when she first gets in the car, she looks at the speedo and the needle is on 110Km/hr. which is also just 70mph. she asks "are we really going 110?" and bandit answers yes. wth? and the readings on that transam look like they only go up to 90mph at the top end. i was real disappointed in that scene.
shareDid she specify 110 mph or kph??
Maybe 110 kph is what she meant.
nobody in America goes by kph. and we certainly haven't been impressed with highway speeds of 70mph since a land vehicle was able to accomplish that speed. maybe she thought it was 110mph. but with Bandit coyly confirming the number, he should have known she was thinking in mph; it just seems like they were trying to impress the audience of how fast they were going when it wasn't really that fast.
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I caught that the very first time I saw this film.
Eventually, there will come a day when science acknowledges the supernatural
"Why do you wear that cowboy hat?"
share"Why do you wear that cowboy hat? OH! Don't tell me.... let me guess. You think it looks dazzling on you"share
"Why do you wear that cowboy hat? OH! Don't tell me.... let me guess. You think it looks dazzling on you"
...the readings on that trans am look like they only go up to 90mph at the top end
You were real disappointed in that scene?? You're a Weirdo!
shareYeah, I caught that the first time I saw the move too and I was in junior high-- ha!
sharemost of the dialog in the movie was improvised on the spot so I think Sally just glanced over at the speedo and read it in KPH and they just kept it in. Makes sense to me.
shareI was happily surprised, I thought "hey, the americans are finally starting to at least sometimes use more logical measuring systems, like kilometers per hour".
I honestly thought she was just one of the people that use 'km/h' instead of the archaic, imperial and obsolete 'miles' system.
I don't know what the moviemakers meant by this, but to me, that was the OPPOSITE of 'disappointed', it was more like 'finally someone recognizes km/h'.
But I should've known better, back to the 'mph' crap it is..
As a sidenote, almost EVERY shot of the truck (at least towards the Coors beer storage facility, or whatever that was supposed to be) shows the truck going REALLY slowly, there's no way they'd get there in time to be able to conform to their tight schedule if they drive THAT slowly for THAT much of the time.
The Pontiac is sometimes shown to drive pretty fast, but not always 'fast enough' - I mean, according to my calculations, they - and this means also the truck - would have to keep the speed over 115 km/h on average just to make it under 26 hours (I allowed them 2 hours for all those overly-long pauses this movie shows them taking).