Movies I watched this weekend, ranked by car quality

"Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig" (AndySheehan-StreetsideStig)
07/13/2015 at 15:31 • Filed to: None

5. Edge of Tomorrow - Awesome modern Triumph cafe bike, the only notable wheeled vehicle present.

4. Run All Night - Liam Neeson hoons an ‘85 Camaro.

3. Nightcrawler - We all love the Challenger. What about that five door Tercel?

2. Chappie - A matte grey diesel VW transporter with a roof rack was eclipsed by the murdered, tasefully lowered, caged STi.

1. Need for Speed - They ran alot of the gamut here. Rare stuff, muscle, exotics, old Germans. It’s all there. Yes, I know alot of them were fake. So are movies.

Now for the worrying part. The movie quality was almost inverse.

5. Need for Speed - It was fun, but the movie made almost exactly zero sense.

4. Chappie - The writing attempts to be profound, but ends up heavy-handed and heroless. And those rappers are supremely annoying. Also docked for abysmal haircuts.

3. Run All Night - Definitely not Taken 4 . It’s cliched and has some pacing issues, but this is Liam Neeson from The Grey in a movie that doesn’t make you want to cut yourself. Great performances by Neeson, Ed Harris, Nick Nolte and Vincent D’Onofrio.

2. Nightcrawler - Jake Gyllenhall was chilling, though not quite up to the hype.

1. Edge of Tomorrow - Wait, you never saw this? It’s one of the best sci-fi movies to come out in a long time. What’s your problem?

DISCUSSION (28)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 15:34

Edge of Tomorrow was indeed very, very good. Haven’t seen the rest.

thebigbossyboss > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 15:34

I think this year I have seen 3 movies so far. That’s a lot for me last year I watched two.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 15:39

Chappie would be last on my list of quality. Hated it, really wanted to love it too...

BobintheMtns > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/13/2015 at 15:40

And nice thing about Edge of Tomorrow is that if you’re not a Tom Cruise fan you get to watch a cool sci-fi flick where Tom Cruise dies a lot of times!

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > thebigbossyboss
07/13/2015 at 15:44

That’s about how many sports games I’ve watched this year.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > BobintheMtns
07/13/2015 at 15:45

I can’t say I’m particularly a Tom Cruise fan, but “whingey PR flack who dies a lot and grows as a character” seems to have been a role made for him. Kind of like “oppressive psychotic fat producer asshole with huge hands” in Tropic Thunder - oddly enough.

TheOnelectronic > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 15:46

Director whose name I cannot remember right now for some reason has been trying to stick Die Antwoort (“those rappers”) into his movies for a while now, it’s just never quite worked. Now he got his wish and everyone realized why he shouldn’t have.

CKeffer > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 15:46

Edge of Tomorrow was awesome! Saw it in theater and couldn’t figure out how it wasn’t doing amazing in the box office.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > CKeffer
07/13/2015 at 15:55

My thoughts, exactly. What do we want that it doesn’t have? NOTHING. I can’t believe I waited so long to watch it again.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > TheOnelectronic
07/13/2015 at 15:57

That’s the name. I was too lazy to look it up. The director is Neill Blomkamp. He also did District 9 and Elysium .

TheOnelectronic > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 15:59

That’s the name. I was too lazy to look it up. Look at us, collaborating for the greater good.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > TheOnelectronic
07/13/2015 at 16:00

Oppo - LAZIES UNITE! (We don’t even write out the whole name.)

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > TheOnelectronic
07/13/2015 at 16:02

Neil Blomkamp. refferenced in this song.

WiscoProud > TheOnelectronic
07/13/2015 at 16:04

Neill Blomkamp I believe. The rappers are Die Antwoord, and they're actually closer to being performance artists than musicians, hence the insane getups. I like a couple of their songs. I did read that the guy, Ninja, was such a dick that the director refused to be in the same room as him by the end.

WiscoProud > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 16:04

I really like Edge of Tomorrow. Check out Oblivion for another Tom Cruiser Sci-Fi that slid under the radar

Tohru > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/13/2015 at 16:08

Jack Reacher was most definitely NOT a role made for him though - Reacher in the novels is 6’5” and 250lbs, Tom Cruise is 5’7” and about 150lbs.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Tohru
07/13/2015 at 16:10

He’d be about right if they scaled him up though, right? Come on, Weta Workshop - get on this shit. (They can fix any acting mismatch in post too.)

CKeffer > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 16:13

Marketing....it had 0 marketing, and that was a damn shame, cause they could have had a real hit on their hands if they had actually tried to advertise it.

Tohru > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 16:15

The Mustang in Need for Speed :

Kinja'd!!!

An actual 2014 Mustang:

Kinja'd!!!

Real Mustangs have the gas door on the left. The movie one has it on the right - specifically for the “refueling while driving” scene.

Mercedes Streeter > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 16:16

Agree. Save for the cool cars, Need for Speed was absolute garbage. “Yeah, I’m going to get revenge...by beating him in a race!!!!”

Wat...

Tohru > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/13/2015 at 16:20

Kinja'd!!!

marshknute > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 18:46

The only movie I watched over the weekend was The Gallows . Pretty sure it didn’t have a single car in it.

wiffleballtony > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/13/2015 at 20:17

There was a Renault Aventime in Edge of Tomorrow

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > wiffleballtony
07/13/2015 at 22:35

Ach. I missed it twice somehow.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > marshknute
07/13/2015 at 22:35

Another great reason to avoid horror movies.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > Tohru
07/13/2015 at 22:38

Yeah, but the fact that it was a custom car was a pretty big plot point in the movie. I’m not buying 230 mph, though.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > WiscoProud
07/13/2015 at 22:43

I really liked Oblivion , too. In fact, I decided on Edge of Tomorrow because I was listening to the Oblivion soundtrack and almost watched that, but EoT was better. Tom Cruise can make a sci fi movie every year, as far as I’m concerned.

wiffleballtony > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
07/14/2015 at 00:30

If memory serves it’d in the trailer park after the beach invasion