New hot rod movie coming in 2011!

[Rob Hall]

With the two VPs, the original was very much of it's time and place...the cars were new and it seemed to me to have captured an early '70s vibe. (though I'm too young to remember that era). The remake didn't have the same sense of time and place..the later Kowalski could have been driving a Neon and it would have been the same movie. (Though I do like Viggo Mortensen--he was very good in 'A History of Violence', 'Eastern Promises' and other films)..

Edited December 5, 2010 by Rob Hall

[Rick R]

And I thought the original film lost its relevance when it started being a 'statement'. That was a bit pretentious for me...

I did like Vigo Mortensen as Kowalski, and I thought the car stuff, with the Challenger being a collectors car rather than an anonymous bland late-model car, added a lot to the movie. Vigo'll never work that cheap again...

I also remember that when I wrote the review I was still buzzin' from attending my first studio advance screening and was loath to be too 'critical' lest I never be invited to another. That's passed now.

I still like the movie.

So there.;-)

Edited December 5, 2010 by Rick R

[Danno]

I watch the DOH show when I was a kid...outgrew it at around age 12..

I, too, outgrew Dukes very early ... but I've never outgrown Daisy.

[Nick Winter]

Who said I liked it for the acting for the first year I watched it I didn't even now there was a Orange Charger there

[sjordan2]

Seems to me that most car movies are only appreciated by car nuts. Because of the cars, and beside the often-cited classics like Gone in 60 Seconds, American Graffiti, Two-Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, The Italian Job, Bond movies, etc,. I like not very good movies such as:

Grand Prix (I saw this first-run in 1966 on a giant, curved Cinerama screen (the precursor to iMax) with multi-channel surround sound, and it's hard to describe what it was like when seen that way.

The Racers (Kirk Douglas,1955)

Le Mans

There's a very good classic French film that car guys overlook: "A Man and a Woman," a romance about a test driver and a movie script girl with featured roles by a Mustang convertible and a GT40. For vintage enthusiasts, there's "The Yellow Rolls-Royce."

On a whole different level of man & truck vs. the elements, there's nothing like "The Wages of Fear," remade as "The Sorcerer" with Roy Scheider. Of course, among truck movies, "Duel" with Dennis Weaver, though made for TV, is a true classic. Don't even mention movies like "Convoy."

But that's all just the tip of the iceberg.

Edited December 5, 2010 by sjordan2

[sjordan2]

Love Daisy, always hated the show & felt it was designed for the intellectually challenged. It's much like the "Incredible Hulk" TV show of the same era in being brainless, useless entertainment. Liked the movie actually, as it made fun of the TV show & featured far better acting, (not that it was hard to do that).

The TV show was based on it's creator, Gy Waldron, movie "Moonrunners" which is much less stupid & thus much more fun than the TV show. Both the Moonrunners movie & the Dukes TV show are based on the life of legendary North Carolina moonshine runner Jerry Rushing. Google his name & you can find several sites that offer more info on him & his connection to the movie & TV show.

Daisy Duke, 2010

[Greg Cullinan]

I have eclectic taste and this seams right up my alley. Plus I am easily amused.

[Terry Sumner]

Daisy Duke, 2010

MY EYES MY EYES AAAAAAAAAGHHH

[Danno]

That was downright rude, Skip. I cannot unsee that. Ever. Arrrrggh!!!

[Rick R]

Kinda like looking at a Playboy from the early '70s and then seeing Barbi Benton now.

There's just so much more of her!

[Rob Hall]

Kinda like looking at a Playboy from the early '70s and then seeing Barbi Benton now.

There's just so much more of her!

LoL... reminds of Tawny Kitaen..as a teenager, I thought she was hawt in that Whitesnake video w/ the Jaguar, today, not so much..time hasn't been gentle to her...

[niteowl7710]

LoL... reminds of Tawny Kitaen..as a teenager, I thought she was hawt in that Whitesnake video w/ the Jaguar, today, not so much..time hasn't been gentle to her...

Neither has the legal system, but that's been entirely her own doing...

You want to talk about a TRUCK movie that is simply awful try to sit down and watch, it's the Patrick Swayze movie "Black Dog". The continuity errors alone are worth the price of admission, but once you start to actually watch it from the perspective of what it claims to be...ugghh. Someone had a decent budget to get Swayze, Randy Travis and Meatloaf all in the same place at the same time, but after that they stopped trying.

[Rob Hall]

Neither has the legal system, but that's been entirely her own doing...

You want to talk about a TRUCK movie that is simply awful try to sit down and watch, it's the Patrick Swayze movie "Black Dog". The continuity errors alone are worth the price of admission, but once you start to actually watch it from the perspective of what it claims to be...ugghh. Someone had a decent budget to get Swayze, Randy Travis and Meatloaf all in the same place at the same time, but after that they stopped trying.

Oh yeah...seen that one...

[Jordan White]

[Greg Myers]

Let me introduce Deuce of Spades into this thread. Deuce of Spades

[bigphoto]

Let me introduce Deuce of Spades into this thread. Deuce of Spades

That looks interesting!

[Chuck Most]

Looks like it's going to suck, big time. I'm not surprised- most films with cars playing prominent roles do suck big time. I can stomach "Christine", because I love seeing a big finned Mopar t-bone a first-gen Camaro, and you get to see a pre-Baywatch Alexandra Paul, but that movie would have been way, WAY better had it stuck closer to the book (which wasn't even one of Stephen King's finer efforts, if I may be so blunt...)

[george 53]

Now THAT'S just something you just CAN'T UNsee!!!!! :lol: :lol:

[Jordan White]

rumor is, it's a Prius

no idea if it's true or not, i'm too loyal to the original movie to even look.

Wouldn't that mean it's a documentary then?

[Rob Hall]

I've always thought Dennis' Charger would be a great (and easy) movie car to replicate in scale. I've never quite understood, though, why Carpenter had that character driving a Charger, rather than a Duster, as he did in the book. A Duster would have have been a much more believable ride for an '80s high school kid, IMO.

Also, according to Wikipedia, 21 '58 Plymouths were sacrificed in making the movie.

I've never read the book..was Christine also a '58 Fury in the book?

I've read Kings' 'From a Buick 8'..strange car in that one...not sure if that has movie potential or not.

I knew a kid in my high school who was a couple years ahead of me that had a '69 Charger very similar to the car in Christine..this was in '85-86. Had a few '60s-70s pony cars and muscle cars in my school--an orange '68-69 Road Runner, a '69 Chevelle, a couple early Camaros, several '65-69 Mustangs.

There were a bunch of '80s vintage fun cars in my school also..several Monte Carlo SSes, Mustang GTs (incl. my '87) and LX 5.0s, Camaro Z28s and IROC-Zs, Trans Ams and GTAs, and one Grand National..

As far as Christine, maybe the new movie will trash dozens of Priuses, Volts, and Leafs (Leaves)? A battle of hybrid and electric cars (w/ the Volt in the hero car role)

Edited December 7, 2010 by Rob Hall

[Chuck Most]

In the book- Christine was a red and white 4-door 1958 Plymouth Fury. Now, in real life, there was no such thing- all '58 Furies were white and gold 2-door hardtops. King has confessed that Christine was kind of written in fits and starts over the years, and he chose to make Christine a 'Fury' because he liked the name. King is an author first, and a car historian a distant second! In "The Mist", there's a character who drives a "4-door International Scout". But I guess such things are okay in a fictional story!

I really don't care for how Mr.Darnell 'gets it' in the movie when compared to the book. In the movie, he gets inside the burned hulk of Christine (after she's dispatched Reperton and his buddies...AND after Darnell BURNED HIS HAND on her door handle!), and gets crushed against the steering wheel by the power seat. In the book, he's sitting in his living room watching A Christmas Carol, and Christine smashes though his picture window and mows him down as he tries to retreat upstairs. Yeah, that might be a bit harder to choreograph, but which would be more exciting to watch?

I'd really like to see sombody do a movie of King's "From A Buick 8". THAT book creeped me out- I thought it was way better than Christine, but I guess it would be more of a thriller than a full-blown horror movie. And a '54 Buick is a bit more scary looking than a '58 Fury, if you ask me!

[Rob Hall]

I'd really like to see sombody do a movie of King's "From A Buick 8". THAT book creeped me out- I thought it was way better than Christine, but I guess it would be more of a thriller than a full-blown horror movie. And a '54 Buick is a bit more scary looking than a '58 Fury, if you ask me!

Maybe they could change the Buick to a '50..the '50 looks even scarier w/ the grille teeth over the bumper.

[Chuck Most]

Maybe they could change the Buick to a '50..the '50 looks even scarier w/ the grille teeth over the bumper.

Good point...

[Chuck Most]

something cool in the beginning of the movie too, the line that Christine is on being built is all white cars, "she" is the only red one. the thing that confuses me a bit is that she closes her hood on the hand of the guy doing a visual inspection, no idea why as he's done nothing to her. the following character who gets into her afterwards does ask for trouble when he drops his cigar ashes into the seat though.

i agree with Chuck, the scenes in the book are much more dramatic than the movie made them but that could go back to when the movie was made and the abilities they had at the time to pull off such stunts. how Buddy Reperton and a few of his friends get it in the book is much better than the way they do in the movie, although that was pretty cool too.

Those white cars later got red resprays, as the various cars which potrayed Christine were smashed into bits. I can't remebmer how many were used, but a few actually survived filming, including a manual-transmission model they called 'Bad Christine' because the stunt drivers would forget to depress the clutch when they started it, causing the car to lurch forward. The startled drivers would shout "Bad Christine!", and the name stuck.

I've heard John Carpenter added the assebly line sequence to hint that Christine was different from the other cars, even though in the book it's implied that it was the 'evil' of Roland LeBay who controlled the car. I do like the assembly line scene though. Yeah, I'm not sure why she 'bit' the inspector, but "Cigar Dude" WAS asking for it!

Yes, Dave- not only were the books 'kill scenes' a bit more dramatic, but the parts where King describes Christine's damage healing itself is pretty creepy too- much of that is hidden in the movie, except for the scene in Darnell's garage. Oh- Did anyone else notice how the headlights were smashed- then as Christine started rebuilding herself, they came on, even though a later shot shows them still smashed, and a shot after THAT shows them undamaged, but not turned on?

[Roadkill2525]

I don't even think Mike, Tom and Crow would touch this movie.