Get those damned words off the gorgeous scenery and car.
I remembered that car with a more voluptuous rear end, but those headlights....schwing! I'm gonna have to put this on my list to watch again.
*promote a *quality movie. Reminds me of Vanishing Point....the original, not the remake.

Did not see many movies this year, so I've only got 6 total on my list, which you should be thankful for, because I can't write film reviews worth a damn. Thanks for posting your list Sarzy, you've got great taste.


The Good

1) Drive - Awesome, like a more commercial, modern day Vanishing Point. Minimalist, tightly paced male action-fantasy with art-house nuance and an effectively simple score by Angelo Badalamenti. A real human being... and a real hero....

2) Super 8 - A nice homage to the Speilberg of the 80s, with some violent Abramsisms tossed into the mix. Not as deep as Spielberg, but still a great time at the theater.


The Bad

1) Harry Potter: Part 7: Part 2: Part 1 - booooooooooring

2) Melencholia - boooooooooooring. Remember when Lars Von Trier used to make good movies like Dogville and Dancer in the Dark? No more. The movie focuses on a loathsome, uninteresting family during the last few days of the Earth's existence. Very little happens. Then they die. The opening credits are beautiful and have more to say than the entire rest of the film.

3) Cowboys & Aliens - Complete failure to combine some tried and tested elements (The Western, Sci Fi, Harrison Ford and Jon Favrau).


The Ugly

1) Sucker Punch - It's a bold, beautiful, ambitious and highly imaginative disaster. Ridiculously stupid story. If you like terrible movies, this is one to put on your list. Supposedly the directors cut is even better/worse.

same same....this ain't the site to push the envelope with regard to what is universally appropriate for users here...given the rabble-I treat news like some prohibitionist, closet lesbian in 1925, go figger!?!

Personally???...I like the chick that rides the Yamaha around the farm in the film, Vanishing Point-She could take or leave a bike or man, and is there to show you all how to chill and have a great time, regardless of yer current state of mind/dilemma...All she needs is gas and drugs...a, kindred-spirit if you will....(foods a drug too, baby, eat a few more helpings of mashed potatoes!)

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The film that inspired this video is Vanishing Point (1971).

"Barry Newman is "Kowalski", an enigmatic figure who has tried everything in his life from stock car racing to the military, and failed at every one of his endeavors. Working as an auto delivery man, he gets an order to transport a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T to San Francisco, and makes a bet with a few friends that it can be done in an impossibly short time. After loading up on "ups" and throttling the car westward, he is soon pursued vigorously by the police and embraced by the public as something of a hero. During a time when national speed limits were all controversy, this film provides a compelling argument against them: A fast car in the hands of a capable driver is not dangerous. Even the police, so caught up in their own system, don't realize that they are the only ones causing accidents and endangering the public while blindly trying to keep up with and capture Kowalski."

The camera was oriented such that the left side of its field of view nearly included the track's vanishing point on the horizon. Thus (in a flat world, with no atmosphere, and an infinite resolution camera), you could be going 1 million miles per hour and you'd still be in the second shot.

If speed cameras always have this relative orientation with the roadway, your only hope would be to get far enough away by the second flash such that your license plate is unreadable (if that would even foil the system). It's hopeless to try and get out of frame entirely.

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Great technique on the vanishing point thing. I've learned heaps in this series.