No Master of Champions review
OK, so I pretty much whiffed on the Master of Champions reviews I had planned to make after each week's show. I missed last week, and let's be honest, who knows how much longer that cheesy show is going to be on.
I had the best of intentions, though. I was sitting in front of the TV last Thursday flipping through channels, waiting for 7:00 to roll around. Somewhere way up on the high end of the channels I get I saw it. I could't not watch it.
It had...him.
You know...HIM!
I gotta admit, I'm a sucker for car movies with Burt Reynolds. Just look at the list of car movies he's put together: Smokey and the Bandit I and II (he wasn't in part III, thankfully), Cannonball Run I and II, and even Stroker Ace. Burt Reynolds is to car chase movies what Michael Douglas is to evil women movies. Or at least he used to be. I think old Burt just dropped off the face of the earth between Cannonball Run II and Boogie Nights.
Anyway, why can't their be any good car chase movies anymore? I mean, people still talk about the car chase in Bullitt. I don't think anyone even remembers the rest of the movie. I think maybe Gone in 60 Seconds is about the closest in recent memory to a good car guy movie. Sorry Honda guys, but The Fast and the Furious series doesn't count; you guys were victim of the automotive media using that as a catchphrase for all Japanese cars with more than 100 horsepower.
Who knows why half the crap that they pass off as movies gets made? Seems to me that if you made a movie with a good 30 minute car chase, you could fill the rest up with 60 minutes of paint drying and the car guy/girl population (that's gotta be at least 100 million people, right) would pay money to see it. You think people tuned into Dukes of Hazzard or Knight Rider for the excellent storylines? 'Fraid not.
It's all about the cars, dude.
This post is tagged car chase, moviesThe Fast and the Furious, Burt Reynolds, and Captain Chaos
2 Comments:
I still didn't watch the show and I don't think I was even close to a TV. As for the car chase movies, I would have to agree with you on all of it. I loved the F&F movies, but don't really have much interest in seeing the new one. Drift racing has some degree of cool, but it just seems to me like some way for people with slow cars and bad tires to still be able to compete. I was just thinking the other day while I was looking through Wheels & Deals about how you don't see as many import street racers out now that the F&F movie craze has kinda died off. I am sure those movies really bosted sales for Honda and other import cars.
As for the Dukes of Hazzard, I would say about 60% General Lee, 40% Daisy...
man, when I think of the f&f movie, I can't help but think of that Fastlane stint I went through. I really attempted to rearrage my life just to watch that show. I had to see the "action" and experience the dialogue in the same way that I have to see a Dolomite movie every now and again.
Sorry, this really doesn't have much to do with car chases.
Remember that T.J. Hooker spoof they did on SNL??
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