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So, the Taurus has an automatic transmission, yet...

posted 13 years ago by namaGemo
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... it stalls because he applied the brakes? It's also fuel injected, and it won't start?
That whole accident was the DUMBEST thing I've seen outside of Meg Ryan colliding into a truck coming out of the woods on her bicycle in City of Angels.

Just because it appeared to be a rise in the hill doesn't mean the truck driver, who's head is up about 8' in the seat wouldn't have seen the car a lot sooner than a lower profile car would have seen it. He also had plenty of time to slow down, and either hit the breakdown lane or even the on coming lane since he could see there was no traffic coming from his higher pov.

Just the dumbest thing ever.

[–] BShepherd24 12 years ago

Yea, the car stalling out was lame.

[–] psdhart 11 years ago

funny because it seemed ford must have sponsored this, (the husband worked at Ford show room) a lot of other cars in the film seemd to be Fords too

[–] rnelson-87033 8 years ago

I'm just glad he was in an old Taurus when he got hit and not his gorgeous '66 Mustang convertible.

[–] nofret-1 11 years ago

I wonder if the accident happened as you saw it happen, because when the head fell out of the coffin it wasn't burned at all. I stopped the movie to check that. I guess Linda dreamed it up when she came out of denial and had to admit to herself what happened. If anyone saw the head safely and undamaged rolling out of the car and downhill let me know please.

[–] nofret-1 11 years ago

Hmm... I found it myself... I am watching this fakeblooperthing on youtube, and at 2:39 minute you see the head jumping outof the fire and rolling down the hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyjeDjwGcbg

So I guess this all was have meant to have happened as you see it after all, even though I don't remember seeing it in the movie.
I think I've wasted enough of my time now, this is the unfunniest thing I ever saw. :(

[–] LovecraftLass 11 years ago

Why is it always truck drivers that kill people in movies? I think a bus/dump truck, lots of other things could cause the same damage. And yes, I'm biased and getting pretty annoyed. Whenever there's an accident in movies anymore guess what? It's a semi!

"when the head fell out of the coffin it wasn't burned at all"
I thought that part was just ridiculous. What funeral home would not put the damn head back on?

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=24109349

[–] IMDb_wanderer 11 years ago

Another dumb thing was how they were both smiling after he avoided colliding with that car, while he was stalled in the middle of the highway! Earlier in the film, she herself had narrowly avoided being hit by a car whilst standing in the middle of that same place on the highway when she was having a flashback!

In this timeline, fate had nothing to do with his eventual death. Blatent stupidity was.

If she really wanted to save his life, why didn't she just park right behind his car instead of further down the road, and maybe getting him out of the car and walking off the road together and waiting a little while, instead of just watching from a distance with a smile on her face as her husband tries to restart his car, and then running toward him when a tanker truck bares down on him? How would running toward an out of control truck solve anything?

They call me the wanderer.

[–] Border_Ruffian 10 years ago

Yes, a very contrived ending.

Do a U turn in a highway right before a rise where you cannot see oncoming traffic.

Then, after a near miss with another car, just sit in the middle of the highway and talk on the phone.

There was plenty of room (half a lane plus the paved shoulder) for the truck driver to move over and bypass the car.

[–] alphaboo 10 years ago

I agree. If a truck can't see you and come to a stop in that distance we are all doomed whenever we enter out cars. It was my first thought when I saw it, That and why he waited so long to brake and did not downshift to slow down the truck.

Just a bad movie