haven't already. Car chases old school (through San Francisco at the beginning).
Weren't the actors doing a lot of the actual driving in that?
DavidS - May 21, 2011 6:13:54 pm PDT #14508 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Weren't the actors doing a lot of the actual driving in that?
Well, I know McQueen liked to do his own stunts (though obviously he didn't do the motorcycle stunt in The Great Escape), and he raced cars, so I think he probably did a fair amount of driving.
Laga - May 21, 2011 9:21:24 pm PDT #14509 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
You can tell when McQueen is driving and when it's the stunt driver because the angle of the rear-view mirror changes to not show the stunt driver on camera.
Hey you people who get bored easily who are going to start watching Bullit and turn it off before it gets "really good". Keep Watching. It's Totally Worth It.
le nubian - May 22, 2011 7:57:41 am PDT #14510 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I just saw that movie 2 weeks ago! I had forgotten about the car chase until the movie was on and then I clapped with glee.
Glee!
Polter-Cow - May 22, 2011 12:49:27 pm PDT #14511 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph! I saw Thor ! It was great! And, uh, yeah, that scene with shirtless Thor was...even I couldn't stop staring. In heterosexual news, Natalie Portman sure is pretty.
I think more than any Marvel movie so far, Thor requires the greatest suspension of disbelief. I mean, it needs a metric fuckton of it. The other movies require to you to buy that one man can become a superhero. This one introduces alien Norse gods and Frost Giants and other worlds into the thus-far fairly grounded universe. So mad props to Kenneth Branagh for making me buy it. Except I still cry, "WHY ARE THERE HORSES? WHERE DID THE HORSES COME FROM?"
I did not know about the random Hawkeye cameo! Nice! That, along with the references to Banner and Stark, pleased me greatly. I really love how Marvel is creating a movieverse. Really really love it. Has this been done before? A bunch of unrelated movies taking place in a shared universe? I racked my brain and came up with the View Askewniverse, but I'm sure there are others. Except this is maybe the first time it's been done with different filmmakers all playing in one sandbox?
You talked Sif up so much, Steph, that I was disappointed that she wasn't a huge part of the movie! She did do some pretty badass things, but she pretty much had me at "I did."
§ ita § - May 22, 2011 12:53:57 pm PDT #14512 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I find alien adavanced science no less plausible than a gamma invested energy-conservation defying Hulk.
P.M. Marc - May 22, 2011 5:38:58 pm PDT #14513 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hardy is almost unrecognizable as Bane. He's a lot more imposing and scary-looking than we'd been expecting, actually. What do you think?
I think the people writing this article have not seen a lot of pictures of Tom Hardy.