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The only thing good was the storyline.

posted 9 years ago by Rwwood48
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I am watching this on TCM right now.Hauling "Nitro" is a dangerous job. i've know guy who do this. They use "straight box trucks" with one bottle of "Nitro" hung in a "sling net" The guys not getting along was interesting part. Why back out over a ledge with a loaded truck didn't make it clear,plus the guys smoking with "Exploxives" on board the truck? I thought they were delivering to an oil field ? Why are they blowing up the side of a mountain ? Only professionals are allowed to use "Nitro". I'd like to see a remake of this to nowdays standards.Most companies would have the road "cleared,and smooth" for hauling this stuff. The only thing good was the story.

[–] TongueFu 9 years ago

That's one of the most moronic reviews I've ever read.

[–] nedeljkodjukic88 9 years ago

The second moronic for me. If you'd like to laugh a bit, this is number one for sure for me, by certain Blobsie on Cries and Whispers by Bergman:

The trouble with Bergman is that he competely ignored the 16 year old audience for films.

Just think what a brilliant film it would be with a good car chase,or some funny moments (like somebody being sick or picking their nose)- Forum below

Imagine what Cries and Whispers could have been with Angela Jolie playing Karin or Anna by Cameron Diaz - you'd have something people would want to see. Cinema audiences don't want explorations of the human condition do they ?

Of course the forum below is so right . Bergman is over-rated (along with Michelangelo, Mozart and Milton - as Woody Allen might have said)

signed Popcorn stuffer (aged 15 3/4)

[–] redfox5367 9 years ago

I think he was joking.

[–] nedeljkodjukic88 9 years ago

I'd like to see a remake of this to nowdays standards

Why? You like bad movies?

And what are nowadays standards - characters are undeveloped, movie is in color and there's Captain America to pick up the truck in case it falls over the cliff? Plus much more blood and some nudity?

[–] GJValent 8 years ago

I would cheer for the nudity, if this wasn't an almost entirely male cast. Of course, they could always go the GhostBusters reboot route.

[–] Musashi94 8 years ago

You do realize things were different in early 1950s middle-of-nowhere South America right?