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Fast & Furious But With Very realistic races....

posted 2 years ago by cyguration (3866)
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This was basically the Fast & Furious before the Fast & Furious. Fox was obviously the Fast one and Mike was the Furious one.

But what's interesting about this film is that it's not over-the-top in the least bit when it comes to the races and the vehicle physics. The races are kind of short, but sensible given the raw power the vehicles are outputting and the dangers associated with them. Crashes are spectacular but grounded, and most of the time the cars don't survive crazy impacts.

I never heard of this film until I came across a YouTube video about old Ozzy flicks and racing movies. It's a shame they didn't show this film on television/cable (I stopped watching the tele in recent years due to all the woke nonsense, so I have no idea if that's changed since then).

[–] MichaelJPollock (650) 2 years ago

Jesus! For a minute there, thought you were reviewing Lumet's 1988 "Running on Empty"...

[–] cyguration (3866) 2 years ago

Funnily enough, as I was trying to look up information on Running On Empty (1982) along with subtitles (some of the lingo was hard to follow), I kept running across Lumet's Running on Empty (1988), which then led me back to looking up more of his films and finally getting around to watching Q&A after putting it off for nearly a year.

[–] MichaelJPollock (650) 2 years ago

Huge Lumet fan here. Q&A is fantastic... Nick Nolte is probably one of the genuinely scariest MF ever put on film, with perhaps Pesci's Tommy the same year in Goodfellas (albeit in a very different way).

Have you watched Running On Empty then (Lumet's)? It's an incredible film.

[–] cyguration (3866) 2 years ago

Yeah Nolte was frighteningly frenetic and unhinged in that film. Definitely an Oscar-worthy performance.

Have you watched Running On Empty then (Lumet's)? It's an incredible film.

Actually... I have not. I don't watch his movies too often together, usually I view them years apart. I may check it out when I have the time. I've been watching a few of Franco Nero's films lately, along with some other Italian classics, but Lumet's stuff really is on another level.