i wasn't convinced by the way his character killed himself. if he'd driven into a brick wall, fair enough, but he drove through a billboard then into a field. yes the car would probably have been a write-off but i think in reality he would have risked just getting injured rather than dying. and so.... he should have driven around city streets instead of a race track, then slammed into a building. that would have been much cooler
shareThey wanted to re-create, in somewhat compressed form, the scene in the original movie where Julian drives like a maniac in a Grand Prix race, driving in between dozens of wrecks as other drivers all kill themselves, and wins the race as all the other main characters (Mary and Peter, and Dwight and Moira) look on.
Near the very end of the movie Julian kills himself by locking himself in a closed garage and running the engine of his race car to die by the exhaust fumes.
In this version, they didn't have time to set all that up, so they figured simply by having Juilian drive like crazy through the empty streets and then kill himself was a good substitute.
CRAP
They wasted all kind of time watching him race around and grinning maniacly.
They waisted a boatload of time after the young couples suicide
And Powell and the wench reuniting at the end, was a waist, and unbelievable.
The movie had few good points
The original is far better
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I loved this film but it really could have done without that scene. It looked ridiculous, the bad cgi with the fake fireball and a wheel shooting past the screen lol!
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Agreed. There would have been more impact if we saw Brown racing towards a barrier, followed by a close-up of his eyes as he shuts them, and then a black screen with the sound of the car being wrecked, leaving the details to our imagination as it were. Actually showing a low-quality CGI explosion gave it a tacky video game quality that really hurt the integrity of the scene.
shareTo add a dash of reality, where Brown is racing is a proper racetrack (Sandown Raceway) where I have driven in the past.
There is no way he could have gotten that airborne.. no matter what he was driving.
Another lot of people had already driven over a cliff earlier in the story. So it would have been a bit strange to have a repeat of that. As another poster had said, driving the car round the race track was more of a homage to the original film. In the novel Osborne doesn't die in his car at all, if I remember correctly. He just takes the pill.
Edit: Actually, Osborne did take his suicide pill in his car in the novel.