Fast Five

[Slammr (imported)]

I went to see Fast Five today. I knew better, but it had some good reviews and I was looking for an action movie. Now, I wish I had my 2hrs and 10 min back. It was pure action, but no one over six years-old could believe any of it was possible, especially the car chase at the end.

[Dave (imported)]

This was the first of what is being called "The Popcorn" films for summer that keep kids occupied while on vacation from school.

No substance, just action. I will wait until it comes on free cable in a few months.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I can and will wait a lot longer then that.

River

[Slammr (imported)]

I came close to walking out in the middle of it. It's nothing I'll watch again, even on free TV.

[Dave (imported)]

I came close to walking out in the middle of it. It's nothing I'll watch again, even on free TV.

Sometimes when I am writing a short story, I put movies I've seen on the TV or those all action flicks that can be left to flicker and not trouble my brain. It works as something to ignore so I can concentrate on my writing. I find silence to be annoyingly distracting when I write.

So even noisy car chases can be used for some purpose.

By the way - best car chase ever in a movie:

-- THE BLUES BROTHER through Chicago as they rush to the tax office.

Best Car Chase involving cranes and firetrucks:

Terminator 3 - the Rise of the Machines when the crane truck wrecks a building and then flips over.

[Slammr (imported)]

To believe this car chase one would not only have to suspend disbelief but also have to suspend Newton's laws of physics.

[A-1 (imported)]

To believe this car chase one would not only have to suspend disbelief but also have to suspend Newton's laws of physics.

Like when Steven Segal beats up 5 men at once...?

Sort of like the Blues Brothers when the Illinois Nazis ran off of the end of the unfinished Interstate ramp and fell, and fell, and fell, looked like it was from 20,000 feet and then crashed through the pavement...

Like that?

Or how about Speed 1 when the bus jumped the ramp... Yeah!, Right...

Or, in 2012 when the Winnebago motor home was hit by a flaming rock from the Yellowstone caldera or, when it jumped over the chasm and 'made it' to 'other side'...

Or, Kill Bill I or Kill Bill II you know, with the limbs flying off and all of the blood and nobody bleeds to death or even seems to go into shock...

Or, the Train Wreck in The Fugitive with Harrison Ford... Sure, that was realistic...NOT!!

slammr, when you go to watch a film from Hollywood be prepared to accept it is not going to be scientifically correct or even believable...

It is a fantasy... it was made to be a fantasy and that is what it is, a fantasy.

Then, suspend disbelief and ENJOY... something like people have to do when they listen to the rhetoric and then go out and vote for a Tea Party candidate...

[Dave (imported)]

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Or how about Speed 1 when the bus jumped the ramp... Yeah!, Right...

The MYTHBUSTERS actually tried to jump a city bus like that and it didn't work. If you get a chance to see the program, it is interesting to see just how not-air-worthy the bus truly is...

But, if the bus crashed and they all died in the movie, the movie wouldn't have a happy ending.

Alfred Hitchcock said very much the same thing once upon a time.

In most movies, if everyone acts rationally, there is no movie. What do you want me to say?

[Slammr (imported)]

To a point, I can suspend belief, otherwise, as Dave said, one couldn't enjoy many movies, but certain movies stretch my credulity beyond the breaking point. One of my pet peeves (not in this movie) is where someone falls about a hundred feet and stops his fall by reaching out and grabbing something, not suffering so much as a dislocated shoulder.