reddsun1
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Hehe, the irony of the double standards are not lost on me. After all; once upon a time, weren't cars from across the pond beloved and hailed for all their idiosyncrasies, warts and all? Weren't British sports cars supposed to be frail and leaky? Weren't Italian cars supposed to be finicky and terribly expensive to repair? And weren't German sports cars only truly worthy of acclaim when they were actively trying to kill you?
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This guy's pretty much reached that age where he'll go: "meh, fu*k them they don't know what they're talking about" to just about anything you ask him about. But still, he makes some good points....
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Okay, how about this: stick that gen V LT-1 in the F-Type, and you've got yourself a winner. There is no arguing that Chevy makes some of the best N.A. small block engines ever. But the rest of the car(s) is/are sh*t. ed: I take that back; they're not all dog sh*t, I guess. Sister's got a '14 Camaro RS/SS, and I must admit: I like it. She's tossed me the key a few times, "you want to drive it while I'm out of town?" (the fool. the fool! mwa ha ha ha ha!) Plus, it gives me a benchmark for how well I can make my 'Roo stack up to new-gen muscle cars, when I get it back on the road.
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Such gorgeous, sleek body lines. Definitely a classic to behold... Oh yeah; an' there's a car in that picture too, somewhere. Honest!
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Hell, I'd like to see someone take one of the original 5: put a 427 side oiler right behind the seats with a transaxle--just in front of where those plastic pipes are now; black out the psychedelic orange pin stripes; give it about 2 deg of forward rake; stick some "low profile" 15x10 and 15x12 Avons under it, an' see how fast you can make that sum bit*h go... ed: but oh yeah--for God's sake, add a Gurney tab or something along the trailing edge of the rear decklid, so the thing doesn't try to take off. -
Damn. "Lumbering" is the first word that comes to mind. This one's gonna take a lot of extreme tight shots and shaky frames to convey any kind of sense of speed, I'd say. I imagine the stunt driver in the Challenger's thinking: okay, hang the tail out a bit, make it look good. Oh, wait--don't overdo it, rein it in a little, keep the relative speeds close... Looks like giving chase on an old Massey Ferguson
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Hehe, Chewie sounds more like Grendel, from that pervy R. Zemeckis Beowulf movie... That Vader figure:
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Yeh. "Untold" is perfectly fitting--cause nobody should want to hear this bewl-sh*t! Rubbish. Hey! I can do it too! Let's take some more creative license with Bram Stoker's character and works, and what he may or may not have said. He just rolled over in his grave, said: Y'all would wanna get off my nutsack! Make up your own sh*t, bit*hes!
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Hehe, sometimes the music really is critical to creating the whole atmosphere... I LMAO at Chewbacca.
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Chrysler has apparently just said: You know what. Fu*kit. So what if it's a 4400 lb f'ing boat. The Camaro ZL-1 appears to be able to put up some very close numbers in terms of performance; but can't seem to get anywhere near the Hellcat in terms of presence on the street and sheer knuckle-dragging attitude, if the auto rags are to be believed...
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I dunno if there's been a term coined for this little niche of foreign films. There's the Spaghetti Westerns; so what would these be? Tortelloni Apocalyptics, maybe? Or, how about Dystopian Lasagne?
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Even though I don't like it as much as the first two, Beyond Thunderdome did at least offer a sense of closure--for lack of a better term--to Max's story (as a trilogy). Where else does it (Max's saga) really need go from there?
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Seconded. I damn near wanna give this new one a half a snowball's chance, just cause Keays-Byrne is in it and is liable to act the sh*t outta that role. But I dunno; it just seems too disconnected from the originals; not nearly so much a continuation of Max's story as it is a fanboy handjob to cash in on the franchise name...
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I wonder if this movie will touch on the horrific and seemingly desperate conditions faced by the American (& the Canadians, & the Brits, in their "Tommycookers") tankers during the latter part of the war--and not give a bunch of rose-tinted Hollywood imbellishment. They had the rude awakening of going from the class of the field in North Africa to being severely outclassed on the continent, against the likes of Tigers, Panthers and other bigger, newer German tanks... when you hear veterans recall their experiences, recounting in some instances how they had to "spray out the interiors of hurriedly repaired Shermans with a hose, then repaint them to get them back into action." What those lads had to face... *shudders*
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I remember that one. That was a good movie.
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It could be said those guys really risked life and limb, making those first movies.
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Just think how awesome it'd have been if they'd had better funding. The original had a very meager budget of about $350K. From imdb: "The van that is smashed in the opening chase was George Miller's own vehicle, as the production was running out of money. About 20% of the chase scenes scheduled were not shot due to lack of money."
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Hehe, here's a scene from one of the more blatant Road Warrior ripoffs I'd never heard of... Looks like Lord Humungus could have used this guy's help, LOL. I haven't been able to force myself to watch the whole thing--but it's out there. I may give it a view, just for the Mexican Jawas....
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Troll level 9000!
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Very cool liveries.
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WTF? The cowl in that pic look like it's made from the same material that's on the dash in my fuggin' car?
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Can't remember if he's already been nominated; how could I have forgotten Raoh? So badass, he fought the goodguy to a draw--at least, in the movie ver... Anybody that can... Just. Damn.
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This one ain't so bad
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That's great, congrats!
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No doubt, that car's (partial) inspiration would have been: 250 TR59/60