"PushToStart" (pushtostart)
12/12/2013 at 12:19 • Filed to: Movies
2
7|
"PushToStart" (pushtostart)
12/12/2013 at 12:19 • Filed to: Movies | 2
| 7 |
Wow, this my first post in about 2 weeks, I can't believe I've been so busy lately... Anyway...
So a week or so ago, a buddy of mine (who knows nothing about cars) texted me a picture of a car and asked me type it was. (it was a Huayra). I told him that it was such, and asked him why he was asking. He told me that it was going to be in the next transformers movie. I thought, wtf, a Pagani in a transformers movie? And so I ventured over to imdb to take a look for myself. Sure enough, there's pictures of a Pagani and a Bugatti Veyron SS.
And then there's the upcoming NFS movie... That has a similar car line up. In the preview, I saw a Bugatti Veyron SS, a Koenigsegg Agera, a McLaren P1, another Pagani, and a few other things I'm not listing.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but this bothers me a little. I mean, I like all of those cars, but why are they in these movies? I know that they don't use the actual cars in filming, and that it's all animation and special effects, but it kind of irritates me that in these movies, these exclusive, expensive cars (or their likenesses) are used to run from the cops or smash into each other. Why? These cars were built for performance and speed, not to be some action movie star... In the NFS trailer, it shows the Agera being bumped by another car before wildly spinning out of control before flipping wildly in the air, and then spectacularly catching on fire somehow. That's not what I want to see. I want to see these cars do real stuff, like, I dunno, go around a track. By putting cars like this in these movies, the general public, who might've never heard of them before, might just end up remembering the car as "the one that flipped over and caught on fire" or "the one that can shoot the blast lasers out of its eyes." And as an enthusiast, that pains me a little. I dream about these cars because they're capable of reaching insane speeds and breaking crazy records. The fact that the public might get the wrong idea of them is upsetting to me, because I want them to see what these cars are actually all about, not what Michael Bay and whoever else directs and writes these movies want to show them.
Nibby
> PushToStart
12/12/2013 at 12:26 |
|
They use them to make the movies more exciting. Who wants to see a police chase involving Priuses?
Actually, I would. But that probably explains a lot... I don't watch movies much. The last 2 movies I saw at theaters were... Iron Man 3 (my uncle invited my dad and I to go with him)... and a few years ago my cousin took a bunch of us with her kids to see... zookeeper 2 and it was the worst movie ever
Wacko
> Nibby
12/12/2013 at 12:30 |
|
I would, just because we know that they will have to trash a few priuses to make the movie.
Anima
> Nibby
12/12/2013 at 12:33 |
|
The cops could be in Nissan Leafs and would have to choose between having the siren and lights on, or having enough power to keep chasing. I'd watch it!
And yeah. I feel the same about Hollywood movies/watching in theater.
Last one I saw in theater was Avengers and that's the only movie in about 4 years I've seen in a theater.
m2m, apex detective
> PushToStart
12/12/2013 at 12:35 |
|
I came expecting a rant about splintered carbon ... was disappointed.
Still a good rant. :D
Sn210
> Nibby
12/12/2013 at 12:46 |
|
webmonkees
> PushToStart
12/12/2013 at 12:56 |
|
On the other extreme, the original Gone in 60 Seconds makes me cringe with every dent.
Probably the barest minimum of safety. The remake just makes me cringe.
(edit: I thought it was about CGI versus real stunts. The point was lost somewhere along the line, sorry)
Lots of real cars to destroy. and identical backups. That cool car you like. Smashed. Several times, because the characters have to inexplicably survive whatever stunt they just did to get out of traffic.
Nothing vintage or else you're basically sentencing that fave car to a reduction of population.
Of course, these just needed new windscreens and were right as rain.
The Audis, though..
Continuity people taking out the backup car, getting out the brick and crowbar. The horror.
Stef Schrader
> PushToStart
12/12/2013 at 18:44 |
|
Hmmph. I want another Transporter movie.